Feb 09, 2026 from Michael Lynch Eversource EV Rebate Program Exposed Massachusetts Customer Data I recently claimed a rebate for installing an electric vehicle (EV) charger, only to discover that Eversource, my power supplier, was publicly exposing personal information of customers who applied...
Feb 09, 2026 from The Fly Blog Agent Swarms on Sprites There’s a lot of noise right now about agent teams and swarms. The idea is simple: instead of one code agent grinding through a task list, set up a group of agents that can split work, delegate, an...
Feb 05, 2026 from The Fly Blog Closing the Loop: The Missing Ingredient in Agentic Development Remember when coding with AI meant copying code from a chat window, pasting it into your editor, running it, copying the error, pasting it back into the chat, etc. Yeah that sucked. We were middlew...
Feb 03, 2026 from Steve Blank Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the people who decide what and how the DoW buys equipment and services) now is headed by...
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...
Feb 03, 2026 from The Fly Blog I Build Everything In Sprites Now I just realised I build everything in Sprites now. It feels weird to say because Sprites are still really new (even for people who work at Fly.io). They’re obviously super exciting for people build...
Feb 02, 2026 from The Fly Blog How to Run Untrusted Code Safely AI generates code faster than you can review it. Your agent wants to run a Python script. Your tool wants to execute user-submitted code. Your pipeline wants to test generated functions. All things...
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 28, 2026 from The Fly Blog Make Computers Make Computers What’s better than one Sprite? Sprites making other Sprites. Claude (running in a Sprite) already knows how to use the Sprites API. So you can ask it to create new Sprites, configure their network ...
Jan 27, 2026 from The Fly Blog Slack Bots on Sprites: OAuth is Easy Now Slack bots are handy, but they typically require OAuth, which means you need a server with a public URL to handle callbacks. This is annoying. But with Sprites, you get an instant internet-accessib...
Jan 26, 2026 from The Fly Blog Run OpenClaw (Formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot) in a Sprite Running OpenClaw on a Sprite There’s zero chance this will be the first time you’re hearing about OpenClaw, the project previously known as Clawdbot and then Moltbot. It’s an open-source AI assista...
Jan 21, 2026 from The Fly Blog Run Claude Code From Your Phone With Sprites A few days ago, this post hit HN’s front page and generated over 400 comments. The author is talking about the setup he uses to code from his phone using Tailscale, an always-on Mac at home, SSH vi...
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...
