Month: 2026/07
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2026 July 31
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Cat Parole, Coding Sprints, and a Memorial Tattoo (Catching up: July 11 – July 31)
It's been a hectic three weeks. The main event has been the slow, tense, and ultimately successful integration of our new cat, Minnaloushe, who graduated from "cat jail" to a tentative peace with the other furballs. In between managing the cat drama, I got a memorial tattoo for Puck, poured a ton of work into decafclaw and other side projects, and fell down a rabbit hole of game streaming and retro classics. [ ... 969 words ... ]
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2026 July 17
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The tiger is out (Week 29)
Last week I said Minnaloushe was inching toward parole from cat jail. This week he simply escaped — repeatedly, by jumping onto my office door and vaulting the five-foot gate — which earned him the household title of "the tiger." Meanwhile the byom/mixtapes rabbit hole kept swallowing me whole (cover art, mosaic hero images, virtualizing an 8000-track playlist, npm releases, Navidrome and Plex playback), starnet sprouted a Quality-Based Narrative epic, and I fell down a gacha-game reorientation hole and an Oxford-comma nerdsnipe hole in the same week. [ ... 1629 words ... ]
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2026 July 10
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Somewhere to stash my mixtapes (Week 28)
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). Plus more starnet gamedev (an exploit-barrage mini-game with a Butterchurn "brain damage" overlay), I finally ditched Disqus for remark42 after almost 20 years, and Minnaloushe is inching toward parole from cat jail. [ ... 1578 words ... ]
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2026 July 05
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Minnaloushe in cat jail (2026 Week 27)
This week saw Minnaloushe's 'cat jail' reintroduction process, deep dives into live-coding music with strudel.cc (including a cover!), and a major overhaul of the starnet project's audio engine and core mechanics. Plus, reflections on the web's evolution, LLMs, and other miscellanea. [ ... 855 words ... ]