Les Orchard
@lmorchard.com
he / him; semi-hermit in PDX, USA; tinkerer; old adhd cat dad; serial enthusiast; editor-at-large for http://lmorchard.com; astra mortemque superare gradatim. Just visiting here, mostly posting over there 👉 https://hackers.town/@lmorchard
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And I think that's wishful thinking. Hundreds of *millions* of people are using AI. And the vasty majority have NO IDEA how dangerous or harmful these platforms can be. It would be great if there were tools that they could use that might help reduce their risks. www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/w...
I know you don’t want them to want AI, but… - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
And I think that's wishful thinking. Hundreds of *millions* of people are using AI. And the vasty majority have NO IDEA how dangerous or harmful these platforms can be. It would be great if there were tools that they could use that might help reduce their risks. www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/w...
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For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.
Here's the video of it running.
Here's the video of it running.
October 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.
Here's the video of it running.
Here's the video of it running.
New v0.1.0 release of my feedspool tool - now it cleans up after itself better and successfully unsubscribes from feeds!
github.com/lmorchard/fe...
github.com/lmorchard/fe...
Release v0.1.0 · lmorchard/feedspool-go
What's Changed
Moar css tweaks by @lmorchard in #18
Refactor purge command to run both cleanup operations and add VACUUM support by @lmorchard in #19
Full Changelog: v0.0.6...v0.1.0
github.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
New v0.1.0 release of my feedspool tool - now it cleans up after itself better and successfully unsubscribes from feeds!
github.com/lmorchard/fe...
github.com/lmorchard/fe...
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I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
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P.S. I've been updating docs.blacksky.community based on questions and feedback so check that out.
Thanks again to the folks who trust us and contribute the funds that allow to continue pursuing this mission of providing communities with autonomous, safe spaces.
Gonna get back to work now 👨🏾💻
Thanks again to the folks who trust us and contribute the funds that allow to continue pursuing this mission of providing communities with autonomous, safe spaces.
Gonna get back to work now 👨🏾💻
Introduction | Blacksky Documentation
docs.blacksky.community
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
P.S. I've been updating docs.blacksky.community based on questions and feedback so check that out.
Thanks again to the folks who trust us and contribute the funds that allow to continue pursuing this mission of providing communities with autonomous, safe spaces.
Gonna get back to work now 👨🏾💻
Thanks again to the folks who trust us and contribute the funds that allow to continue pursuing this mission of providing communities with autonomous, safe spaces.
Gonna get back to work now 👨🏾💻
Posted a new short story: "Behemoth"
It's kind of sci-fi, kind of Young Adult. Been sitting on this one for absurdly long, finally finished it. So, I'm posting it before I reconsider
blog.lmorchard.com/2025/10/07/b...
It's kind of sci-fi, kind of Young Adult. Been sitting on this one for absurdly long, finally finished it. So, I'm posting it before I reconsider
blog.lmorchard.com/2025/10/07/b...
Behemoth
A teenager caught between virtual battles and model rocket launches learns that some games have real-world consequences.
Adaptation of "Model rocket launch 2 (Starwiz)" by Justin Lebar is licensed u...
blog.lmorchard.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Posted a new short story: "Behemoth"
It's kind of sci-fi, kind of Young Adult. Been sitting on this one for absurdly long, finally finished it. So, I'm posting it before I reconsider
blog.lmorchard.com/2025/10/07/b...
It's kind of sci-fi, kind of Young Adult. Been sitting on this one for absurdly long, finally finished it. So, I'm posting it before I reconsider
blog.lmorchard.com/2025/10/07/b...
Posted a short story about aliens and the existential horror of food service blog.lmorchard.com/2025/09/20/b...
First Contact at Burrito Chime
Lately, I’ve been trying to shake off some of the rust on my creative writing. Here’s something I wrote about aliens, burritos, and the existential horror of food service. I’m not sure if it’s funny, ...
blog.lmorchard.com
September 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Posted a short story about aliens and the existential horror of food service blog.lmorchard.com/2025/09/20/b...
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Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.
Rails Needs New Governance
Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.
davidcel.is
September 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.
