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Brad Fitzpatrick
Personal blog · bradfitz.com · on HN as bradfitzprogrammingweb
Brad Fitzpatrick's personal blog at bradfitz.com covers programming and web. Since 2007, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Thoughts on the Social Graph (2007)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link bradfitz.com for Brad Fitzpatrick's work on memcached, Go and social-graph ideas. One commenter suggests his social-graph article, and another disagrees with a post on why software gets complex.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Thoughts on the Social Graph (2007)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2007-08-17
- Joining Tailscale: Simplifying Networking, Authentication, and Authorization3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-30
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-08-24
What Hacker News says?
> Go is network-app specific Just because it is used most for "network apps" doesn't mean it's limited to that. On the other hand, you could argue that Rust is a wrong fit for anything _except_ performance-critical applications, because for anything else it's not worth to saddle yourself with the added complexity. > and Rust very broad --a true general purpose prog lang-- it is easy to see how Go mature so quickly (…
Comment linking /2020/01/30/joining-tailscale
on “Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust”Submitted An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google as a story · 1012 points
HN discussionHa, I forgot about that door opener! I found the page: https://bradfitz.com/misc/projects/remotedoor/
Comment linking /misc/projects/remotedoor/
on “An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google”Submitted Thoughts on the Social Graph (2007) as a story · 108 points
HN discussionThis is fun. Here's mine: - Brad fitzpatrick -- http://bradfitz.com/ - Julia Evans -- https://jvns.ca - Raymond Hettinger -- https://rhettinger.wordpress.com/ - Rich Hickey -- https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits - Peter Bourgon -- https://peter.bourgon.org/ - Rebecca Murphey -- https://rmurphey.com/ - Daniel Greenfield -- https://www.twoscoopspress.com/
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on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Submitted Joining Tailscale: Simplifying Networking, Authentication, and Authorization as a story · 74 points
HN discussionBrad Fitzpatrick - https://bradfitz.com/ - Started and sold LiveJournal, wrote memcached, works on Golang at Google now. Always enjoy his talks on YouTube. My favorite part is that he doesn't come off as super serious so I find subtle humor in his delivery. In one of his videos where he talks about HTTP/2, he says "HTTP/2 is just supposed to be a better wire format for HTTP, so it's not that interesting". In an earl…
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on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Submitted Brad Fitzpatrick's Thoughts on the Social Graph as a story · 23 points
HN discussionI agree with some of your points and disagree with others. The human body is exceptionally awesome, but also so very fragile. I think we can do better with well-thought-out design, and a part of that that I embrace is the value of simplicity. My thoughts can be best said with a quote (especially the part about a complexity budget): > I used to tolerate and expect complexity. Working on Go the past 10 years has chang…
Comment linking /2020/01/30/joining-tailscale
on “Why software ends up complex”Submitted The Story of LiveJournal (2002) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes. A fan of Brad myself. The number of things he invented (memcached, gearman, djabberd, etc.) or had a direct impact on (OpenID, PubSub in general, Golang, etc.) is phenomenal. His website gives a better idea of his interests and involvements. http://www.bradfitz.com/
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on “Ask HN: Who are your programming rockstars, and why?”Submitted Social Network Portability (2007) [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis: I installed Loopt on my iPhone when it was launched more than a year ago. I stopped using it soon after, since none of my Facebook friends or Gmail contacts were on it. Now it has more than a million users, so last week I installed it again — along with several other apps — but I didn’t have much luck this time either. ...illustrates why we need to open up the social graph. It's stupid that every new social fe…
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on “Why aren’t location-based networks growing like they were expected to?”"... That's a pretty naive analysis of the situation. ..." I'd say thats more "punk - attitude" than analysis. There is a bigger problem(s) here that the title alludes to. Try reading this article ~ http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/
Comment linking /social-graph-problem/
on “Fuck Facebook Conversion: Be platform agnostic and use your own APIs.”"... Brad Fitzgerald on young people starting a business ..." Not this http://bradfitz.com/
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on “Young Business (Brad Fitzgerald on young people starting a business)”
