Michael Lynch

Bootstrapped fouder. Lover of unit tests. One successful exit. ex-@google, ex-@microsoft. Mostly on @[email protected]

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

I've sold TinyPilot, my first successful business as a bootstrapped founder. I grew it from $0 to $1M/yr in revenue in four years, and I'm incredibly proud of the company and product, but it felt like the right time for me to move on. https://t.co/iLd53Cs58o

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

@KentonVarda I agree in principle but at my usage, the price difference is $100/mo vs. $2000/mo. I wish more providers would offer flat rate API based pricing where you're limited by tokens per hour. I'd much rather see an agent run too slow and intervene than wake up to a $5k bill

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

@vboykis I've had a good experience with NixCI. Indie run and @kerckhove_ts is highly responsive to feedback and feature reuqwests

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

@KentonVarda CAN SPAM doesn't really give regular citizens right to private civil action, though right? My understanding is you have to wait for the FTC or an AG to sue on your behalf, which they never do

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

@r00k It's not your agent - it's you. Stop polluting people's inboxes with your AI slop, and stop blaming a fictional character for something you did.

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

@r00k is this actually from you or is someone spoofing your domain?

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

@dvassallo Feb. 1! Happy quitiversary!

[Rob Doar @robdoar]

@Acyn Carrying without an ID or Permit Card is NOT a crime in MN.
It's a $25 petty misdemeanor ticket, which must be dismissed once the information is provided.

Your firearm is not subject to forfeiture, and you can't lose your permit.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Another angle of federal agents killing a Minnesota legal observer, which appears to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk.

Obtained by Drop Site News

[Oliver Alexander @OAlexanderDK]

This is even worse than I imagined.

The victim was trying to help a person pushed to the ground by the agent when he was maced, wrestled to the ground and then shot and killed.

No justification for this shooting.

[The Minnesota Star Tribune @StarTribune]

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

@NateLowell1 There's this but I can't tell if it's a joke https://t.co/5hBt6pOniX

[Steve Yegge @Steve_Yegge]

Happy New Year! I've just launched my coding agent orchestrator, Gas Town, for anyone crazy enough to try it. https://t.co/xWJLZzmpZH

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

I'll be co-hosting the Indie Founders Western Mass meetup with @jupiterunknown tomorrow evening in Northampton, MA. Come join if you run an online business, side project, or are interested in starting one. https://t.co/4f23oDgngF

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

@thesquashSH One of my favorite podcasts ended, and I'd like to archive all the episodes. Is @ArchiveBoxApp the right tool for this? I tried pasting in the RSS feed (has every episode), and it seems like it scraped the episode URLs, but now I seem stuck on "pending"

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

@awesomekling @Intuit Intuit is rotten to the core. If you can tolerate a bit of a learning curve, plaintext accounting is a great alternative. Free, self-hosted, under version control, most mistakes are a simple find/replace. https://t.co/z2z6j02afh

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

@MaxGhenis Meanwhile my anti-vacation sub is still struggling to gain traction

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

@dhh @wycats Why is Arko's trademark claim fraudulent? The original creators don't get perpetual trademark rights. They have to exercise the mark, which it seems like Arko did and the creators have not for years.

[Tavis Ormandy @taviso]

A personal update... after nearly 20 years at Google, today is my last day! I'm going to be working on independent research for the foreseeable future, then who knows! I've worked with so many talented people, made so many friends and seen incredible research over the years 🫡

[Michael Lynch @deliberatecoder]

@bradgessler @flydotio @Docker Yep, same. I don't see that often on Fly, but you should be able to work around it in the short term with `fly deploy --local-only` https://t.co/Hjy33WJW38

[Molly Crane-Newman @molcranenewman]

Footage taken by @Steffikeith this morning of ICE agents shoving photographers on assignment at 26 Federal Plaza. One journalist has been hospitalized.