How I built a self-organizing distributed network of IRC-bots for a good cause. The bot called Landlady is just the last one in a long line of bots written in Perl, Python and Javascript. Why did you create this IRC-bot? For a couple of years I was given the task to handle the #dreamhack IRC-channel on quakenet. Between events it was quite a quiet place but during the early 2000s it became the largest channel on Quakenet for the days during the event. The number of users in the channel naturally [...]