Commands used in UI:
/join #chan
/nick newnick
/me action -> PRIVMSG #chan :\001ACTIOn ...\001

test lua files with "luacheck irc.lua storage.lua ui_chat.lua main.lua --std lua53"

Relevant Links:
Original desire
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=360971
https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc
Old IRC program that didn't work
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=212676
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2839957&postcount=46
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2510408&postcount=42
KTerm
https://www.fabiszewski.net/kindle-terminal/
Plugin Dev
https://kindlemodshelf.me/koreaderplugindev
https://gist.github.com/consoleaf/abbe8449377f1f6ef47b86d6c0d8873d
https://www.lua.org/pil/1.html
https://modern.ircdocs.horse/

To do:
get it more easily seen in koreader (not in tools > more tools > 2nd page)
Auto join my irc server, and auto-username
larger messaging box
way to see the irc channel it is being messaged from