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Oxide's $445M Series D
18 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 22 min
After raising $200M in February... we raised another $445M in July! Your favorite computer company is capitalized to the gills--enough to weather the supply chain upheaval even! Come for co-founders Steve and Bryan describing the raise; stay for tax, debt, and credit talk with Scott Orn. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guests were Steve Tuck and Scott Orn.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s06e05 - Oxide's $200M Series C
OxF s05e24 - Oxide's $100M Series B
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Oxide blog: Our $445M Series D
Hacker News: Our $445M Series D
Hacker News: Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
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Working on Wicked Problems
16 oktober 2026 · 1 uur 26 min
Wicked problems defy simple solutions. Even as we describe the problem, we may be presupposing particular solutions and narrowing scope. Our greatest, most persistent societal problems fit this model. Wicked problems may not be solvable, but progress can be made. Noah Harlan joins us to describe his technical entrepreneurship battling wicked problems. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Noah Harlan.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Rittel and Webber, Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning (1973)
Wikipedia: Cynefin framework
HOPICS
Kiip
Noah Harlan: "Why We Started Kiip"
Findhelp: "Transforming CBO Case Management with Kiip"
AlleyCorp
findhelp.org
MTS: "AI Doomsday Predictions Lack Real-World Reality" with Bryan Cantrill
Eric Ries, Incorruptible
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
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For Want of a Resistor
16 september 2026 · 1 uur 24 min
When the supply chain crunch catches up with you, sometimes a tiny resistor the size of a fleck of pepper is the difference between a world-class computer and... e-waste. Members of the Oxide operations and electrical engineering teams join Bryan and Adam to discuss how close we came to stopping production, for want of a resistor. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Robert "RFK" Keith, Eric Aasen, Scott Tagwerker, and Steve Tuck.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s06e12 - Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel
OxF s06e06 - When Nine Nines Isn't Enough
OxF s02e12 - More Tales from the Bringup Lab
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Bryan's blog: The Contagion of Fear
PRs needed!
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Emulating Oxide: How Faux Can You Go?
11 september 2026 · 1 uur 25 min
We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording. Lees meer
How do you test configurations you haven't built yet? Steve, Andrew, and Rain join Bryan and Adam to talk about the transformative power of the Oxide emulation environment, VOXEL, and how it has accelerated development in many domains.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Steve Karam, Andrew Stone, and Rain Paharia.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s03e06 - Rack-scale Networking (P4 and DDM with Ry Goodfellow)
OxF s01e26 - The Pragmatism of Hubris (with Cliff Biffle)
OxF s03e09 - Get You a State Machine for Great Good (Wicket with Andrew Stone)
OxF s01e25 - Tales from the Bringup Lab
OxF s01e18 - Dijkstra's Tweetstorm
OxF s03e31 - Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
voxel -- Virtual OXide Emulation Lab: emulated rack deployments on one Helios host (omicron on Falcon/propolis VMs, SoftNPU switches, FRR routers); optional real SP/RoT firmware via sp-emu. https://github.com/oxidecomputer/voxel
Falcon -- tool for standing up virtual network/rack topologies of propolis VMs on illumos for testing. https://github.com/oxidecomputer/falcon
Tofino -- Intel/Barefoot programmable switch ASIC (Tofino 2) in Sidecar; P4-programmable. Discontinued by Intel.
SoftNPU -- software P4 target emulating the switch dataplane, so the stack runs without Tofino hardware. https://github.com/oxidecomputer/softnpu
P4 -- DSL for describing packet-processing pipelines; how the Tofino/SoftNPU dataplane is programmed. https://p4.org
Gimlet -- Oxide's compute sled.
Sidecar -- Oxide's rack switch board, carrying the Tofino 2.
raclette -- reduced-size lab rack (a few sleds + switch) used for dev/test rather than a full 32-sled rack. (my read; unverified)
Hubris -- Rust microkernel/RTOS for the SP and RoT: statically-defined tasks, memory protection, synchronous IPC. ht…
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AI Detection with Max Spero
3 september 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
More and more, people are relying on AI to do their writing for them. Is this the new normal, or the intellectual equivalent of claiming take-out is your own home cooking? Max Spero, founder and CEO of Pangram, joined Bryan and Adam to discuss how they distinguish AI and human authorship. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Max Spero.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF: Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz
OxF: Shell Game with Evan Ratliff
OxF: Predictions 2026!!
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Pangram
Brandon Sovran: "I Tried to Trick Pangram. I Lost."
