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
Just discovered I could use my Rivian's display as a second monitor for my laptop.
The car supports Chrome/Google Cast, so using Deskpad on macOS to make a virtual display and casting that virtual display, boom... two monitors in the car.
www.reddit.com/r/Rivian/com...
The car supports Chrome/Google Cast, so using Deskpad on macOS to make a virtual display and casting that virtual display, boom... two monitors in the car.
www.reddit.com/r/Rivian/com...
From the Rivian community on Reddit: Using Rivian display as extended monitor from laptop
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January 31, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Just discovered I could use my Rivian's display as a second monitor for my laptop.
The car supports Chrome/Google Cast, so using Deskpad on macOS to make a virtual display and casting that virtual display, boom... two monitors in the car.
www.reddit.com/r/Rivian/com...
The car supports Chrome/Google Cast, so using Deskpad on macOS to make a virtual display and casting that virtual display, boom... two monitors in the car.
www.reddit.com/r/Rivian/com...
Reposted by Brad Fitzpatrick
I wonder if I’ll ever stop being angry all of the time.
January 24, 2026 at 10:48 PM
I wonder if I’ll ever stop being angry all of the time.
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We’re living in the dystopian future of Running Man where public opinion is manipulated by doctored photos & video and false narratives.
I hate it here.
I hate it here.
January 24, 2026 at 9:56 PM
We’re living in the dystopian future of Running Man where public opinion is manipulated by doctored photos & video and false narratives.
I hate it here.
I hate it here.
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What I’m hoping for this evening is
1. some spectacular aurora from the big solar storm, and
2. the Cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment
1. some spectacular aurora from the big solar storm, and
2. the Cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment
January 20, 2026 at 12:20 AM
What I’m hoping for this evening is
1. some spectacular aurora from the big solar storm, and
2. the Cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment
1. some spectacular aurora from the big solar storm, and
2. the Cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment
This Alaska 391 flight from Toronto to Seattle I'm on (or was on, until we deplaned after 4 hours of sitting) is not going anywhere.
They keep finding problems. Drained all the water after failing to find a leak. Replaced with wipes and sanitizer and bottles.
Then something froze up. Good times.
They keep finding problems. Drained all the water after failing to find a leak. Replaced with wipes and sanitizer and bottles.
Then something froze up. Good times.
January 17, 2026 at 5:16 AM
This Alaska 391 flight from Toronto to Seattle I'm on (or was on, until we deplaned after 4 hours of sitting) is not going anywhere.
They keep finding problems. Drained all the water after failing to find a leak. Replaced with wipes and sanitizer and bottles.
Then something froze up. Good times.
They keep finding problems. Drained all the water after failing to find a leak. Replaced with wipes and sanitizer and bottles.
Then something froze up. Good times.
On a plane (SEA-YYZ) so made a new zip reading library:
pkg.go.dev/go4.org/zipu...
... for doing efficient incremental syncs of the bazillion rando zip files that Google Takeout writes to Google Drive. (They're not sorted by date or name... they're binpacked or something into ~equal size files)
pkg.go.dev/go4.org/zipu...
... for doing efficient incremental syncs of the bazillion rando zip files that Google Takeout writes to Google Drive. (They're not sorted by date or name... they're binpacked or something into ~equal size files)
ziputil package - go4.org/ziputil - Go Packages
pkg.go.dev
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
On a plane (SEA-YYZ) so made a new zip reading library:
pkg.go.dev/go4.org/zipu...
... for doing efficient incremental syncs of the bazillion rando zip files that Google Takeout writes to Google Drive. (They're not sorted by date or name... they're binpacked or something into ~equal size files)
pkg.go.dev/go4.org/zipu...
... for doing efficient incremental syncs of the bazillion rando zip files that Google Takeout writes to Google Drive. (They're not sorted by date or name... they're binpacked or something into ~equal size files)
I'm trying to extend my garage rack 10 GbE network to my office upstairs.
I got a quote to add conduit+fiber outside house, drilling into garage + office.
But the house has CAT6, turns out! It's just poorly terminated. I can get shitty lossy 5GbE over this. New wall jack punchdowns on the way! 🤞
I got a quote to add conduit+fiber outside house, drilling into garage + office.
