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
Yesterday I accidentally used the wrong little medicine cup and ended up taking 30 mL of DXM (nothing else in it, just generic cough suppressant) instead of 10 mL.
Of course I asked gippity who then assumed I was suicidal, which didn't calm my fears about the outcomes of a 3x dose.
tl;dr: I lived.
Of course I asked gippity who then assumed I was suicidal, which didn't calm my fears about the outcomes of a 3x dose.
tl;dr: I lived.
November 13, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Yesterday I accidentally used the wrong little medicine cup and ended up taking 30 mL of DXM (nothing else in it, just generic cough suppressant) instead of 10 mL.
Of course I asked gippity who then assumed I was suicidal, which didn't calm my fears about the outcomes of a 3x dose.
tl;dr: I lived.
Of course I asked gippity who then assumed I was suicidal, which didn't calm my fears about the outcomes of a 3x dose.
tl;dr: I lived.
Reposted by Brad Fitzpatrick
Oh hi, long time no see! 👋
It's been 5 years, but here's a new release of perkeep.org ....
github.com/perkeep/perk...
It's been 5 years, but here's a new release of perkeep.org ....
github.com/perkeep/perk...
Release v0.12 · perkeep/perkeep
Perkeep 0.12 ("Toronto")
2025-11-11
It's been exactly 5 years since Perkeep's last release.
That's a long time between releases, sorry! I guess I got distracted at my new job (Tailscale) (and kids)...
github.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Oh hi, long time no see! 👋
It's been 5 years, but here's a new release of perkeep.org ....
github.com/perkeep/perk...
It's been 5 years, but here's a new release of perkeep.org ....
github.com/perkeep/perk...
Pushing to a repo that auto-deploys to Cloud Run after a few years, and:
"Container Registry is deprecated and shutting down, please use the auto migration tool to migrate to Artifact Registry (gcloud artifacts docker ...."
Could you be any more fucking predictable, Google?
"Container Registry is deprecated and shutting down, please use the auto migration tool to migrate to Artifact Registry (gcloud artifacts docker ...."
Could you be any more fucking predictable, Google?
https://cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/transition/auto-migrate-gcr-ar"
November 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Pushing to a repo that auto-deploys to Cloud Run after a few years, and:
"Container Registry is deprecated and shutting down, please use the auto migration tool to migrate to Artifact Registry (gcloud artifacts docker ...."
Could you be any more fucking predictable, Google?
"Container Registry is deprecated and shutting down, please use the auto migration tool to migrate to Artifact Registry (gcloud artifacts docker ...."
Could you be any more fucking predictable, Google?
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Happy to see someone outside Google rebuild/verify Go toolchains. Thanks @agwa.name! www.agwa.name/blog/post/ve...
"So far, Source Spotter has successfully reproduced every toolchain since Go 1.21.0, for every architecture and operating system. As of publication time, that's 2,672 toolchains!"
"So far, Source Spotter has successfully reproduced every toolchain since Go 1.21.0, for every architecture and operating system. As of publication time, that's 2,672 toolchains!"
I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds
Introducing Source Spotter, a Go Checksum Database auditor and Go toolchain reproducer
www.agwa.name
October 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Happy to see someone outside Google rebuild/verify Go toolchains. Thanks @agwa.name! www.agwa.name/blog/post/ve...
"So far, Source Spotter has successfully reproduced every toolchain since Go 1.21.0, for every architecture and operating system. As of publication time, that's 2,672 toolchains!"
"So far, Source Spotter has successfully reproduced every toolchain since Go 1.21.0, for every architecture and operating system. As of publication time, that's 2,672 toolchains!"
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"
I'm trying to find a press release from 1996 that doesn't seem to be on the web anymore, and Wayback Machine search basically only works if you know the URL.
Anybody here have LexisNexis, Factiva, ProQuest Historical News, Newsbank, etc access?
(Southland Corporation's 30th Slurpee anniversary PR)
Anybody here have LexisNexis, Factiva, ProQuest Historical News, Newsbank, etc access?
(Southland Corporation's 30th Slurpee anniversary PR)
October 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I'm trying to find a press release from 1996 that doesn't seem to be on the web anymore, and Wayback Machine search basically only works if you know the URL.
Anybody here have LexisNexis, Factiva, ProQuest Historical News, Newsbank, etc access?
(Southland Corporation's 30th Slurpee anniversary PR)
Anybody here have LexisNexis, Factiva, ProQuest Historical News, Newsbank, etc access?
(Southland Corporation's 30th Slurpee anniversary PR)
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.
So many Waymos in SF that the human-driven taxis resort to advertising themselves as "a car with a driver"
Fun times.
Fun times.
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
So many Waymos in SF that the human-driven taxis resort to advertising themselves as "a car with a driver"
Fun times.
Fun times.
good morning, San Francisco
🥱☕️
🥱☕️
October 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
good morning, San Francisco
🥱☕️
🥱☕️
I'm trying out vibe coding today for a thing on a whim.
I think I like this in the same way I enjoy watching people try to parallel park a dozen times in a row, fucking it up the same way over and over again.
I think I like this in the same way I enjoy watching people try to parallel park a dozen times in a row, fucking it up the same way over and over again.
October 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I'm trying out vibe coding today for a thing on a whim.
I think I like this in the same way I enjoy watching people try to parallel park a dozen times in a row, fucking it up the same way over and over again.
I think I like this in the same way I enjoy watching people try to parallel park a dozen times in a row, fucking it up the same way over and over again.
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!
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?"
🔥😂
Kate: "this is Dylan in there!"
Baby: "Sean in papa?"
🔥😂
October 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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?"
🔥😂
Kate: "this is Dylan in there!"
Baby: "Sean in papa?"
🔥😂
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
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?
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?
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 😂
Dealership said they have a massive stockpile of used Tesla at this point 😂
October 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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?
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?
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.
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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.
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
October 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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.
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?"
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?"
October 5, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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?"
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?"
Headstone text: "maybe the least bad social media CEO"
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Brad maybe?
October 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Headstone text: "maybe the least bad social media CEO"
🏆
🏆
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wake up grandpa. there's no such thing as "blue sky". you've been posting to live journal all along
May 6, 2024 at 11:04 PM
wake up grandpa. there's no such thing as "blue sky". you've been posting to live journal all along
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forgot to put this up somewhere so here you go. visualize your favorite zlib stream! lynn.github.io/flateview/
September 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
forgot to put this up somewhere so here you go. visualize your favorite zlib stream! lynn.github.io/flateview/
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