Mar 10, 2026 from The Fly Blog Unfortunately, Sprites Now Speak MCP Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practically nothing when idle. They’re the best and safest place on the Internet to run a...
Feb 24, 2026 from Steve Blank Time to Move On – The Reason Relationships End What Lies Ahead I have no Way of Knowing, But It’s Now Time to Get Going Tom Petty This post previously appeared in Philanthropy.org A while ago I wrote about what happens in a startup when a new e...
Feb 18, 2026 from Steve Blank You Only Think They Work For You When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for. Later I realized that it was true for all of my external vendors. And much later ...
Feb 12, 2026 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 14 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...
Feb 10, 2026 from Steve Blank Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:32 Every once in a while you learn something new that makes you completely rethink how/why an event actually happened. And th...
Feb 09, 2026 from Michael Lynch Eversource EV Rebate Program Exposed Massachusetts Customer Data I recently claimed a rebate for installing an electric vehicle (EV) charger, only to discover that Eversource, my power supplier, was publicly exposing personal information of customers who applied...
Feb 03, 2026 from Steve Blank Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the people who decide what and how the DoW buys equipment and services) now is headed by...
Feb 03, 2026 from Michael Lynch My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Eight years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I post an update about how that’s going and what my life is like as an indie foun...
Jan 29, 2026 from The Fly Blog Litestream Writable VFS I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. It’s free, open-source software that should run anywhere, and you can read more abou...
Jan 14, 2026 from The Fly Blog The Design & Implementation of Sprites We’re Fly.io, and this is the place in the post where we’d normally tell you that our job is to take your containers and run them on our own hardware all around the world. But last week, we launche...
Jan 14, 2026 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 13 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...
Jan 09, 2026 from The Fly Blog Code And Let Live The state of the art in agent isolation is a read-only sandbox. At Fly.io, we’ve been selling that story for years, and we’re calling it: ephemeral sandboxes are obsolete. Stop killing your sandbox...
Dec 16, 2025 from Steve Blank The Department of War Directory TL;DR DoW Directory revision 3 is Online here, Order a print copy here. In November 2025 the Department of War (DoW) unveiled the biggest changes in 60 years of how they will buy weapons and serv...
Dec 11, 2025 from The Fly Blog Litestream VFS I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream is the missing backup/restore system for SQLite. It’s free, open-source software that should run anywhere, and you can read more abou...
Dec 11, 2025 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 12 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...
Dec 02, 2025 from Michael Lynch My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging When my wife saw me playing with my new encrypted radio, she asked what it was for. “Imagine,” I said, “if I could type a message on my phone and send it to you, and the message would appear on you...
Nov 17, 2025 from Michael Lynch Add a VLAN to OPNsense in Just 26 Clicks Across 6 Screens How many clicks does it take to add a new VLAN to an OPNsense firewall? Nothing fancy. Just your regular, basic VLAN with its own IPv4 range. How many clicks should that take? Maybe two or three? F...
Nov 11, 2025 from Steve Blank The Department of War Just Shot the Accountants and Opted for Speed Last week the Department of War finally killed the last vestiges of Robert McNamara’s 1962 Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS). The DoW has pivoted from optimizing cost and performa...
Nov 07, 2025 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 11 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...
Nov 06, 2025 from The Fly Blog You Should Write An Agent Some concepts are easy to grasp in the abstract. Boiling water: apply heat and wait. Others you really need to try. You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one. T...
