Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to?

Re:Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to? by replwoacause on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:57PM (#38786659)

Anybody know a good IRC client for MacOS?

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Re:Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to? by NukedOne on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:36PM (#38790096)

I can wholeheartedly recommend a terminal IRC client (e.g. irssi) in a screen session running on a VPS.

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Re:Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to? by fuzztester on Thursday December 28, 2023 @08:30PM (#38800804)

Why on a VPS? Some reason related to security?

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Re:Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to? by DANmode on Thursday December 28, 2023 @10:10PM (#38801404)

Always-on, never offline, can just "scroll up" from anywhere.

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Re:Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to? by NukedOne on Saturday December 30, 2023 @03:07AM (#38813584)

As the sibling comment says: my VPS is always on, and I can SSH into it from any of my machines, reattach to the screen session, and talk under the same nickname. Besides this, I'm never offline (barring things like netsplits). I'm not doing it for security reasons, although it does provide a level of indirection if your goal is to not expose your home IP address to everyone (getting a cloak is also useful when it comes to this).

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Re:Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to? by fuzztester on Sunday December 31, 2023 @05:41PM (#38828161)

Thanks.

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Re:Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to? by muzani on Friday December 29, 2023 @06:05AM (#38803766)

If you count web, irccloud.com is excellent. I wish everyone would have just used IRCCloud instead of Discord or some other walled garden.

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Re:Ask HN: What community do you ask dev questions to? by cpach on Friday December 29, 2023 @11:21AM (#38806630)

I second this. IRCCloud’s UI is very nice.

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