How IrregularChat moderators use native text-replacement shortcuts on macOS, iOS, and Android to streamline onboarding, safety number verification, and welcome messages with consistent, community-approved prompts.
This is a series of lessons learned while building the IrregularChat community — onboarding, security, resilience, and moderation. Each part stands alone; together they capture how a trust-first commu
*Part 6 of the [Building Communities](/post/building-communities) series — lessons learned running IrregularChat.* ## Can desire paths guide community growth? Community structure should follow...
What if we could give downtown Fayetteville a useful heads-up before the train crossings get blocked? Not a perfect system. Not a city-funded ITS platform. Not a proprietary railroad feed. Just a...
Capture the Flag (CTF) are competitive cybersecurity challenges where participants solve puzzles or exploit vulnerabilities to retrieve hidden “flags” and earn points. At their core they are just...
A call to irregulars. Look into create a logo for the community with the commonly used phrase. Together Irregular Strong This would not replace the standard logo; instead, it could be used in various...
The Ballad of the Broken Pi Gather ‘round, friends, and bear witness to the tragic saga of the Raspberry Pi, which can crash harder than a toddler on a sugar high. This song chronicles: its epic...
running into a limitation with Cloudflare Tunnels—they only support TCP, and I need UDP to host my service. I’d like to expose an IP/port combo without: A static public IP (I’m behind NAT/CGNAT)...
Here’s your polished community forum post for sharing: Community Merch is Here! We’ve finally got something folks have been asking about for a while: IrregularChat shirts and lapel pins — designed...
Leaving Service: One Irregular’s Transition Lessons (May 2025) Bill Christian, a member of our IrregularChat community just retired this past April 2025 after a long career as a Master Sergeant. He...
New Here? How To Set Up GitHub, Cursor, and Your Dev Environment for IrregularChat Hackathons Welcome! If you’re new and want to join future hackathons, here’s your guide for getting set up. This...
Let’s Try Matrix! Start Chatting! If you are ready to jump in here’s the quick steps: 1. Download and install “Classic” Element - NOT the “element x” app (doesn’t support our login yet) Mobile...