Brad Fitzpatrick
Programmer known for LiveJournal, memcached, OpenID and gearman; worked on the Go programming language at Google and later joined Tailscale.
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Uses x200
At work I have an x200 laptop, a MacBook Pro (rarely booted), a few VMs, and a z600 (16 cores, 12 GB RAM) with a 30" display.
usesthis.com 16 Dec 2011
Uses Intel SSD
My main desktop at home is 2005 Mac Mini running Linux. I upgraded the RAM and added an Intel SSD to it. It's very old and slow but it's pretty quiet and I'm too lazy to replace it.
usesthis.com 16 Dec 2011
Mixed on Mac mini
My main desktop at home is 2005 Mac Mini running Linux. I upgraded the RAM and added an Intel SSD to it. It's very old and slow but it's pretty quiet and I'm too lazy to replace it.
usesthis.com 16 Dec 2011
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Uses WireShark
Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.
usesthis.com 16 Dec 2011
Uses GIMP
Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.
usesthis.com 16 Dec 2011
Uses screen
Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.
usesthis.com 16 Dec 2011
Uses emacs
Linux (Ubuntu and Debian), Chrome, emacs, screen, Go, Perl, gcc, Gimp, tcpdump, wireshark, Xen, KVM, libvirt.
usesthis.com 16 Dec 2011
Where they publish
Site bradfitz.com Personal site and writing.
Link verified 5 Sept 2026.
x.com @bradfitz His X account.
Link verified 5 Sept 2026.
GitHub @bradfitz Go, memcached and other open source work.
Recent
- gxbm — temp dev fork of Go's x/build/maintner code 1 Oct 2026
- go-tool-cache 1 Oct 2026
- shotizam — Shotizam analyzes the size of Go binaries 30 Sept 2026
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- guestbd — NBD server for ephemeral VMs getting writable forks of base images 30 Sept 2026
- reco — experimental reactive computation library 29 Sept 2026
- tswipoexp — an experimental & unmaintained & unofficial portable Windows Tailscale client 23 Sept 2026
- go-trim-caches 18 Sept 2026
- livecore — Linux low-pause core file dumper from an existing running process 3 Sept 2026
- bug-go127-staticcheck-crash — repro for a bug 28 Aug 2026
- go-test-bug-repro 1 Aug 2026
- gomemcache — Go Memcached client library #golang 12 Jul 2026
- koffer — my 1997 high school German project (a Java applet game) ported to JavaScript 12 Jul 2026
- wanwatch — my home internet failover daemon thingy 10 Jul 2026
- tsauthify 4 Jul 2026
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