Dr. Kate
@radkat.fitzpat.com
Misc misc misc. SWE↔️SRE. Mom of three. Married to @bradfitz.com. Between chaotic good and chaotic neutral.
Reporting from Spain with 3yo: A Coruña's playgrounds are the best, Bilbao's ok, Vigo's and Gijon's nonexistent. Follow me for more travel tips.
It's the beginning of the end for Chat got: they started tweaking UI instead of doing things ("think harder"). Next comes the Gmail style spacing (classic, compact, whatever), color schemes, and a line of pre-approved icons to use for everything.
Me, to a 20yo: did you read about that new movie, Odyssey? 20yo: no Me: it's based on the Greek classic literature and they used those amazing cameras and.. 20yo: ah, the movie with Zendaya? Me: who?
I did *not* expect rock tumbling to enter top 10 regretted decisions of my life.
If someone is capable of understanding that they're wrong -- they're also capable of arriving at that conclusion themselves. So telling them directly would rob them of the experience they would gain in the process of the discovery.
In today's rubric "Kate's talking to newspapers" How about "there are no other options available for two income families without any relatives living close by"?
We're at that awkward phase of life when the only thing worse than 3yo resisting a nap - is 3yo finally giving in for a nap that's too long and too late. 🫠
Prompted by a barista's question - there should be an app called "What is a good name for you?" - upload a photo and get a suggestion. "You look like Clara today."
As the late psychotherapist John Weakland famously said, “Before successful therapy, it’s the same damn thing over and over. After successful therapy, it’s one damn thing after another.” Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb is a _really_ good book.
I would go to yoga more often if teachers were doing less Teaching. Maybe I should switch to pilates. No one probably talks about "energy of the summer" there.
I read The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) by William H. McRaven and I’m kinda confused he chose the name “Can You Stand Before the Long Green Table?” for one of the principles because it’s a story about Billy Mitchell..
Taking a nap with 3yo who resists the nap: ✅ All stuffies placed in the wastebasket ✅ Toys lost ✅ Furniture moved ✅ Dad napped ❌ 3yo napped
Let's see.. x1.75 multiplayer for having three kids in six years, x2 for pandemic years, x1.5 for the political state of the world since.., well, always. Happy 30th anniversary, love!
Brad Fitzpatrick@bradfitz.com · 3mo ago10 year anniversary with @radkat.fitzpat.com! 😘
I would pay extra to disable all the gamification in Duolingo. I'd call it "Duolingo Min."
Live reporting from the Mother's day experience. Waiting for my second poached egg. "Kids don't get food" today apparently. They're eating my chocolate and drinking orange juice though. I'm open to anything.
Do I know anyone who knows Mark Rober? 6yo is seriously into CrunchLabs and visiting the place would be the best birthday present ever.
I didn't know that complications from measles can manifest years later.. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
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FTR, I'm not Satoshi Nakamoto. (Or Adam Back, for that matter.)
How on earth it's 10 business days to unsubscribe? What kind of eventual consistency is that?
So, Rocky's nickname for Grace was Meaty or Fleshy? Or Squishy?