blog.lmorchard.com

TL;DR: Arguing over whether LLMs "truly understand" or have an inner spark misses what's actually useful when sitting in front of one.

TL;DR: It's been nearly a month!

TL;DR: Catching up on a sprawling few weeks of infrastructure rebuilding—from porting C64 BASIC maze generators for the blog to rewriting my RSS feed reader in pure-Go SQLite—along with building a Fediverse ActivityPub bot in a day, resuming my Persona 5…

TL;DR: My self-hosted feed reading stack quietly shrank from hundreds of feeds down to 33 over the course of a year, and I didn't notice until my reading list got eerily quiet.

TL;DR: A smoky week in Portland brings back 2020 wildfire PTSD.

TL;DR: It's been a hectic three weeks.

TL;DR: Last week I said Minnaloushe was inching toward parole from cat jail.

TL;DR: I built mixtapes.lmorchard.com to publish playlists on my own domain instead of leaving them trapped in Spotify, which spun off two new repos (byom-sync and byom-player).

TL;DR: This week saw Minnaloushe's 'cat jail' reintroduction process, deep dives into live-coding music with strudel.cc (including a cover!)

TL;DR: I spent a good chunk of this week trying to drag a 14-year-old MacBook Pro into the present by way of every Linux distro that would boot, got a screen full of static for my trouble, and eventually clawed my way to a working Fedora install.

TL;DR: It's been about three weeks since the last weeknote, so this is a catchup.

TL;DR: A week that felt like nothing but Star Trek shitposts.

TL;DR: A few weeks of catch-up.

TL;DR: This week, my body is broken from digging a hole, my expensive controller is falling apart, and my cats are cute.

TL;DR: It's been a weird 3 weeks.

TL;DR: Got ADHD meds for the first time ever and promptly disappeared into a productivity fugue state, bookmarked an alarming number of articles about whether AI is killing the craft of programming, and declared myself a software meat popsicle.

TL;DR: I set out to spend an afternoon understanding OpenClaw.