Oct 07, 2025 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 10 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 02, 2025 from The Fly Blog Litestream v0.5.0 is Here I’m Ben Johnson, and I work on Litestream at Fly.io. Litestream makes it easy to build SQLite-backed full-stack applications with resilience to server failure. It’s open source, runs anywhere, and ...
Sep 27, 2025 from Michael Lynch Get xkcd Cartoons at 2x Resolution I recently learned a neat trick from Marcus Buffett: xkcd has an undocumented way to get images of the cartoons at double their normal resolution. The _2x trick For example, xkcd #2582 “Data Trap” ...
Sep 27, 2025 from Michael Lynch List of 2x-resolution xkcd Cartoons This is a list of all the xkcd cartoons that are available in 2x resolution, as of today’s date. See the accompanying post, “Get xkcd Cartoons at 2x Resolution,” for an explanation. 1: No higher re...
Sep 17, 2025 from Steve Blank When Sh!t Hits the Fan – Founders in a Crisis Great founders shine in a crisis. Ordinary ones watch their companies burn down. I just had coffee with two co-founders of an e-bike company who were mentoring one of our student teams. In short or...
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...
Sep 09, 2025 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 9 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...
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 23, 2025 from Michael Lynch Flash an AirGradient ONE from the Command Line I’ve purchased two AirGradient ONE indoor quality monitors to measure air quality in my home. AirGradient devices are open-source, so you can flash your own custom firmware and collect your air dat...
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 13, 2025 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 8 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...
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 11, 2025 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 7 Highlights I look for ways to limit the number of half-complete tasks I’m juggling. I brainstorm ways to talk with more of my early readers. I have trouble accepting a design decision in the Gleam ...
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...