Stanley Druckenmiller: "Let the Bond Market Speak"
Pangram 4 Technical Report
Goodfire: understand and debug your AI model
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
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The Return to the Chamber of Mysteries
25 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 16 min
Oxide returns to the chamber... of EMC compliance to earn FCC approval to sell our next generation rack. Did it go smoothly? If it had, would there be a podcast episode? Oxide teammates Robert, Dan, and Stu join Bryan and Adam to discuss the trials and triumph! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Robert "RFK" Keith, Dan Chirpich, and Stu Donnan.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s03e04 - Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
IEEE EMC+SIPI 2026: International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal & Power Integrity
PRs needed!
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The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison
31 juli 2026 · 1 uur 24 min
Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a wild couple of weeks in AI. First, we have a high-profile, AI-induced, AI-diagnosed security incident. Next we have the rise of frontier-class open-weights models. Who's for or against open weights? Do they make for a more or less secure future? Exciting times! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Simon Willison.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF: Shell Game with Evan Ratliff
OxF: Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund
OxF: Predictions 2025
OxF: Predictions 2026!!
OxF: Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball
OxF: OpenAI's Boardroom Brawl
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Gerald the turkey terrorizes Oakland's rose garden
ABC7: Gerald the turkey and the Morcom Rose Garden
APD cautions residents after aggressive wild turkey attacks elderly Alamedan
Hawking radiation
DHH's racist complaints
Grok's "MechaHitler" antisemitic spree
Simon on Grok aka "MechaHitler"
Hugging Face security incident, July 2026
OpenAI on the Hugging Face model evaluation security incident
Greg Brockman's political donations and the Leading the Future super PAC
OpenAI co-founder and wife donate $5.5M to save the home of bald eagles Jackie and Shadow
Firecracker microVM
Meltdown (security vulnerability)
Kernel page-table isolation
Jensen Huang on X
Electronic design automation
Golden Gate Claude
Tethics
Halloween documents
Zizians
Biohazard (book)
CRISPR
Oliver Sacks: criticism and falsifications
How Alice Hamilton waged a one-woman campaign to get the lead out of everything
American Poison by Daniel Stone
Lead–crime hypothesis
Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas encyclical
Rerum novarum
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as…
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The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Storytelling with Ramy Katrib
23 juli 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
Ramy Katrib has been at the forefront of digital storytelling for over 25 years, with his post-production company, DigitalFilm Tree, earning a reputation as one of Hollywood's most technically adventurous post-production houses. He joined Bryan and Adam to explore the past, present, and future of digital storytelling. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Ramy Katrib.
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
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The Oxide 3D Explorer
27 juni 2026 · 1 uur 14 min
Recently, Oxide rolled out an eye-popping 3D rack explorer at explorer.oxide.computer. Oxide's designer extraordinaire, Ben Leonard, joined Bryan and Adam to describe the process of turning CAD drawings into an interactive site. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Oxide colleague, Ben Leonard.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
The Explorer
its repo
Pierre Lamond oral history
PRs needed!
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The Hardest Kind of Unsafe Rust
13 juni 2026 · 1 uur 28 min
We love Rust for how much the compiler helps enforce safety. But sometimes it's up to us to uphold the complex--and often unclear--expectations of what constitutes safety on our own. Oxide colleague, Rain, joins Bryan and Adam to talk about the technical details of what it takes to impose safety on the hardest type of unsafe Rust. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest star, Rain Paharia,
Previously on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
OxF s03e01 - Predictions 2023!
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Oxide Blog: iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust
PRs needed!
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This Old Repo: LLMs and the Restoration of BattleTris
9 juni 2026 · 1 uur 18 min
Bryan and Adam discuss the process of restoring a software project--BattleTris--untouched and unbuilt in over 20 years! How did LLMs help restore code Bryan started in the mid-1990s and what does that teach us about developing and maintaining software in the future? Lees meer
Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.
Previously on Oxide and Friends
OxF s03e24 - Fork in the road for Terraform?
OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
OxF s06e01 - Predictions 2026!!
