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Michael Lynch

michael@m.mtlynch.io

<p>Solo developer. Lover of unit tests. ex-Google, ex-Microsoft</p>

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  • Post #2614406

    AI has good suggestions for bad writing but bad suggestions for good writing.

  • Post #2614405

    @danb I enjoyed your OpenCode sandboxing post! One tweak that adds a good amount of security for not much cost is using rootless podman (drop in replacement for docker). You can prevent the container from accessing your local network and also drop OS privileges you don&amp;#39;t need with a couple extra flags

  • Post #2614404

    RE: https://mastodon.social/@thienantran/116511760017672467 With AI-generated writing flooding the Internet, a lot of people ask me how to avoid &amp;quot;sounding like AI.&amp;quot; One great way is to lean into your personality. Developers have a tendency to sanitize their writing to sound clinical and impersonal. Thienan&amp;#39;s post is an excellent example of a blogger who&amp;#39;s willing to sound like themselves.

  • Post #2614403

    I bought parts for my last PC on Black Friday 2024. I bought 64 GB of RAM for $209.99. Price today for the same exact sticks: $979.99

  • Post #2614402

    Darn! Forgot to take this bet.

  • Post #2614401

    In my April retrospective, I reveal my double life as a bug bounty hunter and debate whether I should continue cybersecurity research or just focus on my book about helping devs improve their writing https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2026/05/

  • Post #2575888

    I made my first contribution to Firefox. It&amp;#39;s a one-character fix to prevent a crash when reading a particular type of malformed Ogg-Vorbis media file. Surprisingly fast review from Mozilla! Reviewed and merged in under 1h. https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D288636