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Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio
notetoself.studio
notetoself.studio
Note to Self by Gina Trapani
A blog & newsletter about creativity over productivity, by Gina Trapani.
notetoself.studio
September 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio
notetoself.studio
notetoself.studio
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It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/
September 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/
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NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.
September 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.
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Thanks in advance for sharing this in your networks. My hopes are that some way or another, my appeal will be reviewed by a human. If you know anybody I should speak to, or can think of anything useful to do at this stage, do let me know.
climbtothestars.org/archives/202...
climbtothestars.org/archives/202...
Appeal Regarding the Suspension of my Facebook Account @stephtara
Given the official appeal process for the suspension of my account did not provide me with the opportunity to argue my case, I am doing it here. I believe that my account, like others, has been wro…
climbtothestars.org
August 31, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thanks in advance for sharing this in your networks. My hopes are that some way or another, my appeal will be reviewed by a human. If you know anybody I should speak to, or can think of anything useful to do at this stage, do let me know.
climbtothestars.org/archives/202...
climbtothestars.org/archives/202...
Been trying to blog through my mental semi-crisis with coming to terms with LLMs as a professional toolkit. Here's my latest
blog.lmorchard.com/2025/06/18/a...
blog.lmorchard.com/2025/06/18/a...
On AI, anger, and the way from here
blog.lmorchard.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Been trying to blog through my mental semi-crisis with coming to terms with LLMs as a professional toolkit. Here's my latest
blog.lmorchard.com/2025/06/18/a...
blog.lmorchard.com/2025/06/18/a...
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Hard to get a sense of the scale from the ground.
June 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Hard to get a sense of the scale from the ground.
I wonder if Claude sees me air-guitaring to Mastodon while I'm waiting for the vibe coding to finish?
June 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I wonder if Claude sees me air-guitaring to Mastodon while I'm waiting for the vibe coding to finish?
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I regret nothing yet! fly.io/blog/youre-a...
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.
fly.io
June 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I regret nothing yet! fly.io/blog/youre-a...
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I wrote a new thing about killing the metrics in your head, and how our inherent desire to know that we are being seen can be the thing that prevents us from caring as well and as much as we actually do. phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-05...
kill the metrics in your head
Get in, loser, we’re doing an old fashioned conversation by blog post. Dan Sinker wrote recently about the Who Cares Era: The writer didn’t care. The supplement’s editors didn’t care. The biz people o...
phirephoenix.com
May 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I wrote a new thing about killing the metrics in your head, and how our inherent desire to know that we are being seen can be the thing that prevents us from caring as well and as much as we actually do. phirephoenix.com/blog/2025-05...
This made me caremad and grumpy, so I wrote about it because I'm trying to care about writing more
blog.lmorchard.com/2025/05/27/o...
blog.lmorchard.com/2025/05/27/o...
May 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
This made me caremad and grumpy, so I wrote about it because I'm trying to care about writing more
blog.lmorchard.com/2025/05/27/o...
blog.lmorchard.com/2025/05/27/o...
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We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
May 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
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A reminder of how these assholes behaved when we stole THEIR shit. They came for kids’ MP3s. House raids. Absolute terror. So no, we’re not gonna let you steal OUR shit.
May 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
A reminder of how these assholes behaved when we stole THEIR shit. They came for kids’ MP3s. House raids. Absolute terror. So no, we’re not gonna let you steal OUR shit.
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There's a COMPUTER inside my DS flashcart
YouTube video by f4mi
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May 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
They should make a live action Archer movie starring Matt Bomer with all his lines recorded by H Jon Benjamin
Oh and they should make H Jon Benjamin play a villain with all his lines recorded by Matt Bomer
Oh and they should make H Jon Benjamin play a villain with all his lines recorded by Matt Bomer
May 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
They should make a live action Archer movie starring Matt Bomer with all his lines recorded by H Jon Benjamin
Oh and they should make H Jon Benjamin play a villain with all his lines recorded by Matt Bomer
Oh and they should make H Jon Benjamin play a villain with all his lines recorded by Matt Bomer