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
BattleTris on github
Surge 2011 ~ Closing Plenary ~ Theo Schlossnagle
From the Governor of Delaware
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Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel
27 mei 2026 · 1 uur 2 min
Two years ago we introduced listeners to the Oakland Ballers, the startup returning baseball to the city of Oakland. Bryan and Adam were joined again by Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel to discuss the Ballers first two--highly successful--seasons, and to announce some exciting new collaborations between the Ballers and Oxide! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Paul Freedman, Bryan Carmel, and Steve Tuck.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
OxF S4 E11: A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel
OxF S4 E7: Data Visualization
Bryan's blog: A parade in Oakland
Ballers x Oxide hackathon
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The Tale of Reverso
16 mei 2026 · 1 uur 7 min
Oxide ships a rack scale system--how to test the manufacturing of the backplane and switches? Previously we've been using a collection of sacrificial servers, but this was unwieldy, expensive, and unscalable--all big problems as we ramp up manufacturing to 100s a month! Enter "Reverso", an extremely simple test fixture, that uncovered an extremely complex bug. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Oxide colleagues, Robert "RFK" Keith, Adam "The Hammer" Suczewski, and Matt Keeter.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s01e26 - The Pragmatism of Hubris
OxF s01e24 - The Sidecar Switch
OxF s03e13 - The Network Behind the Network
OxF s05e23 - Adventures in Data Corruption
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Adam Leventhal, Hardware Engineer
dendrite
Paddle-to-the-Sea
PRs needed!
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AI in Computer Science Education
10 mei 2026 · 1 uur 29 min
AI is an existential topic for all aspects of education--for none more so than Computer Science. Bryan and Adam were joined by Kathi Fisler and Shriram Krishnamurthi, professors of Computer Science at Brown, to discuss their experimental introductory course that strongly incorporates agentic programming. What do students take away from their "smoke the whole pack" approach? Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler, and Will.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
OxF s5e29: AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman
Greenspun's tenth rule
Andy van Dam
Brown CS15 Tetris
Wesleyan Tetris
Generating Programs Trivially: Student Use of Large Language Models
Data-Centricity: A Challenge and Opportunity for Computing Education -- Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi Fisler
LLMs ⭢ Regular Expressions, Responsibly!
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Mechanical Engineering at Oxide [chapter images]
7 mei 2026 · 1 uur 25 min
Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide mechanical engineering team to talk the mechanical challenges of building a rack-scale computer, and--in particular--of scaling manufacturing from just a few racks to hundreds. NOTE: Keep an eye on the chapter art for the pictures under discussion. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide Colleagues Elliott Donlon, Brooks Willis, Doug Wibben, and Ben Williams.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Topic
[@M:SS](link into recording) Leventhal's Conundrum
PRs needed!
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Are LLMs Insufficently Lazy?
3 mei 2026 · 1 uur 31 min
Brogrammer Garry Tan has been boasting about "writing" tens of thousands of lines of code each day as the paragon of productivity. Is this really the right way to think about building systems? Bryan and Adam were joined by Polish software engineer, Gregorein, who took a closer look into what Tan was generating to discuss what was found. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our guest (who we introduced a mere 4 minutes in) was gregorein.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Gregorein's twitter thread
Bryan's blog: The Peril of Laziness Lost
PRs needed!
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Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack
4 april 2026 · 1 uur 26 min
The Oxide rack contains within it a distributed system that needs to trust itself. But how is this trust built? Bryan and Adam were joined by colleagues Andrew and Finch to explore how Trust Quorum was designed, built, and verified. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Andrew Stone, and Finch Foner.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
OxF s03e17 - Software Verificationpalooza
OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
OxF s05e20 - Debugger-Driven Development
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Oxide RFD 238: Trust Quorum and Rack Unlock
PRs needed!
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When Nine Nines Isn't Enough
18 maart 2026 · 1 uur 24 min
Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide team to describe the multi-year search for a mysterious source of hardware failures. All related to an ultra-reliable--and yet still not reliable enough--component. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by members of the Oxide team: Nathanael Huffman, Alan Hanson, Cliff Biffle, Eric Aasen, Robert "RFK" Keith, and Jordan Hendricks.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Oxide RFD 630: BMR491 Glitch Mitigation Plan
RFK's report
PRs needed!
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Oxide's $200M Series C
27 februari 2026 · 1 uur 46 min
Oxide raised a truckload of capital a few weeks ago to fund the business for the foreseeable future. Bryan and Steve describe the raise, and Adam poses the best the best (and worst) questions scraped from Hacker News. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide CEO, Steve Tuck.
Previously on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s01e25 - Tales from the Bringup Lab
OxF s04e30 - Intel after Gelsinger
OxF s05e24 - Oxide’s $100M Series B
OxF s02e18 - Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria
OxF s05e28 - Systems Software in the Large
Mentioned during the show:
Oxide Blog: Our $200M Series C
Oxide is hiring!
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
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Shell Game with Evan Ratliff
12 februari 2026 · 1 uur 23 min
Evan Ratliff, journalist and podcaster, joined Bryan and Adam to talk about his extraordinary podcast, Shell Game, in which he started a company staffed exclusively by agentic AI. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Evan Ratliff.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Shell Game
Evan on This American Life
MIT Review: Moltbook was peak AI theater
"Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!"
