Brad Fitzpatrick 🌻

@bradfitz

I do computers. Married to @radkat. 3 kids. Xoogler. @golang team '10~'20. Made LiveJournal, memcached. Now @Tailscale. Mostly in bluer skies these days.

Seattle, WA // Bainbridge bradfitz.com Joined January 2007

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Brad Fitzpatrick 🌻 @bradfitz Nov 4, 2024

Some time back I rigged up a WireGuard-to-Tailscale proxy but it was a Rube Goldberg machine and fell apart and was hard to run.

This weekend @maisem_ali and I "polished" it up into a standalone Go binary:

github.com/tailscale/tail…

Still rough, but fun. Good weekend distraction.

Brad Fitzpatrick 🌻 @bradfitz Jul 25, 2024

Want to come work on the @Tailscale backend systems?

We're hiring. (Remote, but US and Canada only)

tailscale.com/careers#open-j… ("Platform Engineer")

#golang

tailscale.com Careers at Tailscale · Tailscale When the Internet began, people thought connecting everyone together, sharing information freely, and injecting a healthy dose of anarchism would lead to a strong, healthy society. Not really how it...

Brad Fitzpatrick 🌻 @bradfitz Mar 14, 2024

How would you feel if a piece of software you installed added its own product name to your machine's local user dictionary as a valid word so it didn't get red squiggly lines when users typed it? #poll

(arguably OS should do this itself, sure)

That'd be cool! 127
Eh, neutral. 118
Kinda sketchy, but sure. 187
Burn it with fire. 146

Final results

Brad Fitzpatrick 🌻 @bradfitz Oct 15, 2023

There's my dad's KF initials near the middle! 🤓

Ken Shirriff Verified account @kenshirriff Oct 14, 2023

Chip designers often puts their initial on a die. The 386, though, has many initials. I zoomed in on the initials, which seem to be next to the functional unit that person worked on. I couldn't identify most of the people, but "SEC" is head mask designer Shirley Carter. 3/9

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Brad Fitzpatrick 🌻 @bradfitz Apr 26, 2023

I have Bluesky invites. If I follow you (or we've met in person or worked together or...), DM me "blueskyplz" or something and I'll reply with one if/when I have any left.

Then use the invite at staging.bsky.app or the mobile apps.

bsky.app Bluesky Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.