I’ve tried pretty much every IRC client available for both Linux and OS X. (I use both platforms during my day job.) No matter how many times I try to find a GUI application that meets my needs, I always turn back to Irssi. It works so well, and I can access it from anywhere (Figure 1). Thanks to my Raspberry Pi colocation in Austria, I always can stay logged in and never miss a message. Unfortunately, the one thing I wish Irssi had is a pop-up notification when someone sends me a message or mentions me in a channel. So, I decided to give Irssi a little GUI. It was fun, and as it turns out, it works very well.