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.
Been awhile since I wrote anything here.
Today, I'm in the basement fumbling around with AtariTempest repair.
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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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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lmo-feeder
A bare-bones RSS/Atom feed reader
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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 )
- 42 minutes ago @nytimes While on the one hand I thirst for a President so boring that you need to scrape the barrel for a story -… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351668808381939712 …
- 1 hour ago Holy crap. This is a Holy Grail retro gaming setup (via @racketboy) https://www.racketboy.com/journal/evolving-a-curated-retro-game-collection-fine-tuning-av-setups …
- 3 hours ago Word to the wise: Don't come after furries or juggalos. https://twitter.com/YAppelbaum/status/1351512378282803200 …
- 3 hours ago @gcaw @neilclevine @YAppelbaum Yes, just like Rob Zombie is an actual zombie and the Talking Heads are actual Futur… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351627999540514817 …
- 7 hours ago @isaiah Like I even have my own Discord from when I was trying to start more consistently streaming on Twitch, but I rarely even check it 😅
- 7 hours ago @isaiah Nah, I've connected to maybe 20 discords and slacks aspirationally. But I actually only talk from day to da… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351566911859904515 …
- 17 hours ago I hit burnout in the Slack / Discord sphere before I even managed to engage with any of them. I don't know how folk… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351420130907996160 …
Github (@lmorchard)
- 1 hour ago pushed 40b87de to mozilla/experimenter ( main ): fix #4450 fix(nimbus): ensure feature_config is not lost when saving (#4451)
- 1 hour ago submitted Issue #4450 to mozilla/experimenter : Nimbus Experimenter on stage sending incorrect JSON to stage RS
Pinboard (u:deusx)
- 1 day ago Good morning to everyone except the Sunleaf Grace : Portland
- 1 day ago Now that I'm awake... : Portland
- 4 days ago found this on discord, i enjoy my freinds! : aww
- 4 days ago Crow bomb!! : crows
- 5 days ago National Guardsmen posing with Rosa Parks statue while protecting Capitol : MadeMeSmile
- 5 days ago Morning poses : Rabbits
- 5 days ago Friendship and love is universal . : oddlysatisfying
- 5 days ago This was part of my 5-year-old's homework today : funny
- 5 days ago Demo time : ProgrammerHumor
- 5 days ago They also wag their tails! : trashpandas
- 5 days ago The Planetary Promenade has officially launched! - I painted 12 major solar system and then installed a big outdoor science display on Mississippi Ave! See if you can find all the locations (make sure you scan the QR codes! Each has its own song!) : Portl
- 5 days ago Just resting my hips on a coffee table leg. : buncomfortable
Typing (typing.lmorchard.com)
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1 year 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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Hex Girlfriend on Era Extraña by Neon Indian 5 hours ago
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Butterfly on Art Angels by Grimes 5 hours ago
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Lovesick Teenagers on Beast Rest Forth Mouth by Bear In Heaven 5 hours ago
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Revolver on A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular by Hooverphonic 5 hours ago
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Fineshrine on Shrines by Purity Ring 5 hours ago
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Your Name on Morning Moon by Tundran 5 hours ago
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Science/Visions on The Bones of What You Believe (Special Edition) by CHVRCHES 5 hours 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
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- 2021-01-19T23:54:44.706Z
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- 2021-01-19T23:54:46.785Z