Michael Lynch
https://mtlynch.ioI'm Michael Lynch, software developer and blogger. I used to work as a software engineer at large companies, but now I create indie businesses and blog about the process.
Entries
-
I recently claimed a rebate for installing an electric vehicle (EV) charger, only to discover that Eversource, my pow...
-
Eight years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I...
-
When my wife saw me playing with my new encrypted radio, she asked what it was for. “Imagine,” I said, “if I could ty...
-
I’m a pretty humble guy, so most people don’t know this extremely impressive fact about me: Raymond Chen once mention...
-
I’ve only been married for a few years, but I have a fantastic marriage tip you won’t hear from any marriage counselo...
-
p img { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } I recently upgraded my home TrueNAS server and migra...
-
I recently returned a product to goHardDrive, a merchant that specializes in selling used hard drives. During the ret...
-
I just received $5,947 in advance sales for my first technical book, even though it’s only 25% complete, and I’m self...
-
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Devel...
-
Six years ago, David Thompson wrote a popular blog post called “My favourite Git commit” celebrating a whimsically de...
-
Seven years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I...
-
There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30 seconds. Instead of wri...
-
In April of this year, I sold TinyPilot, the bootstrapped hardware company I founded and ran for four years. I wrote ...
-
Fuzz testing is a technique for automatically uncovering bugs in software. The problem is that it’s a pain to set up....
-
This is the second half of a post about using Nix to automate a fuzz testing workflow. At this point, I can run hongg...
-
My first two years as a bootstrapped founder went poorly. I could barely find any paying customers, and all of my bus...
-
Seven years ago, I built my first home server. It made my software development work faster and more enjoyable, so I’v...
-
.chart-container { max-width: 800px; max-height: 300px; display: flex; justify-content: center; } For the past few mo...
-
Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. For the first f...
-
In 2005, Joel Spolsky’s software company, Fog Creek, filmed a documentary about their summer internship program. The ...