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.

I don't like writing my own bio. So, I've been kicking around that too-clever thing above for the last decade or so. Seems like it's been a stable description, if you don't mind reading curly braces.

Tinkering with data & code is something I like much better than writing a bio. So, the rest of this page is a collection of my personal data exhaust and featured projects.

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.

Github (@lmorchard)

Toots (@lmorchard)

  • 2 days ago

    it appears the turkeys have voted for Christmas

  • 2 days ago

    🎵 teenage mutant ninja *fart noise* 🎶

    (i need to go home and sleep)

  • 2 days ago

    Listening to The Tear Garden on a walk through Tiergarten

    youtube.com/watch?v=sQ8IUl8lVm

  • 3 days ago

    Actually... I wonder if this is a thing I could actually do with, say, an eInk display and an ESP32 with other bits & bobs?

  • 3 days ago

    @jamie Ohai! :) Yeah, it's like a Facebook-ish thing that's fully distributed yet tied to a per-device database. So you are your computer, I guess? Being able to publish offline and then connect to sync up later seems neat?

  • 3 days ago

    @matt i just throw more usb battery packs at my phone if i think I'll be wandering, but i do feel power percentage dropping viscerally

  • 3 days ago

    @Photorat yeah, that cover appears to be an original fake-leather commodore vinyl dust cover - or at least it matches what i remember them looking like and it's what the ebay auction said :)

    And these cats fully understand sitting on keyboards gets attention heh

Pinboard (u:deusx)

Typing (typing.lmorchard.com)

  • 1 year agoA river, not an inbox
    Feed readers work best for me when they're rivers, not inboxes.
  • 1 year agoDone 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.
  • 1 year agoI ❤️ Glitch
    Lately, when I start tinkering with a side project, I reach for Glitch.
  • 1 year agoGOTO 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.
  • 1 year agoGenerating 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.
  • 1 year agoInsultron2000 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!
  • 1 year agoEmbracing 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.
  • 1 year agoWhen 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.

Glitch Projects (lmorchard)

Spotify (Les Orchard)

Steam (LMOrchard)

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