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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22 hours ago
JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites | Ethan Hawksley
JSON-LD, also known as JSON Linked Data, is a format for adding structured data to webpages. It can aid web crawlers in understanding the semantic structure of your site, qualifying you for richer link previews, and even potentially improving your search ranking.
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22 hours ago
How to manage this Hugo based page from my Android phone in 2026 | foosel.net
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.
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1 day ago
handwritten.danieljanus.pl
A blog written by hand
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1 day ago
LES ORCHARD IS IN THE WEIGHTS
LES ORCHARD IS IN THE WEIGHTS โ Mozilla software developer
- 1 day ago Bubbles โ 10+ votes
- 1 day ago Bubbles Daily Briefing
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2 days ago
argyleink/prop-for-that: what JS knows, now CSS knows
Sliders, pointer position, element visibility, viewport size, battery, network, sensors โ JavaScript can read all of it; CSS can't. prop-for-that writes that runtime state into --live-* and --const-* custom properties โ batched and diffed down to one setProperty per frame โ so your CSS can compose and react to it with plain calc() and var().
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2 days ago
The Website Specification
A platform-agnostic specification of the technical features every decent website should have โ from to /.well-known/security.txt, from WCAG contrast to llms.txt. Written for humans and agents.
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2 days ago
Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2 - Andy Tockman
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.
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2 days ago
Starboard โ Portmaster games, on your Android
Portmaster put hundreds of free, community-ported games on Linux handhelds. Starboard brings huge swathes of that catalogue to the Android ones โ the Odin, Retroid, RG and dual-screen Thor class of device โ by running them in a real Linux environment under the bonnet. Phones are welcome too.
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2 days ago
Rivalis โ Open-source real-time framework for Node.js
Build real-time multiplayer for Phaser, PixiJS, Three.js, or any browser game. Open-source Node.js framework โ rooms, actors, typed binary protocol. Free for commercial use, forever.
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3 days ago
AddyOsmani.com - Loop Engineering
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, Iโm 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.
@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
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13 hours ago
I'm also terrible at actual physical pinball, but suddenly feeling a twinge toward it too
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13 hours ago
Thanks to a random brain ping from a youtube video, I've suddenly gotten a hankering for playing Devil's Crush for TurboGrafix16 on my lil Ambernic gadget. And then I started playing Pokemon Pinball for GBA. And now I want to play Metroid Prime Pinball on my Nintendo DS. I've never really liked video game pinball all that much before, but suddenly it's hooking me. Weird brain
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18 hours ago
Also, as it turns out, Mac OS X Mountain Lion is too old. For what? Yes.
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18 hours ago
So, after an unsatisfactory attempt at installing Linux Mint on this old MacBook Pro, I figured I'd try a network reinstall of macOS. Wow. I havent seen Mountain Lion in forever ๐ณ
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21 hours ago
Puck and his sister Inanna were the first cats I took care of as an adult. They would both purr and start kneading when I walked in a room and looked at them. Puck would jump straight from the floor onto my shoulders and go to sleep.
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22 hours ago
Just scheduled my second tattoo for this guy. His name was Puck, lost him back in 2015. He was an unbelievably good pal
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3 days ago
ugh, I really need to get around to excising Disqus from my blog. they're starting to serve up chumbox ads in the comment widget ๐คฎ
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3 days ago
I'm mean, don't get me wrong, I'm talking about *going evil* and conning the rubes - I actually have truck with a bunch of that woo stuff, even if only metaphorically. Which is, of course, why I won't do it. Probably leaving a few dozen million on the table at least.
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3 days ago
Hell, I'll even throw in a little off-brand Dianetics, Scientology, and Objectivism in there just to really pull out all the stops
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3 days ago
I mean, I've read enough occult literature to know how to string together some woo garbage. Should I turn evil and start peddling New Age AI to the over-financialized? I can and will pull a bewildering cascade of Jung, Campbell, Adler, and the complete catalog of Llewellyn Publications directly out of my anus and apply it to LLMs. I bet I could even prompt & context & harness engineer those suckers to play along since I'm sure it's all in their training corpuses
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3 days ago
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/116774290673952380 oh emm gee akashic records
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3 days ago
Really trying to convince this guy that he could be a part of this
Github (@lmorchard)
- 1 minute ago pushed 8a90a71 to lmorchard/decafclaw ( 592-vault-guide-always-loaded ): fix(592): sandbox vault guide path; honest token cap (Copilot review)
- 17 hours ago submitted Pull Request #593 to lmorchard/decafclaw :
- 17 hours ago created branch 592-vault-guide-always-loaded on lmorchard/decafclaw
- 21 hours ago pushed 41798a5 to lmorchard/mastodon-alt-text-generator-app ( main ): Update README.md
- 21 hours ago pushed ac0c5ef to lmorchard/mastodon-alt-text-generator-app ( main ): Add screenshots
- 21 hours ago created branch main on lmorchard/mastodon-alt-text-generator-app
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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CORE 525: Address The Pile
from
CORE
3 days ago
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The Pride Will Continue Until Morale Improves
from
Lovett or Leave It
2 days ago
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NPR News: 06-22-2026 11AM EDT
from
NPR News Now
2 hours ago
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RSA June 22 2026
from
RSAudio
23 hours ago
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UK PM Starmer Resigns, First Round Of US-Iran Talks, Iran Deal Scrutiny
from
Up First from NPR
7 hours ago
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NPR News: 06-22-2026 10AM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
3 hours ago
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NPR News: 06-19-2026 5PM EDT
from
Unknown Podcast
2 days ago
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CORE from Nerdtacular 2026!
from
CORE
5 days ago
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NPR News: 06-19-2026 4PM EDT
from
Unknown Podcast
2 days ago
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US-Iran Talks Delayed, Vance Peace Architect, Obama Presidential Center Opens
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Up First from NPR
3 days ago
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NPR News: 06-19-2026 12PM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
3 days ago
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ASML Refutes U.S. Commerce Secretaryโs Allegations of Illicit EUV Exports to China - DTH
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Daily Tech News Show
3 days ago
Spotify ( Les Orchard )
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Surgery in the Sky on The Colors in the Wheel by Venus Hum 1 day ago
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Accelerate on Ten Love Songs by Susanne Sundfรธr 1 day ago
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Big TV on BIG TV by White Lies 1 day ago
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Whatever & Ever on Whatever & Ever by NRVS LVRS 1 day ago
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Icabod on Joyland by TR/ST 1 day ago
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So Typical on Now That I'm Real by Fragrance 1 day ago
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Secret Scream(Haex Remix) on Secret Scream(Haex Remix) by The Black Queen , Haex 1 day ago
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