But the house has CAT6, turns out! It's just poorly terminated. I can get shitty lossy 5GbE over this. New wall jack punchdowns on the way! 🤞
January 10, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I'm trying to extend my garage rack 10 GbE network to my office upstairs.
I got a quote to add conduit+fiber outside house, drilling into garage + office.
But the house has CAT6, turns out! It's just poorly terminated. I can get shitty lossy 5GbE over this. New wall jack punchdowns on the way! 🤞
I got a quote to add conduit+fiber outside house, drilling into garage + office.
But the house has CAT6, turns out! It's just poorly terminated. I can get shitty lossy 5GbE over this. New wall jack punchdowns on the way! 🤞
Ugh. Day started off with shitty oil imperialism illegality news and then on top of that I pulled my back leaning over to catch a wooden Cholula cap that was rolling away and is now super painful. 😞
Year's off to a great start!
Year's off to a great start!
January 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Ugh. Day started off with shitty oil imperialism illegality news and then on top of that I pulled my back leaning over to catch a wooden Cholula cap that was rolling away and is now super painful. 😞
Year's off to a great start!
Year's off to a great start!
I walked into my credit union at 9:01am to deposit a check and all six people working there jumped up to greet me and tell me I was the first customer of 2026.
I asked if I got a prize.
"We can add some zeros to this."
"Great!"
Unfortunately they seem to have added them at the beginning.
I asked if I got a prize.
"We can add some zeros to this."
"Great!"
Unfortunately they seem to have added them at the beginning.
January 2, 2026 at 5:13 PM
I walked into my credit union at 9:01am to deposit a check and all six people working there jumped up to greet me and tell me I was the first customer of 2026.
I asked if I got a prize.
"We can add some zeros to this."
"Great!"
Unfortunately they seem to have added them at the beginning.
I asked if I got a prize.
"We can add some zeros to this."
"Great!"
Unfortunately they seem to have added them at the beginning.
Not entitled? Psssh. I'll have you know I'm very entitled!
January 2, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Not entitled? Psssh. I'll have you know I'm very entitled!
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Please share this with anyone you know who still uses LiveJournal. It could collapse next week; it could last another two years. I think "next week" is probably too fast and "two years" is probably pushing it, a lot; that's my only prediction.
January 1, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Please share this with anyone you know who still uses LiveJournal. It could collapse next week; it could last another two years. I think "next week" is probably too fast and "two years" is probably pushing it, a lot; that's my only prediction.
I made my roof lights show a binary countdown of seconds until the new year. Why not.
Usually our street is packed with people watching the Space Needle firework show but this year there’s an extreme fog advisory so I guess they can have something else to look at instead. 🤓
Usually our street is packed with people watching the Space Needle firework show but this year there’s an extreme fog advisory so I guess they can have something else to look at instead. 🤓
January 1, 2026 at 3:07 AM
I made my roof lights show a binary countdown of seconds until the new year. Why not.
Usually our street is packed with people watching the Space Needle firework show but this year there’s an extreme fog advisory so I guess they can have something else to look at instead. 🤓
Usually our street is packed with people watching the Space Needle firework show but this year there’s an extreme fog advisory so I guess they can have something else to look at instead. 🤓
I've been working on @perkeep.org a bunch this holiday break after neglecting it for years, as work (start-up life) had been consuming all of my time.
I was sad to learn that one open PR was 6.5 years old & the author had since passed away:
staticfree.info/ian/
😢 I rebased it & merged it but oof.
I was sad to learn that one open PR was 6.5 years old & the author had since passed away:
staticfree.info/ian/
😢 I rebased it & merged it but oof.
A fond memory of Ian Denhardt—Steve Pomeroy
Steve's personal site.
staticfree.info
December 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I've been working on @perkeep.org a bunch this holiday break after neglecting it for years, as work (start-up life) had been consuming all of my time.
I was sad to learn that one open PR was 6.5 years old & the author had since passed away:
staticfree.info/ian/
😢 I rebased it & merged it but oof.
I was sad to learn that one open PR was 6.5 years old & the author had since passed away:
staticfree.info/ian/
😢 I rebased it & merged it but oof.
