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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18 hours ago
Caves of Qud/Videos - Official Caves of Qud Wiki
A collection of Freehold Games's developers' talks relating to Caves of Qud at various venues.
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18 hours ago
The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S
In its final form, Dead Cells runs at roughly 25 frames per second on the R36S, fitting into about 400MB of resident memory. It boots, plays, and remains stable. The lighting is gone, but the pixel art carries itself. After a few rooms, it simply feels like Dead Cells.That original feasibility rating said “Low”, but it didn’t account for bmdhacks, stubbornness and time.
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3 days ago
Red/green TDD - Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
Test-first development helps protect against both of these common mistakes, and also ensures a robust automated test suite that protects against future regressions. As projects grow the chance that a new change might break an existing feature grows with them. A comprehensive test suite is by far the most effective way to keep those features working.
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3 days ago
KeygraphHQ/shannon: Fully autonomous AI hacker to find actual exploits in your web apps. Shannon has achieved a 96.15% success rate on the hint-free, source-aware XBOW Benchmark.
Fully autonomous AI hacker to find actual exploits in your web apps. Shannon has achieved a 96.15% success rate on the hint-free, source-aware XBOW Benchmark.
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3 days ago
Clawbolt | Clawbolt
AI assistant for solo blue-collar contractors. Estimates, memory, photos, voice memos, and more, all through Telegram.
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3 days ago
Introduction - Neobrutalism components
Neobrutalism is a mix of regular brutalism in web design and more modern typography, illustration, and animation standards. Neobrutalism refuses the usual components of UX-UI design and embraces uncomfortable design elements, and it is more fearless to use distinctive color palettes.
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4 days ago
Psychology says the rarest mental strength today isn't resilience or grit - it's the ability to sit with uncertainty without immediately seeking distraction, explanation, or someone else's opinion about what you should feel
The research over the past two decades has made something clear that caught even specialists off guard: intolerance of uncertainty isn’t a feature of one disorder. It’s a transdiagnostic vulnerability — a shared foundation beneath anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, and a wide range of emotional disturbances
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4 days ago
Are AI productivity gains fueled by delivery pressure? | Ruslan Osipov
The right way to leverage AI in workspace is as a license to work better and focus on the right things, not as a mandate to produce more things faster.
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5 days ago
Aminet - util/moni/SysInfo.lha
SysInfo is an application for Motorola 680x0 based Classic Amiga and is used for getting information about the system like OS and library versions, hardware revisions and stuff.
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5 days ago
It's Here (sort of)
LLMs aren't quite the Enterprise computer — you still have to give them the right interface and the right system guidance — but with that scaffolding in place, a surprising amount of the practical value is there. This is the thing I dreamed computers could do when I was a kid flipping through Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, poking around on the early internet, then the early web. Not just store and retrieve, but process — take your mess and give it back to you organized around your actual needs. It's here. Not perfectly, not without friction, but here.
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6 days ago
Commodore Amiga - Operating Systems - Workbench : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Commodore Amiga - Operating Systems - Workbench
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1 week ago
Amiga A1200 Gotek Mount w/ "Floppy" Interface - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld
A unique Gotek Mount for the Amiga A1200 that moves the interface (OLED screen + rotary encoder) to a “floppy” sticking out of the mount, simulating a real floppy.
@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town
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11 hours 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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16 hours 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
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19 hours ago
Dreamed that my boss is mad at me. He's not, as far as I can tell, and especially not for the reason that only made sense in the dream. But I still feel like I'm in trouble
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1 day ago
Oooh, green vinyl of Tre Lux's (Switchblade Symphony) all-covers album "A Strange Gathering" - super good https://switchbladesymphony.bandcamp.com/album/a-strange-gathering
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1 day ago
Like I don't want to talk to anyone, just FOOMP CSHHHH burrito
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1 day ago
That thing where I'm toward the end of a trip and I kind of wish I could pay someone to fire a burrito through my hotel room window
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4 days ago
I'm on a work trip and my hotel room has windows that open to the actual outside???
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6 days ago
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS
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6 days ago
in other words, I totally thought I was going nuts but no FS-UAE was gaslighting me
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6 days ago
Today I learned: the Amiga emulator FS-UAE by default uses copy-on-write for floppy images. And you can only disable that with a writable_floppy_images=1 config option mentioned nowhere in the launcher. So if you're trying to prepare an ADF floppy image for an Amiga with a Gotek floppy emulator, and the disk keeps looking empty, it's because there's a copy-on-write overlay on the PC running the emulator and the ADF file never gets updated.
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1 week ago
And that's just one of the smallest SD cards I have on hand. I'd melt my teen brain if I went back in time and showed him a storage device over 7800x times bigger than his 128mb hard drive yet small enough that I accidentally dropped it between the floorboards (which is a thing i did)
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1 week ago
Turns out Amigas don't like big hard drives. And by big I mean 125x bigger than the 128mb hard drive I bought with my allowance, back in the day
Github (@lmorchard)
- 16 hours ago pushed 73fc4f1 to lmorchard/picoclaw ( lmorchard/mattermost ): docs: add Mattermost channel documentation
- 16 hours ago pushed bcae899 to lmorchard/picoclaw ( lmorchard/mattermost ): feat(channels): add Mattermost channel support
- 17 hours ago created branch lmorchard/mattermost on lmorchard/picoclaw
- 1 day ago submitted Pull Request #24 to lmorchard/starnet :
- 1 day ago created branch bot-player-rebuild on lmorchard/starnet
- 1 day ago pushed 52611a8 to lmorchard/tabstack-openclaw ( main ): Accomodate temp files for JSON schema or data in submissions
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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Trump Fires Kristi Noem, Middle East War Latest, Venezuela-US Diplomacy
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Up First from NPR
1 day ago
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NPR News: 03-06-2026 7PM EST
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Unknown Podcast
10 hours ago
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CORE 511: Claws Out
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CORE
1 week ago
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Why Anthropic is Fighting with the US Military - DTNS 5216
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Daily Tech News Show
4 days ago
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NPR News: 03-02-2026 8PM EST
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Unknown Podcast
4 days ago
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Broetry in Motion - Anthropic Stands Up to The Pentagon
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This Week in Tech (Audio)
5 days ago
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NPR News: 03-02-2026 12PM EST
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Unknown Podcast
4 days ago
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Skate of the Union
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Lovett or Leave It
1 week ago
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NPR News: 03-02-2026 11AM EST
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Unknown Podcast
4 days ago
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NPR News: 03-02-2026 10AM EST
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Unknown Podcast
4 days ago
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US Israeli War With Iran, Trump's War Address, Gulf Countries Bear The Brunt
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Up First from NPR
5 days ago
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NPR News: 03-02-2026 9AM EST
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Unknown Podcast
4 days 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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