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

22 hours ago Softcore First, Hardcore Eventually: A Ladder for the IndieWeb · brennan.day
"Hardcore" and "easy" IndieWeb aren't two camps you have to pick a side of. No, there are rungs on the ladder, and most people need to climb it, rather than getting dropped on whichever rung feels most ideologically pure and getting told to figure out the rest.
23 hours ago mcuadros/ofelia: A docker job scheduler (aka. crontab for docker)
A docker job scheduler (aka. crontab for docker)
1 day ago Xbox One controller faceplate and side rails re-upload by hypnotoadskin - Thingiverse
I found the upload of the xbox one controller side panels (side rails?) and faceplate so I decided to put them here for others to find as well. Enjoy!
1 day ago Prime Radiant Blog
1 day ago The Therapist Pattern — Massively Parallel Procrastination
So, how does somebody work on themself in a safe, supportive environment with some level of external guidance and supervision? Yup. That sounds a lot like therapy. And agents know what it means to go to therapy and work on themselves. They know what to expect and how to engage. The Therapist is implemented as a standalone subagent inside Sen.
2 days ago NEW: Tempest in HD with CRT Effects - MiSTer FPGA Forum
This core reconstructs the original machine from Atari's schematics. It pairs that hardware with an ultra high performance vector renderer and a complete CRT-effects pipeline for high-resolution MiSTer output.
2 days ago Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source | Microsoft Open Source Blog
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.
2 days ago mutativejs/travels: A fast, framework-agnostic undo/redo core powered by Mutative JSON Patch
A fast, framework-agnostic undo/redo core powered by Mutative JSON Patch
3 days ago Replit — The Self-Driving Company
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.
3 days ago Jelly UI — Soft Web Components
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.
4 days ago Blog on Jeremy Theocharis
4 days ago The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway. | Jeremy Theocharis
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.

@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town

23 hours ago
screw a "historically correct" AI-generated rendition of The Odyssey. let's get a historically correct version of Dan Simmons' Ilium/Olympos kickstarted. (i have no clue whether this toot will make any sense to anyone at all)
1 day ago
But seriously Leatherman is kind of a bad-ass name for a guy who invents tools
1 day ago
I also didn't know that the Leatherman factory was in Portland, OR??? https://www.leatherman.com/pages/the-leatherman-story
1 day ago
Like, "Tim Leatherman" sounds like "John Mastodon" to me
1 day ago
I have a Leatherman tool. I didn't realize there's an actual real "Tim Leatherman" behind it. I guess I just thought it was, like, a tool for uh leather men? https://www.powells.com/book/the-leatherman-book-9798217298921
2 days ago
Also, peace in our time for #cats?
2 days ago
Guess who's back, back again?
2 days ago
Also I'm watching a speed run of Castlevania 1 and he said it's 40 years old and I want to either collapse into a pile of dust & bones or do violence
2 days ago
I just watched a Castlevania: Symphony of the Night speed run that took 16m44s and I'm like... my last playthrough took like 18 hours? Like I know it's a speedrun, but... jeebus crimony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBGBBRH2_ZY
2 days ago
I need to move that camera a bit, I think - there's a waterfall and a rock pile behind that tree and the raccoons fully dismantled that too.
2 days ago
Also, there were TWO #raccoons in our pond, last Sunday night. For some reason they just really love demolishing our lily pad plant!
2 days ago
I have a doorbell camera configured to alert me when animals cross our front porch. We have people working on the house today and one of them is wearing a shirt with an animal on it. The doorbell keeps telling me when he comes & goes.

Github (@lmorchard)

29 minutes ago submitted Pull Request #647 to lmorchard/decafclaw :
29 minutes ago pushed 7266d48 to lmorchard/decafclaw ( fix/terminal-stuck-progress ): feat(widgets): sticky widget slot above chat input (#419) (#642)
31 minutes ago created branch fix/terminal-stuck-progress on lmorchard/decafclaw
32 minutes ago pushed 923aab8 to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): feat(vault): self-improving vault — frontmatter generation + deterministic importance tuning (#197) (#646)
32 minutes ago submitted Issue #197 to lmorchard/decafclaw : Vault evolution: dream/garden frontmatter generation and importance tuning
32 minutes ago submitted Pull Request #646 to lmorchard/decafclaw :

YouTube Videos (lmorchard)

Pocket Casts

NPR News: 07-24-2026 12PM EDT from NPR News Now 1 hour ago
OctaMED, Amigas and Dark 80s Music - The Retro Hour EP539 from The Retro Hour VIP Episodes 2 weeks ago
The Odyssey and High Strangeness with Daniel Noah from The STARLOG Podcast 2 days ago
NPR News: 07-24-2026 11AM EDT from NPR News Now 3 hours ago
NPR News: 07-24-2026 10AM EDT from Unknown Podcast 3 hours ago
Why read anymore? from The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition 22 hours ago
NPR News: 07-24-2026 7AM EDT from Unknown Podcast 6 hours ago
NPR News: 07-23-2026 3PM EDT from Unknown Podcast 22 hours ago
NPR News: 07-23-2026 11AM EDT from Unknown Podcast 1 day ago
Samsung's next-generation foldables are here | The Vergecast Livestream from The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition 2 days ago
Saudi Uranium Enrichment Deal, Trump Defends Iran War, GOP Congress Out Of Sync from Up First from NPR 1 day ago
NPR News: 07-23-2026 10AM EDT from Unknown Podcast 1 day ago

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