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The previous chapter left Mediabot with stronger authentication, safer deployment checks, a real security audit, and a cleaner release path toward 3.3.
This new pass is different.
It adds features that users will actually feel on IRC: delayed messages that arrive when someone joins, typo sugge…
The previous chapter ended with Mediabot checking its own installation at startup, preserving accented text across more of the IRC pipeline, and gaining disposable lifecycle and games smoke tests for the road to 3.3.
The next pass was smaller, but it followed an important rule:
Once a bug …
The previous chapter ended with every channel using one canonical name, every specialised URL handler checking the real host, and Claude summaries finally able to speak aloud in the correct IRC hall.
The next chapter began with what looked like small language and display issues. It ended much …
The previous chapter ended with secret-bearing API calls using verified TLS, OpenAI failures becoming actionable, and a song request losing the ability to disguise itself as a yt-dlp option.
This chapter begins immediately after MB420.
It covers fourteen Claude rounds and one final indep…
The previous chapter ended with every channel hall using one canonical name, specialised URL doors checking their real host, and Claude summaries learning to speak publicly without waking the entire owlery.
This chapter begins immediately after MB416.
It covers four focused rounds:
The previous chapter ended with Trivia finally returning questions instead of disappearing into a silent worker timeout.
The next twenty rounds were quieter on IRC, but no less important. They dealt with the kind of details that decide whether a long-lived bot remains understandable and efficient…
The previous chapter brought Mediabot closer to a future 3.3 release: private data stayed out of the logs, version reporting became deterministic, reconnects survived a second outage, PID ownership became atomic, core commands stopped flooding IRC, and the CPAN-only installer finally included the re…
The previous chapter ended with a successful Debian 13 fresh installation, a repaired CPAN path, readable Perl libraries and a status command that had finally stopped releasing the entire owlery at once.
That was not the end of the work.
It was the moment Mediabot became stable enough for a …
The previous chapter ended with a warning:
Hold on to your Sorting Hat.
So we did.
The rebuilt configure system was taken out of its test chamber and placed on a genuinely fresh Debian 13 installation.
That real installation did exactly what a serious fresh-install test is supposed t…
A user changes nickname on IRC.
Nothing dramatic should happen. The same connection is still alive, the same person is still present, and an authenticated session should simply follow the new nickname.
Yet during the final bug hunt on Mediabot v3, that ordinary IRC event revealed a subtle auth…