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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

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 1d

But can you parallel park?

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 1d

maybe I should've co-authored-by

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 1d

Here it is:

github.com/bradfitz/liv...

It's for running the cloudwego/goref tool against running servers with hundreds of GBs of memory, without pauses.

Seems to work? Haven't used it for reals yet. Let me know if you're braver than me and try it on something big 🤪

#golang

GitHub - bradfitz/livecore: Linux low-pause core file dumper from an existing running process

Linux low-pause core file dumper from an existing running process - bradfitz/livecore

github.com

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 2d

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.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 3d

Whoops. I think I blended "burn a hole in your pocket" and "to blow" (money) and brain-o'ed.

Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 3d

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.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 3d

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!

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 6d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 10d

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

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 10d

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 · 10d

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 · 10d

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

Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 11d

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 · 11d

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.