Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

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  • 3 hours ago Doctor When
    DOCTOR WHO is gone. STAR TREK has reached the end of its cycle. The STARGATE reboot was cancelled. The new STAR WARS film did not do well, and I believe they only have one more film in the pipeline. The MCU is not in a great place and the shape of its future will balance on the two new AVENGERS films. SUPERMAN’s takings were soft and SUPERGIRL is tracking at less than half of SUPERMAN’s opening. And the two biggest films of the last month were made for less than a million each by directors in their twenties. One or two swallows don’t make a summer, but right now it looks like old science fiction inflected IP is reaching a hiatus point.
  • 2 days ago If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know — Jonathon Ready
    That creates a real supply chain risk for businesses. If Claude gives me poor or incorrect advice while I’m working on an AI component, I have no way of knowing whether the model was confused, whether my problem is unsolvable, or if some invisible policy restriction quietly kicked in. Anthropic has explicitly chosen not to tell users when this is happening.
  • 2 days ago Split-Flap Display by David Kingsman | Download free STL model | Printables.com
    10-unit split-flap display. 3D-printed flaps. Modular. | Download free 3D printable STL models
  • 3 days ago Hershey Noailles
    The Hershey fonts are a collection of vector fonts developed c. 1967 by Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey at the Naval Weapons Laboratory, and originally designed to be rendered using vectors on early cathode ray tube displays. Decomposing curves to connected straight lines allowed Hershey to produce complex typographic designs. In their original form the font data consists simply in a series of coordinates, meant to be connected by straight lines on the screen. We forked hersheytextjs and made it a program that defines strokes in css, then exports it as a font.
  • 4 days ago reg-viz/storycap: A Storybook Addon, Save the screenshot image of your stories via puppeteer.
    A Storybook Addon, Save the screenshot image of your stories 📷 via puppeteer.
  • 5 days ago Look, just fucking use Mastodon already
    See, what makes Mastodon less worse than something like Twitter or Bluesky or, god forbid, fucking Threads, is that it has escape hatches. You may not like being told “go find another instance,” but you can go find another instance, and that is fucking spectacular. Twitter started going into the shitter even before Elon Seig Heil Musk painted a big “X” on it with his dick, but did you all just say “sucks, man,” and fuck off to another Twitter instance? No! Why not? Because there were no other fucking Twitter instances!
  • 5 days ago Obs.js – context-aware web performance for everyone
    Obs.js reads a handful of browser signals (Navigator and Battery APIs) to infer connection strength, battery status, and device capability. It exposes those signals as CSS classes on the element, and as properties on window.obs, so you can adapt delivery accordingly: serve lower-resolution media, forgo web fonts, disable auto-playing video… you name it.
  • 6 days ago performative-ui | AI-native React Components
    AI-native React components for AI startup Components that signal how oversubscribed your funding round is.
  • 6 days ago LEGO Batman's Commodore 64 BASIC easter egg - Waxy.org
    Cabel Sasser found a great easter egg in the new Lego Batman game. (Audio on!)
  • 6 days ago Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence
    Two years ago, the question I was trying to answer was how to think alongside a new kind of intelligence. Now the questions are weirder: When should you refuse AI’s help, even when it is offering? When should you hand over the keys entirely? And what do you do when the AI is no longer just your assistant, but your reader, your critic, and the gatekeeper standing between your work and its audience? Writing this book meant living with all three questions at once, and I suspect your job will involve them soon, if it doesn’t already.
  • 1 week ago geo-tp/ESP32-Bit-Pirate at 20c88aba2e102b3e1d87a1b3f6779a2ac7f7a085
    A Hardware Hacking Tool with Web-Based CLI That Speaks Every Protocol
  • 1 week ago Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans? | Hacker News
    We broke the web so badly for humans that we had to build a clean web for machines, and now humans will have to use machines to experience a clean web again.

@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town

  • 18 hours ago
    My wife and I just had a really nice dinner for our anniversary. Then, on the way home, we got Taco Bell.
  • 23 hours ago
    As Alucard would say, "What?!" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ywAg5UJGvfs
  • 23 hours ago
    So I finished Castlevania: Symphony of the Night again and I can't believe I forgot about the 90s adult contemporary end credits theme https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/I_am_the_Wind
  • 1 day ago
    This made me giggle #startrek
  • 2 days ago
    But like, still falling down the rabbit hole, what was this madness? While baddies are shooting the heck out of your Zoids mech, you have to do a Fourier synthesis minigame to jam radio signals?! It was amazing but also hard as heck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b50Iy3Phgsg
  • 3 days ago
    Oh, and all the above controlled with an old-school one-button Atari-style joystick. No mouse or keyboard controls in sight. Totally blew my 11-year-old mind
  • 3 days ago
    Like, you had to navigate the Zoid mech in an overworld. Shoot railguns at baddies. Fuel up and navigate missiles to targets. Manage shields and damage control. Jam radio signals. Collect macguffins. Fight a boss baddie. Almost each part was a hard-as-nails little minigame you had to manage while the rest of the hazards in the world continued pummeling you in real time. Oh and the machine + human health readouts rendered as EEG graphs and lubb-dubb sound effects, so cool and stressful
  • 3 days ago
    Sometimes I want to make a slightly more accessible new version of Zoids from the C64. That game was really cool and surprisingly complex for the time, but also way too hard to be much fun. But it was kind of amazing how much mech combat management it managed to cram in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1tjnD9Q8yA
  • 3 days ago
    Like "my podcast is on YouTube" is the "no coke just pepsi" of the content world
  • 3 days ago
    Like, "come watch my cable TV channel" (it's a DVD) "i'll give you a ride in my car" (it's a cargo e-bike with a big basket in front) "would you like a sandwich?" (it's an omelet)
  • 3 days ago
    Ugh man I hate it when I hear someone mention a "podcast" that sounds interesting and I can't find it in the app I use to listen to podcasts because it's actually a YouTube channel 🤦‍♂️
  • 5 days ago
    "Luke, you've switched off your TikTok comments! What's wrong?"

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