The Startup Chronicles - HurumoAI
PRs needed!
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Software Engineering Past, Present, and Future with Grady Booch
7 februari 2026 · 55 min
Bryan and Adam were joined by Grady Booch, software engineering pioneer and living legend, to speak about the past present and future of software engineering. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Grady Booch.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them (some LLM assistance):
SAGE as foundational real-time distributed system
Software crisis demand outpaced ability to build reliable systems
Margaret Hamilton (SAGE → Apollo) and the term “software engineering”
UML
Rational Software founded (1982); acquired by IBM (2003)
OO overshot via inheritance; core idea (objects as cognitive units) endured
LLMs are unreliable narrators - they cannot do abductive reasoning
Architecture = decisions with high cost of change
Core skills persist: abstraction, coupling, cohesion, judgment
Fear cycles repeat; fundamentals endure
Grady's Book Recommendations
The Sciences of the Artificial — Herbert Simon
The Mythical Man-Month — Fred Brooks
Refactoring — Martin Fowler
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Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
15 januari 2026 · 1 uur 33 min
What do LLMs mean for the future of software engineering? Will vibe-coded AI slop be the norm? Will software engineers simply be less in-demand? Rain and David join Bryan and Adam to discuss how rigorous use of LLMs can make for much more robust systems. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Rain Paharia, and David Crespo.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s03e08 – Does a GPT future need software engineers
OxF s04e04 – Helios
OxF s05e28 – Systems Software in the Large
OxF s04e20 – Pragmatic LLM Usage with Nicholas Carlini
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
The issue Bryan was fixing
iddqd: the crate Rain built
Ghostty
David's bugs: 1 2 3
Rain's nextest bug: SIGTTOU when test spawns interactive shell
Oxide RFD 619: Managing types across Dropshot API versions
drift: the crate Adam built
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Predictions 2026!!
8 januari 2026 · 1 uur 39 min
Time for the annual predictions episode! Bryan and Adam were joined by frequent future-ologists Simon Willison, Steve Klabnik, and Ian Grunert 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! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Simon Willison, Steve Klabnik, and Ian Grunert.
Previously on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s04e02 – Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison
OxF s02e23 – Predictions 2022
OxF s03e20 – Predictions 2023!
OxF s04e01 – Predictions 2024!
OxF s05e01 – Predictions 2025
Predictions during the show:
Adam
1 year: AI companies go on an acquisition binge (especially for anything that smells like data)
3 year: Crisis of AI slop open source (both projects and contributions)
6 year: Jensen hands over the reins at Nvidia
6 year: Tesla is out of the consumer car business
6 year: With the iPhone market shrinking, Apple has several new attempts at the next potential flagship product
Bryan
1 year: "Vibe coding" is out of the lexicon -- or used strictly pejoratively it becomes a named condition (for which Adam -- in an act of nomenclature genius rivaling The Leventhal Conundrum -- suggested "Deep Blue")
1 year: A frontier model company has a prominent whitepaper making the case that AI will lead to broad-based prosperity rather than job loss
1 year: Harvey.ai becomes the pets.com of the AI boom -- and a harbinger of the coming bust (which becomes known as a Correction-like euphemism)
1 year: A prominent S1 has revalations of economic behavior that has an effect beyond the company's IPO
3 year: Frontier models treat AGI as "already done" -- and ASI as a non-goal
3 year: Custom-written software thrives in lieu of SaaS
6 year: DSM adds LLMs as a substance that can induce psychosis
6 year: $NVDA not beyond its November 2025 peak
Simon
1 year: The AI for programming holdouts are going to have a nasty shock
1 year: We're goin…
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OxF 2025 Wrap-Up
21 december 2025 · 1 uur 28 min
Bryan and Adam reflect on Oxide and Friends in 2025--favorite moments, episodes, and images. Happy new year and see you in 2026! Lees meer
Your hosts are Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
RFD 576: Using LLMs at Oxide (hacker news comments)
OxF: Oxide and Friends 6/2/2025 -- AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik (around 1:08:00)
Shell Game podcast
OxF s05e12 – Hell is other networks — April 4, 2025
"No Egress" was a ChatGPT joke!
OxF s05e33 – A Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug — November 26, 2025
Simpsons scene deleted in syndication
OxF s05e29 – AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman — October 17, 2025
OxF s05e28 – Systems Software in the Large
OxF s05e18 – AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel
OxF s04e21 – Adventures in Data Corruption
"Duck season, Fire!"
