Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>
That's me!
About Me
TL;DR: he / him; old adhd cat dad; tinkerer; serial enthusiast; editor-at-large for lmorchard.com
This page collects a bunch of the stuff I do online. If you feel like it, send me an email at
me@lmorchard.com, send a toot to
@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town, or find me in one of
the other usual places below:
Blog (blog.lmorchard.com)
Links
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17 hours ago
MikeSchirtzinger/silent-notetaker: Private, on-device AI meeting notetaker that runs entirely in your browser — live transcription, speaker ID, and note extraction with no audio leaving your machine (WebGPU + WASM).
Private, on-device AI meeting notetaker that runs entirely in your browser — live transcription, speaker ID, and note extraction with no audio leaving your machine (WebGPU + WASM).
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17 hours ago
staniks.github.io - Catlantean 3D - Making Graphics Like It's 1993
My goal was to build a complete, shippable first-person shooter using techniques that were common in the early 90s, while allowing myself the luxury of using a modern compiler and a platform abstraction layer.
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1 day 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.
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3 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.
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4 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
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4 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.
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5 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.
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6 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!
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6 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.
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1 week ago
performative-ui | AI-native React Components
AI-native React components for AI startup Components that signal how oversubscribed your funding round is.
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1 week 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!)
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1 week 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.
@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
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13 hours ago
was at a booze store, this weekend. i asked if they had chartreuse. we had a hearty laugh
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17 hours ago
I'm always on the lookout for designers of odd stuff that I can print
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17 hours ago
My special geegaws, let me show you them #3dprinting
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22 hours ago
It's probably going to be ludicrously wasteful of filament, but for an occasional special little geegaw it'll be nifty
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22 hours ago
Ooh, I have a Prusa MK4S and an MMU3 - I think this means I might soon be able to print in CMYKW full color with some software updates? #3dprinting https://blog.prusa3d.com/our-new-open-source-colormix-model-in-prusaslicer-and-easyprint_136079/
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1 day ago
Raccoon's back for a pond party
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2 days ago
My wife and I just had a really nice dinner for our anniversary. Then, on the way home, we got Taco Bell.
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2 days ago
As Alucard would say, "What?!" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ywAg5UJGvfs
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2 days 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
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2 days ago
This made me giggle #startrek
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4 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
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4 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
Github (@lmorchard)
- 19 hours ago pushed 74400f0 to lmorchard/starnet ( worktree-flexible-rhythm-grids ): Ear-check tuning: longer snare tail, score tweaks, per-layer whole-bar loops
- 19 hours ago pushed 09bad7d to lmorchard/starnet ( worktree-flexible-rhythm-grids ): Punchier snare: add a tonal body transient under the noise crack
- 20 hours ago submitted Pull Request #241 to lmorchard/starnet :
- 20 hours ago created branch worktree-flexible-rhythm-grids on lmorchard/starnet
- 21 hours ago submitted Issue #239 to lmorchard/starnet : Audio: vary the music drone chord over a run (reduce monotony)
- 21 hours ago pushed a51cabb to lmorchard/starnet ( main ): Vary the music drone chord over a run + hub (#239) (#240)
- 21 hours ago submitted Pull Request #240 to lmorchard/starnet :
YouTube Videos (lmorchard)
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - Adding limit switches to a 3018 CNC machine?
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - Assembling the Why Em-Ulator Module for RC2014
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - Reflashing Sonoff S31 AC (again)
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Clip: Chiptunes & Tinkering - Reflashing a Sonoff S31 with Tasmota to control an AC outlet with Home
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - Reflashing a Sonoff S31 with Tasmota to control an AC outlet with Home Assis
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - RC2014 assembly, Pi Pico Terminal and Real Time Clock modules
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - RC2014 assembly, Digital I/O board part 2
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - RC2014 assembly, Digital I/O board
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - RC2014 wifi module assembly
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - RC2014 wifi module repair & firmware update
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - RC2014 assembly, again again?
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - RC2014 assembly, again?
Pocket Casts
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# The **epic** story of Markdown
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The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition
21 hours ago
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Israel Reacts To Iran Deal, Trump Meets World Leaders At G7, Georgia Primary Preview
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Up First from NPR
6 hours ago
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NPR News: 06-16-2026 10AM EDT
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NPR News Now
1 hour ago
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Model Not Available - Anthropic's Fable Shutdown & Apple's Siri Update
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This Week in Tech (Audio)
1 day ago
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NPR News: 06-16-2026 12AM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
11 hours ago
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NPR News: 06-15-2026 11AM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
1 day ago
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RSA June 1st 2026
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RSAudio
2 weeks ago
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RSA June 8th 2026
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RSAudio
1 week ago
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Iran Deal, UFC Event At White House, Trump Heads To G7
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Up First from NPR
1 day ago
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NPR News: 06-15-2026 10AM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
1 day ago
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Skydio CEO Adam Bry on AI, lethal drones and competing with China
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Unknown Podcast
3 days ago
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Harmony remote: Control freak
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Version History: Ad-Free Edition
2 days ago
Spotify ( Les Orchard )
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Step Forward on IV by Kite 36 minutes ago
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Forgotten on The Directory by Silent Runners 39 minutes ago
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Silent Shout on Silent Shout by The Knife 44 minutes ago
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Systemagic on Silver Eye (Deluxe Edition) by Goldfrapp 49 minutes ago
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Icabod on Joyland by TR/ST 52 minutes ago
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Problems on Trouble by Ghost Cop 56 minutes ago
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Scene Four: Beyond This Life on Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory by Dream Theater 14 hours ago
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