{"id":27,"date":"2015-06-13T21:42:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2015-09-30T19:28:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T17:28:37","slug":"a-replacement-for-the-opera-irc-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/2015\/06\/13\/a-replacement-for-the-opera-irc-client\/","title":{"rendered":"A replacement for the Opera IRC client"},"content":{"rendered":"

After transitioning from Opera to Vivaldi<\/a> as my primary browser, one of the features I have been missing is the IRC client. Granted, I am not a heavy IRC user, but there is this one channel I monitor where some of my friends and former Opera colleagues hang out. I liked the simplicity of the Opera IRC client and I am not quite a fan of the terminal-based ones.<\/p>\n

One of my friends pointed me towards WeeChat<\/a>, which is an extensible chat client. In its basic configuration, it runs in a terminal and looks like any old IRC client. However, it does have support for plug-ins which allows it to connect to many different systems (although I have as of yet only set up IRC), and also for relays, making it possible to use other front-ends.<\/p>\n

One such front-end is Glowing Bear<\/a>, which is web based. It connects to a WeeChat server which has a relay set up. By default, that relay is unencrypted, which is not very safe, but it does support SSL and I found this wonderful guide describing how to set that up with a proper certificate<\/a>. I configured that, and dropped a copy of the Glowing Bear files<\/a> to a web-site of my own (which is not really necessary since the connection is direct from browser to WeeChat, but it is nice to know exactly what I am connecting to). With the certificate I got using the configuration guide above I could also make this a https server.<\/p>\n

Now I have a replacement for the IRC client. Now I just need to replace the mail client<\/a>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After transitioning from Opera to Vivaldi as my primary browser, one of the features I have been missing is the IRC client. Granted, I am not a heavy IRC user, but there is this one channel I monitor where some of my friends and former Opera colleagues hang out. I liked the simplicity of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[18,19,17],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-glowing-bear","tag-irc","tag-weechat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.softwolves.com\/wolfblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}