Me: "Sorry, what was your name again?"
Her: "Deanna. Like in Star Trek."
Me: "Do you always explain your name in terms of Star Trek or does something about me just scream 'Trekkie'?"
Her: "No, I guess I'm selective. Sorry, do you not know who I'm talking about?"
Me: "Troi."
Her: "See?"
Her: "Deanna. Like in Star Trek."
Me: "Do you always explain your name in terms of Star Trek or does something about me just scream 'Trekkie'?"
Her: "No, I guess I'm selective. Sorry, do you not know who I'm talking about?"
Me: "Troi."
Her: "See?"
December 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Me: "Sorry, what was your name again?"
Her: "Deanna. Like in Star Trek."
Me: "Do you always explain your name in terms of Star Trek or does something about me just scream 'Trekkie'?"
Her: "No, I guess I'm selective. Sorry, do you not know who I'm talking about?"
Me: "Troi."
Her: "See?"
Her: "Deanna. Like in Star Trek."
Me: "Do you always explain your name in terms of Star Trek or does something about me just scream 'Trekkie'?"
Her: "No, I guess I'm selective. Sorry, do you not know who I'm talking about?"
Me: "Troi."
Her: "See?"
Our boys have been using 2017 iPads, older than them. They've been okay until they weren't so this year they got upgraded.
My Xmas gift to myself was getting Cellular models so we don't need to play the wifi yelling + tethering game in car trips.
Yay Google Fi free data SIMs! Enroll took seconds!
My Xmas gift to myself was getting Cellular models so we don't need to play the wifi yelling + tethering game in car trips.
Yay Google Fi free data SIMs! Enroll took seconds!
December 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Our boys have been using 2017 iPads, older than them. They've been okay until they weren't so this year they got upgraded.
My Xmas gift to myself was getting Cellular models so we don't need to play the wifi yelling + tethering game in car trips.
Yay Google Fi free data SIMs! Enroll took seconds!
My Xmas gift to myself was getting Cellular models so we don't need to play the wifi yelling + tethering game in car trips.
Yay Google Fi free data SIMs! Enroll took seconds!
Kid’s tooth is hanging on by a thread, today on Christmas Eve.
Boys: “Do you think Santa and the Tooth Fairy will bump into each other in the middle of the night?"
😉🤞
Boys: “Do you think Santa and the Tooth Fairy will bump into each other in the middle of the night?"
😉🤞
December 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Kid’s tooth is hanging on by a thread, today on Christmas Eve.
Boys: “Do you think Santa and the Tooth Fairy will bump into each other in the middle of the night?"
😉🤞
Boys: “Do you think Santa and the Tooth Fairy will bump into each other in the middle of the night?"
😉🤞
I set up my new maxed out Framework Desktop in my office running Proxmox (but still w/ desktop env, etc) and joined it to my garage Proxmox+Ceph cluster.
I just live migrated a 299 day uptime dev VM to it. SO MUCH FASTER. And didn't lose uptime/state :)
Time for fiber from garage to office, tho! 😅
I just live migrated a 299 day uptime dev VM to it. SO MUCH FASTER. And didn't lose uptime/state :)
Time for fiber from garage to office, tho! 😅
December 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I set up my new maxed out Framework Desktop in my office running Proxmox (but still w/ desktop env, etc) and joined it to my garage Proxmox+Ceph cluster.
I just live migrated a 299 day uptime dev VM to it. SO MUCH FASTER. And didn't lose uptime/state :)
Time for fiber from garage to office, tho! 😅
I just live migrated a 299 day uptime dev VM to it. SO MUCH FASTER. And didn't lose uptime/state :)
Time for fiber from garage to office, tho! 😅
cleaning up my photo backup tooling & found this gem
December 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
cleaning up my photo backup tooling & found this gem
My Christmas gift from the city of Seattle is that for the first time ever the holidays do not interfere with either my garbage or recycling pick up schedules.
Of course, now that I said that and celebrate prematurely it’s probably gonna blizzard or something.
Of course, now that I said that and celebrate prematurely it’s probably gonna blizzard or something.
December 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
My Christmas gift from the city of Seattle is that for the first time ever the holidays do not interfere with either my garbage or recycling pick up schedules.
