Michael Lynch

Do you work in fundraising? Do you want a job that isn't evil? Signal is hiring a director of major gifts: jobs.lever.co/signal/68f75...

Why Improve Your Writing? Programming is a technical pursuit, so why should we spend time on a "soft skill" like writing? Isn't that why we have technical writers and product managers?

I've worked as a developer for 20 years, and writing has always been a key part of my career and technical growth. refactoringenglish.com/chapters/why...

Me, two days after discovering I can purchase remote nix builds as a service

January 2026 Retrospective: Refactoring English: Month 14 Discovering the power of AI sandboxes

Over the summer, I met a romance novelist at a party, and she gave me one of the best tips I've found for attracting new readers to my book: showcase other writers. mtlynch.io/retrospectiv...

exe.dev is still behind a credit card for now while we develop some more techniques for dealing with people who abuse systems (even a credit card doesn't entirely work). But if you are a human who wants an invite code to skip the CC for a month, happy to DM you one.

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder In year 8, I discovered it takes longer than I think to write a book, found alignment with my business, and regained my love for life as an indie founder.

Here's the linked post: mtlynch.io/bootstrapped...

I'm on Hacker News today! I wrote about my eighth year as a bootstrapped founder.

Eversource EV Rebate Program Exposed Massachusetts Customer Data I recently claimed a rebate for an EV charger, only to discover that Eversource, my power supplier, was publicly exposing personal information of customers who applied.

I tried to claim a rebate for installing an EV charger at my home, and I discovered my electricity supplier was publicly exposing all of my information, including home address, phone number, email, plate numbers, and VIN. mtlynch.io/eversource-r...

The showed us cute missing dogs & we consented to turning our doorbell cameras into a mass human tracking system.

Mark my words, Ring's Search Party will become the next Flock.

Only instead of just being sketchy cameras installed in parking lots, it will be everywhere. That's their play.

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder In year 8, I discovered it takes longer than I think to write a book, found alignment with my business, and regained my love for life as an indie founder.

I've now been an indie founder for eight years, and last year was my favorite. I wrote all year and figured out what kind of business matches me as a founder. mtlynch.io/bootstrapped...

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log.pfad.fr/2026/softwar... This is such a cool feature of NixOS that I should use more

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

Look Around You This unique combination of parody and homage to early 70s/80s British educational programs examines different scientific topics in each episode.

I've been leaning towards Tubi being the streaming service, and now I think it's official: they have Season 1 and Season 2 of one of the best science and technology comedy shows ever made… "Look Around You".

Thanks, Tubi. Thubi.

tubitv.com/series/30001...

The Design & Implementation of Sprites So that we may educate as well as horrify: the internals of our new Sprites execution platform.

🔗 ➡ fly.io/blog/design-...

I've been experimenting with sprites, and I like the idea, but I've found a lot of friction with getting projects into a sprite and syncing changes back out. What's the recommended flow for cloning a private git repo, letting LLMs work, then pulling changes out? Anything better than magic-wormhole?

I made enough money from komorebi this month to cover my rent for the first time I started the project in 2020

It might not seem so big when there are so many announcements of AI startups raising millions every week

But it's pretty big to me

This past weekend, I went back to Broadview for the first time since being federally indicted.

I will put my body on the line no matter how many times it takes.

Transcrybe — Download Mac app on Setapp | Live speech translator | Setapp Transcrybe — Real-time transcription and translation for Mac. Subtitle meetings, videos, and presentations on-device for total privacy and speed.

Big milestone! 🎉

My first app is now on Setapp.
I’ve been a subscriber since 2017, so this feels pretty surreal. 🤩

Transcrybe live-translates any audio on your Mac:
go.setapp.com/stp1479?refA...

In December, I implemented regional pricing for my book, created my first mobile app (a MeshCore client), and started my first cross-language library.

Out of ten!?! You don't even *deserve* season three and its continued delightful West Wing crossovers!

But if you're bothered by the laziness of the heart attack, that is a thing they unfortunately do more of in season three, though the performances get even better.

Keri Russell's face acting in this scene alone brings the season up to a minimum of three stars

@jmduke.com can you update your site's repo so I can submit a PR to fix this *egregious* bug in your review of The Diplomat?

Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time New from Fly.io today: Sprites.dev. Here’s their blog post and YouTube demo. It’s an interesting new product that’s quite difficult to explain—Fly call it “Stateful sandbox environments with checkpoin...

Sprites.dev by @fly.io is a very cool new thing: it solves two of my pet problems at once, developer sandbox environments for coding agents and a JSON API for executing untrusted code

I wrote more here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9/s...

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

Wrote my first weekly update www.chiaracokieng.com/update-for-t...

Inspired by @mtlynch.io !

Yeah I'm pleasantly surprised by the speed! I don't think the meta tags would have worked because it's a static site and the query params are for client-side JS. I can't block those specific query params because the meta tags are already rendered by the time JS runs.

Looks like my fix worked

Oh, they're indexing every possible view of the HN popularity contest

Got a notification that I was using 600x my normal CDN credits. I checked it expecting an aggressive LLM scraper. But nope, just Google, downloading the same 3 MB file from me every three seconds.