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, drop me an email or a tweet or a toot — or find me in one of the other usual places below.
Blog (blog.lmorchard.com)
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Using SQLite as a document database for Mastodon exports
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The Machine is Grieving
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Synology + Docker + VSCode
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Begging for Treats
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Animating Mermaid diagrams with terrible hacks
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There are no ushers on Mastodon
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Twitter, or social cowardice as a service
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5:00am is the enemy
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My summer spent avoiding a writing habit
YouTube Videos (lmorchard)
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - Mac Classic Serial Cable shenanigans
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - Soldering practice
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - Raspberry Pi Camera?
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - Test stream at new workbench setup
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The face I made when I got a Raspberry Pi camera working
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Chiptunes & Magazine Type-in Experiment
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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
hackers.town (@lmorchard)
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1 minute ago
@paulasadoorian Metallic bile, like a Red Bull that's had a whole package of anthropomorphic paperclips soaking in it for a month.
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11 hours ago
@jbaggs The smoking thing, though, is that it's a consumable event with a start & end so at least some part of my annoying brain has an excuse
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11 hours ago
@jbaggs There's a little too much light pollution around here to see much of stars, though I do miss when I had a little telescope that I'd take out to the driveway at my mom's house growing up
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11 hours ago
(that said, I did sit outside last night to do a shrine in LoZ: ToTK on the Switch and that was pretty cool)
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11 hours ago
Sometimes, I wish I still smoked, so I had a good reason to sit outside in the cold after dark.
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18 hours ago
@ct_bergstrom Doctor, my elbow hurts when I go like this
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19 hours ago
@sungo Yeah, I'm thinking basically that but more of it and more deniability
Github (@lmorchard)
- 2 days ago watched mattwebbio/orbital-sync
- 5 days ago watched TypeCellOS/BlockNote
- 6 days ago watched untitaker/mastodon-bookmark-rss
- 1 week ago pushed 8d145f9 to lmorchard/masto-recall ( main ): purge older statuses and links during ingest; refactor ingest into analysis module
- 1 week ago watched michealespinola/syno.plexupdate
- 2 weeks ago pushed 58e4273 to lmorchard/masto-recall ( main ): found an index to improve account count; ensure recentStatuses display gets the right options
- 2 weeks ago pushed 385346f to lmorchard/masto-recall ( main ): refactor writeQueue into its own module
Pinboard (u:deusx)
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22 hours ago
Arcade Authorship – High Score Table Credits – The History of How We Play
It’s an open secret that with the advent of the high score table in arcade video games, designers would hide their signatures in lieu of being directly credited for the games themselves.
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1 day ago
Server-side rendering (SSR) – Lit
Lit supports server-side rendering through the Lit SSR package. Lit SSR renders Lit components and templates to static HTML markup in non-browser JavaScript environments like Node. It works without fully emulating the browser's DOM, and takes advantage of Lit's declarative template format to enable fast performance, achieve low time-to-first-byte, and support streaming.
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2 days ago
GitHub - mattwebbio/orbital-sync: Synchronize multiple Pi-hole instances
lmorchard starred mattwebbio/orbital-sync
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2 days ago
ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft. | America Magazine
But in calling these programs “artificial intelligence” we grant them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue. Each of those tokens used by programs like ChatGPT—the “language” in their “large language model”—represents a tiny, tiny piece of material that someone else created. And those authors are not credited for it, paid for it or asked permission for its use. In a sense, these machine-learning bots are actually the most advanced form of a chop shop: They steal material from creators (that is, they use it without permission), cut that material into parts so small that no one can trace them and then repurpose them to form new products.
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3 days ago
Early Computer Art in the 50’s & 60’s — Amy Goodchild
My original vision for this article was to cover the development of computer art from the 50’s to the 90’s, but it turns out there’s an abundance of things without even getting half way through that era. So in this article we’ll look at how Lovelace’s ideas for creativity with a computer first came to life in the 50’s and 60’s, and I’ll cover later decades in future articles.
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5 days ago
GitHub - TypeCellOS/BlockNote: A "Notion-style" block-based extensible text editor built on top of Prosemirror and Tiptap.
lmorchard starred TypeCellOS/BlockNote
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6 days ago
Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering — surma.dev
I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research.
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6 days ago
GitHub - untitaker/mastodon-bookmark-rss: A small app to let you connect your mastodon bookmarks to your RSS reader.
lmorchard starred untitaker/mastodon-bookmark-rss
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1 week ago
GitHub - michealespinola/syno.plexupdate: A script to automagically update Plex Media Server on Synology NAS
lmorchard starred michealespinola/syno.plexupdate
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1 week ago
Date and Time with a Static Site Generator - Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Do you have a static site generator? If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts are published?
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2 weeks ago
My 20 Year Career is Technical Debt or Deprecated
My entire career is now technical debt, or the code has been deprecated.
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2 weeks ago
SQLite performance tuning - Scaling SQLite databases to many concurrent readers and multiple gigabytes while maintaining 100k SELECTs per second - phiresky's blog
Scaling SQLite databases to many concurrent readers and multiple gigabytes while maintaining 100k SELECTs per second
Spotify ( Les Orchard )
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inner universe on 攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX O.S.T.+ by Origa 1 day ago
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Cut from the Stars on Mirror To The Sky by Yes 5 days ago
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CLOSER on Ø by Blood Red Shoes 5 days ago
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Day Drinker on Alpha Games by Bloc Party 5 days ago
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Gotta Do More Gotta Be More on Love No Less Than A Queen by Trampolene 5 days ago
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Synthetica on Synthetica (Deluxe Edition) by Metric 5 days ago
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It's Only Love on It's Only Love by Tigercub 5 days ago
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