Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

I recently got a new phone and thus had to re-do the setup of my mobile blogging pipeline. So, basically, allow me to checkout, modify, test, commit and push the sources of this Hugo based static page under Android. While doing so I noticed some necessary changes and improvements, and also wanted to make use of my Taskfile which does most of the heavy lifting now, so here are my updated steps.

A blog written by hand

LES ORCHARD IS IN THE WEIGHTS — Mozilla software developer

Sliders, pointer position, element visibility, viewport size, battery, network, sensors — JavaScript can read all of it; CSS can't. prop-for-that writes that runtime state into --live-* and --const-* custom properties — batched and diffed down to one setProperty per frame — so your CSS can compose and react to it with plain calc() and var().

A platform-agnostic specification of the technical features every decent website should have — from to /.well-known/security.txt, from WCAG contrast to llms.txt. Written for humans and agents.

Briefly, in Spire 1, the game used several distinct pseudorandom number generators, to prevent e.g. randomness within a combat from influencing future card rewards. However, they were all initialized to the same starting state, which meant they produced the same sequence of numbers. A crafty player could therefore pay attention to the results of past random events and gain information about future random events.

Portmaster put hundreds of free, community-ported games on Linux handhelds. Starboard brings huge swathes of that catalogue to the Android ones — the Odin, Retroid, RG and dual-screen Thor class of device — by running them in a real Linux environment under the bonnet. Phones are welcome too.

Build real-time multiplayer for Phaser, PixiJS, Three.js, or any browser game. Open-source Node.js framework — rooms, actors, typed binary protocol. Free for commercial use, forever.

Loop engineering is replacing yourself as the person who prompts the agent. You design the system that does it instead. A loop here can be thought of a recursive goal where you define a purpose and the AI iterates until complete. I believe this may be the future of how we work with coding agents. However, its still early, I’m skeptical and you absolutely have to be careful about token costs (usage patterns can vary wildly if you are token rich or poor), so I want to unpack what it is and what it means.