Peter Lyons
@peterlyons.com
Staff Engineer at Float Health. Keyboard nerd. DIY.
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Peter Lyons
@peterlyons.com
· Nov 30
Custom CNC Desktop Mark II | Peter Lyons
Staff Engineer, Back End
peterlyons.com
My office got some fabulous upgrades! I made another custom CNC desktop with split keyboard recesses. My wife painted art from "Arrival" on one wall and a geometric pattern on the adjacent wall.
#maker #3dprinting #keyboards #cnc
More details on the blog post:
peterlyons.com/problog/2025...
#maker #3dprinting #keyboards #cnc
More details on the blog post:
peterlyons.com/problog/2025...
Just a little woodworking pro tip here. After smearing glue on a joint, rub the excess on your wrist. Then later you can cosplay as GoT Jora Mormant trying to hide his greyscale.
January 25, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Just a little woodworking pro tip here. After smearing glue on a joint, rub the excess on your wrist. Then later you can cosplay as GoT Jora Mormant trying to hide his greyscale.
Tax Payers: Taxes are hard. I guess I'll pay someone to make it easy for me.
CPAs: Here's our lengthy document with everything we need you to do to make preparing your taxes easy for us.
CPAs: Here's our lengthy document with everything we need you to do to make preparing your taxes easy for us.
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Tax Payers: Taxes are hard. I guess I'll pay someone to make it easy for me.
CPAs: Here's our lengthy document with everything we need you to do to make preparing your taxes easy for us.
CPAs: Here's our lengthy document with everything we need you to do to make preparing your taxes easy for us.
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Florida Passes Law Granting Viruses Personhood
Florida Passes Law Granting Viruses Personhood
TALLAHASSEE, FL—In a move that supporters have called a long overdue acknowledgment of the rights that should be accorded to all infectious agents, the Florida Legislature passed HB 1637 Wednesday, a ...
theonion.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Florida Passes Law Granting Viruses Personhood
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the combined attendance of the minnesota professional hockey, basketball, and football teams showed up today to stand outside in air that freezes breath solid and affirm that we hate these bandits
January 23, 2026 at 11:24 PM
the combined attendance of the minnesota professional hockey, basketball, and football teams showed up today to stand outside in air that freezes breath solid and affirm that we hate these bandits
Stupid body. Working on my pistol squats and the leg I'm just holding out forward is getting sore while the leg actually squatting my whole body weight is fine.
January 22, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Stupid body. Working on my pistol squats and the leg I'm just holding out forward is getting sore while the leg actually squatting my whole body weight is fine.
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Suits really outdoing themselves with pushing this shit.
Customers hate it.
Employees hate it.
And apparently it's not even cheap.
Literally nobody wins.
Customers hate it.
Employees hate it.
And apparently it's not even cheap.
Literally nobody wins.
January 21, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Suits really outdoing themselves with pushing this shit.
Customers hate it.
Employees hate it.
And apparently it's not even cheap.
Literally nobody wins.
Customers hate it.
Employees hate it.
And apparently it's not even cheap.
Literally nobody wins.
Backend devs: are you tired of looking at noisy, unreadable logs from your local server? Are they full of distracting fields you almost never actually need for local work? Here's how to tidy them up to all signal no noise with jq:
peterlyons.com/problog/2024...
peterlyons.com/problog/2024...
Dev Logs Without the Noise | Peter Lyons
Staff Engineer, Back End
peterlyons.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Backend devs: are you tired of looking at noisy, unreadable logs from your local server? Are they full of distracting fields you almost never actually need for local work? Here's how to tidy them up to all signal no noise with jq:
peterlyons.com/problog/2024...
peterlyons.com/problog/2024...
Running a 5+ hour print on my Prusa Mini+ mostly for nostalgia and to show it I still care. My bambu A1 mini is idle and would be hours faster, but it feels nice to give the older printer a print now and then as a treat. Swapped in a 0.5mm nozzle too.
January 18, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Running a 5+ hour print on my Prusa Mini+ mostly for nostalgia and to show it I still care. My bambu A1 mini is idle and would be hours faster, but it feels nice to give the older printer a print now and then as a treat. Swapped in a 0.5mm nozzle too.
3 more drawers built today for the Drawers of Doom cabinet project.
January 17, 2026 at 10:28 AM
3 more drawers built today for the Drawers of Doom cabinet project.
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musk likes thinking he's alexander or achilles (but NO HOMO) when he's just the library of alexandria fire for internet culture c. 2005-2020
January 17, 2026 at 9:16 AM
musk likes thinking he's alexander or achilles (but NO HOMO) when he's just the library of alexandria fire for internet culture c. 2005-2020
Me: So did you like Stranger Things 5?
