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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17 hours ago
RobSmithDev/PaulaNET: Amiga Wifi Internet Access via the Floppy Drive Port
Amiga Wifi Internet Access via the Floppy Drive Port
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18 hours ago
earthtojake/text-to-cad: A collection of agent skills for CAD, robotics and hardware design
A collection of agent skills for CAD, robotics and hardware design
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2 days 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.
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2 days 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.
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3 days 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.
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3 days 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!
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4 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.
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6 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.
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6 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.
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6 days ago
docs/src/frame/lib/frontmatter.ts at main · github/docs
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1 week 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.
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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.
@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
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19 hours ago
I am having lunch on my deck. I am not alone.
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21 hours ago
That my first impulse is to sign each and every one of these randos up for a subscription to hourly cat facts in response is an indicator of my unsuitability for this sort of hustle work
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21 hours ago
A thing I'm working at work got posted to Product Hunt. Now my inbox is filling up with emails with subject line "Quick thought on {product name}" from randos - and usually the quick thought is "have you thought about using my product?"
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1 day ago
It's like Neko Atsume up in here #cats
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2 days 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."
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2 days 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
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2 days 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?
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2 days 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 🦝
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3 days ago
Roasting #coffee
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3 days 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
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6 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
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1 week ago
Enterprise was my least favorite Trek, especially after they did Space 9/11 on Florida
Github (@lmorchard)
- 18 hours ago watched earthtojake/text-to-cad
- 1 day ago pushed abe19f1 to lmorchard/starnet ( main ): feat: XPLOIT as a node action with a follow-up card picker
- 1 day ago submitted Pull Request #110 to lmorchard/starnet :
- 1 day ago pushed abe19f1 to lmorchard/starnet ( worktree-exploit-action-picker ): feat: XPLOIT as a node action with a follow-up card picker
- 1 day ago pushed d474ca0 to lmorchard/starnet ( worktree-exploit-action-picker ): feat: a successful exploit also marks the node probed
- 1 day ago pushed b16caf3 to lmorchard/starnet ( worktree-exploit-action-picker ): polish: dim the disabled-action label, keep the reason bright
- 1 day ago pushed 0f4c1db to lmorchard/starnet ( worktree-exploit-action-picker ): polish: terse + legible disabled-XPLOIT reasons
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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Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI
from
The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition
20 hours ago
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NPR News: 06-04-2026 9PM EDT
from
Unknown Podcast
14 hours ago
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NPR News: 06-04-2026 8PM EDT
from
Unknown Podcast
15 hours ago
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MBMBaM 816: Ship of Vanilli
from
My Brother, My Brother And Me
3 days ago
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The grift and glory of the Enhanced Games
from
The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition
1 day ago
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NPR News: 06-04-2026 11AM EDT
from
Unknown Podcast
1 day ago
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NPR News: 06-04-2026 10AM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
1 day ago
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Trump's Party Problems, Trump & Netanyahu Tension, Russia Economic Forum
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Up First from NPR
1 day ago
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NPR News: 06-04-2026 9AM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
1 day ago
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Nvidia just started a new chip war
from
The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition
2 days ago
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NPR News: 06-03-2026 11AM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
2 days ago
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Primary Results, DOJ Scraps Anti-Weaponization Fund, Trump Appoints Acting DNI
from
Up First from NPR
2 days ago
Spotify ( Les Orchard )
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Renfield's Syndrome on Under the Black Light by Third Realm 23 hours ago
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Things That hurt on A Quieter Life by Hallows 1 day ago
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Bête Noire on Bête Noire by Black Nail Cabaret 1 day ago
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Venus Lucifer on Body Horror by Aux Animaux 1 day ago
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I Search For A Sign on I Search For A Sign by Night in Athens 1 day ago
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Forgotten on The Directory by Silent Runners 1 day ago
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Empires on Creatures by Ari Mason 1 day ago
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