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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13 hours ago
RSS Gizmos - Tools for Creating, Finding, and Using RSS Feeds
RSS feeds give you the power to set up and control your own information flow — you get to make your own algorithm for the things you want to see from the sources you want to follow. Choose a tool below to get started.
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13 hours ago
Endless • Polyend
Playground builds on a large library of DSP algorithms our team has developed over many years. The AI layer interprets your prompt, then combines or adapts these building blocks to produce new effects. Under the hood, multiple specialised agents handle different steps for parsing your request, selecting the right algorithms, generating code, and running automated tests during and after creation. We also designed the infrastructure to stay flexible about AI providers, so we can evaluate different models over time and choose the best balance of quality, reliability, and cost as the technology evolves.
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13 hours ago
A few notes about the MacBook Neo | Riccardo Mori
I don’t care if the Neo lacks an ambient light sensor or if the webcam isn’t cutting-edge — It does not feature a notch on the top of the display and this is so huge for me. I thought Apple forgot that displays are supposed to be plain, uninterrupted, unblemished rectangles. Design-wise, this is currently the only Apple laptop I can look at and can think of purchasing after the 2020 M1 MacBook Air.
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2 days ago
OpenClaw and the Dream of Free Labour | entropytown
It is tempting to describe OpenClaw as a breakthrough in autonomy. That gives it slightly too much credit. The fantasy it sold was not subtle. Give the machine a goal, leave it alone, and return to discover that it has not merely completed a task but conducted a small campaign on your behalf. In the most vulgar version, the goal is simply to make money. So the demo feed fills with the same intoxicating little story: the agent notices a pain point, writes the code, wires up payments, deploys the thing, posts the link and begins, as if by administrative sorcery, to earn while its owner sleeps.
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4 days ago
Your Phone is an Entire Computer
Now that I know my iPhone has the capacity to run MacOS, I would very much like to do so. I’d love to consider the possibility of switching to a less intrusive phone and repurposing this iPhone into a web server. Perhaps that seems silly, but it’s really not. I’ve already paid for the device, it's clearly a full blown computer, and why should I not be able to modify it as I see fit? A right to root access would make all of this possible. And I really want to run MacOS on my iPhone now, damn it.
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4 days ago
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
This computer is not for the people writing those reviews — people who already have the MacBook Pro, who have the professional context, who are optimizing at the margin. This computer is for the kid who doesn’t have a margin to optimize. Who can’t wait for the right tool to materialize. Who is going to take what’s available and push it until it breaks and learn something permanent from the breaking.
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4 days ago
Pivot to AI – It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
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4 days ago
Silicon Valley Abuzz About Adding AI Compute to Engineer Compensation - Business Insider
With Levels.fyi pegging the 75th percentile software engineer salary at $375,000, Tunguz estimates that adding $100,000 in annual inference costs brings the fully loaded cost to $475,000 — meaning just over 20% of the compensation cost could come from AI usage in the future.
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4 days ago
Digg - People. Places. Things.
Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team. This wasn't a decision made lightly, and it's important to say clearly: this is one of the strongest groups of people we've ever had the privilege of working with. This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding product-market fit in an environment that has fundamentally changed.
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4 days ago
Portland Urban Coyote Project - Home
At the Portland Urban Coyote Project, we seek to understand how people and coyotes interact and to help the community learn about our coyote neighbors.
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6 days ago
About - Terminal Trove
Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.
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6 days ago
Hi, would you like to talk about plants?
The more intense my work and this political landscape has gotten, the stronger my urge to run away to the woods forever had become. But, as I said in my recent post, I’m not going anywhere. And when I decided that I wasn’t going anywhere, I also knew that I would then need to make my home more of the type of space I need to maintain some level of peace in my life. So I decided to build a garden.
@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
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22 hours ago
Content warning:mental health Ohh I've never seen the whole song & dance number before! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2EI65ZEqYQ
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22 hours ago
Content warning:mental health i don't really wanna do the work today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5jYkQ0ZhMo
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22 hours ago
Content warning:mental health That thing where I have a therapy appointment but I just feel normal depressed and not super-duper-turbo depressed and don't really want to talk through it except this is probably when they'd really want me to talk through it
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1 day ago
Don't kiss me, whether I'm Irish or not. You stay over there.
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4 days ago
D'oh, the new digg didn't last too long. "Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team." https://digg.com/
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4 days ago
Stuck in my head today: Frank Black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ2qi9KfEZ8
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4 days ago
I keep getting sent job postings for Senior Electrical Engineer jobs, which don't apply to me, except sometimes I think maybe I need to change careers
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4 days ago
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@pikhq/116223422649983047 I still want that "Move Slow and Fix Things" tattoo.
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5 days ago
"Stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free." https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7437833541851410433/
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5 days ago
Keep hearing coyotes in my neighborhood. That's disconcerting kinda, if only because I worry about the outdoor cats #pdx
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6 days ago
Drunk post: The Bangles
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6 days ago
Apparently, recent revisions of ChatGPT have gotten obsessed with gremlins and goblins. I don't hate this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319285
Github (@lmorchard)
- 2 minutes ago submitted Issue #37 to lmorchard/starnet : Per-wing palette filtering (sub-biome flavor)
- 2 minutes ago commented on Issue #37 in lmorchard/starnet : Per-wing palette filtering (sub-biome flavor)
- 43 minutes ago pushed 0ccad45 to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): Fix template date substitution: match {{date:FORMAT}} variants
- 50 minutes ago pushed 437f510 to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): Move skill_data persistence to agent layer via archive sidecar
- 53 minutes ago pushed ac18c11 to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): Revert "Add debug logging for skill_data save/restore"
- 53 minutes ago pushed bb3d8d8 to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): Add debug logging for skill_data save/restore
- 56 minutes ago pushed 1b43b23 to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): Make vault error message guide agent to check memory for base path
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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Why Anthropic Thinks AI Should Have Its Own Computer — Felix Rieseberg of Claude Cowork & Claude Code Desktop
from
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
20 hours ago
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The future of code is exciting and terrifying
from
The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition
1 day ago
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NPR News: 03-18-2026 11AM EDT
from
NPR News Now
2 hours ago
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Life Inside Iran, Trump and Cuba, Fed Interest Rates
from
Up First from NPR
7 hours ago
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NPR News: 03-18-2026 10AM EDT
from
Unknown Podcast
3 hours ago
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Israel's Incursion Into Lebanon, NATO and Strait Of Hormuz, Cuba's Blackout and Trump
from
Up First from NPR
1 day ago
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NPR News: 03-17-2026 10AM EDT
from
Unknown Podcast
1 day ago
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Apple Is the Most Repairable in 14 Years - DTNS 5226
from
Daily Tech News Show
1 day ago
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CORE 513: Ramdemic
from
CORE
5 days ago
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NPR News: 03-16-2026 6PM EDT
from
Unknown Podcast
1 day ago
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NPR News: 03-16-2026 11AM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
2 days ago
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RSA March 16th 2026
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RSAudio
3 days ago
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