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

13 hours ago Jürg Lehni — Hektor
Hektor’s light and fragile mechanism consists only of two motors, toothed belts and a spray can holder. By the means of geometric triangulation and gravity, a custom software moves the spray can along predefined drawing paths and remotely activates the can’s nozzle.
15 hours ago cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max: The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more.
The AI coding agent that runs on stolen Chipotle compute 🌯 Fork of OpenCode with Pepper AI as default model. Community project to add providers from Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Starbucks & more.
1 day ago the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
On that last point, this technology is horrific for attention. It's a thermonuclear ADHD amplifier and I have seen the same effect in every single one of my adult friends. Folk running 3 screens simultaneously working on totally unrelated "projects" they have little hope of maintaining, and such little commitment to the outcome that the time is obviously wasted.
1 day ago The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
I'm hopeful that the critical skill to develop here is discipline. That’s not great news for me: I’ve been trying to figure that one out for decades!
2 days ago You Are Not Immune To Local Consensus
The anti-AI backlash and the ongoing atomization of culture are absolutely headwinds against any openly AI-heavy production achieving broad cultural legitimacy right now. Maybe you see that as a good thing, but the backlash also distorts our ability to measure what is actually happening. We don't know what we don't know.
4 days ago My house alerts me when my cat climbs into the ceiling
The goal of the project was to turn on a light in the living room any time a cat is detected in the drop ceiling alcove.
4 days ago Using YAML frontmatter - GitHub Docs
The following frontmatter values have special meanings and requirements for GitHub Docs. There's also a schema that's used by the test suite to validate every page's frontmatter. For more information, see lib/frontmatter.ts.
4 days ago docs/src/frame/lib/frontmatter.ts at main · github/docs
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5 days ago Kentucky’s Bourbon problem
I don't know how they're going to correct for the market crash they've seen in the past couple of years. The bourbon bubble seems like it has completely burst and it will be interesting to watch the effects on Kentucky's economy in the years to come as millions of barrels of bourbon no one wants can't be sold to make up for all the energy and capital that went into them.
1 week ago My favorite adversarial review prompt — Massively Parallel Procrastination
Look at this again with fresh eyes. The phrase "fresh eyes" is kind of magic. You'll usually get startlingly good results with just that one sentence.
1 week ago No Juniors Today, No Seniors in 2031 — Blog | Filipe Brito Ferreira — Front-End Engineer
AI didn’t kill the senior engineer. We did, by not hiring the junior who would’ve become one. Compound interest works in both directions. The per-developer cost I wrote about a month ago is one side of the meter. The unhired junior is the other, and that meter has been running since 2024 whether the dashboards report it or not.
1 week ago Document Checklist: Application for a Citizenship Certificate (Proof of Citizenship) (CIT 0014) - Canada.ca
Document Checklist: Application for a Citizenship Certificate (Proof of Citizenship) (CIT 0014)

@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town

15 hours ago
me: "Huh, I'm getting very cranky." my office: *is 90ºF / 32ºC* me: "I wonder what's up?" my water bottle: *is full of undrunk ice water* me: "I guess I'll never know. Grr."
22 hours ago
One of the things that the bandit really like messing with is the floating skimmer I threw in there. I could imagine that thing collects a bunch of edible tasty goodies, must be like a buffet bucket
22 hours ago
Like, part of me wants to be mad - those plants weren't free and they keep pulling up the cords & hoses to the waterworks - but it looks like they're having a lot of fun?
22 hours ago
So, last week, we put some plants in the pond, but woke up the next day to find them all shredded and the fountain pump stuff pulled out of the water. I put up a camera and caught the pond bandit last night 🦝
1 day ago
Roasting #coffee
1 day ago
So I've found some busts of Data and Picard from #StarTrek TNG. I have the dumbest #3dprinting idea to take these, turn them into molds, and make concrete spitters out of them for our backyard pond https://www.printables.com/model/1401611-data-star-trek https://www.printables.com/model/1401610-jean-luc-picard-star-trek
4 days ago
oof, I don't need an Amigara Fault cardigan do I? (I kinda do, it's my cardigan!) https://www.steady-hands.com/products/amigara-fault-cardigan?variant=48044869255412
1 week ago
Enterprise was my least favorite Trek, especially after they did Space 9/11 on Florida
1 week ago
You know he wanted to do it
1 week ago
Somebody just skateboarded past my house playing a xylophone?
1 week ago
Spock was not a great cat dad
1 week ago
Everybody remembers this one

Github (@lmorchard)

15 hours ago watched cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max
19 hours ago pushed e4a8352 to lmorchard/starnet ( main ): chore: ignore /.worktrees/ directory
1 day ago pushed ace0dec to lmorchard/decafclaw ( feat/255-workflow-step-primitive ): feat(workflow): step-primitive engine replaces phase engine (#255)
1 day ago submitted Pull Request #572 to lmorchard/decafclaw :
1 day ago created branch feat/255-workflow-step-primitive on lmorchard/decafclaw
1 day ago pushed aa36b5f to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): docs: note HTTP_PORT in .env for worktree port isolation (#571)

YouTube Videos (lmorchard)

Pocket Casts

Nvidia just started a new chip war from The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition 18 hours ago
Primary Results, DOJ Scraps Anti-Weaponization Fund, Trump Appoints Acting DNI from Up First from NPR 4 hours ago
NPR News: 06-03-2026 10AM EDT from NPR News Now 39 minutes ago
MBMBaM 816: Ship of Vanilli from My Brother, My Brother And Me 1 day ago
NPR News: 06-02-2026 11AM EDT from Unknown Podcast 23 hours ago
Casey Neistat's guide to posting every day from The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition 1 day ago
NPR News: 06-02-2026 10AM EDT from Unknown Podcast 1 day ago
DOJ Pauses Anti-Weaponization Fund, Iran Deal Complications, California Primary from Up First from NPR 1 day ago
NPR News: 06-02-2026 9AM EDT from Unknown Podcast 1 day ago
AI is blowing up music. How should the Grammys handle it? from Decoder: Ad-Free Edition 2 days ago
NPR News: 06-01-2026 11AM EDT from Unknown Podcast 1 day ago
RSA May 25th 2026 from RSAudio 1 week ago

Spotify ( Les Orchard )

Shadows of Ourselves on Mirror Conspiracy by Thievery Corporation 4 minutes ago
Lung on Blue Wonder Power Milk by Hooverphonic 8 minutes ago
Dragula on Hellbilly Deluxe by Rob Zombie 11 hours ago
Call Of The Zombie on Hellbilly Deluxe by Rob Zombie 11 hours ago
I'm Your Boogieman on Past, Present & Future by White Zombie 11 hours ago
Future Past Collapse on Future Past Collapse by Ceremony Shadows 16 hours ago
All You've Ever Dreamed Of on Sleepless by Nite 16 hours ago

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