Category Archives: psych0tik IRC

First psych0tik hackathon

psych0tik will be hosting it’s first hackathon on the weekend of the 24th of September! We’re passionate about hackery and want to dedicate a weekend to it. For those not familiar with the term, a hackathon is generally when a … Continue reading

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Haikuports ii-1.6 package (with SSL!)

I’ve been playing with different operating systems on my netbook, trying to find a fun one to suite it  and I’ve come across Haiku (alpha3.)  It seems that Haikuports is the primary package manger Haiku and all it includes for … Continue reading

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A couple bugfixes in ii v1.4

Since I discovered ii, I’ve been putting it through its paces and have come across a couple bugs in version 1.4.  The first bug is a slow file descriptor leak whenever messages are sent to channels or users with capital … Continue reading

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New irssi script: auto server ng

Faced with a regular issue (at the moment I’m teaching myself perl for hacking at irssi scripts, and ruby (on rails) for work) I often find myself joining #ruby, #rubyonrails, #perl etc.. but on top of these and a few … Continue reading

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IRC battlebotz – open beta

For the last few months I’ve been running a closed beta with a few frequent IRC users testing a user-driven programming competition, that I am now opening up to the public.  Before I get into the details of the concept, … Continue reading

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New irssi script: goodnicks

As most of you will know, the psych0tik irc network is based around a few basic principles: Privacy: No one can read your traffic off the wire, and only people in the channel can read it from there. Transparency: We … Continue reading

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