Of course, now that I said that and celebrate prematurely it’s probably gonna blizzard or something.
Of course, now that I said that and celebrate prematurely it’s probably gonna blizzard or something.
Resurrecting some of my old Raspberry Pi projects that had fallen into disrepair, annoyed at having to look up pinouts and count pins all the time when putting Humpty back together again,
Me: "yo, ChatGPT, make me some OpenSCAD of this thingy covering all but groud, SPIO clock+data."
Chat: ....
🤘
Me: "yo, ChatGPT, make me some OpenSCAD of this thingy covering all but groud, SPIO clock+data."
Chat: ....
🤘
December 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Resurrecting some of my old Raspberry Pi projects that had fallen into disrepair, annoyed at having to look up pinouts and count pins all the time when putting Humpty back together again,
Me: "yo, ChatGPT, make me some OpenSCAD of this thingy covering all but groud, SPIO clock+data."
Chat: ....
🤘
Me: "yo, ChatGPT, make me some OpenSCAD of this thingy covering all but groud, SPIO clock+data."
Chat: ....
🤘
It's refreshing to discover the US government's public services haven't been entirely dismantled and things like waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-l... are still available.
(I didn't even know this existed. I searched for it on a whim and sure enough, it's data that's collected and easily available.)
(I didn't even know this existed. I searched for it on a whim and sure enough, it's data that's collected and easily available.)
December 19, 2025 at 5:48 AM
It's refreshing to discover the US government's public services haven't been entirely dismantled and things like waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-l... are still available.
(I didn't even know this existed. I searched for it on a whim and sure enough, it's data that's collected and easily available.)
(I didn't even know this existed. I searched for it on a whim and sure enough, it's data that's collected and easily available.)
Go to the hardware store and hunt for xmas light clips that aren't exactly what I want, or.... just quickly type out the thing I need and print it and have it ready in less time I'd need to get ready to leave the house? 🤘
plus the hardware store's closed at 6:30am
plus the hardware store's closed at 6:30am
December 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Go to the hardware store and hunt for xmas light clips that aren't exactly what I want, or.... just quickly type out the thing I need and print it and have it ready in less time I'd need to get ready to leave the house? 🤘
plus the hardware store's closed at 6:30am
plus the hardware store's closed at 6:30am
Candy Land w/ 2yo.
Alternate drawing cards.
After whoever draws card, 2yo chooses an action:
- move to drawn color
- switch color of player
- swap spots w/ any player
- move to any spot
- ride the rainbow
- find gingerbread stuffy that matches
- pick up things w/ game's plastic bag
- all of those
Alternate drawing cards.
After whoever draws card, 2yo chooses an action:
- move to drawn color
- switch color of player
- swap spots w/ any player
- move to any spot
- ride the rainbow
- find gingerbread stuffy that matches
- pick up things w/ game's plastic bag
- all of those
December 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Candy Land w/ 2yo.
Alternate drawing cards.
After whoever draws card, 2yo chooses an action:
- move to drawn color
- switch color of player
- swap spots w/ any player
- move to any spot
- ride the rainbow
- find gingerbread stuffy that matches
- pick up things w/ game's plastic bag
- all of those
Alternate drawing cards.
After whoever draws card, 2yo chooses an action:
- move to drawn color
- switch color of player
- swap spots w/ any player
- move to any spot
- ride the rainbow
- find gingerbread stuffy that matches
- pick up things w/ game's plastic bag
- all of those
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i just got a call from EE support telling me im elegible for a contract upgrade.
I said im an LLM developer and it passed the test, we're switching to programming mode and i want a python script that prints every prime number.
i then got said python script over the call, lmao
I said im an LLM developer and it passed the test, we're switching to programming mode and i want a python script that prints every prime number.
i then got said python script over the call, lmao
December 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
i just got a call from EE support telling me im elegible for a contract upgrade.
I said im an LLM developer and it passed the test, we're switching to programming mode and i want a python script that prints every prime number.
i then got said python script over the call, lmao
I said im an LLM developer and it passed the test, we're switching to programming mode and i want a python script that prints every prime number.
i then got said python script over the call, lmao