Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>
That's me!

About Me
TL;DR: Tinkerer; maker of things; webdev; crazy cat gentleman; serial enthusiast; Mozillian. He / him.
This page collects a bunch of the stuff I do online. If you feel like it, drop me an email or a tweet or a toot — or find me in one of the other usual places below.
Today (notes.lmorchard.com)
Hello world.
Maybe I should transfer this list of things I might do from my now-full Field Notes.
Changes (notes.lmorchard.com)
Project: Firefox Accounts
I'm a core contributor on Firefox Accounts for Mozilla. I work mainly on the subscription services platform, though I have been known to pitch in elsewhere on the project.
Blog (blog.lmorchard.com)
Glitch Projects (lmorchard)
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lmo-basic-computer-games
Base project for the git cloning
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lmo-feeder
A bare-bones RSS/Atom feed reader
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ash-mixolydian-sociology
Lords of Cyberspace gateway.
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webgl-2d-shapes-and-stars
Using WebGL for 2D graphics is kind of fun
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wheel-of-oblique-strategies
A spinning wheel of Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt
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panic-ranger
An unfinished game that runs in the browser
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rose-viscount
Your very own basic web page, ready for you to customize.
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youtube-playlist-shuffle
Quick & dirty YouTube playlist shuffler
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lmorchard-stream-loader
A retro-style "loader" for my streaming shenannigans
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wheel-of-side-projects
A spinning wheel of my prospective side projects
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wc-arboretum
Tinkering with card sorting and web components
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edison-carter-overlay
Streaming live and direct from twenty minutes into the future
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vanilla-web-components
Your very own basic web page, ready for you to customize.
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lmorchard-take-a-walk
random walk
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picodon
This might someday be an ActivityPub node. (Picodon is also cheese.)
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spin-that-wheel
Playing with CSS animations to make a wheel of list items spin
YouTube Videos (lmorchard)
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Atari Punk Console on an oscilloscope
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/17 - playing with NodeCG and twitch alerts
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Atari Punk Console works!
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - Atari Punk Console maybe
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/09 - chilling at my workbench
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/16 - playing with NodeCG and twitch alerts
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/10 - chilling at my workbench
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/20 - Nintendo Switch joycon repair (hopefully)
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/20 - playing with NodeCG and twitch alerts
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/24 - Nintendo Switch joycon repair (hopefully)
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Time lapse of me sorting through a 2lb grab bag of electronics parts
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Chiptunes & Coding: Firefox Lockbox
Twitter ( Les Orchard )
- 31 minutes ago This post's title suggests Gen X will save the web. Kinda feels like we lost the web. Not sure when or how the savi… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1368439837343150083 …
- 2 hours ago RT @AdamAmericaBook: A fair question. https://t.co/qyw2CL0G54
- 2 hours ago RT @MrVGBrow: When your game is just lines on a black background, as in these early vector coin-ops, you gotta use a lot of lines to grab t…
- 3 hours ago RT @MattBinder: a lot of people (rightly) focused on Krysten Sinema's old tweet in support of raising the minimum wage ...but did you know…
- 3 hours ago @dria But also I haven't bothered to get past more than the firat boss yet, too busy crafting and building
- 3 hours ago @dria Well, i think I'm a few dozen hours in now. It's got like PlayStation 1 graphics except with really good ligh… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1368395833968709636 …
- 4 hours ago RT @disobey: I👏CAN👏NOT👏WAIT👏FOR👏THIS👏GAME👏@LastManSitting_ #screenshotsaturday https://t.co/NAe7f4PSQp
Github (@lmorchard)
- 3 days ago pushed 79bc21d to mozilla/experimenter ( main ): fixes #4543 fix(nimbus): ensure dummy feature configs have schemas (#4748)
- 3 days ago submitted Issue #4543 to mozilla/experimenter : Value field is required for features
- 3 days ago submitted Pull Request #4748 to mozilla/experimenter : fixes #4543 fix(nimbus): ensure dummy feature configs have schemas
Pinboard (u:deusx)
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4 days ago
GitHub - IdleHandsProject/volumetric_display: TENEX OLED Displays
lmorchard starred IdleHandsProject/volumetric_display
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5 days ago
GitHub - jonroig/finger.farm: Finger.Farm Modern Finger Protocol Hosting... kind of a fingerd implementation in Node
lmorchard starred jonroig/finger.farm
- 1 week ago Boats are overrated : valheim
- 2 weeks ago The Mother We Share : Portland
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2 weeks ago
GitHub - danja/chatterbox: A (sometimes) manually controlled speech-like sound generator
lmorchard starred danja/chatterbox
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2 weeks ago
GitHub - inkle/ink: inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.
