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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 12/08/2026

Just saw my first solar eclipse. A++. Would recommend. (Currently on Liberty of the Seas, just north of Spain) Here it is at 4x rate:

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 09/08/2026

“He doesn’t know how to use the three seashells!” (Me trying to figure out the unlabeled bins in Bilbao 😅)

Four bins saying only "B", all of different color

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 09/08/2026

🎵 "You take your car to work I'll take my board And when you're out of fuel I'm still afloat..." 🎵

Place for bikes and surfboards on the metro

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 24/07/2026

I'm losing my patience with GitHub. Both the constant outages and constant lying piss me off.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 04/07/2026

4th of July Fun Run 5K! 🎉🇺🇸 First organized run in ages. Fun indeed. And earns me 3.1 beers in my 2026 mile-per-beer (any alcoholic drink) resolution! I'm trying to work up to a half marathon again. Longest run lately is 6.5 miles.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 23/06/2026

Hey @goodtogo.wsdot.wa.gov, a unique merchant-locked credit card number (from Privacy.com) I've only ever given to you guys tried to buy $2,200 of sandwiches. Did you get compromised? I closed the card and see no other activity on it, at least.

Privacy decline notification saying my GoodToGo card was declined at Jersey Mike's Online UC for $2,200 for going over the card limit.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 31/05/2026

Our 3yo is loving this Mariners game. “We’ll sell you the whole seat but you’ll only need the bed”

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 16/05/2026

This little thingy is great: pockethernet.com (Not an ad. No affiliate links. Just enamored.)

Pocket-size hand-held device with an ethernet cable plugged in

screenshot of app showing other stuff it does: TDR, PoE, Link, IPv4/v6, ping, ...

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 14/05/2026

"Racksberry Pi" My new rack to eventually better organize/cable my collection of all Raspberries Pi, mips, mipsle, mips64, riscv64, etc rando hardware. Still setting it up. Only silent fanless stuff is allowed here. Servers with fans/IPMI go in the garage where they can be loud and not needy.

new half rack of Raspberry Pis and other weirdo little fanless SBCs for testing

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 29/04/2026

Yay Hyundai celebrating the 1 year anniversary of my Ioniq 5 that didn't last 6 months.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 27/04/2026

... also now: Tailscale running on UEFI on AWS EC2. No kernel. No OS. (Tamago) Had to port AWS ENA drivers to Go (from FreeBSD, DPDK, Amazon spec) Also fun: it's using UEFI variables as its ipn.StateStore, so you can reboot the instance and it's still logged in. This was a PITA even with AI.

stack trace showing ENA (Nitro network driver) goroutines alongside Tailscale tsnet ones

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 24/04/2026

And while I was doing operating systems whose names match /^R.*OS$/ .... Tailscale on ReactOS! (reactos.org) It's like an open source Windows XP. Go toolchain + std require Win10+, and ReactOS is pre-Win7, so Go needed changes. Then ran a tsnet server on it, serving its own screenshot:

Screenshot of browser hitting a tsnet server with an HTML page showing a screenshot of a ReactOS desktop running said tsnet-demo.exe

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 24/04/2026

Another one for Tailscale Hack Week: I got Go ported to Redox OS (www.redox-os.org), enough to run Tailscale inside it. i.e. GOOS=redox GOARCH=amd64 Go std tests exposed a Redox libc bug with unsafe Rust, too. And a kernel crash.

Screenshot of QEMU running RedoxOS, with a terminal showing log output of Tailscale running on it, and a browser showing connecting to it, "Go redox/amd64", etc

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 23/04/2026

Tailscale on UEFI ... who needs an OS, really? (using github.com/usbarmory/ta...) And yes, clearly putting a bootloader in here is an obvious next step 😉 This week is Hack Week at Tailscale. This is one of the 4 weird new places I got Tailscale running. #golang #tamago #tailscale #hackweek

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 13/04/2026

xcancel.com/bradfitz/sta...

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 25/03/2026

Apparently somebody just built us a new marketing site... 🙏 justfuckingusetailscale.com

JUST FUCKING USE
TAILSCALE
STOP FUCKING AROUND. CONNECT ANYWHERE.

(with AI slop image of big explosions and laptops and phones and routers and such)

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 16/02/2026

"Microchip technology in every towel!"

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 17/01/2026

oh hey, we're in the air finally after a 12.5 hour delay, much of that sitting in a broken plane before deplaning

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 17/01/2026

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.

Flight details showing 4:45p flight now scheduled for 12:30am

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 10/01/2026

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! 🤞

Keystone RJ45 wall jack showing long stretch of untwisted pairs, unsuitable for 10 GbE.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 02/01/2026

Not entitled? Psssh. I'll have you know I'm very entitled!

Vending machine error message: "Not entitled: 512. OK"

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 01/01/2026

Video from the front. (Binary seconds until 2026)

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 01/01/2026

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. 🤓

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 21/12/2025

cleaning up my photo backup tooling & found this gem

TV screengrab: "We've got the right encryption packet in place."

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 19/12/2025

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: .... 🤘

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 19/12/2025

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.)

graphs of Discharge, cubic feet per second at Skykomish River Near Gold Bar, WA

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 14/12/2025

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

OpenSCAD code + rendering of a xmas light clip I need.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 11/12/2025

keep up the good work, iOS 26 (Wife's Air. I refuse to upgrade)

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 07/12/2025

This looks like a bug in Microsoft's NFSv3 client... In packet 14 we reply with an opaque 8 byte cookie verifier "94 93 ... b6 af" And then look what Microsoft's NFSv3 client sends back in packet 16 to continue the directory enumeration: "af b6 .. 93 94" The opaque cookie is sent back backwards!

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 07/12/2025

At least I didn't get puked on today. I wish I could say the same thing for NFS.

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 04/12/2025

We may or may not have a Kinesis problem in this house. I need to figure out which of these are broken (at least a couple?) and repair them. I recently fixed one w/ some obscure undocumented(?) self format key sequence. Might try michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-0... too, @zekjur.bsky.social!

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 04/12/2025

Whee, I have a modern Linux desktop machine again. (fancy new Framework desktop) 32 threads, 128 GB ram, can drive 6K and 4K displays at once, zfs root raid1 over two nvme. (My Asahi M1 can't drive external monitors. Other laptops are ancient or have loud fans)

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Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 23/11/2025

Apparently buying parts direct from SWISCO.com was a mistake. Over a month and still in shipping!? Does everybody but Amazon just suck at this or what?

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