shoutouts to the time, many many years ago, where I wrote an IRC daemon from scratch
in PHP
@KS Making an IRC bot isn't so unusual, I did it o--in WHAT
@elfi oh, not even a bot. a daemon is a server, lol
@KS Oh I misread
Yeah no that's entirely more impressive and yet terrifying
@elfi isn't it though??
I don't know what I was on 13 years ago but I was definitely on *something* to have made that decision
@KS "Managed hosting provider won't let me run an ircd? We'll see about that!" maybe