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Brad Fitzpatrick

@bradfitz.com

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I do computers. Married to @radkat.fitzpat.com. Three kids. Xoogler. Go (#golang) team 2010~2020. Made LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached. Currently at @Tailscale.com making WireGuard easy. Seattle, WA // Bainbridge

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 1d

2yo (kid 3) was looking at a picture when @radkat.fitzpat.com was pregnant with our first and standing next to me.

Kate: "this is Dylan in there!"
Baby: "Sean in papa?"

🔥😂

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 2d

I didn't want to speak the Peanut Butter Hula Hoops Language Server Protocol, so I hacked up x/tools/gopls to add my own HTTP server.

Yo dawg, I put a language server in your language server.

Now I can do thousands of renames quickly w/ a simple HTTP protocol w/ sane position encoding 🤪

#golang

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 3d

I think the car had like 2,500 miles on it and hasn't ever left the Seattle area.

Good job, car.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 3d

Well it was a good almost 6 mo.

Unfortunately the Ioniq 5 hit a rock or something (maybe? we don't know!) & punctured the battery + now it needs a new $40,000 battery, so insurance suspects it's totaled, but insurance is very confused. As are we.

Is this car like super frail?

Time for a new car?

Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · Apr 22

Traded in my 2019 Model 3 Performance 👋 for a 2025 Ioniq 5 AWD Limited 🎉

Dealership said they have a massive stockpile of used Tesla at this point 😂

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 6d

Some people don't like my home screen folders / organization system.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 6d

I walked over those bridges! But the layout today isn't as it was when the problem was stated.

Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 6d

On run with kids,

Me: "which way do you want to go back? this way or this way?"

8yo: "Let's just GO HOME! Let's go THE SHORT WAY!!!"

Me: "They're the same. It's a grid. Have you heard of Manhattan Distance?"

8yo: "Is that German?"

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 7d

Oh right. That rings a bell.

I had a picture of my brothers and me mooning somebody on the trampoline while they were trying to take a picture.

It wasn't new content just for LJ. Or particularly risque. Just some bad plumber crack basically. On a trampoline.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 7d

I actually have no memory of this supposed event. Is there still proof on the internet? PoA if you will.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 7d

hey man, the bar was "least bad", not "good" 😅

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 7d

Headstone text: "maybe the least bad social media CEO"

🏆

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 7d

Brad maybe?

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · May 6

wake up grandpa. there's no such thing as "blue sky". you've been posting to live journal all along

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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 20d

forgot to put this up somewhere so here you go. visualize your favorite zlib stream! lynn.github.io/flateview/

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 21d

Co-authored-by: ....

more like

Conspirator-also-guilty: ....

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 21d

Spidermen pointing at each other meme:

Shitty products
Shitty regulations

Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 23d

Piggy

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 27d

Whenever I read something about Paris, some arrondissement is inevitably mentioned and I inevitably forget what's where.

New plan: just remember:

4, 7, 12, 15

For where the spiral jumps the Seine.

Not as catchy as my RJ-45 wiring mnemonic but 🤷‍♂️

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 29d

(my apologies for not citing the original... I can't find it)

Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 29d

Ever since I saw somebody else do this on the interwebs, I've been meaning to try this and today I got my chance:

Show up early to a meeting and scream to yourself while the AI bot records it, and then go quiet once others join... it works!

Gong showing Brad worried about pirates and suggesting the use of machine guns.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · Sep 9

Me, looking out the corner of my eye waiting to get some vaccines:

"Why does the pharmacy have GitHub written up on the wall?!!"

"Oh."

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · Sep 9

Bumper sticker with rainbow letters: "the only minority destroying the country are the billionaires"

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · Sep 7

Hardware store: "we are the fastenerds" 💯

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · Sep 7