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• Post #615226

  Loved tonight’s Oxide and Friends show with @bcantrill and @sdtuck. For the folks who were there live to whom I promised OxF stickers:

• Post #615225

  On last night's Oxide and Friends, @sdtuck and @bcantrill answered the questions occasioned by the shipment of our first Oxide Computer! What is Oxide? Why do people need it? Why did we build it the way we did? Your questions answered. My favorite? The answer to "what was the hardest part about building Oxide?"--some surprising answers! https://youtu.be/5P5Mk_IggE0

• Post #529741

  On Monday, @bcantrill and I revisited an Oxide and Friends tradition: Books in the Box! We--and live listeners--share recommendations--worth a listen if you're looking for your next read! https://youtu.be/jBduzUVORnk

• Post #529740

  A bunch of folks at Oxide uncovered a tricky deadlock associated with async Rust (yes, another!), so--of course--@bcantrill and I got the crew together to discuss. If you're writing async Rust, you'll want to know how to avoid and diagnose "Futurelock" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqpLGvalyrI Also: - @ interviews to be the Blue Jays new manager - a dramatized re-enactment of the critical moments diagnosing Futurelock - async Rust doesn't make us mad...

• Post #529739

  On Monday, OxF hosted @oxidecomputer founders, @sdtuck and @bcantrill, Oxide investor Seth Winterroth, and the authors of Founder vs. Investor, Liz Zalman and @ganeumann. Delved into best and worst investor behavior. Check it out! https://youtu.be/Yi2AlKzD_vA

• Post #529738

  Hey hey! We recently tripped over a ZFS data corruption bug–introduced over 18 years ago! @bcantrill and I discuss with members of the Oxide team as well as Matt Ahrens, the co-inventor of ZFS. https://youtu.be/srKYxF66A0c

• Post #529737

  A production rack–up for several months–suddenly had all service processors become unresponsive. Last week, @bcantrill and I were joined by the Oxide team that investigated the issue–and discovered its surprising root cause! https://youtu.be/JFtCJVxuug8

• Post #529735

  Last OxF of the year! @bcantrill and I reflected on the year of Oxide and Friends. Big theme this year? Bugs and debugging. Or as ChatGPT put it inaccurately, "filled with painful specificity and earned insight". Sure, whatever! https://youtu.be/kGNoSYQchS8 And, Mastodon, you were mentioned around the 77 minute mark!

• Post #529733

  Time for the annual predictions episode! @bcantrill and I were joined by frequent future-ologists Simon Willison, Steve Klabnik, and @iangrunert to review past predictions and peer into the future. If any of these predictions come to fruition, it's going to be an interest 1, 3, or 6 years! https://youtu.be/lVDhQMiAbR8

• Post #529731

  On Monday @davidcrespo and @rain joined me and @bcantrill to talk about their uses of LLMs to build robust systems software. LLMs are associated with vibecoding, they're a tool that can be harnessed for much more rigorous software engineering.. or as Rain put it "Code that uses LLMs better be the best freakin' code on the planet. If you're doing this, all your code should be extremely tight. Slow down: don't just spit out as much code as possible.&q...

• Post #529729

  On this week's Oxide and Friends, @gradybooch joined @bcantrill and me to talk about the past, present, and future of software engineering. From hand-made computers and the software crisis of the late '60s to LLMs (of course) we covered a lot... with--as always--many dated references! https://youtu.be/McAL6jkRUO4

• Post #529727

  On last night's Oxide and Friend, @bcantrill and I were so grateful to be joined by Evan Ratliff to discuss his incredible, mesmerizing podcast "Shell Game" in which he starts a company, staffed entirely by agentic AIs. I hope you enjoy the conversation half as much as we did! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBDXDbZL59g

• Post #529726

  Have you heard? Oxide raised a $200M Series C (on top of our $100M Series B 6 months earlier)! On this week's Oxide and Friends, @sdtuck and @bcantrill talk about the raise, and answer the wicked, wise, and simple questions from Hacker News. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO-tcU2a4vU