Michael Lynch
@mtlynch.io
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Bootstrapped founder. Lover of unit tests. One successful exit. ex-@google, ex-@microsoft.
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evacide
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Do you work in fundraising? Do you want a job that isn't evil? Signal is hiring a director of major gifts:
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Signal Messenger - Director of Major Gifts
We are seeking a Director of Major Gifts to join our Development team as a high-impact individual contributor. In this role, you will be the primary engine for high-net-worth and charitable institutio...
https://jobs.lever.co/signal/68f75269-fe43-4d25-8d82-69439351f14d
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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...
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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?
https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/why-improve-your-writing/
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Me, two days after discovering I can purchase remote nix builds as a service
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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...
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January 2026 Retrospective: Refactoring English: Month 14
Discovering the power of AI sandboxes
https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2026/02/
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David Crawshaw
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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.
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I'm on Hacker News today! I wrote about my eighth year as a bootstrapped founder.
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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.
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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.
https://mtlynch.io/eversource-resource-innovations-exposure/
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John Scott-Railton
about 1 month ago
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.
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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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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.
https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
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Kat Abughazaleh
about 1 month ago
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
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This is such a cool feature of NixOS that I should use more
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Software patches in NixOS for fun and productivity | Olivier's log
https://log.pfad.fr/2026/software-patching-in-nixos/
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Alex Ip 葉清霖
about 2 months ago
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:
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Cabel Sasser
about 2 months ago
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...
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Look Around You
This unique combination of parody and homage to early 70s/80s British educational programs examines different scientific topics in each episode.
https://tubitv.com/series/300015684/look-around-you
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Fly.io
about 2 months ago
🔗 ➡
fly.io/blog/design-...
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The Design & Implementation of Sprites
So that we may educate as well as horrify: the internals of our new Sprites execution platform.
https://fly.io/blog/design-and-implementation/
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Jeezy
about 2 months ago
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
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Kat Abughazaleh
about 2 months ago
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.
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Chris (Vasselli) Lindsay
about 2 months ago
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...
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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.
https://go.setapp.com/stp1479?refAppID=1795&utm_medium=vendor_program&utm_source=Serpenti+Sei+Japan+LLC&utm_content=link
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In December, I implemented regional pricing for my book, created my first mobile app (a MeshCore client), and started my first cross-language library.
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December 2025 Retrospective: Refactoring English: Month 13
Getting distracted while writing about focus
https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2026/01/
about 2 months ago
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@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?
about 2 months ago
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Simon Willison
2 months ago
Sprites.dev
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@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...
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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...
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9/sprites-dev/
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Bellingcat
2 months ago
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
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Chiara Cokieng
2 months ago
Wrote my first weekly update
www.chiaracokieng.com/update-for-t...
Inspired by
@mtlynch.io
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Update for the week ending Fri, 9 Jan, 2026
h/t to Michael Lynch’s Weekly Updates (which have been going on since 2019, for 352 weeks!) for inspiring my weekly updates. Brave New Path: 2026 GPS (Goals/Plans/Systems) * Did first mock intervi...
https://www.chiaracokieng.com/update-for-the-week-ending-fri-9-jan-2026/
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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.
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Niki Tonsky
2 months ago
New blog post! A close look at Tahoe menu icons
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
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My article about the HN's top bloggers of 2025 is on the front page of HN. Honestly, I'm quite relieved after it flopped yesterday. I don't mind pandering to HN, but it's embarrassing when even that fails.
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Simon Willison
2 months ago
The underlying data for this is available as CSV files with open CORS headers, so I had some fun loading it into Datasette Lite and querying it with WebAssembly SQLite
simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/2/m...
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With 2025 complete, I can finally declare the most popular bloggers of Hacker News: 1.
@simonwillison.net
- 20,117 points 2.
@jeffgeerling.com
- 10,813 points 3. Sean Goedecke - 10,804 points 4. Brian Krebs - 10,699 points 5.
@neal.fun
- 8,936 points
refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn...
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The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
Who were the most popular personal bloggers of 2025, and what made them successful on Hacker News?
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/2025-hn-top-5/
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I just added discounted regional pricing based on purchasing power parity for my book. You can pay in your local currency based on your PPP.
refactoringenglish.com/early-access/
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“And what are your reasons for creating a photo sharing app?”
mtlynch.io/retrospectiv...
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November 2025 Retrospective: Refactoring English: Month 12
Fine, then I'll just make my own app for sharing baby photos.
https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2025/12/
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Andrew Ayer
3 months ago
New blog post: Certificate Authorities Are Once Again Issuing Certificates That Don't Work
www.agwa.name/blog/post/ca...
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Certificate Authorities Are Once Again Issuing Certificates That Don't Work
I've detected 16 CAs issuing certificates which rely on CT logs that are not recognized by all browsers
https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/cas_are_issuing_broken_certificates_again
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onion person
3 months ago
many people were asking for it and now the full cut of the onion parody of jubilee debates is now up on youtube!
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1 Onion Subscriber vs 20 Non-Subscribers | Encircled
YouTube video by The Onion
https://youtu.be/RHYbm6K0HlU?si=dGjAABd3o8_R6_5A
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I've been experimenting with MeshCore, a technology that allows you to send text messages even when you have no phone or Internet coverage.
mtlynch.io/first-impres...
