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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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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 9h

What if it's very useful but not going to become godlike? Is that okay with everyone?

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 19h

It’s a snores d’oeuvres or a snooze-bouche

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 16h

Porkbun.com for dns

porkbun.com | An oddly satisfying experience.

Porkbun is an amazingly awesome ICANN accredited domain name registrar based out of the Pacific Northwest. We're different, we're easy, and we're affordable. Use us, you won't be sorry. If you don't u...

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 1d

Got a brief break from the rain Sunday afternoon

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 1d

You can use abbreviations in insert mode for pure beauty like I type qv<space> (mnemonic quote variable) in insert mode and get "${}" with cursor between the braces.

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Hillelogram @hillelwayne.com · 1d

For every cool (neo/)vim tip or script someone shares with me I will share one in return

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 3d

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

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 3d

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

Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 3d

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

Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 3d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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 · 4d

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

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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 4d

Hi from Crested Butte

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

🌶️ 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.