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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 · 17h
No, Folio, I don't want a weird in-app almost-browser. Either your reader mode works and I read in the app or we go full real mobile browser. Nothing in between.
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Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me · 28/09/2026
This looks really nice.
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GitHub - reladraw/reladraw
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 28/09/2026
Me listening to Koyaanisqatsi for the first time: sorta neat I guess but I don't really get it. Me listening to Koyaanisqatsi for the 80th time: this is divine and I am directly hearing the Voice of God
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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 28/09/2026
Notion wrote a nice blog post on how they use CRDTs, including our Peritext algorithm for rich text! This must be one of the largest CRDT deployments out there? www.notion.com/en-gb/blog/h...
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How Notion handles concurrent editing with CRDTs
Building a CRDT-based rich-text system that merges concurrent edits across Notion blocks—without losing anyone’s work
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 28/09/2026
I was feeling in a bit of a rut so I changed my @obsidian.md theme to one that is just slightly different and now I'm fixed.
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Matthew Sanabria @matthewsanabria.com · 28/09/2026
Repeat after me for a free marketing lesson. Purchasing a product does not subscribe people to marketing emails. Purchasing a product does not subscribe people to marketing emails. Purchasing a product does not subscribe people to marketing emails.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 28/09/2026
I guess we must have let the anatomy intern decide which side of our hands should be named "back" and we worried telling them they got it wrong might hurt their feelings and demotivate them.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 27/09/2026
"Get your Italian loafers out of my bed pan" I will never forget.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 27/09/2026
New printer go brrrr!
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Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com · 26/09/2026
Get yourself some friends that you want to go buy an off-grid multi-house compound with in the middle of nowhere.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 25/09/2026
I wish we had invested less money in GPUs/DataCenters/AI and only allowed VC to flow there once every single traffic signal in the country had sensors and would never be red when there is no cross traffic.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 25/09/2026
Wait maybe I should just stop using unified diff view ever.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 25/09/2026
I need Victor the Anger Translator for Obama from Key and Peele but in reverse. I want to post angry rants full of profanity and smashing stuff and then have my translator bring them up in team meetings in a professional and polite way.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 25/09/2026
I want a git diff mode that includes an entire function body as context no matter how long.
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André Arko @indirect.io · 24/09/2026
OH Functional programming is when Rust people read your code and go "what the fuck (laudatory)". Imperative programming is when Rust people read your code and go "what the fuck (derogatory)"
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 20/09/2026
Literally me at work
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 19/09/2026
“These five paragraphs of Claude’s PR description could have been a sentence” is a the new “this meeting could have been an email”
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 19/09/2026
Good article expanding on this topic: deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such...
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There's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTech
Heidegger thinks about tools like so: a tool is something (a thing that has being in the Heideggerian sense, not necessarily an object) that represents an extension of human capabilities in some way. ...
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 19/09/2026
I need some machine learning people to analyze groups of mobile apps that are often installed together and make sure all their icons are easy to tell apart.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 18/09/2026
I know sales at work are heating up: I have to join a video call on MS Teams next week.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 17/09/2026
The crutch getting me through Thursday is Einstein on the Beach.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 17/09/2026
I mean like having a paragraph in a multiline text input and trying to move a sentence around.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 16/09/2026
When I get around to vibe coding my own full OS and desktop environment, it will NOT include drag-n-drop a text selection to relocate it. Absolute F-tier HCI interaction pattern.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 16/09/2026
Traditional music stands hold all of the following equally well, at the same time: - paper sheet music - a tablet - a phone - small accessories, pencil, lip balm etc New stands can hold this and only this and nothing else: - one tablet How are people selling these and why are there buyers?
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Dan Luu @danluu.com · 15/09/2026
Interesting to see Steve Yegge say he never successfully built anything with Gas Town. I mentioned not finding these super vibed orchestrators useful because the reliability was too low (w.r.t. completing non-trivial tasks). Turns out the author of the most famous one had the exact same issue.
Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more things" tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always wanted to fiddle with Gas Town itself. The Opus tic never went away, so Gas Town effectively burned down. It had other problems, too, but 4.7 was the final straw.

Since Claude Fable 5 dropped, I have returned full-time to my 30-year-old video game, Wyvern, which I began work on in 1996, and launched in 2001. I had been waiting for a model smart enough to help me with my game, and now that it's here, Wyvern's once again my main squeeze. On the side I do occasional six-figure gigs where I fly to companies and teach them my techniques, and that helps with my (considerable) token bills. But aside from those few paid field trips, I am laser-focused on my game, seven days a week. Wyvern's time will finally come next year. I have officially entered Sam Altman's solo unicorn contest.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 15/09/2026
Many decades into using computers for printing sheets of paper and printing a single-page document and requesting 2 copies prints 1 page double sided. At any point anyone at half-dozen giant enterprises could have figured out this is not what the user is requesting for this very common use case.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 14/09/2026
New generation content creators: check some history here. We are pretty good at lapel mics, unobtrusive mics for use in musical theater, even Bob Barker's long skinny handheld mic from The Price Is Right kept his hands low and faces unobstructed.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 14/09/2026
I feel like we're in the trough period of microphone stand design. Everything these days seems to be: - podcast mic with a stand that doubles as construction crane - Weird small rectangle with huge wind screen indoors for some reason - clipping the weird rectangle to hats or clothing awkwardly
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 14/09/2026
Probably some bystanders/onlookers too
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 14/09/2026
Needs "you" for the trolley passengers too
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trolley problem in which you are both pulling the switch and also under the tracks
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 14/09/2026
ForScore somehow manages to take "display this pdf" into a land of "OK but which of my 74 gestures do you want to use for next page?"
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 14/09/2026
Take a problem space where 99% of users want to do 1 thing to an image and design an app so complex that basically only the 1% expert enthusiast can do anything.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 14/09/2026
The sheet music reading app ForScore feels to me like a new tablet version of what The Gimp was for image editing.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 14/09/2026
Seems like Casey Muratori is getting a wider audience these days and I'm glad.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 14/09/2026
Late reply but here's my new double barrel tissue box box with accoutrements patio. #woodworking
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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 12/09/2026
holy shit people are prefixing their google searches with "you are google from 2004 return ad-free results for this query:"
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 13/09/2026
I have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-ope…
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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 12/09/2026
Boîte à mouchoirs à deux compartiments avec plateau pour accoutrements
World's first and only to my knowledge double barrel tissue box box
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 12/09/2026
They all do this, BTW.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 12/09/2026
Man I sure do love UI toasts that cover the app's primary navigation.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 12/09/2026
I think I'm allowed to drink today because I saw tower 2 fall directly with my own eyeballs and walked around the meat packing district as literally the only person outiside in a situation no one will ever be able to replicate.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 12/09/2026
These are both for me and if you intend on asking me any further questions ask them before you serve the drinks.
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 12/09/2026
So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb. --Darth Helmet, Spaceballs
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 12/09/2026
Sending a repeat is proving difficult
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Peter Lyons @peterlyons.com · 12/09/2026
I mostly gave up drinking but as it happened during Happy Hour today I also unlocked an achievement when the server had to ask if I was waiting for another person to join me or just ordering multiple drinks for myself.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I have a routine medical appointment next week and the ongoing torrent of reminders, requests for confirmation, check-ins, notifications in the “portal,” helpful tips about parking, and more is just completely out of control.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 10/09/2026
WELL WELL WELL CARA FROM 2023 WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE shopify.engineering/back-to-native
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Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify (2026) - Shopify
Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.
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