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Peter Lyons

@peterlyons.com

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Staff Engineer at Float Health. Keyboard nerd. DIY.

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · Aug 5

I built a custom desktop with recesses for my split keyboard and coffee mug. It's a multi-discipline project based around 3 layers of MDF #cnc milled and #3dprinting the inserts. I'm really happy with how it turned out. #maker

Blog post with details here:

peterlyons.com/problog/2025...

Standing view looking down on a navy blue desktop shaped roughly like a game controller due to the forearm rests. Split keyboard recessed into rectangular pockets shoulder width apart. Coffee mug sits in a holder in the center. Ergonomic mouse is on the right side along with a macbook and monitor.

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 3h

It all started to go downhill when people began to purposefully make vertically video

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 2h

Also this console from Blade Runner 2049 knows what's up.

Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 2h

Oh yeah happy #caturday. Visiting some family and their cats say the intruder must be glared upon.

Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 11h

2 days in the library: 2 totally annoying patron behaviors. Yesterday: woman running her entire weekend by dictating text messages into her iphone. Today: kids gaming and chatting on the computers. Luckily for me, neither group has hyperfocus stamina so I can just wait them out.

Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 1d

For #FreeCAD Friday here's a little catalog post of my ~225 custom designs I have modeled in FreeCAD and 3D printed. #3dprinting

peterlyons.com/problog/2025...

Catalog of Custom 3D Prints | Peter Lyons

Staff Engineer, Back End

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 1d

Run down of a year of home renovations. #diy

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A rare post on the personal variant of my blog. This is what counts as a "slow, rest & recovery" pace for us after our big historic mansion renovation project prior to this.

A Year of Renovations | Peter Lyons

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 1d

notes on switching to Helix from vim jvns.ca/blog/2025/10...

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 1d

Hi from Crested Butte

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 1d

I don't really do things with tiling VMs, I usually just put stuff on separate monitors or workspaces, but Niri might be the best-executed example of the concept I've seen yet

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Jesse Vincent @s.ly · 2d

I wrote up my "How I'm using coding agents in October 2025" post.

blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/s...

Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025

I used to write more

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 2d

I guess given linux on the desktop having recent social media drama is a good time to point out niri is a great wayland tiling window manager. 🦀

github.com/YaLTeR/niri

GitHub - YaLTeR/niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Contribute to YaLTeR/niri development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 2d

Autumn mini-break has begun! Enjoying a flat white and breakfast bieber in Leadville above 10' elevation.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 2d

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 3d

Maybe I should request hazard pay for the anxiety load of running complex data migrations against production.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Awarded To Inventor Of Eatin’ Shirt https://theonion.com/macarthur-genius-grant-awarded-to-inventor-of-eatin-shirt/

MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Awarded To Inventor Of Eatin’ Shirt
‘It’s A Big Ol’ Shirt I Put On Before Supper So My Good Shirts Don’t Get Dirty,’ Says Recipient

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 4d

My mind is blown with every single interaction with either meetup or nextdoor. They are so hard core private equity enshittifications of social apps it's impressive. It's like 60% dark patterns 38% bugs, slowness, and pure uncut nonsense.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 4d

App idea - uber but I drive. Bring me your car, scootch over, gimme the keys. I drive like a normal person and drop myself off and you drive away.

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 4d

🌶️ Every single HTTP GUI, including browser dev tools and http client apps, that breaks an HTTP request up into GUI widgets like tabs, panes, etc are all categorically worse than a regular plain text view of the raw request.

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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · 5d

Very excited to start Cory Doctorow’s new book on enshittification and what to do about it. Comes out tomorrow! Buy it from your local bookstore or get the DRM-free ebook on @libro.fm

Bearded man holding a copy of a book with a poop emoji on the cover titled Enshittification: Why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 8d

@obsidian.md when bases was released recently!

Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 8d

Truly amazing. Congratulations this is epic!

Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 8d

I visited a nearby farm for a music concert recently and upon roaming around the sheep pens I just want to confirm if anyone has doubt that sheep make a sound exactly like a person imitating a sheep saying "baaa".

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 8d

This looks like a really neat role. Not enough to get me to quit my job and move to NYC, but… it’s darn tempting. 😁 May be of interest to folks who follow me—give it a look!

Yaron Minsky @yminsky.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to say that we're looking to hire someone to focus on OxCaml education! We're doing enough to change the language that we have a pretty big internal education task ahead of us, and we want to hire someone to focus on it!

Please share this with others!

www.janestreet.com/join-jane-st...

OxCaml Educator :: Jane Street

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.

www.janestreet.com

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 9d

I wonder if I could pass a front end coding interview just by typing nested open div tags until I ran out of time.

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"He was really on the right track just ran out of time".

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