Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>
That's me!

About Me
TL;DR: Tinkerer; maker of things; webdev; crazy cat gentleman; serial enthusiast; Mozillian. He / him.
This page collects a bunch of the stuff I do online. 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.
Today (notes.lmorchard.com)
Hello world.
With aspirations of producing a long-form blog post, I've started brain-dumping about my tinkerings with Super Star Trek in JavaScript.
Did some grooming of that list of things I might do, over the weekend. Trying to negotiate with myself as to which things I might find my interest land.
Changes (notes.lmorchard.com)
Project: Firefox Accounts
I'm a core contributor on Firefox Accounts for Mozilla. I work mainly on the subscription services platform, though I have been known to pitch in elsewhere on the project.
Blog (blog.lmorchard.com)
Glitch Projects (lmorchard)
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lmo-basic-computer-games
Base project for the git cloning
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lmo-feeder
A bare-bones RSS/Atom feed reader
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ash-mixolydian-sociology
Lords of Cyberspace gateway.
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webgl-2d-shapes-and-stars
Using WebGL for 2D graphics is kind of fun
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wheel-of-oblique-strategies
A spinning wheel of Oblique Strategies by Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt
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panic-ranger
An unfinished game that runs in the browser
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rose-viscount
Your very own basic web page, ready for you to customize.
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youtube-playlist-shuffle
Quick & dirty YouTube playlist shuffler
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lmorchard-stream-loader
A retro-style "loader" for my streaming shenannigans
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wheel-of-side-projects
A spinning wheel of my prospective side projects
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wc-arboretum
Tinkering with card sorting and web components
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edison-carter-overlay
Streaming live and direct from twenty minutes into the future
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vanilla-web-components
Your very own basic web page, ready for you to customize.
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lmorchard-take-a-walk
random walk
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picodon
This might someday be an ActivityPub node. (Picodon is also cheese.)
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spin-that-wheel
Playing with CSS animations to make a wheel of list items spin
YouTube Videos (lmorchard)
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Atari Punk Console on an oscilloscope
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/17 - playing with NodeCG and twitch alerts
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Atari Punk Console works!
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - Atari Punk Console maybe
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/09 - chilling at my workbench
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/16 - playing with NodeCG and twitch alerts
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/10 - chilling at my workbench
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/20 - Nintendo Switch joycon repair (hopefully)
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/20 - playing with NodeCG and twitch alerts
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Chiptunes & Tinkering - 2020/05/24 - Nintendo Switch joycon repair (hopefully)
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Time lapse of me sorting through a 2lb grab bag of electronics parts
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Chiptunes & Coding: Firefox Lockbox
Twitter ( Les Orchard )
- 29 minutes ago @waxpancake Oh that hot RCS directory gives me some feels https://web.archive.org/web/19990302052249/http://akebono.stanford.edu/users/jerry/bin/RCS/ …
- 9 hours ago RT @suricrasia: here we go, the cursed computer iceberg meme: https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/ https://t.co/okggqdPCny
- 9 hours ago PICARD: Number One, you say the couple is incapable of sustaining themselves? RIKER: There's a fusion reactor in th… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1381310875617828865 …
- 9 hours ago "An entire planet obliterated except for a few acres of trees and grass and one building?" https://t.co/3TgxzhOK1H
- 9 hours ago i remember this episode of star trek: the next generation https://twitter.com/HoratioSkald/status/1381234701554307076 …
- 10 hours ago @adambroach When I was 10, I thought using duct tape was a good idea when I ran out of these. It was not.
- 10 hours ago RT @NYCAntifa: "Despite [an internal investigation that concluded that he likely committed a crime], Rose kept his badge, remained on patro…
Github (@lmorchard)
- 1 day ago pushed 91eacd2 to lmorchard/nodemon-example ( main ): add README.md
- 1 day ago created branch main on lmorchard/nodemon-example
- 1 day ago created repository lmorchard/nodemon-example
- 2 days ago commented on Issue #5004 in mozilla/experimenter : Migrate nimbus-ui stories to Storybook 6 format
- 2 days ago submitted Pull Request #5005 to mozilla/experimenter : issue #5004 chore(nimbus): convert ChangeApprovalOperation stories to v6 format
- 2 days ago pushed c7d88ad to mozilla/experimenter ( main ): issue #5004 chore(nimbus): convert ChangeApprovalOperation stories to v6 format (#5005)
Pinboard (u:deusx)
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1 week ago
GitHub - Bin-Huang/prray: "Promisified" Array, it compatible with the original Array but comes with async versions of native Array methods, such as mapAsync, filterAsync, reduceAsync, sortAsync, findAsync, findIndexAsync, everyAsync, someAsync, forEachAsy
lmorchard starred Bin-Huang/prray
- 1 week ago I restored this maple/oak pallet to better than new condition : woodworking
- 1 week ago Wright’s Liquid Smoke Review : Scotch
- 1 week ago Regan Makato Cullen? Is that you? : TerraIgnota
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2 weeks ago
GitHub - jrconlin/cookie_munger: A stupid idea to abuse the hell out of cookies, because who doesn't like fuzzy cookies?
lmorchard starred jrconlin/cookie_munger
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3 weeks ago
GitHub - paulhagstrom/dsk2po: Python script to convert Apple II/III .DSK (DO) images to ProDOS-ordered images
lmorchard starred paulhagstrom/dsk2po
- 1 month ago Highly recommended combo! 🪐 : vaporents
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1 month ago
GitHub - mxpv/podsync: Turn YouTube or Vimeo channels, users, or playlists into podcast feeds
lmorchard starred mxpv/podsync
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1 month ago
GitHub - IdleHandsProject/volumetric_display: TENEX OLED Displays
lmorchard starred IdleHandsProject/volumetric_display
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1 month ago
GitHub - jonroig/finger.farm: Finger.Farm Modern Finger Protocol Hosting... kind of a fingerd implementation in Node
lmorchard starred jonroig/finger.farm
- 1 month ago Boats are overrated : valheim
- 1 month ago The Mother We Share : Portland
Typing (typing.lmorchard.com)
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2 years ago
A river, not an inbox
Feed readers work best for me when they're rivers, not inboxes.
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2 years ago
Done with Google’s Feed
For the past year or so, I've been using Google's Discover feed from my phone's home screen for part of my daily news habit. It's been mostly okay and often relevant. But, little paper cuts have finally hit my annoyance threshold.
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2 years ago
I ❤️ Glitch
Lately, when I start tinkering with a side project, I reach for Glitch.
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2 years 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.
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2 years 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.
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2 years 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!
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2 years 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.
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2 years 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.
Spotify ( Les Orchard )
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Bleed on Obzen by Meshuggah 1 day ago
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New Cannonball Blues on Nine Types of Light by TV On The Radio 2 days ago
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Running Up That Hill on Night Drive by Chromatics 2 days ago
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Get Away on Every Open Eye (Special Edition) by CHVRCHES 2 days ago
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HOLIDAY on HOLIDAY by Lil Nas X 1 week ago
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MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) on MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) by Lil Nas X 1 week ago
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Breathe on Breathe by ZABO 1 week ago
Colophon
This is a static web page hosted on Amazon S3. It is periodically updated via a scheduled Github Action that fetches data from many sources on the web.
- Source code:
- https://github.com/lmorchard/about-me
- Last fetched:
- 2021-04-12T04:05:38.055Z
- Last rendered:
- 2021-04-12T04:05:40.410Z