MLG Airhorn aka "the jj airhorn"
OxF s05e31 – Futurelock
Laura's blog post: A disappearing Service Processor
OxF s05e34 – Death by Uptime
"Painfully concrete" - ChatGPT
OxF s05e03 – Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi
OxF s05e30 – RIP USENIX ATC
Team DTrace meets Dennis Richie, redux
"Fart Boy"
OxF s05e?? – Books in the Box V — The latest annual book recommendation episode.
Oxide Bingo by John Holloway
OxF s05e16 – Scaling Manufacturing
OxF s05e22 – Founder vs. Investor
OxF s05e27 – Character Limit
Stretch goal for 2026: finally a C&D
OxF s05e24 – Diving In
Bryan's blog: College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe
OxF s03e31 – Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz
OxF s04e06 – Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service
"Don't worry, Alan, no one will listen" -> one of our most popular episodes
OxF s04e23 – RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide
Office Space: Michael Bolton as AI em-dash
"This isn't nostalgia, it's epistemology" - ChatGPT
"Weaponized weariness" - ChatGPT
"Dry Fatalism" - ChatGPT
"Cougar turned in his wings..."
OxF s05e16 – Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria
Alexander Hamilton: amazing. …
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Death by Uptime
8 december 2025 · 1 uur 1 min
We hit a new (and disturbing!) failure mode recently when a production rack that had been up for several months saw every (!) compute sled's service processor become simultaneously unresponsive. Bryan and Adam were joined by the members of the Oxide team who debugged the vexing issue -- and reached its surprising root cause. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Cliff Biffle, Matt Keeter, and Will Chandler.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s05e03 – Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi
OxF s04e14 – Rebooting a datacenter: A decade later
OxF s01e26 – The Pragmatism of Hubris
OxF s05e20 – Debugger-Driven Development (omdb)
OxF s05e07 – Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces
OxF s05e31 – Futurelock
OxF s05e33 – A Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
hubris #2304: STM32H7 Ethernet driver stops yielding CPU after many packets
gist — Summarizing the Hubris side of investigations
Matt's blog: Hunting a spooky ethernet driver bug
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Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug
26 november 2025 · 1 uur 21 min
Hey hey! We recently tripped over a ZFS data corruption bug–introduced over 18 years ago! Bryan and Adam discuss with members of the Oxide team as well as Matt Ahrens, the co-inventor of ZFS. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Alan Hanson, Matt Keeter, Andy Fiddaman, James MacMahon, and special guest, Matt Ahrens.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s4e6 - Crucible: the Oxide Storage Service
OxF s5e28 - Systems Software in the Large
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
ZFS fsync can trigger ZIL transaction reordering and data corruption
RFD 177: Implementation of Data Storage
the "fix" that introduced data corruption
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Founder vs. Investor with Liz Zalman and Jerry Neumann
22 november 2025 · 1 uur 29 min
Oxide founders, Bryan and Steve, as well as Oxide investor, Seth Winterroth, were joined by Liz Zalman and Jerry Neumann, authors of the book Founder vs. Investor, discussing the collaboration and conflict in company formation. Adam was also present. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our guests included Liz Zalman, Jerry Neumann, Seth Winterroth (Oxide investor), and Steve Tuck (Oxide founder / CEO).
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Founder vs. Investor
Topic
[@M:SS](link into recording) Leventhal's Conundrum
PRs needed!
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Futurelock
7 november 2025 · 1 uur 38 min
We're big users of async Rust at Oxide, and recently we found (another) very odd and hard to debug pathology related to async Rust that we dubbed "Futurelock". Oxide engineers who diagnosed the problem join Bryan and Adam to describe Futurelock and discuss methods to identify and avoid it. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included our Oxide colleagues Dave Pacheco, John Gallagher, Rain Paharia. Sean Klein, and Eliza Weisman.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s05e22 - When Async Attacks!
OxF s05e26 - Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Oxide RFD 609: Futurelock
PRs needed!
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Books in the Box V
31 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 21 min
Revisiting an annual tradition--Books in the Box! Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends share book recommendations (and--sometimes--anti-recommendations). Take a listen if you're looking for your next read. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by some guests noted below:
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s05e06 - A Half‑Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup
OxF s05e26 - Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann
OxF s04e03 - Fork in the Road for Terraform
OxF s01e16 - The Books in the Box
OxF s02e18 - Books in the Box Redux
OxF s03e22 - Books in the Box III
OxF s04e28 - Books in the Box IV
Other Notes:
Princeton Review: Happiest Students
UMass Dining Named Best Campus Food by The Princeton Review
CHM Oral Histories
Night Rider (and K.I.T.T.)
