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A viewer typed "what's the discord link?" in my chat last week. My traditional bot sat there in silence because the command is !discord, not a full English sentence. My AI bot answered them. That inte...
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I once spent an entire stream manually timing out a viewer who was spamming the letter "E" in chat. My mods were asleep (3am, fair enough) and my bot was, for reasons I still don't fully understand, i...
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Kick passed 50 million registered users in 2025. The platform is growing fast, the revenue split is better than Twitch's, and the content restrictions are looser. It's also still figuring itself out,...
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My phone buzzed with a donation alert while I was trying not to fall off a unicycle in Brighton. I couldn't check it. My eyes were fixed on the pavement ahead, my balance was questionable at best, and...
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Kick's bot ecosystem is about three years behind Twitch's. That's not a criticism - it's just what happens when a platform grows faster than the tooling around it can keep up. On Twitch, you've got a...
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Text-to-speech on Twitch is one of those features that's either the best part of a stream or the single most annoying thing you've ever heard. There's very little middle ground. A robotic voice readin...
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Running a VTuber stream is simultaneously playing a character, playing a game, tracking your face movements, and reading chat messages that scroll faster than you can process them. Something has to gi...
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Nightbot has been in my chat since 2019. It's never missed a shift, never complained about the hours, and never once understood what anyone was actually saying to it. That last part used to not matter...
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Three viewers. Two of them are bots. The third might also be a bot, actually, but you're choosing to believe they're real because the alternative is too depressing at 9pm on a Tuesday.
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Six Twitch bots sit open in my browser right now, each one promising to be the one that finally sorts out my chat. I've been testing them all week, and I have opinions. Some of them are even correct.
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It's been a while since I've had to write anything myself, without heading on over to ChatGPT or any of the various other LLMs out there and asking them for opinions and advice. "How should I address...
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Happy June everyone! June is in full swing and Summer is most definitely here on the East Coast! I am writing this with the AC going and a fan blowing! I hear the UK is getting pretty hot also but i'm...
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