The cookbook[0] has some good examples, I went with the state machine parser as a base for highlighting in mpv's console (mpv scripting has been the main focus of my fennel use, mostly rewriting existing code)

[0] https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel/wiki/Cookbook

Thanks, Life w/TIC-80 seems like a good candidate. Simple enough that I can wrap my head around the whole thing and tweak the rules, even though it's (to me) an alien syntax and structure.

IRC bot! You just need to pull in a lua sockets library to get going.

I have been meaning to automate my spamming of random channels, doing it manually is a PITA. I like to keep things more innane and less troll/toxic though, so I might need to do some work with GPT-3 on the actual content. At least once I find a good corpus of low-effort shit posts that aren't also toxic.