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...
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 ...
May 19, 2025 from The Fly Blog Launching MCP Servers on Fly.io This is a blog post. Part showing off. Part opinion. Plan accordingly. The Model Context Protocol is days away from turning six months old. You read that right, six months old. MCP Servers have bot...
May 13, 2025 from Steve Blank How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower This article previously appeared in Nature. US global dominance in science was no accident, but a product of a far-seeing partnership between public and private sectors to boost innovation and econ...
May 07, 2025 from The Fly Blog Provisioning Machines using MCPs Today’s state of the art is K8S, Terraform, web based UIs, and CLIs. Those days are numbered. On Monday, I created my first fly volume using an MCP. For those who don’t know what MCPs are, they are...
Apr 25, 2025 from Michael Lynch My $6k Advance as a Self-Published Technical Author I just received $5,947 in advance sales for my first technical book, even though it’s only 25% complete, and I’m self-publishing it. The book is called Refactoring English, and it’s a guide for sof...
Apr 15, 2025 from Steve Blank How the U.S. Became A Science Superpower Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. It happ...
Mar 31, 2025 from Michael Lynch My Book's Pre-Sale Just Barely Succeeded For the past few months, I’ve been working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers. I didn’t want to spend a year writing the book only to find out that nobo...
Mar 19, 2025 from Michael Lynch No Longer My Favorite Git Commit Six years ago, David Thompson wrote a popular blog post called “My favourite Git commit” celebrating a whimsically detailed commit message his co-worker wrote. I enjoyed the post at the time and ha...
