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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: irccat</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/irccat.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-01-08T19:04:24+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>How we use IRC at Last.fm</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/8/irc/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-01-08T19:04:24+00:00</published><updated>2009-01-08T19:04:24+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/8/irc/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.metabrew.com/article/how-we-use-irc-at-lastfm/"&gt;How we use IRC at Last.fm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
With IRCCat, an elegant Java IRC bot that accepts Twitter-like messages to a network port (generally sent using netcat) and directs them to a user or channel.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/irc"&gt;irc&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/irccat"&gt;irccat&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/java"&gt;java&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/lastfm"&gt;lastfm&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nc"&gt;nc&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/netcat"&gt;netcat&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/richard-jones"&gt;richard-jones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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