# like one (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover like one. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Writers Who Make the Most Money in 2026 Won’t Think Like Writers](https://escapethecubicle.substack.com/p/the-writers-who-make-the-most-money) _2026-08-19 · Wes Pearce · Escape the Cubicle_ I’ve been a writer for more than a decade. ## [If your Substack is stuck, give Notes 30 days. You’ll thank me later.](https://escapethecubicle.substack.com/p/if-your-substack-is-stuck-give-notes) _2026-08-18 · Wes Pearce · Escape the Cubicle_ the Notes Challenge starts Thursday, and this one’s gonna be good ## [I’ve Finally Learned How the Substack Notes Algorithm Works. It changed what I post every day.](https://escapethecubicle.substack.com/p/ive-finally-learned-how-the-substack) _2026-08-17 · Wes Pearce · Escape the Cubicle_ I went from a few subscribers a day to 40-plus once this finally clicked. ## [You Can Be a Great Writer and Still Struggle to Grow on Substack. Here’s what actually matters.](https://escapethecubicle.substack.com/p/you-can-be-a-great-writer-and-still) _2026-08-16 · Escape the Cubicle_ When I started this Substack two years ago, I did exactly what every new writer gets told to do: ## [I Built a Simple 3-Step System that Took Me From Zero to 20,000+ Subscribers and 200K in Revenue](https://escapethecubicle.substack.com/p/i-built-a-simple-3-step-system-that) _2026-08-15 · Wes Pearce · Escape the Cubicle_ Here’s exactly what’s inside—and how the three pieces work together. ## [If your Substack isn't growing or making money, one of these 3 things is missing](https://escapethecubicle.substack.com/p/if-your-substack-isnt-growing-or) _2026-08-14 · Wes Pearce · Escape the Cubicle_ For the longest time, I thought growing a Substack came down to writing better posts …and writing them more often. ## [If I Wanted More Substack Subscribers in the Next 7 Days, These Are the 3 Notes I’d Write](https://escapethecubicle.substack.com/p/if-i-wanted-more-substack-subscribers) _2026-08-13 · Wes Pearce · Escape the Cubicle_ After more than a year of testing Notes, these are the three formats I’d prioritize first. ## [Refactoring English: Month 20](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2026/08/) _2026-08-13 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights July’s book sales tripled the… ## [The August Notes Challenge Opens Today. Here’s How It Works.](https://escapethecubicle.substack.com/p/the-august-notes-challenge-opens) _2026-08-12 · Wes Pearce · Escape the Cubicle_ Seven days of focused action, daily Notes prompts, and a private Chat cohort for 25 writers. ## [If I Were Starting a Substack Today, I’d Spend 20 Minutes a Day on Notes](https://escapethecubicle.substack.com/p/if-i-were-starting-a-substack-today) _2026-08-11 · Wes Pearce · Escape the Cubicle_ The simplest growth strategy I know still takes about 20 minutes a day. ## [Countdown to Getting Paid (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KDu3utoZyAZl) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Create a shareable wallet timer — deposits buy back time and pay debt down ## [Two Years Ago I Had a Few Dozen Subscribers. Today We’re Closing In On 20,000.](https://escapethecubicle.substack.com/p/two-years-ago-i-had-a-few-dozen-subscribers) _2026-08-10 · Escape the Cubicle_ This week officially marks two years since I started this newsletter. ## [Refactoring English: Month 19](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2026/07/) _2026-07-15 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights Refactoring English had its second-best… ## [Thought on Eating, June 15 2026](https://www.carlosalba.dev/blog/thought-on-eating-june-15-2026/) _2026-06-15 · me@carlosalba.dev (Carlos A) · Personal Internet Hub 🌱_ I was plant-based for around ten years of my life. It allowed me to learn how to adapt foods I had grown up with, I really enjoyed this aspect of that lifestyle. My mom would help me make plant-based ceviche, salad-like combinations of textured vegetable protein and pico de gallo, mix nutritional yeast into popcorn for a nice cheesy taste, or even create vegan alternatives for pozole and tacos. We… ## [Refactoring English: Month 18](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2026/06/) _2026-06-10 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights I’ve completed all 22 chapters of… ## [Moving Away From Proprietary Software](https://www.carlosalba.dev/blog/moving-away-from-proprietary-software/) _2026-06-09 · me@carlosalba.dev (Carlos A) · Personal Internet Hub 🌱_ Digital sovereignty, to me, means preserving a sense of control over my digital life. That control constantly feels under threat. As a Gen Z man, I grew up with heavily proprietary software. It felt like there were no