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@peterlewis.design
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💚 aspiring neighbor, 👔 principal software designer in emerging tech for healthcare, 🛠️ tools & workflows nerd, ✍️ occasional poet 😎 peterlewis.design 📝 medium.com/@thispeterlewis 👨🏻‍💻 figma.com/@designneighbor 📸 vsco.co/peterlewis

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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 03/10/2026
Screenshot from the article that says:

The future depends on wisdom that Silicon Valley lacks. Wisdom about how to handle dangerous technology and, more
fundamentally, wisdom about what it means to care for people. This moment needs a degree of humility that isn't natural for people who have succeeded through their extreme confidence. My former colleagues at
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 30/09/2026
don’t forget to follow me on ping
screenshot of Apple’s Ping logo
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 25/09/2026
definitely gonna cry
Set photo of a Mother and a boy lying in bed together, from the upcoming movie The Magician’s Nephew. The woman is holding a small ring in her hand and has her arm around the child, who is resting their head on her shoulder.
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 25/09/2026
What a cool shot from Greta Getwig’s upcoming adaption of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
A brown horse harnessed to a cart stands on a cobblestone street. A person is standing near the horse’s head. In the background, there is a large green van with a winged logo and the words “EXPERT REMOVALS” on the side, parked in front of a brick building. A wing design behind the horse hints at the horse’s future.
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 24/09/2026
it’s important to have standards
A screenshot of a text that says:

I need to inform you that l've removed my "Ha Ha" reaction from this text, because upon reflection l've realized that it is a terrible joke
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 21/09/2026
this part is unfortunately no longer true though 😬
Screenshot of text that says:

“Figma is another design tool in the vein of Sketch or Illustrator. In spite of being browser based, Figma is so fast that I laugh from delight whenever I use it. It feels precisely as fast as everything should be on a contemporary computer - which is, ex-tremely. It feels loved. I know the engineering and design teams behind it and I know it is loved. It is built from a position of craft. Close-to-the-metal craft. And you feel it. Not only in speed as speed, but speed as intuitiveness. That is: The tools work more sensibly than the same tools in, say, Illustrator. The pen tool for example. In Figma the pen tool operates from a position of rationality. In this sense, "speed" manifests not only in work per computer cycle, but work per user cycle.”
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 17/09/2026
if this cover art is any indication, i love this direction so far (and seems to fit the themes of the book). to me, narnia has always had a bit of a 70’s psychedelic feel, so with this + mark ronson + greta gerwig talking about a “rock and roll” approach, i’m here for it
Cover of Empire magazine with exclusive coverage of Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew movie. The illustration shows a lion’s face, with textural details of a wide variety of flora and fauna.
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 16/09/2026
Screenshot of text from a Shopify blog post that says:

Preventing slop

It's tempting to just point an LLM to the React Native codebase and try to one-shot the same features in native, but it doesn't work. Even if you ask it to gather as much information as it can up front, freeze that into specs, task files, and then implement it, you end up with a huge amount of unmaintainable code that can't be shipped.

To solve this problem, we built a system called Helix that takes a more gradual approach. It doesn't expect the first output to be correct, and builds a loop where an imperfect attempt simply cannot move forward until it becomes a good result.
The developer points Helix at a screen. Helix reads the React Native code and proposes a sequence of checkpoints (small, ordered slices of the work) that can be reviewed in minutes.

Then, checkpoint by checkpoint, it builds: each one must prove its behavior with tests, match the running app in a visual review, survive two adversarial code reviewers, and get a human's nod before it's committed and the next one starts.

Feedback from every review is remembered, so the loop gets more autonomous as the migration progresses.
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 16/09/2026
another magical Big Walk sesh with the siblings last night, thanks @househouse.com for making such a special game
a screenshot of those lil weirdos from Big Walk standing on top of a hill in front of a big blue sky
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 14/09/2026
@aka.dad @offprint.app i just noticed these textures, so nice!
a screenshot of buttons on the Offprint web app, showing subtle background textures with dark mode
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 08/09/2026
close up shot of Elizabeth Holmes from the Nathan Fielder documentary
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 07/09/2026
Like we keep trying to say, we’re squarely in humanities / ethics / philosophy territory here
Screenshot of an OpenAI blog post that includes: 

Teaching machines to love

Because machine intelligence comes from a fundamentally different process than human intelligence, we cannot assume it adheres to human principles by default, or generalizes from them in a human-like manner. The core problem in Al research is that of alignment - getting the Al to "try to do the right thing" by human standards.
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 05/09/2026
look at these beautiful scissors i got from Craighill
Photo of a hand holding blue and cream scissors from Craighill
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 03/09/2026
Just started this and really enjoying it so far
Photo of the novel Blindsight by Peter Watts
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 01/09/2026
Recently discovered Eli McMullen’s work www.elimcmullen.com
A painting of a suburban home by Eli McMullen
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 28/08/2026
new Tiny Habits album today!
Screenshot of new Tiny Habits in Apple Music
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 28/08/2026
some of my favorite albums from the last year or so
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 26/08/2026
this is our cat Dolly (Purrton), named a few years ago after the beloved Dolly Parton
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 25/08/2026
we live in a beautiful world don’t we?
This image features a paved pathway running alongside a wooden split-rail fence. Beyond the fence, there is a grassy field that leads up to a dense forest of tall, green trees under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 21/08/2026
no thank you
screenshot of muting “burrito” in Bluesky app
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 21/08/2026
Interesting ethical debates to be had here but this is a good point apple.news/AXAaymTP4TU2...
Screenshot from an Inc. article which says:

“Let me be direct about something that most people in this industry will not say publicly. Al screening tools were sold to companies as a solution to the volume problem. And they do solve the volume problem. What they do not solve is the quality problem. Filtering 5,000 applications down to 50 does not mean you have the right 50. It means you have the 50 whose resumes were best optimized for your particular tool. Those are not always the same people.”
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 19/08/2026
i don’t care what you car heads say, i think this electric Ferrari is absolutely beautiful
Photo of the electric Ferrari Luce
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 19/08/2026
my son makes this amazing LEGO builds from his ideas and random pieces, here’s one he made yesterday
A photo of a Lego mech build
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 19/08/2026
It’s beautiful but this lack of radius nesting bothers me
Screenshot of the corner of the macOS 27 preview app icon
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 14/08/2026
hey @panic.com plushies of these guys would sell like hotcakes
Screenshot of the characters from the game Big Walk
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 13/08/2026
oh MAN i’m gonna get this and use it as a Claude voice mode controller
Photo of the Ting FX handheld mic by Teenage Engineering
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 13/08/2026
when you get to a certain age you get to enjoy things like this
Screenshot of the Pocket Casts iOS app, showing the World War II with Tom Hanks podcast
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 29/07/2026
Late to the party but this is such a great album
Screenshot of Apple Music playing the album THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. by RAYE
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 28/07/2026
really enjoying this podcast
Cover image for the podcast “World War II with Tom Hanks”
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 22/07/2026
However stuff like this is great!
a screenshot of the jelly-spinner from https://jelly-ui.com/#jelly-spinner
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 21/07/2026
I’m trying to think how this squares with corporate business incentives?
Screenshot of an excerpt from a Buzz press release that says:

“Building on Nostr

We chose Nostr because it solves the most fundamental problem in multi-agent collaboration: identity. Every participant, human or agent, holds a cryptographic keypair that belongs to them, not to the platform they happen to be using. Agent identity isn't tied to a platform account or an API key managed by a vendor. It's portable, verifiable, and independent. The agents you build and configure in Buzz aren't locked in. They can participate across any Nostr-compatible system, and their identity, their history, their reputation, travels with them.”
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 21/07/2026
Ok I think maybe I fixed it?
screenshot of setting in Offprint to turn off the subscribe pop-up
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 21/07/2026
I need to update my website but here’s mine
a 404 page that says “Four, oh four!”
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 21/07/2026
sometimes claude actin all crazy and silly
a screenshot of a respone to Claude where it had said “Double-check in the UI if you want belt and suspenders”, the response says “what the heck does this mean claude, be serious “
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 07/07/2026
@dancassaro.bsky.social we just tried out Desperate Oasis, really enjoying it (although wish there was more clarity on a bunch of edge cases—does the retail version have that?
A photo of the card game Desparate Oasis
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 03/07/2026
@dancassaro.bsky.social we really love this game, been playing it almost every day
A photo of the card game Loners by Weast Coast, sitting on a kitchen table
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 01/07/2026
Starting on a redesign for my website (peterlewis.design)—how we feeling about these display type options?
Screenshot of text that says, “I craft cohesive, intricate, and joyful software experiences with forward-thinking builders.”Screenshot of text that says, “I craft cohesive, intricate, and joyful software experiences with forward-thinking builders.”Screenshot of text that says, “I craft cohesive, intricate, and joyful software experiences with forward-thinking builders.”Screenshot of text that says, “I craft cohesive, intricate, and joyful software experiences with forward-thinking builders.”
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 30/06/2026
my family and i have been really enjoying this accessible but strategically layered game by @dancassaro.bsky.social (design by Young Jerks), so well done
A photo of the card game Loners, created by Dan Cassaro and designed by the creative agency Young Jerks
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 28/06/2026
Just finished this book, a really surprising and ultimately beautiful read #booksky
A photo of the novel Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 25/06/2026
I was raised on these streets
Screenshot of the cover of the old PC game Midtown Madness
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 25/06/2026
finished Station Eleven last night, what a beautiful, haunting book
Photo of the book Station Eleven
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 22/06/2026
Got a Kobo Clara BW and I’m quite happy with it so far
Photo of a Kobo Clara BW e-reader
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 20/06/2026
As a current product designer and former brand + print designer, I realllllly appreciate a well-designed tabletop game. The best I’ve found for this are IV Studio, Weast Coast Games, and Keymaster Games. Here are a few samples. 👇
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 15/06/2026
@darrin.bsky.team some UX ambiguity here: is this how threads are supposed to work? (each post nested in the previous)
Screenshot of a thread on Bluesky
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 08/06/2026
Yep Apple needs to commit to this
post by Nilay Patel that says

“Again, the real test here is whether Apple is going to embed the AI metadata systems that the industry is coalescing around.”
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 08/06/2026
🥴
Screenshot of a post by Victoria Song that says 

“What Is a Photo? part 444. “
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 08/06/2026
lol #wwdc26
screenshot of a post by Nilay Patel that says 

“Liquid Glass was a bold leap forward, but now they are iterating and they really appreciate our feedback. (The feedback was that it sucked.)”
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 10/05/2026
Mine is Timber too!
A photo of a fluffy miniature poodle named Timber
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 08/05/2026
Enjoying the delightful Sunday Club with coffee this morning
Photo of the Sunday Club, a newspaper-like publication with all games, no news
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis.design · 11/04/2026
Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal headline that says “Humans Are Losing the Fight Against Flying Fish”
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