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About Me

TL;DR: Tinkerer; maker of things; webdev; crazy cat gentleman; serial enthusiast; Mozillian. He / him.

I don't like writing my own bio. So, I've been kicking around that too-clever thing above for the last decade or so. Seems like it's been a stable description, if you don't mind reading curly braces.

Tinkering with data & code is something I like much better than writing a bio. So, the rest of this page is a collection of my personal data exhaust and featured projects.

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.

Project: Twitch Streaming

Lately, I've been thinking I should start trying to get out of my head more and share what I do via streaming on Twitch.

Chiptunes and coding, come say hi.

Typing (typing.lmorchard.com)

1 month 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.
1 month 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.
1 month 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!
1 month 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.
2 months 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.

Glitch Projects (lmorchard)

I'm a core contributor on the Firefox Test Pilot project. Test Pilot invites Firefox users to try out experimental features. We build the features as rapid prototypes and measure usage to help decide whether the feature might be worth inclusion in Firefox.

Project: Firefox Color

"Firefox Color makes it easy for anyone to change the look of Firefox."

It's also a Test Pilot experiment that I helped build, playing with new Theme APIs in Firefox and user interface ideas for working with and sharing themes.

Blog (blog.lmorchard.com)

Github (@lmorchard)

13 hours ago pushed 473c5e1 to mozilla/FirefoxColor (greenkeeper/write-file-webpack-plugin-4.5.0): chore(package): update lockfile
2 days ago pushed 3ed370c to lmorchard/photon-components-web (master): Initial implementation of checkbox component
2 days ago pushed 0f6a70a to mozilla/FirefoxColor (master): Update eslint-plugin-babel to the latest version 🚀 (#589)
2 days ago submitted Pull Request #589 to mozilla/FirefoxColor: Update eslint-plugin-babel to the latest version 🚀
2 days ago pushed 0f43f75 to mozilla/FirefoxColor (master): Update addons-linter to the latest version 🚀 (#588)
2 days ago submitted Pull Request #588 to mozilla/FirefoxColor: Update addons-linter to the latest version 🚀
2 days ago commented on Issue #586 in mozilla/FirefoxColor: Unable to make new changes or add new themes

Toots (@lmorchard)

19 hours ago
@craigmaloney Via mail, they did a funding thing on PledgeMusic. I don't think they've done any touring outside the UK in a long while :/
19 hours ago
Oh hey, a new Jesus Jones CD in 2018!
1 day ago
Just signed up for Kameron Hurley's mailing list and this is the alternate easter egg book cover for The Stars are Legion. Hahahahahhah
1 day ago
Just finished reading Kameron Hurley's The Stars are Legion.
Feminist space opera with great dollops of body horror. Living planetoid-sized bioships. No men. Wombs make everything. Middle part of the book is kind of like The Hobbit crossed with Fantastic Voyage and Gulliver's Travels. Holy crap.
1 day ago
@clutterandkindle @bryn ah yeah, that's true
3 weeks agoretooted https://radical.town/users/starwall
FULLY
2 weeks agoretooted https://radical.town/users/starwall
AUTOMATED

Twitter (Les Orchard)

19 hours agoRT @darrylayo: I feel that for some people, the internet has brought about a decline of social life. People say "what about the days when…
19 hours agoOh hey look, a new @jesusjonesband CD in 2018! Hooray! https://t.co/KsShPuUlJt
3 days agoAnd if you watch nothing else from this stream tonight, watch this clip of me calling the editors of Compute!'s Gaz… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1062978757357641728 …
3 days agoDid a quick experimental stream typing in magazine programs on my C64. It wasn't a complete disaster, though I do n… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1062972367574589440 …
3 days agoOh yeah, btw, stream complete! Got the video capture thingy working and used the C64 Christmas Demo as my stream in… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1062862468752519170 …
3 days agoFiring up the stream. Chiptunes & coding is the likely plan. Also messing around with a USB video capture thingy ho… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1062801967255298052 …
3 days agoRT @wesleysnipes: Kat too cool for humans 😎 #michaeljackson https://t.co/gwAp1S7OMn

Pinboard (u:deusx)

1 week ago GitHub - t2t2/obs-tablet-remote: Tablet optimised OBS Remote
lmorchard starred t2t2/obs-tablet-remote
1 week ago Inform: Past, Present, Future
This is the talk and slides from the June 2018 London IF meetup, held at Elephant Studios in London South Bank University on 9 June 2018. I was invited to speak about Inform, past, present and future. via Pocket
2 weeks ago GitHub - chunqiuyiyu/ervy: Bring charts to terminal.
lmorchard starred chunqiuyiyu/ervy
2 weeks ago GitHub - js-rcon/react-console-emulator: A simple terminal emulator component for React.
lmorchard starred js-rcon/react-console-emulator
3 weeks ago GitHub - foone/SierraDeathGenerator: Generate death screens from Sierra games
lmorchard starred foone/SierraDeathGenerator
3 weeks ago GitHub - k88hudson/git-flight-rules: Flight rules for git
lmorchard starred k88hudson/git-flight-rules
3 weeks ago GitHub - videojs/video.js: Video.js - open source HTML5 & Flash video player
lmorchard starred videojs/video.js
3 weeks ago GitHub - transitive-bullshit/react-starfield-animation: ✨ Canvas-based starfield animation for React.
lmorchard starred transitive-bullshit/react-starfield-animation
3 weeks ago The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work | Technology | The Guardian
It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans. via Pocket
3 weeks ago My Serverless Adventure - Blazing Edge
After several React Native posts, now it’s time for me to reflect on the experience I had building Serverless application, differences with building standard APIs with IaaS/PaaS with Express/Koa and utilizing FaaS service model. via Pocket
3 weeks ago All you ever wanted to know about the colors of the commodore 64
The whole issue of VIC-II color-emulation is so mis-guiding and irritating, because every c64-emulator uses different palettes and these have been created by using cheap frame-grabbers/digitizers with strange color-behaviour or by moving around some rgb-sliders until it looks quite right. Many people have forgotten how the colors on a real C64 look, because they use emulators for a long time.
4 weeks ago GitHub - pqina/filepond: 🌊 A flexible and fun JavaScript file upload library
lmorchard starred pqina/filepond