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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12 hours ago
Your Phone is an Entire Computer
Now that I know my iPhone has the capacity to run MacOS, I would very much like to do so. I’d love to consider the possibility of switching to a less intrusive phone and repurposing this iPhone into a web server. Perhaps that seems silly, but it’s really not. I’ve already paid for the device, it's clearly a full blown computer, and why should I not be able to modify it as I see fit? A right to root access would make all of this possible. And I really want to run MacOS on my iPhone now, damn it.
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19 hours ago
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
This computer is not for the people writing those reviews — people who already have the MacBook Pro, who have the professional context, who are optimizing at the margin. This computer is for the kid who doesn’t have a margin to optimize. Who can’t wait for the right tool to materialize. Who is going to take what’s available and push it until it breaks and learn something permanent from the breaking.
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20 hours ago
Pivot to AI – It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
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20 hours ago
Silicon Valley Abuzz About Adding AI Compute to Engineer Compensation - Business Insider
With Levels.fyi pegging the 75th percentile software engineer salary at $375,000, Tunguz estimates that adding $100,000 in annual inference costs brings the fully loaded cost to $475,000 — meaning just over 20% of the compensation cost could come from AI usage in the future.
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20 hours ago
Digg - People. Places. Things.
Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team. This wasn't a decision made lightly, and it's important to say clearly: this is one of the strongest groups of people we've ever had the privilege of working with. This is not a reflection of their talent, their effort, or their belief in what we were building. It's a reflection of the brutal reality of finding product-market fit in an environment that has fundamentally changed.
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22 hours ago
Portland Urban Coyote Project - Home
At the Portland Urban Coyote Project, we seek to understand how people and coyotes interact and to help the community learn about our coyote neighbors.
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2 days ago
About - Terminal Trove
Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.
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2 days ago
Hi, would you like to talk about plants?
The more intense my work and this political landscape has gotten, the stronger my urge to run away to the woods forever had become. But, as I said in my recent post, I’m not going anywhere. And when I decided that I wasn’t going anywhere, I also knew that I would then need to make my home more of the type of space I need to maintain some level of peace in my life. So I decided to build a garden.
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2 days ago
Reset your GeekDesk · Todd Rafferty's Blog
I have a GeekDesk, every now and then the display says «rSt» – I keep having to look up the PDF to find the reset instructions, so here they are: Initial System Reset / Reset Procedure Step 1: Hold down the “Down” button to lower the desktop until the desktop stops. Step 2: Let go of the “Down” button. Step 3: Hold down the “Down” button again for about 5 seconds.
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2 days ago
Advice on broken GeekDesk V3? : r/StandingDesk
Initial System Reset / Reset Procedure Step 1: Hold down the “Down” button to lower the desktop until the desktop stops. Step 2: Let go of the “Down” button. Step 3: Hold down the “Down” button again for about 5 seconds.
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2 days ago
Build your retro library - 8bitcn/ui
A set of 8-bit styled components and a code distribution platform. Works with your favorite frameworks. Open Source. Open Code.
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2 days ago
FAQ | TinyBase
TinyBase is well suited for JavaScript applications where you need to manage structured data, such as those that have multiple 'records' to represent many of one type of object that might share fields. For example, in a Todo app, you can imagine using a Row in a Table for each todo. TinyBase makes it easy to set, get, respond to, and enumerate over this data and build user interfaces with it.
@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
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20 hours ago
D'oh, the new digg didn't last too long. "Building on the internet in 2026 is different. We learned that the hard way. Today we're sharing difficult news: we've made the decision to significantly downsize the Digg team." https://digg.com/
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20 hours ago
Stuck in my head today: Frank Black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ2qi9KfEZ8
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20 hours ago
I keep getting sent job postings for Senior Electrical Engineer jobs, which don't apply to me, except sometimes I think maybe I need to change careers
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20 hours ago
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@pikhq/116223422649983047 I still want that "Move Slow and Fix Things" tattoo.
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1 day ago
"Stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free." https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7437833541851410433/
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1 day ago
Keep hearing coyotes in my neighborhood. That's disconcerting kinda, if only because I worry about the outdoor cats #pdx
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2 days ago
Drunk post: The Bangles
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2 days ago
Apparently, recent revisions of ChatGPT have gotten obsessed with gremlins and goblins. I don't hate this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319285
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4 days ago
Welp, I finally got around to soldering in a replacement pot on my Tempest PCB. The adapter blocks work great! Just turns out I used a 200 ohm pot in this spot where a 10k ohm pot is needed. Glad I didn't go ahead and replace all the other pots already 😅 Back to digikey for another order
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5 days ago
Every time I see a wildlife video about cheetahs, I want to pet one
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1 week ago
It was nice and sunny in California but my moleman eyes are glad to be back in cloudy Oregon #pdx #pdxtst
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1 week ago
Since rides and cabs have been long waits all week, i thought i'd be smart and order one before I got down to the lobby from my hotel room. Turns out they were RIGHT THERE ALREADY and I managed to get to the car with 20 seconds to spare
Github (@lmorchard)
- 3 minutes ago pushed 130aeea to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): Split backlog into core, skills, mattermost, and devinfra
- 9 minutes ago pushed 2782ea4 to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): Add Claude Code as sub-agent tool to backlog
- 10 minutes ago pushed bf4fe52 to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): Add spec/plan/execute loop and wiki knowledge base to backlog
- 13 minutes ago pushed d2afe16 to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): Expand backlog with 12 new agent feature ideas
- 19 minutes ago pushed c9b255d to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): Add eval loop design sketch to backlog
- 9 hours ago pushed 8ba39bf to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): Add entry-aware memory search to backlog
- 9 hours ago pushed 5b8f19b to lmorchard/decafclaw ( main ): Add model-specific prompt tuning to backlog
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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The MacBook Neo is a winner
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The Vergecast: Ad-Free Edition
1 day ago
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NPR News: 03-13-2026 3PM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
22 hours ago
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Israel Bombs Beirut, Attacks In Michigan And Virginia, Housing Bill
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Up First from NPR
1 day ago
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NPR News: 03-13-2026 10AM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
1 day ago
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Noem Wrecker
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Lovett or Leave It
1 week ago
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WhatsApp Fights Scams and Opens Pre-teen Accounts - DTNS 5223
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Daily Tech News Show
2 days ago
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NPR News: 03-12-2026 11AM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
2 days ago
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Strait Of Hormuz Crisis, Gas Price Politics, Iranian School Strike Investigation
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Up First from NPR
2 days ago
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NPR News: 03-12-2026 10AM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
2 days ago
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RSA March 2nd 2026
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RSAudio
1 week ago
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Yann LeCun’s World Models Raise $1 Billion - DTNS 5222
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Daily Tech News Show
3 days ago
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NPR News: 03-11-2026 11AM EDT
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Unknown Podcast
3 days ago
Spotify ( Les Orchard )
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Daydreams on Private Life by Tempers 1 day ago
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Fools on Fools by Catherine Moan 1 day ago
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Heaven is a State of Mind on Sex Distortion by Pictureplane 1 day ago
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Beautiful Obsession Killer on Dark Chisme by Dark Chisme 1 day ago
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Resolution on Resolution by Vogue.Noir 1 day ago
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Into the Beyond on The Awakening of a Mutant Girl by Echoberyl 1 day ago
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So Typical on Now That I'm Real by Fragrance 1 day ago
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