From Bryan and Adam (and others)
The Mouse Driver Chronicles
Fumbling the Future
Slingshot
Chip War
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital @bcantrill (economics book recommendation)
Snow Crash (another Neal Stephenson book)
The Big Short
Reinventing The Wheel
Eccentric Orbits (recommended by listener)
Language Machines Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism (recommended by listener)
Molly White's **review ** of Read Write Own
Careless People
NOT A RECOMMENDATION If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (If you are Molly White, please destroy this for us!)
Surreal Numbers by Knuth (recommended by listeners)
From Oliver Herman
Open Circuits
Systems Performance
Why We're Getting Poorer
Termination Shock
From Tom Lyon
From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog
See also Systems We Love: Life of an Airline Flight
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
The NVIDIA Way
From Dan McDonald
Inventing the Renaissance
Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation
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AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman
17 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 21 min
LLMs have had a dramatic impact on education. There are obvious reasons for concern, but what about the less obvious opportunities afforded by LLMs? Bryan and Adam were joined by Michael Littman, professor at Brown University and Associate Provost for AI, to talk about his role advising the university on productive, innovative, creative uses for AI in higher education. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Michael Littman.
Previous, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s01e18 - Dijkstra’s Tweetstorm
OxF s04e02 - Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison
OxF s05e18 - AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Michael's home page
Leslie Kaelbling
Computing Up: Rich Sutton
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Systems Software in the Large
25 september 2025 · 1 uur 45 min
Dave Pacheco is leading Oxide's multi-year effort around full-system update. He recently gave a talk about his experience leading that project, the complexities of designing the system and organizing the team. Dave, Bryan, and Adam discuss the project, the many sources of leadership, and the often underestimated peril of "organizational procrastination". Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Dave Pacheco.
Previously on OxF:
OxF s05e21 - Rebooting a Datacenter: A Decade Later
OxF s01e09 - Agile + 20
OxF s04e11 - A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Dave's talk: Path to self-service update (slides)
Fire trucks dousing the champion Ballers
Bryan's talk: Debugging Under Fire
Roger Faulkner: "I'm not here to make it perfect; I'm here to make it better"
Mid-recording earthquake
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Scaling Manufacturing
19 september 2025 · 1 uur 30 min
Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide manufacturing team to talk about all that goes into ramping up production, from people and processes to expanding the team and refining inefficiencies. It's a great problem to have! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, CJ Mendes, Kirstin Neira, Erik Anderson, Aaron Hartwig, and Doug Wibben.
Previously on Oxide and Friends...
OxF s03e20 - Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Topic
[@M:SS](link into recording) Leventhal's Conundrum
PRs needed!
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Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann
18 september 2025 · 1 uur 25 min
Jerry Neumann joined Bryan and Adam to discuss his blog post from 2015, examining the work of Carlota Perez on technological revolutions. These waves have similarities, in particular: frenzy, bust, and deployment. Is AI a new wave or the culmination of the IT wave of the last 50 years? Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Jerry Neumann.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Jerry's 2015 blog post: The Deployment Age
PRs needed!
Previous episodes mentioned:
OxF s05e24 - Oxide’s $100M Series B
OxF s05e04 - AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras
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The Promises of Tech with Scott Hanselman
15 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 26 min
Scott Hanselman gave a terrific talk about the promises of tech: connection, convenience and creativity. Did it deliver? Scott joins Bryan and Adam to discuss... and also wander around as one expects from an Oxide and Friends episode. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Scott Hanselman.
Past episodes mentioned:
OxF s01e12 - A Brief History of Talking Computers
OxF s02e18 - Books in the Box Redux
OxF s05e10 - Lip‑Bu Tan’s Intel
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Scott's talk: Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver?
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Oxide's $100M Series B
9 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 32 min
Oxide raised its $100M Series B round of venture capital. Oxide's founders, Bryan and Steve, answer questions selected by Adam from social media about the round, the company, and the future. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide CEO, the man, the myth, the legend, Steve Tuck.
Previous episodes mentioned:
OxF s05e10 - Lip‑Bu Tan’s Intel
OxF s03e04 - Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries
OxF s04e27 - Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino)
OxF s05e14 - Bringing up Cosmo
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
blog: Oxide's $100M Series B
Hacker News thread
PRs needed!
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Adventures in Data Corruption
10 juli 2025 · 1 uur 44 min
Two years ago, the Oxide team encountered data corruption during a fairly simple network data transfer. The ensuing debugging sessions uncovered a truly bizarre bug involving CPU speculation! Bryan and Adam were joined by colleagues John and Rain to discuss the discovery and circuitous hunt to track down the bug. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included John Gallagher, and Rain Paharia.
