Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

Open-source, self-hosted note-taking tool built for quick capture. Markdown-native, lightweight, and fully yours. - usememos/memos

Somewhere in your infrastructure is a cron job. It runs at 3am. It has been running since 2016. It does something critical. You couldn't tell me exactly what, but you know the one person who could, and they left in 2019. The comment at the top says # DO NOT CHANGE!!! Ask Ben. Ben is not reachable. Every roadmap planning session for the last four years has included "modernize legacy cron" as a candidate initiative. It has never made the cut. You have personally removed it from the list twice. Someone keeps it running. Her name is Sara. You don't know this.

HyperFrames lets AI agents compose videos by writing HTML, CSS & JS.

The AI gets the what. My notes capture the why and the weird. Now I run both systems in parallel. The AI recording gives me a searchable archive I can query across weeks of meetings. I use it for things like “what did we agree about the roadmap for X?” or “who raised the concern about Y?” That is genuinely useful. I can pull up a decision from three weeks ago in seconds instead of scrolling through my own messy handwriting. But my handwritten notes are where the real PM work lives. They are a mess. Half sentences, arrows connecting ideas, question marks next to things I need to follow up on. They would make no sense to anyone else. That is the point. They are my thinking, not a record. The combination works because each tool does what the other cannot. AI is perfect for recall and search. It is terrible at judgment. My notes are terrible for recall. I regularly cannot read my own handwriting. But they force me to process what I am hearing in real time, to decide what matters while it is happening.

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A command-line tool that converts Anthropic Claude conversation exports to Markdown files.

LinuxOnTab boots a real x86 Linux kernel and Alpine userland inside your browser using WebAssembly and the v86 emulator. A zero-install, local-first, in-browser Linux terminal — a lightweight Docker alternative for instant sandboxes, teaching, demos, and disposable shells.

This Arcade Hack & Slash answers the age old question: "What if the games you never play could attack you?" Fight back your backlog! The more you paid, the more damage they will do to you! (just like in real life).

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I also think getting a bunch of humans in alignment is just a thing that takes time. It should be a bottleneck. I’ll forever think of Dave’s “Slow, like brisket.” Some things becomes good because they are done slowly, and it’s OK if software is one of them.