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...
Oct 30, 2025 from Steve Blank It only took 20 years, but the Strategic Management Society now Believes the Lean Startup is a Strategy I’ve always thought of myself as a practitioner. In the startups I was part of, the only “strategy” were my marketing tactics on how to make the VP of Sales the richest person in the company. After...
Oct 22, 2025 from The Fly Blog Corrosion Fly.io transmogrifies Docker containers into Fly Machines: micro-VMs running on our own hardware all over the world. The hardest part of running this platform isn’t managing the servers, and it isn...
Oct 15, 2025 from Steve Blank How to Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory – Now with 500 more names The October 2025 PEO Directory – Update 2. The Department of War (DoW) is one of the world’s largest organizations. If you’re a startup trying to figure out who to call on and how to navigate the ...
Oct 14, 2025 from Michael Lynch Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0 Litestream is an open-source tool that backs up SQLite databases to cloud storage in real time. I love it and use it in all of my projects. Litestream is owned by Fly.io, and they paused developmen...
Oct 13, 2025 from Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What d...
Oct 10, 2025 from Michael Lynch Read My Blog With JavaScript 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 add a blogroll to your site with a list of recent posts from your favorite blogs...
Oct 08, 2025 from The Fly Blog Kurt Got Got The $FLY Airdrop is live! Claim your share of the token powering Fly.io’s global network of 3M+ apps and (🤮) own a piece of the sky! We know. Our Twitter got owned. We knew within moments of it hap...