Friend: Yeah
Me: OK, then you have no legal basis to object to us listening to John Coltrane A Love Supreme in its entirety now.
Friend: Yeah
Me: OK, then you have no legal basis to object to us listening to John Coltrane A Love Supreme in its entirety now.
January 16, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Me: So did you like Stranger Things 5?
Friend: Yeah
Me: OK, then you have no legal basis to object to us listening to John Coltrane A Love Supreme in its entirety now.
Friend: Yeah
Me: OK, then you have no legal basis to object to us listening to John Coltrane A Love Supreme in its entirety now.
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It should make you sick, too, but since it doesn't I have to conclude you think big stupid men who can't think about what could possibly happen next are more deserving of their lives than people who dared to protect their neighbors.
This is Civil Rights 2.0 and you're on the wrong side, bub.
This is Civil Rights 2.0 and you're on the wrong side, bub.
January 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM
It should make you sick, too, but since it doesn't I have to conclude you think big stupid men who can't think about what could possibly happen next are more deserving of their lives than people who dared to protect their neighbors.
This is Civil Rights 2.0 and you're on the wrong side, bub.
This is Civil Rights 2.0 and you're on the wrong side, bub.
Feeling nostalgic for when I was involved with multiple meetup groups that were active and lively. Things still haven't recovered from the quarantine.
January 14, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Feeling nostalgic for when I was involved with multiple meetup groups that were active and lively. Things still haven't recovered from the quarantine.
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My kingdom for some precedented times.
January 13, 2026 at 4:51 PM
My kingdom for some precedented times.
PSA: if you have MLK or President's Day off work, take the preceding Friday off too for that sweet 4-day week, 4-day weekend, 4-day week experience.
January 12, 2026 at 9:00 PM
PSA: if you have MLK or President's Day off work, take the preceding Friday off too for that sweet 4-day week, 4-day weekend, 4-day week experience.
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I really like this analogy. CNC is a whole new domain with a lot of new skills to pick up vs traditional machining, but almost all of the skills picked up in a career of traditional machining are still incredibly valuable with the increased automation
This is the "CNC machine" for software engineering. It takes the "raw" power of a model and allows you to apply it with the precision, memory, and behavioral guardrails that you, as the human architect deem necessary.
January 11, 2026 at 10:10 PM
I really like this analogy. CNC is a whole new domain with a lot of new skills to pick up vs traditional machining, but almost all of the skills picked up in a career of traditional machining are still incredibly valuable with the increased automation
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Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement https://theonion.com/insecure-frustrated-bully-with-something-to-prove-cons-1819575405/
January 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Insecure, Frustrated Bully With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law Enforcement https://theonion.com/insecure-frustrated-bully-with-something-to-prove-cons-1819575405/
An especially difficult project I have been working on since October launched today. It completed one of our core business processes with zero manual work for the first time in the history of the company. I am both very stoked and very relieved.
January 8, 2026 at 1:41 AM
An especially difficult project I have been working on since October launched today. It completed one of our core business processes with zero manual work for the first time in the history of the company. I am both very stoked and very relieved.
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it is a little disconcerting that none of the people in charge of anything right now seem to know how to do it. like, if you were on a bus and the driver started whipping around all crazy and yelling about how buses don’t need wheels you’d probably be like, hey. this guy shouldn’t be driving the bus
January 3, 2026 at 5:13 AM
it is a little disconcerting that none of the people in charge of anything right now seem to know how to do it. like, if you were on a bus and the driver started whipping around all crazy and yelling about how buses don’t need wheels you’d probably be like, hey. this guy shouldn’t be driving the bus
I made it through 5+ hours of the John Carmack interview by Lex Fridman. Should I expect some kind of trophy or certificate in the mail?
January 3, 2026 at 1:12 AM
I made it through 5+ hours of the John Carmack interview by Lex Fridman. Should I expect some kind of trophy or certificate in the mail?
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this harmonica band at the Hong Kong airport had no reason to go so hard at 8am on New Year's Day but I loved it
January 2, 2026 at 10:47 PM
this harmonica band at the Hong Kong airport had no reason to go so hard at 8am on New Year's Day but I loved it
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Over the holiday, I put together a new window switcher for macOS. It's called Winby. And its special ability is to let you switch to a window based on any text in the window. Press the hotkey, type some text that's in the window, and hit return. Totally free.
obra.github.io/winby
obra.github.io/winby
Winby — Window Switching for macOS
Switch windows instantly with search, previews, and content search. A keyboard-driven window manager for macOS.
obra.github.io
January 2, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Over the holiday, I put together a new window switcher for macOS. It's called Winby. And its special ability is to let you switch to a window based on any text in the window. Press the hotkey, type some text that's in the window, and hit return. Totally free.
obra.github.io/winby
obra.github.io/winby