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...
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...
