Michael Lynch

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• Refactoring English: Month 21
  September 21, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Refactoring English: Month 20
  August 13, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Refactoring English: Month 19
  July 15, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Refactoring English: Month 18
  June 10, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Refactoring English: Month 17
  May 14, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Refactoring English: Month 16
  April 09, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
  April 03, 2026

  Nicholas Carlini, a research scientist at Anthropic, reported at the [un]prompted AI security conference that he used...

• Refactoring English: Month 15
  March 17, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Refactoring English: Month 14
  February 12, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Eversource EV Rebate Program Exposed Massachusetts Customer Data
  February 09, 2026

  I recently claimed a rebate for installing an electric vehicle (EV) charger, only to discover that Eversource, my pow...

• My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder
  February 03, 2026

  Eight years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I...

• Refactoring English: Month 13
  January 14, 2026

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Refactoring English: Month 12
  December 11, 2025

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging
  December 02, 2025

  When my wife saw me playing with my new encrypted radio, she asked what it was for. “Imagine,” I said, “if I could ty...

• Add a VLAN to OPNsense in Just 26 Clicks Across 6 Screens
  November 17, 2025

  How many clicks does it take to add a new VLAN to an OPNsense firewall? Nothing fancy. Just your regular, basic VLAN ...

• Refactoring English: Month 11
  November 07, 2025

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0
  October 14, 2025

  Litestream is an open-source tool that backs up SQLite databases to cloud storage in real time. I love it and use it ...

• Read My Blog With JavaScript
  October 10, 2025

  You can now read my blog with client-side JavaScript. I’m not sure why you’d want to, but you can. Maybe you want to ...

• Refactoring English: Month 10
  October 07, 2025

  New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

• Get xkcd Cartoons at 2x Resolution
  September 27, 2025

  I recently learned a neat trick from Marcus Buffett: xkcd has an undocumented way to get images of the cartoons at do...