lmorchard starred inkle/ink
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2 weeks ago
GitHub - inkle/inky: An editor for ink: inkle's narrative scripting language
lmorchard starred inkle/inky
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2 weeks ago
GitHub - evanw/esbuild: An extremely fast JavaScript bundler and minifier
lmorchard starred evanw/esbuild
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2 weeks ago
Pi Zero Serial Terminal « RC2014
The Pi Zero Serial Terminal module allows you to plug the RC2014 in to an HDMI monitor or TV and a USB keyboard, thus use it without the reliance on another computer. [Ok, yes, you are still relying on another computer – the Pi Zero – but it’s small and neat within the RC2014 footprint]
- 2 weeks ago It’s a modern PC but it’s housed in a 1984 toy Voltron castle : retrobattlestations
- 2 weeks ago Celebrating BBS Week with my Quazon Quik-Link 100, a little known Videotex terminal from 1984 : retrobattlestations
- 2 weeks ago BBSing from my Apple //e, many others like it but this one is mine : retrobattlestations
Typing (typing.lmorchard.com)
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2 years ago
A river, not an inbox
Feed readers work best for me when they're rivers, not inboxes.
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2 years ago
Done with Google’s Feed
For the past year or so, I've been using Google's Discover feed from my phone's home screen for part of my daily news habit. It's been mostly okay and often relevant. But, little paper cuts have finally hit my annoyance threshold.
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2 years ago
I ❤️ Glitch
Lately, when I start tinkering with a side project, I reach for Glitch.
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2 years ago
GOTO Hell
Here's a spoopy little story I wrote. The gist of it comes from a dream. There's blood, murder, an unhealthy relationship, and a bit of existential angst.
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2 years ago
Generating a Firefox static theme from a web page
Folks would like to export their themes from Firefox Color as standalone theme add-ons. These can be submitted to AMO and allow for further advanced tinkering not supported by the theme editor in Color. Up until today, I was thinking that we'd need to do this with server-side code like an AWS Lambda function. But, with more due diligence, I realized all the pieces exist to make this happen completely in the browser.
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2 years ago
Insultron2000 is here to serve!
It was a rainy, chilly day this past Sunday. I had been meaning to work on Picodon. But I was feeling low enthusiasm for that project. So, I spun my Wheel of Side Projects. It landed on "ActivityPub insult bot"--a similar theme but it felt like something I could actually get working in a day. So, Insultron2000 was born!
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2 years ago
Embracing stasis to get unstuck
By letting things I've made go static, I can shed encumbrances to try new things. And I want to try new things to see if I can remove limiters on my writing.
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2 years ago
When Yak Shaving is The Point
I've been working on some side projects lately. I feel good about that. But, I usually don't finish them. I feel bad about that. I always feel bad about that. But, maybe I shouldn't be so hard on myself.
Spotify ( Les Orchard )
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Total Football on Wide Awake! by Parquet Courts 18 minutes ago
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No Glory in the West on No Glory in the West by Orville Peck 22 minutes ago
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The Saint Of Lost Causes on The Saint Of Lost Causes by Justin Townes Earle 27 minutes ago
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Dylan Thomas on Better Oblivion Community Center by Better Oblivion Community Center , Phoebe Bridgers , Conor Oberst 31 minutes ago
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Diving Woman on Soft Sounds from Another Planet by Japanese Breakfast 35 minutes ago
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Soul No. 5 on LONER by Caroline Rose 42 minutes ago
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Buffalo Run on Pony by Orville Peck 45 minutes ago
Colophon
This is a static web page hosted on Amazon S3. It is periodically updated via a scheduled Github Action that fetches data from many sources on the web.
- Source code:
- https://github.com/lmorchard/about-me
- Last fetched:
- 2021-03-07T06:25:16.822Z
- Last rendered:
- 2021-03-07T06:25:18.896Z