Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

Today, we’re excited to announce the open-source release of Microsoft Comic Chat, the chat client that automatically turned conversations within Internet Relay Chat (IRC) into comic panels featuring illustrated characters, speech bubbles, and expressions, and helped introduce the world to a little font called Comic Sans.

A fast, framework-agnostic undo/redo core powered by Mutative JSON Patch

A self-driving company is not one without people. People still choose the destination. They decide which problems matter, make difficult tradeoffs, exercise taste, and take responsibility for the outcome.

Jelly UI is a dependency-free Web Components library for soft, tactile product interfaces. Real form controls meet soft-body physics, with dark mode, right-to-left support and WCAG AA color tokens built in.

I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, and I also feel like that sometimes because of this dissonance, but I don’t think I am alone with it.

From local files and NAS to Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Subsonic, OpenSubsonic, Navidrome and cloud drives, Symfonium unifies your music and audiobook libraries in one Android player.

In my mind there are different buckets for personal projects. One is things I do to learn and grow and the other is things I really wish existed. [2] This kind of project falls into the second bucket. Using AI coding assist to reify those projects is sort of a form of wish fulfillment. I never would have gotten to it, but now I can have the project. One less metaphorical book sitting unread on bookshelf.

he Gecko engine compiled to WebAssembly. The real Firefox interface, rendering entirely inside this browser tab.

🦊 Firefox in WebAssembly

This piece walks through that setup end to end. By the end you will know where your time is going, have a workflow that gives useful feedback on every PR, and know the point at which sharding actually becomes worth it.