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Michael Lynch

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I'm Michael Lynch, software developer and blogger. I used to work as a software engineer at large companies, but now I create indie businesses and blog about the process.

I'm the author of the book *Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Engineers*.

## Recent posts

- 2025-09-15: I Once Appeared in The Old New Thing posts
- 2025-09-09: Refactoring English: Month 9 retrospectives
- 2025-08-26: Give Your Spouse the Gift of a Couple's Email Domain posts
- 2025-08-23: Flash an AirGradient ONE from the Command Line notes
- 2025-08-13: Refactoring English: Month 8 retrospectives
- 2025-07-23: Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2 posts
- 2025-07-11: Refactoring English: Month 7 retrospectives
- 2025-07-02: goHardDrive Leaked Personal Data for Thousands of Customers posts
- 2025-06-22: My First Impressions of Gleam notes
- 2025-06-08: A Simple Example of Calling an Elixir Library from Gleam notes
- 2025-06-04: Refactoring English: Month 6 retrospectives
- 2025-05-29: Which New Language Should I Learn for Web Development? notes
- 2025-05-23: Notes from Simon Willison's Interview on Software Misadventures notes
- 2025-05-08: Refactoring English: Month 5 retrospectives
- 2025-04-25: My $6k Advance as a Self-Published Technical Author posts

## Popular posts

- ## I Sold TinyPilot, My First Successful Business

May 29, 2024

Four years after starting TinyPilot from scratch, I've sold the company and handed complete control over to a new owner.
- ## Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself

February 28, 2018

For the past four years, I've worked as a software developer at Google. On February 1st, I quit. It was because they refused to buy me a Christmas present.
- ## I Regret My $46k Website Redesign

July 21, 2022

Mistakes I made working with my first design agency.
- ## How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You

December 2, 2020

Best practices for code review when you're the author.
- ## How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One)

October 12, 2017

Lately, I’ve been reading articles about best practices for code reviews. I notice that these articles focus on finding bugs to the exclusion of almost every...
- ## TinyPilot: Build a KVM Over IP for Under $100

July 23, 2020

Using only a Raspberry Pi and an $11 video capture dongle, you can create your own KVM over IP device, allowing you to send keyboard input to a remote computer and capture its display.
- ## How I Stole Your Siacoin

June 16, 2017

A lesson in Sia wallet seed safety

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