https://orner.net/Recent content on Lance OrnerHugoen-usMon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://orner.net/posts/enumerating-cribbage/Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://orner.net/posts/enumerating-cribbage/<p>Claude and AI tools now make it possible to analyse problems that come up while playing cards at lunch. In Cribbage, given six dealt cards and you must discard two, what is the optimum play? Years ago, we thought about this problem, but running through all of the possibilities would take significant processing time. Now, I can do it in under an hour.</p> <p>The below text is AI generated, along with the code. Just thought I&rsquo;d get that out of the way. All of this came with my discussion with Claude Opus 5.0, and I had it work out the details. Claude is saying this better than I could anyway.</p>https://orner.net/posts/green-tomato-pickle-card/Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://orner.net/posts/green-tomato-pickle-card/<p>This is the Family Recipe for &ldquo;Green Tomato Pickle&rdquo;, which is mostly used as a topping for a pot of beans. Sweet, vinegary, and a bit of cloves.</p> <p>I went through some old files, and found the oldest family reference to this recipe, from Great-Grandma Box herself, and it&rsquo;s dated 1917.</p> <figure class="figure"> <img src="https://orner.net/images/greentomatopicklecard.webp" alt="Handwritten family recipe card for Green Tomato Pickle from 1917, showing Great-Grandma Box&rsquo;s recipe with ingredients and instructions in vintage handwriting" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </figure><pre><code>My PetRecipe for Green Tomatoe Pickle Take 8 lbs. green tomatoes + chop fine. Add 4 lbs brown sugar and boil down 3 hours. Add 1 qt vinegar, 1 teaspoon each of Mace, cinnamon, cloves, and boil 15 minutes longer. Put into jars and seal. Good on meats and beans. From Mrs. Scott at Trinity Center 1917. </code></pre>https://orner.net/about/Sun, 06 Oct 2024 21:34:00 -0800https://orner.net/about/<figure class="figure"> <img src="https://orner.net/images/thanksgiving2024.jpg" alt="The Orner family in November 2024 — Lance, Michelle, Grandpa, Sarah, and Justin gathered together for Thanksgiving, outdoors" loading="lazy" decoding="async"><figcaption>The Orner family, Thanksgiving 2024</figcaption> </figure><p>Lance Orner currently works at Oracle as “Principle Member of Technical Staff” which is a fancy title for a Senior Software Engineer. Currently working on custom internal web applications using Python and Django to manage thousands of Oracle cloud assets, along with writing custom scripts and utilities to reports on asset management and issues.</p>https://orner.net/posts/roby-costerbot/Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://orner.net/posts/roby-costerbot/<p>This is from 2010. We were building little Adruino robots using CD platters as a platform. Sarah was fascinated.</p> <figure class="figure"> <img src="https://orner.net/images/Sarah-and-Roby-Costerbot.jpg" alt="Young Sarah Orner sitting next to Roby the Costerbot, a small Arduino robot built on a CD platter platform, demonstrating early STEM learning in 2010" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </figure>https://orner.net/posts/tree-falls-in-stirling/Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://orner.net/posts/tree-falls-in-stirling/<p>That time in 2013 when a cedar tree split and fell on the roof of my little house.</p> <p><img src="https://orner.net/images/stirling/StirlingTreeOnHouse1.JPG" alt="Large cedar tree that split and fell directly onto the roof of a small house in Stirling City, showing significant structural damage" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> <img src="https://orner.net/images/stirling/2013-11-23-16.35.16.jpg" alt="Close-up view of roof damage from the fallen cedar tree, showing broken roofing materials and structural impact" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></p>https://orner.net/portal/Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://orner.net/portal/https://orner.net/projects/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://orner.net/projects/<p>Sites I have built or help run.</p>