My Seventh Year as a Bootstrapped Founder · mtlynch.io
It's now been seven years since I quit my job at Google to become an indie founder. In the past year, I sold my company, started a family, and learned several new technologies.| mtlynch.io
I recently learned a neat trick from Marcus Buffett: xkcd has an undocumented way to get images of the cartoons at double their normal resolution. The _2x trick For example, xkcd #2582 “Data Trap” lists this URL as the direct link: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/data_trap.png That leads to this 275x275px image, quite small by today’s standards: But there’s a trick! Add a _2x to the filename in the URL: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/data_trap_2x.png That gives you a version that’s 2x th...| Notes on mtlynch.io
It's now been seven years since I quit my job at Google to become an indie founder. In the past year, I sold my company, started a family, and learned several new technologies.| mtlynch.io
I'm a pretty humble guy, so most people aren't aware of this extremely impressive fact about me: Raymond Chen once mentioned me on his classic Windows blog, The Old New Thing.| mtlynch.io
The joy and misery of editing a video interview| mtlynch.io
For software developers, there's tremendous value in writing effective emails. Good emails save time, reduce misunderstandings, and earn recognition from upper management.You can drastically improve your emails with a few simple techniques, but too few developers know about them.| refactoringenglish.com
Software bloggers can make the same mistakes for years that prevent readers from discovering their writing. I know because I'm one of them. Over time, I've learned techniques that help some blog posts succeed and the pitfalls that cause others to languish in obscurity.| refactoringenglish.com
