2026 Weeks 14, 15, & 16

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/04/17/w14-w15-w16/

TL;DR: It's been a weird 3 weeks. We adopted a new cat, a void named Minnaloushe. I also got completely sucked into the Artemis II mission, watching the livestream like it was my favorite TV show. Also featured in this post: more random crap and miscellanea than usual, because it's been a little while.

#weeknotes #cats #space #artemis2 #adhd #miscellanea

2026 Week 13

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/27/w13/

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.

#weeknotes #ai #adhd #codegen #retro #craft #miscellanea

Miscellanea: The War in Iran

https://acoup.blog/2026/03/25/miscellanea-the-war-in-iran/

#HackerNews #Miscellanea #Iran #War #News #Analysis #Insights

2026 Week 12

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/20/w12/

TL;DR: Built an entire AI agent from scratch in a week, wrote two blog posts about it, got worked up about San Francisco's AI billboard hellscape, and bookmarked way too many things (again) about whether AI is making us smarter or dumber.

#weeknotes #ai #agents #openclaw #decafclaw #rss #sanfrancisco #miscellanea

Miscellanea for 2026-03-13

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/13/miscellanea/

• Hello world!
• Occasionally I remember I can do these random daily posts.
• Look: here's one now!
• I think Anil Dash's " What do coders do after AI?" hits on the same thing I was getting at a couple days ago with " Grief and the AI split":

  • Your job changes into describing software. Now, if you're the kind of person who only ever wanted to have the end result, maybe this is a liberation. Sometimes, that's what mattered — we wanted to fast-forward to the end result, elegance be damned. But if you were one of those crafters? The people who wrote idiomatic code that made that programming language sing? There's a real grief here. It's not as serious as when we know a human language is dying out, but it's not entirely dissimilar, either.

#miscellanea

2026 Weeks 9, 10, & 11

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/13/w11/

TL;DR: Three weeks of weeknotes in one go. Wrote a blog post about AI grief that hit Hacker News (and got accused of being written by an LLM), fell deep into an Amiga 1200 rabbit hole, soldered the wrong potentiometer onto my Tempest PCB, survived a work trip to California, and spiraled into hardware-ownership doomsday thinking.

#weeknotes #miscellanea #amiga #retrocomputing #ai #tempest #arcade #travel #portland #pdx

2026 Weeks 7 & 8

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/02/20/w08/

TL;DR: Enjoyed a 4-day weekend and completely forgot about weeknotes, spent way too much time troubleshooting a Tempest arcade machine that's been broken for 6 years (might actually be making progress?), dealt with the sad news that our favorite Portland bar closed, got Cosmo back from the vet looking very spaced out, started planning a Catsby tattoo, and collected yet another pile of bookmarks about AI coding agents while the cats increasingly tolerate each other.

#weeknotes #miscellanea #arcade #cats #ai #retrocomputing #portland #pdx #atari

2026 Week 6

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/02/06/w06/

TL;DR: Hid 3D printed critters around the house for my wife to find, got late-night Skyrim modding working on Linux (with Dagoth Ur!), and deeply related to that LLM alarm clock burning $20 repeatedly asking "is it time yet?" - because that's exactly how afternoon meetings feel with ADHD.

#weeknotes #miscellanea #3dprinting #cats #reading #adhd #gaming #obsidian

Miscellanea for 2026-01-30

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/01/30/miscellanea/

• Hello world!

• Cory Doctorow says, AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage:

  AI is a bubble and it will burst. Most of the companies will fail. Most of the datacenters will be shuttered or sold for parts. So what will be left behind? We will have a bunch of coders who are really good at applied statistics. We will have a lot of cheap GPUs, which will be good news for, say, effects artists and climate scientists, who will be able to buy that critical hardware at pennies on the dollar. And we will have the open-source models that run on commodity hardware, AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images; summarizing documents; and automating a lot of labor-intensive graphic editing – such as removing backgrounds or airbrushing passersby out of photos. These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed of.

  • This post-bubble future is kind of what I'm looking most forward to, assuming the crash doesn't put me out on the street.

#miscellanea

2026 Week 5

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/01/30/w05/

TL;DR: Miss Biscuits is 90% fluff, 3D printed ghosts instead of guns, snarfed down three Adrian Tchaikovsky books at hyperfocus speed, shipped feedspool-go v0.2.0 with over-engineered lazy loading, learned about GitHub Actions cross-repo triggers, got obsessed with a TR/ST song on repeat, and caught up on Classic Doctor Who featuring cyborg Loch Ness monsters.

#weeknotes #miscellanea #3dprinting #feedspool #reading #books #rss #indieweb #golang