Sep 15, 2025 from Michael Lynch I Once Appeared in The Old New Thing I’m a pretty humble guy, so most people don’t know this extremely impressive fact about me: Raymond Chen once mentioned me on The Old New Thing, the classic Windows development blog. No, he didn’t ...
Sep 10, 2025 from Steve Blank How To Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory Announcing the 2025 edition of the DoW PEO Directory. Online here. Think of this PEO Directory as a “Who buys in the government?” phone book. Finding a customer for your product in the Department o...
Aug 26, 2025 from Michael Lynch Give Your Spouse the Gift of a Couple's Email Domain I’ve only been married for a few years, but I have a fantastic marriage tip you won’t hear from any marriage counselor or book: Get a couple’s email domain What’s a couple’s email domain? My wife a...
Aug 25, 2025 from The Fly Blog Build Better Agents With MorphLLM I’m an audiophile, which is a nice way to describe someone who spends their children’s college fund on equipment that yields no audible improvement in sound quality. As such, I refused to use wirel...
Aug 18, 2025 from The Fly Blog Trust Calibration for AI Software Builders Trust calibration is a concept from the world of human-machine interaction design, one that is super relevant to AI software builders. Trust calibration is the practice of aligning the level of tru...
Aug 11, 2025 from The Fly Blog Games as Model Eval: 1-Click Deploy AI Town on Fly.io Recently, I suggested that The Future Isn’t Model Agnostic, that it’s better to pick one model that works for your project and build around it, rather than engineering for model flexibility. If you...
Aug 08, 2025 from The Fly Blog The Future Isn't Model Agnostic Your users don’t care that your AI project is model agnostic. In my last project, I spent countless hours ensuring that the LLMs running my services could be swapped out as easily as possible. I co...
Jul 23, 2025 from Michael Lynch Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2 p img { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } I recently upgraded my home TrueNAS server and migrated 18 TB of data from a 4-disk RAIDZ1 ZFS pool to a new RAIDZ2 pool. The neat p...
Jul 08, 2025 from Steve Blank Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or die. Thi...
Jul 02, 2025 from Michael Lynch goHardDrive Leaked Personal Data for Thousands of Customers I recently returned a product to goHardDrive, a merchant that specializes in selling used hard drives. During the return process, I discovered that they were accidentally publishing details about t...
Jul 01, 2025 from Steve Blank Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve been having coffee with lots of frustrated founders (my students and others) bemoaning most VCs won...
Jun 24, 2025 from Steve Blank Lean Launchpad at Stanford – 2025 The PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished the 15th<>annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. The class had gotten so popular that in 2021 we started t...
Jun 20, 2025 from The Fly Blog Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix I’m Chris McCord, the creator of Elixir’s Phoenix framework. For the past several months, I’ve been working on a skunkworks project at Fly.io, and it’s time to show it off. I wanted LLM agents to w...
Jun 17, 2025 from Steve Blank Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2025 – Lessons Learned Presentations The videos and PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished our 10th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 7...
Jun 12, 2025 from The Fly Blog What are MCP Servers? With Fly.io, you can get your app running globally in a matter of minutes, and with MCP servers you can integrate with Claude, VSCode, Cursor and many more AI clients. Try it out for yourself! The ...
Jun 10, 2025 from Steve Blank Teaching National Security Policy with AI The videos embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com International Policy students will be spending their careers in an AI-enabled world. We wanted our students to be prepared for it....
Jun 02, 2025 from The Fly Blog My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bo...
May 29, 2025 from The Fly Blog Using Kamal 2.0 in Production Agile Web Development with Rails 8 is off to production, where they do things like editing, indexing, pagination, and printing. In researching the chapter on Deployment and Production, I became ver...
May 28, 2025 from The Fly Blog parking_lot: ffffffffffffffff... We’re Fly.io, a public cloud that runs apps in a bunch of locations all over the world. This is a post about a gnarly bug in our Anycast router, the largest Rust project in our codebase. You won’t ...
May 20, 2025 from The Fly Blog Litestream: Revamped Litestream is an open-source tool that makes it possible to run many kinds of full-stack applications on top of SQLite by making them reliably recoverable from object storage. This is a post about ...
