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I am building it on top of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jeremie\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eJeremie\u003c/a\u003e Miller’s new project called \u003ca href=\"http://telehash.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTelehash\u003c/a\u003e. \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/temas\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTemas\u003c/a\u003e has been working hard on an objc library implementation for \u003ca href=\"http://telehash.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003etelehash\u003c/a\u003e, and it has just enough maturity now that things are working, and really coming together! \u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://telehash.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTelehash\u003c/a\u003e is going to bring a lot of new and exciting options to the table, not only for my use of Instant Messaging and VOIP, or if you wanted to implement HTTP over \u003ca href=\"http://telehash.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTelehash\u003c/a\u003e, but for \u003ca href=\"http://pinocc.io\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eInternet of Things (IoT) and other embedded use cases as well\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI will start to blog about my progress with Rival Messenger and \u003ca href=\"http://telehash.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTelehash\u003c/a\u003e, there is an important milestone right around the corner. 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I started Rival Messenger as a \u003ca href=\"http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Rival-Messenger/989991587/1\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eWindows app\u003c/a\u003e written in Visual Basic, way way back at the end of 1999! After much fussing, pushed by my own dislike of Skype, and everyone’s dislike of NSA snooping, I have decided to build a full on Skype replacement and use the name again!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis time around it is an OSX native app, written in Objective-C using the Cocoa Framework. 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Rival Messenger - Started work on the chat history viewer
Rival Messenger - Started work on the chat history viewer… Finally
Rival Messenger - slow progress as usual
Rival Messenger - It has been slow progress as usual, but I have some remarkable changes in! I have more friends!! yay (only 2 of them fake!!) Chat looks less
Rival Messenger Chat Window
Rival Messenger Its late, but I got the entire object tree figured out for chat windows, tabs and chat sessions! It will be an adium style tearable tab chat
Rival Messenger New Project, Old Name
Rival Messenger It has been a LONG time since I worked on a project with that name. I started Rival Messenger as a Windows app written in Visual Basic, way way