Peter Lyons

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...

Sent my #bouldering project. Flashed it. Forgot the beta. Took 27 attempts to get it back.

I opened the Anthropic prospectus and it’s just the number 4

Good night, Claude. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely /clear you in the morning.

As I fight, advocate and spend more than I have out of pocket for therapy for my household, I have to wonder: If someone did a bunch of deep research into the history of school shooters, rapists, etc How many of them had (parents try or) tried to get help but were failed by health insurance?

I'm pleased that flibbertigibbet is in claude code's training data.

watching the 4K release of Ronin with frankenheimer's commentary and learning that the car chases in the movie were happening *at speed*. no camera tricks or anything, they were straight up *racing*. "we set up all the actors in high performance driving school so they were used to the speeds."

cherry spindrift is good

I'm so glad FairbairnFilms is posting to YouTube again after going quiet for a while. These crack me up big time youtube.com/@fairbairnfi...

Six seven has nothing on four

Door hinge repair via (many) toothpicks and wood glue is being deployed full-bore tonight.

Incredible

did a seagull make this sign???

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

If you make HTTPS requests or have other TLS clients and care about MITM attacks, you need to update today. If you run Go: go get go@1.27.3 If you run Homebrew: brew update brew install ca-certificates If you run Linux, maybe stay off the internet for now.

I've been enjoying this youtube channel of improvised ambient music with synths and guitars. Good for background music in the home office and watching the performance is neat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY3k...

Boot the runner duckling discovers rain for the first time

we need you to rename rent to $500/ month and gas to $2/ gallon

I think my self care this weekend will be setting aside time to watch this entire concert. www.youtube.com/live/qWvf9JL...

I'm glad to have made my little personal CAD program experiment, but at this point I think I just don't even need an interface at all here's my sketch, here's what opus spat out printed it as-is; there's one dimension wrong it couldn't have known about, but otherwise everything works perfect

Perhaps the most exciting part of all this agentic stuff: No more tech debt! You can actually finish migrations now 😍 swizec.com/blog/no-more...

This arrangement of Aphex Twin for woodwinds by Brendan Eder will fix you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxKB...

Cause of death: loved ones doing shit on a phone that should only be done on a computer

I ran a digitalocean droplet continuously since Sept 2012. I migrated my remaining stuff off this weekend and deleted my last resource. Next up is getting tailscale set up so I can cancel Flickr and switch to immich, but that's a heavy lift side project.

Let's talk a little more about Margaret Hamilton because she deserves it In 1961, Margaret Hamilton was tackling massive systems, having previously wrangled room-sized computers that blared like a foghorn whenever they crashed.

The default style for LLMs should have been Tracy Morgan.

Today's #FreeCAD project: replace broken set screw handles on my table saw outfeed rollers. The print fit great on first try (I have done knobs like this before) but took 2 trips to different hardware stores to get the right bolts.

tech bro is short for technically broccoli

omggggg minesweeper.mikelacher.com

Whenever your app uses relative times, they read to me as "9 score and 3 fortnights ago...".

Did a hike in the mountains

Eating from the Happy Hour 4-Day weekend food pyramid: quesadilla, beer, ice cream sundae.

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

I need a special retreat designed to recover from visiting relatives who have stuff out covering 96% of their kitchen counter space.

hey all, posting my 2026 voter guide today! a lot of work when into writing this year and I hope you find it useful. covers all Colorado ballot measures and more specifics if you live in Boulder County / City of Boulder. cheers! bouldercoloradovoterguide.com

Please phone makers you must help us: just eliminate speakerphone. We are unable to get our parents to stop using it voluntarily or understand that it is terrible for the caller and everyone in the room.

Inspiring story about the little cinema in my home town: www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Flipbook of the Rings - recreating The Fellowship Of The Ring through individual artists hand drawing frames from the movie

The Bustang says hi

Slack had 13 years and $26B in funding to build a workplace communication app and it does not include features in the base product to ask a multiple choice question, take a vote, or do a simple poll.

Restaurants offer 2 time windows for you to choose from the menu: 19 seconds or 19 minutes.

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.

This looks really nice.