real alternatives for consumers. Installations seemed scary and complex, and some desktop environments looked ugly next to macOS or early 2010s Windows. Companies like Google and… ## [Statement of Intent](https://www.carlosalba.dev/blog/statement-of-intent/) _2026-06-09 · me@carlosalba.dev (Carlos A) · Personal Internet Hub 🌱_ For years, I maintained blog posts on this site and the prior iterations (prior to the .dev domain) that were disingenuous. I felt like I needed to have something on my site as filler content to appeal to recruiters or for quick glances, but if we are being honest, besides bots and some acquaintances, I don’t think anyone has bothered to read them in their entirety. Over the last couple of… ## [Refactoring English: Month 17](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2026/05/) _2026-05-14 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights I’m torn between focusing on my… ## [Refactoring English: Month 16](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2026/04/) _2026-04-09 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights I got to the front page of Hacker News… ## [Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years](https://mtlynch.io/claude-code-found-linux-vulnerability/) _2026-04-03 · mtlynch.io_ Nicholas Carlini , a research scientist at Anthropic, reported at the \[un\]prompted AI security conference that he used Claude Code to find multiple remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, including one that sat undiscovered for 23 years. Nicholas was astonished at how effective Claude Code has been at finding these bugs: We now have a number of remotely exploitable heap… ## [Experience](https://www.carlosalba.dev/experience/) _2026-03-24 · me@carlosalba.dev (Carlos A) · Personal Internet Hub 🌱_ Experience I started coding because it seemed like the one door nobody could close on me, and I’ve spent the years since showing up to things a little early. Voice AI before the LLMs. Remote work as a job filter right as it went permanent. RAG before it had an acronym worth dropping. I’m not a fortune teller. I just like building the unglamorous plumbing that turns a good idea into… ## [Play Both Sides Of The Lie (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/cZzgG4T826mN) _2026-03-23 · **Sponsored**_ Two operatives, one manufactured war — uncover the Complete Truth after both campaigns. ## [Refactoring English: Month 15](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2026/03/) _2026-03-17 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights It turns out that most of Refactoring… ## [Refactoring English: Month 14](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2026/02/) _2026-02-12 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights A new strategy for finding book readers… ## [Eversource EV Rebate Program Exposed Massachusetts Customer Data](https://mtlynch.io/eversource-resource-innovations-exposure/) _2026-02-09 · mtlynch.io_ I recently claimed a rebate for installing an electric vehicle (EV) charger, only to discover that Eversource, my power supplier, was publicly exposing personal information of customers who applied, including: Full names Vehicle registration certificates (including plate number and vehicle identification number) Home addresses Email addresses Phone numbers I’ll include the backstory that led… ## [My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder](https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/) _2026-02-03 · mtlynch.io_ Eight years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I post an update about how that’s going and what my life is like as an indie founder. Previously on… I don’t expect you to go back and read my last seven updates. Here’s all you need to know: 2018 - 2020 - Quit my job and created several unprofitable… ## [Refactoring English: Month 13](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2026/01/) _2026-01-14 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights I added regional pricing for my book… ## [Refactoring English: Month 12](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2025/12/) _2025-12-11 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights I’m working on a game to predict… ## [My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging](https://mtlynch.io/first-impressions-of-meshcore/) _2025-12-02 · mtlynch.io_ When my wife saw me playing with my new encrypted radio, she asked what it was for. “Imagine,” I said, “if I could type a message on my phone and send it to you, and the message would appear on your phone. Instantly!” She wasn’t impressed. “It also works if phone lines are down due to a power outage… or societal collapse.” Still nothing. “If… ## [Add a VLAN to OPNsense in Just 26 Clicks Across 6 