Nov 06, 2026 from The Fly Blog Well, That Wasn't Fun: October 16 '26 October 16, 2026 began like any other day at Fly.io (meaning, we were anticipating only a medium amount of chaos). By that evening, we had patched and rebooted our entire fleet in response to a Lin...
Nov 06, 2026 from Michael Lynch The MustCreate Pattern for Go Tests I recently discovered a handy way to make Go tests more readable and less repetitive. Suppose I have a constructor that can fail: func NewUsername(raw string) (Username, error) { ... } And I have a...
Oct 24, 2026 from Steve Blank Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology I’ve been in London for the last month and have heard policymakers react to the wake up call Elon Musk just delivered. The decision of the U.S. to shut off intelligence and throttle the military v...
Oct 23, 2026 from The Fly Blog Feng Shui for Robots: The Fly MCP Server In Databricks’ State of AI Agents 2026 report, there’s a chart from Neon’s telemetry that’s somehow both mind-blowing and unsurprising. In October 2023, AI agents created 0.1% of the databases on N...
Oct 22, 2026 from The Fly Blog SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home I have unkind things to say about people who make their own pasta. Here, I’ll only use them as an example of how not to think when you’re building infrastructure. It’s unfairly easy to believe that...
Oct 21, 2026 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 22 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...
Oct 19, 2026 from Steve Blank The Lean Educator Conference Announcing a Lean Educators Conference. Teaching Lean in the Age of AI. November 18-19th at K&S Ranch, California. When AI hit our spring Lean Launchpad for Deep Tech class, our teaching team was u...
Oct 18, 2026 from EmailShot Blog How to Attach an Email to a Google Calendar Invite Google Calendar only attaches Drive files, not emails. Here is how to attach a Gmail message to a Calendar event in two clicks with EmailShot, plus the workarounds compared.
Oct 13, 2026 from Steve Blank Subterranean Warfare – An Urgent DoW Need Without An Owner This article previously appeared in Cipher Brief. The DoW urgently needs to organize its scattered subterranean warfare assets into a single unified organization. Ideally, a Direct Reporting Portfo...
Oct 09, 2026 from Michael Lynch Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb? The first time I used a coding agent, I was mesmerized. Before the agent, I was copy/pasting between my IDE and an AI chat interface. It was amazing to see an agent edit files directly and fix its ...
Oct 01, 2026 from EmailShot Blog How to Set Up BIMI and Get Your Logo Into the Inbox What BIMI is, what it actually requires in 2026 — DMARC enforcement, an SVG Tiny PS logo, and possibly a VMC or CMC — plus which providers display logos today and how to generate and verify your BI...
Sep 30, 2026 from Steve Blank Lean LaunchPad – The Next Generation You’re reading a four-part series on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it. Part 1: The Year AI Came For Us Part 2: AI Killed the MVP – Long Live the IUP Part 3: The...
Sep 28, 2026 from Steve Blank The World Outside the Classroom Changed, The Class Didn’t This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants This is the third of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it. Part 1: The Year AI Came For Us Part 2: A...
Sep 25, 2026 from Steve Blank AI Killed the MVP – Long Live the IUP This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants This is the second of four posts on how AI has impacted our Lean LaunchPad class and what we did about it. Part 1: The Year AI Came For Us Part 2: ...
Sep 23, 2026 from Steve Blank The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught. The class is now taught in hundreds of universities worldwide and he...
Sep 21, 2026 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 21 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...
Sep 15, 2026 from EmailShot Blog How to Check Your Domain's SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Records Check your domain's SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records in seconds with a free online DNS checker — plus how to read the results, what the most common errors actually mean, and how to fix them.
Sep 03, 2026 from The Fly Blog Your Agent Speaks MCP. Give It a Computer. 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...
Aug 13, 2026 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 20 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...
Jul 24, 2026 from The Fly Blog Turn And Face The Strange We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite way to safely let a frontier agent coding harness cook. This is a post about our c...
