Michael Lynch

@deliberatecoder

Developer. Lover of unit tests. Cryptocurrency enthusiast. Comedy nerd.

South Hadley, MA
mtlynch.io
Joined June 2017
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    12 Oct 2017

    Code reviews are one of my favorite parts of software development. There's a lot more to it than just finding bugs

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  2. Jan 5

    I earned the first dollar of revenue on my new project! The full update is on :

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  3. 30 Dec 2018

    I've always found 's retrospectives to be fascinating for their level of transparency and introspection. His 2018 review is my favorite yet, an excellent read for bootstrapped entrepreneurs.

    2018 was a complex year. My personal projects simultaneously flourished and floundered. A major theme of the year was figuring out how to balance working for others with working for myself. And the result was pretty mixed. More in my year in review 🙏
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  4. 27 Dec 2018

    A freelance writer tried to scam me in a terribly clumsy way, but the surprising part was how little did to stop her

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    10 Dec 2018

    New report is up! We answer the question that has plagued mankind since the dawn of time: is Coke Zero keto?

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  6. 4 Dec 2018

    I was blown away by how beautiful made the diagrams for this post. I wish she could redraw every software diagram ever.

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  7. 4 Dec 2018

    Did you know that you can trick legacy apps into keeping all their persistent data on cloud storage using Docker?

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  8. 2 Dec 2018

    I launched a site back in January but had to abandon it to focus on other projects. I returned to it last week to find that it's been slowly growing without me:

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  9. 9 Nov 2018

    Many developers diligently learn all the best practices, but fail to adjust their technique for unit tests. In today's post, I talk about common unit testing mistakes and how to avoid them.

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  10. 27 Oct 2018

    Video is now available:

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  11. 6 Oct 2018

    And the more comprehensive, blog form of my code review talk is here:

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  12. 6 Oct 2018

    Had a great time speaking at about code reviews. My slides are available here:

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    6 Oct 2018

    instead of having pointless arguments over how to style your code, just stick to a style guide, says . also it occurs to me that the whole “tabs vs spaces” argument among developers is somewhat analogous to the Oxford comma debate 🤔 cc

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  14. 28 Sep 2018

    Hi , now that you've finished taking "every precaution to ensure that [my] most sensitive information remains secure," maybe you can stop broadcasting my credit card data over plaintext HTTP

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  15. 11 Sep 2018

    In today's post, I share how I convinced myself to spend months on a product nobody wanted and the personal weaknesses that led me there.

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  16. 22 Aug 2018

    Reminder: this is tomorrow at The Globe in NYC. Come out to meet your fellow NYC Indie Hackers.

    The next NYC meetup will be this Thursday (8/23), with , , and I as hosts. If you're working on a software business or side project, come out and meet some folks with similar goals!
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  17. 20 Aug 2018

    I just published the final article in my "Resurrecting a Dead Library" series. This is where the fun really begins. It's when I began diving into the legacy code and untangling all the parts that were driving me crazy.

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  18. 18 Aug 2018

    The next NYC meetup will be this Thursday (8/23), with , , and I as hosts. If you're working on a software business or side project, come out and meet some folks with similar goals!

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  19. 8 Aug 2018

    I posted an update to about progress on my SaaS product, Zestful. I've found that just writing these updates has been very helpful for organizing my thoughts and refining my strategy.

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  20. 6 Aug 2018

    Continuing my "Resurrecting a Dead Library" series, today I talk about how I retrofit a legacy library with automated tests, then tore my hair out trying to figure out why they worked on my system but not on 's continuous integration:

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  21. 4 Aug 2018

    Just got this book. Can't wait to live-tweet it!

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