Michael Lynch – Developer, Indie Founder and Technical Writer Michael Lynch shares honest and detailed stories from his journey as a software engineer and indie founder. His blog covers topics like building sustainable businesses, code reviews, software craftsmanship, and lessons learned from running and selling his own startup, TinyPilot. Each post reflects a mix of engineering precision and real-world experience, written with clarity and humor. Readers can find tutorials, retrospectives, and essays that go beyond code to explore motivation, productivity, and the human side of software development. This blog is a must-read for developers, indie hackers, and anyone who enjoys thoughtful writing about technology and entrepreneurship.
146 articles from this blog
A developer critiques Base, a Coinbase crypto platform, for its technical jargon and praises 'Hello Base' for its beginner-friendly tutorial approach.
A guide to deploying and managing simple Go web services on NixOS, highlighting benefits over Ansible and Docker for personal projects.
A guide to removing timestamps from Hugo static blog posts, including updating archetypes and retroactively fixing old posts.
A guide to creating a reproducible Nix workflow for fuzz testing the netconsd network daemon using persistent mode.
A founder shares practical lessons learned from selling his bootstrapped hardware company, TinyPilot, for $598k.
A developer's hands-on test of NVIDIA's Nemotron LLM for coding tasks, detailing setup on a cloud GPU server and initial impressions.
A guide on using Nix to simplify fuzz testing setup for a PDF parser, demonstrating how to find bugs with a single command.
Part two of automating fuzz testing for a PDF parser using Nix, focusing on building a corpus of edge-case PDFs.
A developer's critique of the Base (Ethereum L2) documentation, highlighting jargon and onboarding barriers for newcomers to blockchain development.
Analysis of a livestream where an indie founder builds a blockchain game on the Ethereum Base ecosystem, covering Solidity and smart contracts.
A developer shares progress on his educational course, detailing improvements to his video recording workflow and technical decisions like adopting htmx.
Explores the idea that command-line interfaces foster social sharing and creativity, while GUIs are 'antisocial' and lack the same collaborative potential.
A guide to customizing your terminal shell prompt to display Git branch and status information using git-prompt.sh under Nix/Linux.
A developer shares his journey of building and selling TinyPilot, a successful tech hardware business, after initial startup failures.
A technical guide on setting up and running Meta's Llama 3 AI model using Ollama and Open-WebUI on a cloud GPU server.
A software developer's monthly business retrospective covering deployment security, release processes, and financial performance for TinyPilot hardware company.
A developer's guide to building a homelab server rack, covering hardware choices and setup for software development, storage, and networking.
A developer investigates why a Zig program runs 10x faster when using 'zig build run' versus executing the compiled binary directly.
A monthly retrospective from TinyPilot's founder covering business performance, goals, and improvements to the software release process.
A bootstrapped founder shares lessons from his sixth year running TinyPilot, a remote computer control device that reached $997k revenue.
