https://sindro.me/tags/pre-alpha/ Recent content in Pre-Alpha on Marcello Barnaba Hugo en-us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sindro.me/posts/2026-04-20-grappa-irc-reinventing-irc-for-2026/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://sindro.me/posts/2026-04-20-grappa-irc-reinventing-irc-for-2026/ <p>Hi all — a few days ago I dug back into <a href="https://sindro.me/posts/2026-04-13-bahamut-fork-azzurra-irc-ipv6-ssl/">the Bahamut fork I wrote for Azzurra in 2002</a>, logged back into IRC for the first time in twenty years, and remembered how much better it was than any modern messenger. So I started a new project: <a href="https://github.com/vjt/grappa-irc" target="_blank">grappa-irc</a>. This is the pitch.</p>