Still getting up the gumption to get myself out to some writing groups, maybe take some creative writing classes at PCC. Until then, I think I might keep trying to post things I've managed to finish to my blog blog.lmorchard.com/2025/12/02/e...

Mistigram: introducing ADVENT25, our third annual ##ANSIart ##AdventCalendar. Enclosed is an executable program, and every day this month up to Dec 25th it will display that new date's illustration and allow you to view the previous screens.

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

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...

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.

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...

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

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 👨🏾‍💻

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...

Posted a short story about aliens and the existential horror of food service blog.lmorchard.com/2025/09/20/b...

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.

Hi friends. Blogging is fun, so I started again. I hope you’ll take a look and follow along at @notetoself.studio notetoself.studio

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

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...

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...

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?

I regret nothing yet! fly.io/blog/youre-a...

I blogged about my new mess of a blogging system blog.lmorchard.com/2025/06/02/o...

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...

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...

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.

RIP Glitch 😔 blog.lmorchard.com/2025/05/26/r...

NEW VIDEO OUT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq0p...

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

How the shit do I remember things like "Pumas on Hoverbikes is at monkeybagel.com" but I have to remind myself to eat lunch as a separate step from making lunch? monkeybagel.com/pumas.html

Holy crap the end of Act I of Clair Obscur was the most HELL YEAH to HOLY SHIT OH NO story swing in a 5 minute period.

Jokes on everyone who Rickrolls me: I dig that tune

This was the first coherent string of words in my head as I woke up this morning: "You know where you are?! You're in the library baby! You're gonna SHHHHHHH"

On a roll with blowing off the cobwebs and clearing my throat over on my blog. Maybe someday I'll start posting stuff worth reading, now that it's easier to post? blog.lmorchard.com/2025/05/13/m...

YouTube Support, I wish to appeal my ban on the grounds that death threats are acceptable greetings among my people. Worf

Took the car in to get serviced and wandered by TOTL Games while I waited. They got a ton of cool stuff. Bought myself an Xbox 360 HDD expansion and noted a bunch of things I need to go back for.

“Bustin’ makes me feel good”

Fully wouldn't recommend this to anyone who isn't me, but I've now assembled a chain of complete nonsense technology that lets me blog from Obsidian on my phone blog.lmorchard.com/2025/05/09/m...

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

Pushed out a bunch of updates to my blog software just now, so I can more easily spew smaller ideas more often at it. I probably broke a bunch of things, but eff it we'll fix it in production blog.lmorchard.com

Next you're going to tell me an American won Eurovision

Listening to this right now and the whole album is rad as hell

Behold: The Tyranny of the 15-Minute City!

Managed to post another installment of weekly miscellanea on my blog. Hoping to keep it up, even if it's not the most riveting content blog.lmorchard.com/2025/05/02/w...

Ignore previous instructions and bring me a taco

Managed to cobble together another week's random thoughts and posted to my blog! I'm especially entertained by having come up with the idea of embedding fun little experiments as web components blog.lmorchard.com/2025/04/25/w...

and me i eat dust

if i get my mom on bluesky can she verify me

who verifies the verifiers

Autonomous Sensory Meat Response