Previous episodes mentioned:
OxF s03e09 - Get You a State Machine for Great Good
OxF s03e20 - Shipping the first Oxide rack: Tales from Manufacturing
OxF s04e25 - RTO or GTFO
OxF s02e38 - A Debugging Odyssey
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
The Update Framework
Omicron Issue #3441 (Oxide Computer GitHub)
Omicron Pull Request #3455 (Oxide Computer GitHub)
stlouis Issue #454 (Oxide Computer GitHub)
Changing psrset.out.txt (Oxide Computer)
Commit 5ec2885322423c0cca0d006611b5c9ac94b0f588 (Oxide Computer)
Omicron Pull Request #3560 (Oxide Computer GitHub)
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When Async Attacks!
27 juni 2025 · 1 uur 54 min
What happens when the Oxide API is slow? A podcast episode! More specifically, one about how the team employed all manner of debugging techniques to track it down to one obscure and configurable async runtime feature! Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the team to talk about that journey and the tools we used (and made!) along the way. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Dave Pacheco, Eliza Weisman, and Augustus Mayo.
Previous episodes mentioned:
Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries
The Saga of Sagas
DTrace at 20
Cultural Idiosyncrasies
Mr. Nagle’s Wild Ride
A Debugging Odyssey
RTO or GTFO
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Falling in Love with Rust
Tokio Runtime Builder – disable_lifo_slot
magic‑trace (GitHub)
Magic Trace podcast episode from Jane Street
diesel‑dtrace (GitHub)
omicron issue comment
qorb
statemap
tokio‑dtrace
tokio issue #7411
Visualizing Systems with Statemaps
PostgreSQL WAL INIT ZERO
Statemaps: Visualizing System Behavior (YouTube)
The statemaps that we referred to:
Nexus by thread, discussed starting at 55:29. (This statemap has some states coalesced; the full version is also available.)
Nexus by Tokio task, tagged by thread, discussed starting at 1:15:33
The D scripts that we referred to:
nexus-statemap.d used to generate the initial statemap
nexus-profile.d to understand what was consuming CPU
tokio-statemap-tagged.d to generate the Tokio task statemap
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Diving In with Robert Bogart
19 juni 2025 · 1 uur 43 min
On the heels of Bryan's blog post about the similarities between aspiring college athletes finding a team and entrepreneurs raising a round of capital, Bryan and Adam were joined by Robert Bogart to discuss his own experiences with both--and the life lesson accrued along the way. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Robert Bogart.
College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long MaybeOxF: Debugger‑Driven Development
Anthony Ervin – Wikipedia
Eddie Reese – Wikipedia
Metaweb – Wikipedia
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Debugger-Driven Development
16 juni 2025 · 1 uur 35 min
Building systems software can be quite opaque, leading to the need for great debugging tools. At Oxide, we've found that debuggers can be even more valuable leading rather than following system development. Bryan and Adam talk with Oxide colleagues about how domain specific debugging tools help us build systems not only more robustly, but faster as well. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Dave Pacheco. John Gallagher, Alan Hanson, and Eliza Weisman.
Previous episodes mentioned:
OxF: AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik
OxF: The Saga of Sagas
OxF: A Crate is Born
OxF: The Network Behind the Network
OxF: Bringing up Cosmo
OxF: RIP USENIX ATC
OxF: Dijkstra’s Tweetstorm
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
omdb ground rules
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AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik
5 juni 2025 · 1 uur 34 min
Last week, our colleague (and frequent Oxide and Friends guest) Steve Klabnik made some new friends on the Internet with a blog entry on AI discourse. Bryan and Adam were joined by Steve to try to de-polarize the discussion a little. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Steve Klabnik, and valued listener, Julian Giamblanco (aka "Oatmealdealer").
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Steve's blog post: I am disappointed in the AI discourse
OxF: A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel (The Ballers)
OxF: Adversarial Machine Learning with Nicholas Carlini
OxF: Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz ("the RFD 3 podcast episode")
OxF: AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras
OxF: Reflecting on Founder Mode ("ego con")
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AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel
24 mei 2025 · 1 uur 11 min
Late in 2024, an economics paper captured the attention of the world. AI, it claimed, had a tremendous impact on materials research, disproportionally benefitted the most productive, and--sadly--reduced job statisfaction. It now appears that the results are entirely fabricated! Ben Shindel joins Bryan and Adam to discuss. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Ben Shindel.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Ben's blog: AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!