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My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging
Using low-cost radio hardware to keep texting when there's no phone or Internet service.
https://mtlynch.io/first-impressions-of-meshcore/
3 months ago
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Kagi HQ
4 months ago
@chriscoyier.net
Hi Chris, we took your advice 😉 Check out our updated blog layout!
blog.kagi.com/orion
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Andrew Askins
4 months ago
Three years ago I sold my agency to one of our long time clients and went to work for them. I made it 11 months before I got fired. I wrote about the experience, how it felt, and what I took away from it:
www.andrewaskins.com/how-to-get-...
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How to get fired
“There’s no easy way to say this, so I’m just going to get into it.” Ah, shit. As soon as I heard those words, I knew what was coming next. I was being fired.
https://www.andrewaskins.com/how-to-get-fired/
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From
@evanhahn.com
"These old books often have passages that lack clarity but overflow with panache. If you like hearing someone described as 'impervious to the shafts of ridicule and insensible to slights,' you’ll like this writing style."
evanhahn.com/story-of-the...
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Notes from "The Story of the Typewriter"
This book, published in 1923, covers 50 years of typewriter history. I learned that visual impairment is weaved into the typewriter's history, Mark Twain's trouble with his "new fangled writing machin...
https://evanhahn.com/story-of-the-typewriter-book-notes/
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I was recently re-reading Crafting Interpreters and was struck by how delightfully effective its introduction is. In just four sentences,
@stuffwithstuff.com
establishes exactly what you'll learn from the book and why you'll enjoy learning it with him.
refactoringenglish.com/blog/craftin...
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What Makes the Intro to Crafting Interpreters so Good?
Developers are terrible at writing introductions, so it's worth studying what makes the Crafting Interpreters intro so compelling.
https://refactoringenglish.com/blog/crafting-interpreters-intro/
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How many clicks could it possibly take to add a simple VLAN to OPNsense?
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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? Five...
https://mtlynch.io/notes/opnsense-clicks/
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Łukasz
4 months ago
Law enforcement: we need to break encryption to get access to Signal to protect the children!! Also law enforcement: for years couldn’t catch a pedophile sex trafficker who used email to coordinate all of his pedophile sex trafficking
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One of the simplest ways I've improved my writing is deleting words like "very" and "much" that add virtually no meaning.
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I've recently been reading an early access version of Refactoring English by
@mtlynch.io
. I have to say this is a great book, with lots of hard-won tips and advice on how to make your writing more accessible and get it in front of a relevant audience.
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Refactoring English
Effective writing for software developers
https://refactoringenglish.com/
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Adam Gordon Bell
4 months ago
New Podcast Episode:
@matt.godbolt.org
is back after 5 years! And he's sharing stories about breaking through layers. Sometimes your “disk write” is a network hop in a trench coat, and your “fast path” hides a page fault. Godbolt's rule will help.
corecursive.com/godbolt-rule...
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Godbolt's Rule - CoRecursive Podcast
What do you do when your code breaks and the only fix is to dig into the runtime below?Matt Godbolt lives for that. Tile-based renderers, color-coded scanlines, zero-copy NICs—each story is a clue tha...
https://corecursive.com/godbolt-rule-matt-godbolt/
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Andrew Ayer
4 months ago
Google just suspended SSLMate's Google Cloud account for the third time:
www.agwa.name/blog/post/go...
The obvious fail is Google's trigger-happy account suspensions, but the more important fail is that Google is disincentivizing the secure options for cross-provider access with Google Cloud. 1/4
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Google Just Suspended My Company's Google Cloud Account for the Third Time
https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/google_suspended_sslmates_cloud_account_again
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Design docs are difficult to write, so if your team can't review them effectively, you're doing most of the hard work but missing out on a huge amount of value.
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How to Get Meaningful Feedback on Your Design Document
You've spent weeks carefully writing a design document for your software project. What happens next? How do you share it with your teammates to solicit useful feedback? How do you prevent the review f...
https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/useful-feedback-on-design-docs/
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Bellingcat
4 months ago
Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
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Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters
A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10/31/illinois-immigration-protests/?utm_source=bluesky
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I don't follow infosec closely anymore, but watching from the periphery, I'm impressed with how exciting TrendMicro made it with this year's Pwn2Own
x.com/TrendMicro/s...
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Trend Micro on X: "Seconds to spare and $40,000 on the line: @SinSinology of @SummoningTeam and the @theZDI team celebrate his successful exploit of Synology DiskStation DS925+ in the Network Attached Storage category at Pwn2Own Ireland. https://t.co/C7P4fGga8i #Pwn2Own https://t.co/XfRhfeRTIi" / X
Seconds to spare and $40,000 on the line: @SinSinology of @SummoningTeam and the @theZDI team celebrate his successful exploit of Synology DiskStation DS925+ in the Network Attached Storage category at Pwn2Own Ireland. https://t.co/C7P4fGga8i #Pwn2Own https://t.co/XfRhfeRTIi
https://x.com/TrendMicro/status/1980620824785600683
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The Onion
5 months ago
National Guardsman Awakes Screaming From Nightmare About Americans Going About Daily Lives
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National Guardsman Awakes Screaming From Nightmare About Americans Going About Daily Lives
FORT WORTH, TX—Catching his breath and wiping the sweat from his brow after he realized it was all just a bad dream, Texas National Guard member Jason Ringgold reportedly woke up screaming at 3 a.m. T...
https://theonion.com/national-guardsman-awakes-screaming-from-nightmare-about-americans-going-about-daily-lives/
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Tim Onion
5 months ago
Once again, trigger discipline of a guy playing a video game in an arcade. These rejects are playing Call of Duty on our streets.
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