What interesting ways do you use IRC?

Question

My goal this year is to move to IRC for most things. I have a personal IRC server which I can log into from my various laptops, desktops, phones, tablets etc.I'm in the process of building a few bots that do things for me, like, fetch rss, manage todo lists, summarizing websites.Share some of your interesting ways that you use IRC?

huxflux · Accepted Answer

Still rules: http://www.grandis.nu/glftpd.old/

AdeptExpression · Answer

I use it for help with programming.