Screens](https://mtlynch.io/notes/opnsense-clicks/) _2025-11-17 · mtlynch.io_ How many clicks does it take to add a new VLAN to an OPNsense firewall? Nothing fancy. Just your regular, basic VLAN with its own IPv4 range. How many clicks should that take? Maybe two or three? Five if we’re real wild? Every time I add a new VLAN to OPNsense, the process feels strangely tedious, so I decided to measure exactly how many clicks it takes to add a simple VLAN to my firewall. ## [Refactoring English: Month 11](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2025/11/) _2025-11-07 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights I’m running late on my book. A… ## [Hold Off on Litestream 0.5.0](https://mtlynch.io/notes/hold-off-on-litestream-0.5.0/) _2025-10-14 · mtlynch.io_ Litestream is an open-source tool that backs up SQLite databases to cloud storage in real time. I love it and use it in all of my projects. Litestream is owned by Fly.io , and they paused development on Litestream for almost two years in favor of an alternative project called LiteFS. Two weeks ago, Ben Johnson, Litestream’s creator and lead developer, announced that they were shifting focus… ## [Brisk AI News Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gzBuz29K4e8m) _2025-10-13 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to audio briefings for top stories. ## [Read My Blog With JavaScript](https://mtlynch.io/notes/read-my-blog-with-javascript/) _2025-10-10 · mtlynch.io_ You can now read my blog with client-side JavaScript. I’m not sure why you’d want to, but you can. Maybe you want to add a blogroll to your site with a list of recent posts from your favorite blogs, but you don’t want to fetch them server side. If you wanted to use JavaScript to show my five most recent post titles, you’d write some code like this: fetch(… ## [Refactoring English: Month 10](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2025/10/) _2025-10-07 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights I’m experimenting with… ## [Get xkcd Cartoons at 2x Resolution](https://mtlynch.io/notes/xkcd-2x-resolution/) _2025-09-27 · 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… ## [List of 2x-resolution xkcd Cartoons](https://mtlynch.io/notes/xkcd-2x-resolution-list/) _2025-09-27 · mtlynch.io_ This is a list of all the xkcd cartoons that are available in 2x resolution, as of today’s date. See the accompanying post, “Get xkcd Cartoons at 2x Resolution,” for an explanation. 1: No higher res available 2: No higher res available 3: No higher res available 4: No higher res available 5: No higher res available 6: No higher res available 7: No higher res available 8: No… ## [I Once Appeared in The Old New Thing](https://mtlynch.io/my-old-new-thing-cameo/) _2025-09-15 · mtlynch.io_ I’m a pretty humble guy, so most people don’t know this extremely impressive fact about me: Raymond Chen once mentioned me on The Old New Thing , the classic Windows development blog. No, he didn’t mention me by name nor did he provide any way to identify me, but I still deserve credit for how little I boast about this stunning achievement. In 2009, Raymond Chen mentioned me in… ## [Refactoring English: Month 9](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2025/09/) _2025-09-09 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights I got useful feedback from early readers… ## [Give Your Spouse the Gift of a Couple's Email Domain](https://mtlynch.io/couples-email-domain/) _2025-08-26 · mtlynch.io_ I’ve only been married for a few years, but I have a fantastic marriage tip you won’t hear from any marriage counselor or book: Get a couple’s email domain What’s a couple’s email domain? My wife and I share a .com domain name for email. I’m not going to reveal our real domain name, but pretend it’s this: @shinytable.com Emails to michael@shinytable.com go… ## [Flash an AirGradient ONE from the Command Line](https://mtlynch.io/notes/flash-airgradient-cli/) _2025-08-23 · mtlynch.io_ I’ve purchased two AirGradient ONE indoor quality monitors to measure air quality in my home. AirGradient devices are open-source, so you can flash your own custom firmware and collect your air data locally rather than sending it to AirGradient’s proprietary cloud dashboard. I keep an AirGradient ONE air quality monitor in my office to measure CO2 and pollution. The existing… ## [Refactoring English: Month 8](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2025/08/) _2025-08-13 · mtlynch.io_ New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developers . Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one to share how things are going with my book and my professional life overall. Highlights I find that not every reader who… ## [Migrating a ZFS pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2](https://mtlynch.io/raidz1-to-raidz2/) _2025-07-23 · mtlynch.io_ I recently upgraded my home TrueNAS server and migrated 18 TB of data from a 4-disk RAIDZ1 ZFS pool to a new RAIDZ2 pool. The neat part is that I did it with only three additional 8 TB disks and never transferred my data to external storage. Upgrading from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2 without moving data to external storage is tricky because: ## [Refactoring English: Month 7](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2025/07/) _2025-07-11 · mtlynch.io_ Highlights I look for ways to limit the number of half-complete tasks I’m juggling. I brainstorm ways to talk with more of my early readers. I have trouble accepting a design decision in the Gleam language. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals: Offer a lower-friction way for users to pre-order my book… ## [goHardDrive Leaked Personal Data for Thousands of Customers](https://mtlynch.io/goharddrive-leak/) _2025-07-02 · mtlynch.io_ I recently returned a product to goHardDrive, a merchant that specializes in selling used hard drives. During the return process, I discovered that they were accidentally publishing details about thousands of their customers, including their full names, mailing addresses, email addresses, and order details. The leak When I requested a return from goHardDrive, they assigned me a return merchandise… ## [My First Impressions of Gleam](https://mtlynch.io/notes/gleam-first-impressions/) _2025-06-22 · mtlynch.io_ I’m looking for a new programming language to learn this year, and Gleam looks like the most fun. It’s an Elixir-like language that supports static typing. I read the language tour , and it made sense to me, but I need to build something before I can judge a programming language well. I’m sharing some notes on my first few hours using Gleam in case they’re helpful to others… ## [A Simple Example of Calling an Elixir Library from Gleam](https://mtlynch.io/notes/gleam-call-elixir/) _2025-06-08 · mtlynch.io_ I’ve been experimenting a bit with Gleam and Elixir lately as part of my search for a new programming language . One of Gleam’s flagship features is that it can call Elixir code and libraries, but I couldn’t find any examples of how to do that. I wrote a simple example of calling an Elixir library from a Gleam project, based on my beginner’s understanding of the… ## [Refactoring English: Month 6](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2025/06/) _2025-06-04 · mtlynch.io_ Highlights The writing techniques I planned last month helped me publish faster and focus better. I need to find more ways to talk to readers about my book. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals: Publish two chapters of my book to pre-order readers Result : Published “You’re Qualified to Write a… ## [Which New Language Should I Learn for Web Development?](https://mtlynch.io/notes/which-new-language/) _2025-05-29 · mtlynch.io_ One of my goals for the year is to learn a new programming language. It’s been a while since I learned a new language, and I feel like a lot of the languages I know well (Go, Python, C++) are similar to each other, so I want to try getting out of my comfort zone a bit with a language that feels weird to me. Requirements Here’s what I’m looking for: ## [Notes from Simon Willison's Interview on Software Misadventures](https://mtlynch.io/notes/simon-willison-software-misadventures/) _2025-05-23 · mtlynch.io_ I just finished listening to Simon Willison’s interview on the Software Misadventures podcast . I learned a lot from the interview, so I wrote up my notes. This is not a summary of the whole interview, just the parts that were new to me or that I’d like to remember. Simon Willison on the Software Misadventures podcast Who’s Simon Willison? One of the co-creators of Django, the… ## [Why Men Quit Dating After Divorce (And Why It's Not Too Late for You)](https://tonystevens.substack.com/p/why-men-quit-dating-after-divorce) _2025-05-20 · Tony Stevens · Fatherhood 3.0_ These 3 beliefs are keeping you lonely after heartbreak. ## [7 Cheat Codes to Gain an Unfair Dating Advantage as a Divorced Dad](https://tonystevens.substack.com/p/7-cheat-codes-to-gain-an-unfair-dating) _2025-05-11 · Tony Stevens · Fatherhood 3.0_ Even if you've got kids, a full-time job, and no time for games. ## [Refactoring English: Month 5](https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/2025/05/) _2025-05-08 · mtlynch.io_ Highlights Why am I making slower progress than I’d like on my book? I optimize my Asciidoctor write and preview workflow. I’m working on a side project to track Hacker News performance in real-time. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals: Write a blog post about lessons from Kickstarter Result :…