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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13 hours ago
Robotistan/PicoBricks: Pico Bricks is a fantastic project development kit for STEM educators and makers of all levels
Pico Bricks is a fantastic project development kit for STEM educators and makers of all levels
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16 hours ago
Continue local sessions from any device with Remote Control - Claude Code Docs
Continue a local Claude Code session from your phone, tablet, or any browser using Remote Control. Works with claude.ai/code and the Claude mobile app.
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16 hours ago
Sandboxes Won't Save You From OpenClaw | Tachyon Blog
There isn't a sandbox in the world that prevents this. Sandboxes are useful for isolating between workloads, but agents primarily need to be isolated from you. The only thing the sandbox gives you here is filesystem protections, which keep the agent from rm -rf'ing your root, and network protections, which limit which websites the agent can access. This is definitely useful. But it's not at all sufficient for safety.
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18 hours ago
Superpowers 5
By far, my favorite new feature is the "Visual Brainstorming" companion tool, which grew out of my frustration with the ASCII art that Claude usually generates when you ask it anything about design or UX. I found myself asking Claude, over and over, "Hey, why don't you write that out as HTML so I can see what you're talking about."
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18 hours ago
obra/superpowers: An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
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22 hours ago
agents-radar
Tracks Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw ecosystem, GitHub AI trending, and Anthropic/OpenAI updates. Daily Chinese digests via GitHub Actions.
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1 day ago
Perhaps not Boring Technology after all
A recurring concern I’ve seen regarding LLMs for programming is that they will push our technology choices towards the tools that are best represented in their training data, making it harder for new, better tools to break through the noise.
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1 day ago
JSLinux
Run Linux or other Operating Systems in your browser!
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1 day ago
Cooklang: recipe markup language
Cooklang is a simple, human-readable text format for writing recipes that can be understood by both cooks and computers.
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1 day ago
Jeff Bezos makes brash statement about the future of popular hobby: 'It makes no sense'
As Tom's Guide reported, Bezos explained in a New York Times interview how the era of everyone having their own PC is coming to an end. "This is what computation is like today; everyone has their own data center," Bezos said. "That's not going to last. It makes no sense. You're going to buy compute off the grid."
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2 days ago
The Noble Path
If you've ever made something useful and felt a pang of guilt for not monetizing it, that guilt is a symptom of the monoculture. If you've ever hesitated to share a tool because it wasn't "polished enough" for a product launch, you've been contaminated by standards that don't apply to gifts. If you've ever described your own creative work as "a side project" with that apologetic minimizing doing all the heavy lifting, you've internalized a heirarchy of value that ranks market viability above human usefulness.
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2 days ago
Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
It's almost impossible to overstate how superior RSS is to the median web page. Imagine if the newsletters you followed were rendered with black, clear type on a plain white background (rather than the sadistically infinitesimal, greyed-out type that designers favor thanks to the unkillable urban legend that black type on a white screen causes eye-strain). Imagine reading the web without popups, without ads, without nag screens. Imagine reading the web without interruptors or "keep reading" links.
@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
Github (@lmorchard)
- 14 minutes ago pushed b148285 to lmorchard/picoclaw ( lmorchard/mattermost ): feat(channels): add Mattermost channel support
- 40 minutes ago pushed b43efcb to lmorchard/picoclaw ( lmorchard/mattermost ): feat(channels): add Mattermost channel support
- 12 hours ago pushed e45c73c to lmorchard/picoclaw ( lmorchard/mattermost ): feat(channels): add Mattermost channel support
- 13 hours ago pushed b68efbd to lmorchard/picoclaw ( lmorchard/mattermost ): feat(channels): add Mattermost channel support
- 13 hours ago watched Robotistan/PicoBricks
- 16 hours ago pushed a97c459 to lmorchard/starnet ( bot-player-rebuild ): fix: bot perception bugs + strategy tuning from smoke-test
- 18 hours ago watched obra/superpowers
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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Noem Wrecker
from
Lovett or Leave It
4 days ago
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RSA March 2nd 2026
from
RSAudio
1 week ago
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Yann LeCun’s World Models Raise $1 Billion - DTNS 5222
from
Daily Tech News Show
22 hours ago
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NPR News: 03-11-2026 11AM EDT
from
NPR News Now
2 hours ago
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Intense Strikes On Iran, Trump Approval Poll, Georgia Special Election Runoff
from
Up First from NPR
7 hours ago
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NPR News: 03-11-2026 10AM EDT
from
Unknown Podcast
3 hours ago
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The twist in the Ticketmaster antitrust fight
from
The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition
1 day ago
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The Graphics of Core Design - The Retro Hour EP520
from
The Retro Hour VIP Episodes
1 week ago
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NPR News: 03-10-2026 4PM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
21 hours ago
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NPR News: 03-10-2026 11AM EDT
from
Unknown Podcast
1 day ago
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RSA March 9th 2026
from
RSAudio
3 days ago
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Trump Declares Early Victory, Lebanon Asks Israel To Talk, New York Protest Attack
from
Up First from NPR
1 day ago
Spotify ( Les Orchard )
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Capitol on Joyland by TR/ST 1 week ago
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Bury Me on It Will Come to You by ACTORS 1 week ago
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So Typical on Now That I'm Real by Fragrance 1 week ago
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Empires on Creatures by Ari Mason 1 week ago
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Bête Noire on Bête Noire by Black Nail Cabaret 1 week ago
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Oblivion (My Obsession) on NITE by Nite 1 week ago
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Aliens on The Awakening of a Mutant Girl by Echoberyl 1 week ago
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