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Stories by mtlynch

The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025 (refactoringenglish.com)
My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder (mtlynch.io)
Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results (timsh.org)
Software essays that shaped me (refactoringenglish.com)
What an unprocessed photo looks like (maurycyz.com)
Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market (maxrozen.com)
Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection (ericdaigle.ca)
Bringing a decade old bicycle navigator back to life with open source software (raymii.org)
How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked (blog.pixelmelt.dev)
I'm never going back to Matrix (shkspr.mobi)
What Makes the Intro to Crafting Interpreters so Good? (refactoringenglish.com)
Appealing the ban of user friendlysock
I noticed yesterday that the user @friendlysock had been banned. I don't know friendlysock personally and am not even sure I've ever interacted with them on here, but I was surprised to see that their account had been banned because I find their contributions substantive and interesting. Checkin...
Gaining Access to Anyones Browser without Them Even Visiting a Website (kibty.town)
Boxie - an always offline audio player for my 3 year old (mariozechner.at)
Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0 (mtlynch.io)
Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers (kianbradley.com)
The Software Essays that Shaped Me (refactoringenglish.com)
I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS (jonashietala.se)
My First Impressions of Gleam (mtlynch.io)
No Longer My Favorite Git Commit (mtlynch.io)
How to Write Compelling Release Announcements (refactoringenglish.com)
OpenZFS Bug Ported to Zig (andrewkelley.me)
Why does an extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster? (mtlynch.io)
Ten years of running every day, visualized (nodaysoff.run)
My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging (mtlynch.io)
10 features of D that I love (bradley.chatha.dev)
Underused Techniques for Effective Emails (refactoringenglish.com)
How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read (refactoringenglish.com)
I once appeared in The Old New Thing (mtlynch.io)
How long does it take to upgrade an eBook? (shkspr.mobi)