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Michael Lynch

Melbourne

Sports Writer at Sydney Morning Herald

Sports Writer at The Age

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  • 1 month ago | refactoringenglish.com | Michael Lynch

    I recently spoke to a developer who tried blogging but gave up because nobody was reading his posts. I checked out his blog, and it was immediately obvious why he didn’t have any readers. The developer had interesting insights, but he made so many mistakes in presenting his ideas that he was driving everyone away. The tragedy was that these errors were easy to fix. Once you learn to recognize them, they feel obvious, but some bloggers make these mistakes for years. I know because I’m one of them.

  • Aug 14, 2024 | flipboard.com | Michael Lynch

    People believe a lot of dumb things. I mean, really dumb things, including things that are obviously either wrong or irrelevant but that are repeated without being given much thought. One great example is the common remark that because weather is chaotic, a butterfly flapping its wings in the …

  • May 9, 2024 | thestraight.com.au | Michael Lynch

    In the two decades since he began his racing life as a jockey shortly after his 15th birthday, Perth trainer Dion Luciani has never had a Group 1 winner. Plenty of near misses, both as a rider and trainer, have only brought greater determination to strike at the highest level rather than frustration and disappointment.

  • Mar 20, 2024 | mtlynch.io | Michael Lynch

    March 19, 202411-minute readFor the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and Ethereum cryptocurrency. To learn more about both, I’ve been using Zig to write a bytecode interpreter for the Ethereum Virtual Machine. Zig is a great language for performance optimization, as it gives you fine-grained control over memory and control flow. To motivate myself, I’ve been benchmarking my Ethereum implementation against the official Go implementation.

  • Mar 12, 2024 | sdvoice.info | Michael Lynch

    By Michael Lynch, Special to California Black Media PartnersCollege matters. Obtaining a college degree continues to be the most powerful tool we have to combat poverty. College graduates earn more than $1 million more in their lifetime than individuals with a high school diploma. For low-income youth, it is the most promising path out of poverty. Despite the economic value of a college degree, Black and Brown boys are still the least likely group to attend and graduate from college.

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Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch @MichaelLynchy
13 May 25

Hard to argue with that

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Frank Worthington and my favourite goal of all time. RIP Elvis https://t.co/9sewpdyKkG

Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch @MichaelLynchy
13 May 25

RT @TheSpursWatch: Seeing some Spurs fans buying into the media’s bullshit narrative that being in a top 4/5 race is somehow more of an ach…

Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch @MichaelLynchy
13 May 25

RT @Mahmoud_SFC: Virgil Van Dijk is telling 26-year-old Arnold that he should not be chasing his dreams after giving everything to the club…