Brad Fitzpatrick
@bradfitz.com
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
Go (#golang) team 2010~2020. Made LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached. Currently at @Tailscale.com making WireGuard easy.
Seattle, WA // Bainbridge
Teenager-looking girl at pizza place used the rarely used loan word "accoutrements" while dropping off my slice.
I congratulated her on her French. "Thanks!" She tells me about her recent trip to Paris. "Have you ever been to EUROPE?!"
Me: "yup!", quietly thinking "I should really get the Balkans"
I congratulated her on her French. "Thanks!" She tells me about her recent trip to Paris. "Have you ever been to EUROPE?!"
Me: "yup!", quietly thinking "I should really get the Balkans"
October 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Teenager-looking girl at pizza place used the rarely used loan word "accoutrements" while dropping off my slice.
I congratulated her on her French. "Thanks!" She tells me about her recent trip to Paris. "Have you ever been to EUROPE?!"
Me: "yup!", quietly thinking "I should really get the Balkans"
I congratulated her on her French. "Thanks!" She tells me about her recent trip to Paris. "Have you ever been to EUROPE?!"
Me: "yup!", quietly thinking "I should really get the Balkans"
Zoe has one grain of sand and Matthew has two grains of sand— who will finish their sandcastle first?
October 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Zoe has one grain of sand and Matthew has two grains of sand— who will finish their sandcastle first?
Fortunately the power of Jesus was USB-C.
October 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Fortunately the power of Jesus was USB-C.
good morning, San Francisco
🥱☕️
🥱☕️
October 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
good morning, San Francisco
🥱☕️
🥱☕️
After two failed visits to local hardware stores today, I remembered McMaster-Carr.
If you ever want to buy an exact thing and avoid the Amazon flea market dumpster fire: mcmaster.com
omg I love their website + search. I've probably raved about them before, but here's your regular reminder again.
If you ever want to buy an exact thing and avoid the Amazon flea market dumpster fire: mcmaster.com
omg I love their website + search. I've probably raved about them before, but here's your regular reminder again.
October 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
After two failed visits to local hardware stores today, I remembered McMaster-Carr.
If you ever want to buy an exact thing and avoid the Amazon flea market dumpster fire: mcmaster.com
omg I love their website + search. I've probably raved about them before, but here's your regular reminder again.
If you ever want to buy an exact thing and avoid the Amazon flea market dumpster fire: mcmaster.com
omg I love their website + search. I've probably raved about them before, but here's your regular reminder again.
TIL the "Lamborghini Urus"
... for when you have $250,000 blowing a hole in your pocket and want a sports car, but also only have a 1-car garage and still need an SUV for hauling kids around.
Lamborghini Urus to the rescue!
... for when you have $250,000 blowing a hole in your pocket and want a sports car, but also only have a 1-car garage and still need an SUV for hauling kids around.
Lamborghini Urus to the rescue!
October 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
TIL the "Lamborghini Urus"
... for when you have $250,000 blowing a hole in your pocket and want a sports car, but also only have a 1-car garage and still need an SUV for hauling kids around.
Lamborghini Urus to the rescue!
... for when you have $250,000 blowing a hole in your pocket and want a sports car, but also only have a 1-car garage and still need an SUV for hauling kids around.
Lamborghini Urus to the rescue!
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
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
October 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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
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
Some people don't like my home screen folders / organization system.
October 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Some people don't like my home screen folders / organization system.
I walked over those bridges! But the layout today isn't as it was when the problem was stated.
October 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I walked over those bridges! But the layout today isn't as it was when the problem was stated.
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!
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!
September 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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!
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!
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."
"Why does the pharmacy have GitHub written up on the wall?!!"
"Oh."
September 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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."
"Why does the pharmacy have GitHub written up on the wall?!!"
"Oh."
Hardware store: "we are the fastenerds" 💯
September 7, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Hardware store: "we are the fastenerds" 💯
Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
September 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.
Reflect Type Thing was a good song
September 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Reflect Type Thing was a good song
Achievement unlocked: first speeding ticket in Canada!
(right where the highway ends for the border crossing and the speed limit plummets faster than I decelerated 😅)
Now I get to look at this majestic peace arch for 35 minutes to remind me how brethren friendly we are. 😘
(right where the highway ends for the border crossing and the speed limit plummets faster than I decelerated 😅)
Now I get to look at this majestic peace arch for 35 minutes to remind me how brethren friendly we are. 😘
August 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Achievement unlocked: first speeding ticket in Canada!
(right where the highway ends for the border crossing and the speed limit plummets faster than I decelerated 😅)
Now I get to look at this majestic peace arch for 35 minutes to remind me how brethren friendly we are. 😘
(right where the highway ends for the border crossing and the speed limit plummets faster than I decelerated 😅)
Now I get to look at this majestic peace arch for 35 minutes to remind me how brethren friendly we are. 😘
Amalga Distillery in Juneau.
I sat next to one of the owners on a recent flight back from London and said I'd stop by.
Mmm, gin.
I sat next to one of the owners on a recent flight back from London and said I'd stop by.
Mmm, gin.
August 3, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Amalga Distillery in Juneau.
I sat next to one of the owners on a recent flight back from London and said I'd stop by.
Mmm, gin.
I sat next to one of the owners on a recent flight back from London and said I'd stop by.
Mmm, gin.
I looked at your pcap.
Why are you querying without the EDNS option to get a buffer size above 512? 😉
Why are you querying without the EDNS option to get a buffer size above 512? 😉
July 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I looked at your pcap.
Why are you querying without the EDNS option to get a buffer size above 512? 😉
Why are you querying without the EDNS option to get a buffer size above 512? 😉
I see plenty of INTERRUPT but I don't control the caller. The caller is the Go build system (cmd/go) doing its thing.
July 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I see plenty of INTERRUPT but I don't control the caller. The caller is the Go build system (cmd/go) doing its thing.
We have a Richard Scarry board game even...
July 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
We have a Richard Scarry board game even...