[kianryan]

I merely want to hack on the tangara fw and have questions along the way that would probably best be handled in some chat.

^^^ This.

It's easy for us to end up in the endless debate about the best chat medium, when the answer is "we just need a chat medium".

My typical day at the moment involves Slack and Teams for work, Discord for communities, IRC for a bunch of other communities and Telegram/WhatsApp/Signal for personal comms.

Throwing /another/ application in to the mix to keep track of single project development I want to keep track of makes me wince.

Adding a channel to an existing platform makes me wince slightly less, even if it's a less than ideal medium.


I'm here to hack firmware, and chew gum.

And I'm all out of gum[1].


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[1] I don't like gum.  I do like popcorn, crisps, nuts, and chocolate.  But "I'm here to hack firmware, and nibble on a bowl of sweet and salted popcorn", doesn't quite have the same ring to it.