Toggle navigation Christine Dodrill Blog Projects Resume Contact The following is adapted from a real story. Parts of it are changed to keep it entertaining to read but the core of the story is maintained. I apologize that this issue in the epic will be shorter than the others, but it gets better. It all started when I got this seemingly innocuous PM on Freenode: 2015-01-23 [18:32:48] <plt> Hello. I am writting a new ircd and can I have the channel ##ircd please? This is a fairly common event on larger IRC networks, especially given the length of the channel name and the fact that it references IRC daemons specifically. At this point I had forgotten I owned that channel. So naturally I decided to give it a join and see if the person who requested the channel was worthy of it or had brought enough activity to it such that it was morally correct to hand it off. This was not the case...