Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

An IRC client for mobile devices. Modern: support for many IRCv3 extensions, plus some special support for IRC bouncers. Easy to use: offer a simple, straightforward interface. Offline-first: users should be able to read past conversations while offline, and network disruptions should be handled transparently Lightweight: go easy on resource usage to run smoothly on older phones and save battery power. Cross-platform: the main target platforms are Linux and Android, iOS is also supported.

KiwiIRC makes Web IRC easy. A hand-crafted IRC client that you can enjoy. Designed to be used easily and freely.

Ergo (formerly known as Oragono) is a modern IRCd (IRC server software) written in Go. Our core design principles are: Being simple to set up and use. Combining the features of an ircd, a services framework, and a bouncer (integrated account management, history storage, and bouncer functionality). Bleeding-edge IRCv3 support suitable for use as an IRCv3 reference implementation. High customizability via a rehashable (i.e., reloadable at runtime) YAML config.

The game was a popular alternative to Bridge and, as Parker Brothers stated in the US introduction, became “a French Card Game Craze.” To keep up with demand Dujardin moved production from the basement of his family’s home in Arcachon to a renovated fish factory. In all, more than a million copies were sold in France in the 1950s.

Mille Bornes is a French card game, sold by Parker Brothers that simulates a car race of 700 kilometers. This is a computer adaption of that game.

Iconic font aggregator, collection, and patcher

A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go.

Our first public model is Jev, available today in early access. Jev achieves similar levels of intelligence on System One tasks compared to existing LLMs, while being two orders of magnitude faster and more efficient. While Jev gives up string generation, it’s optimized for structured outputs and can’t hallucinate. Think of Jev as a frontier-intelligence function call: unstructured state in, typed probabilistic decisions out.

Period-correct technology would probably be a VDU terminal or its predecessor, a teletype terminal, which is an electric typewriter that sends serial output from its keyboard and prints serial input onto paper. Here's where the Alphacom printer comes in. It was compatible and contemporary with the ZX81 and was a better option in many ways than Sinclair's ZX Printer. (The ZX computers had built-in line-printer capabilities.) Importantly there are plenty of the Alphacoms around today, working fine.

Here in 2026 if we need a terminal the chances are we fire one up on our computer and continue on our way without a thought. What we are doing of course is emulating the experience of earlier hardware terminals, ones with a serial port on the back, a keyboard, a screen, or if they are a bit older, a teletype printer. [Sheila Dixon] is recreating that experience for the RC2014 retrocomputer, and she’s using some period-appropriate hardware and techniques.

Gemini isn't an old technology being dusted off, it was created in 2019. But it borrows heavily from Gopher's spirit, BBSes, and the decades-old phlogosphere. Yet, sadly, during my research and browsing of Geminispace, I came across nearly as many dead/abandoned links as I did active and alive ones. I get it. There's a lot of friction when it comes to using an entirely different protocol. I confess that it took me months until I finally got serious with it. I don't think Gemini will ever "take off" and I'm glad for that, really. It's a wonderfully peaceful and calm alternative to the Internet without having to unplug. I'm planning to use it a lot more, and I think I'm going to start adding some of my writing on the protocol exclusively.