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
Brad Fitzpatrick
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At #AtmosphereConf in Vancouver BC (atmosphereconf.org).
It's nice seeing a bunch of familiar faces!
Apparently somebody just built us a new marketing site... 🙏
justfuckingusetailscale.com
Me: "so how old are your kids?”
Random mom from park: “3, 6, 9”
Me: “damn you fine”
The mom: <stares at me>
Me: (oh no)
Mom: “ha, I had almost forgotten that song!"
Me: (phew)
I programmed in BASIC when ~6yo.
Then we got Turbo C and my dad explained high-level vs low-level languages. With Turbo C I could read the mouse!
I'd asked if there was a language where I could just "make an elephant walk across the screen". He said ~"naah, sorry, not that high"
But there is now!
Before I went to bed, asked Claude to make FreeBSD work in CI.
Woke up to "then binary-patches the kernel to fix a TSC initialization panic on Intel CPUs. The upstream kernel only handles AMD under Firecracker; the patch changes one byte to redirect a tsc_disabled = 1 assignment to tsc_freq = 1.."🤯