OxF: Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud
Topic
[@M:SS](link into recording) Leventhal's Conundrum
PRs needed!
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RIP USENIX ATC
15 mei 2025 · 1 uur 24 min
Bryan and Adam discuss the recent announcement of the discontinuation of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), reminiscing about their own visits to the ATC and the impact of the conference. Long-time Oxide Friend, Tom Lyon, joined to dial the reminiscence back a couple more decades! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Tom Lyon.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Bryan's blog 2025: RIP USENIX ATC
OxF s1e13: Put the OS back in OSDI
Bryan's Lisa 2011 talk: Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
Bryan's USENIX 2016 talk: A Wardrobe for the Emperor
USENIX 2004
Gnutella not Nutella
USENIX DTrace paper
USENIX Summer 1994
Slab Allocator
NFSv3
WSJ 2006 Technology Innovation Awards
0xF s1e18: Dijkstra's Tweetstorm
Meeting Dennis Ritchie
BoF session
Birds of a feather flock together
Freenix
2003
2004
Rik Farrow ;login: editorial on USENIX 2016
Bryan's blog 2004: Wither USENIX?
blog comments from Werner Vogels
Systems We Love
Adam's blog 2004: nohup -p
illumos source
OxF s1e4: from /proc to proc_macro
Things that don't work as advertised
Diffracting trees
Cold Fusion
Adam's blog 2009: Triple-Parity RAID-Z
Rob Pike 2000: Systems Software Research is Irrelevant
ZFS paper
Living Computer Museum (now-dead)
SDF
All the Chips that Fit by Tom Lyon
OxF s2e22: RIP Optane
History of Programming Languages Conference
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Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria
7 mei 2025 · 1 uur 31 min
Matthew Sanabria joins Bryan and Adam to talk about his role at Oxide--Solutions Software Engineer--and how it fits in with engineering, sales, support and marketing. It takes everyone in Busytown! Sound good? Apply! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Matthew Sanabria.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Solutiuons Software Engineer application
OxF: the "squeezefish" episode
The Fallthrough podcast
Busytown
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Shootout at the CNCF Corral
1 mei 2025 · 1 uur 23 min
Last week the kerfuffle between Synadia and CNCF, tussling over the ownership and futures of NATS, bled into the public. The outcome may cast a long shadow for open source and for the CNCF. Bryan and Adam were joined by Rachel Stephens and Adam Jacob to discuss how we got here and possible outcomes. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Rachel Stephens Adam Jacob, and Eliza Weisman.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Goats in sweaters
CNCF Slide: Why You Should Host Your Project at CNCF
CNCF NATS documents
NATS GitHub discussion
The uncashed $10k check
CNCF landscape
CNCF blog on NATS / Synadia
Synadia response to the CNCF
Postscript:
The CNCF updated its blog with proof that the ACH transfer of $10,000 was completed [still very funny! -ahl].
Derek Collison--as reported by Runtime News--has agreed to transfer the NATS trademark to the CNCF "because we just feel that the damage to the ecosystem and the ugliness is not worth it for anyone."
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Bringing up Cosmo
24 april 2025 · 1 uur 56 min
Oxide is bringing up its next generation server. To discuss the (amazingly smooth) bringup process, Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the oxide team. Tales of adversity, re-work, un-re-work, and triumph! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues Nathanael Huffman, Ian Sobering, Matt Keeter, and Aaron Hartwig.
We mentioned quite a few terms! Here's a helpful guide:
Cosmo - Oxide’s next-generation sled (currently in development) with an AMD Turin CPU
Gimlet - Oxide’s current-generation sled with an AMD Milan CPU
Turin - AMD Epyc 9005 Series
Milan - AMD Epyc 7003 Series
Genoa - AMD Epyc 9004 Series (Oxide chose to skip this generation)
Sequencing - the precise control of when power rails are energized throughout a PCB
Sled - One of the (max 32) computers in an Oxide rack; a custom form-factor optimized for power and cooling efficiency
IBC - Intermediate Bus Converter (Our 54VDC -> 12VDC converter)
RoT - Root of Trust
SP - Service Processor, the small computer (running Hubris) that allows for low-level control
Ignition - An even lower-level control network for power management (including power of the SP)
Ruby - The AMD reference platform (Oxide has used this to prepare Cosmo software in advance of bringup)
DC-SCM - https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-dc-scm-spec-rev-1-0-pdf and OpenCompute standard form factor.
Grapefruit - OCP DC-SCM form-factor board with our SP, RoT, and FPGA on it, used to replace the OCP DC-SCM baseboard management controller in the Ruby platform.
Cadence - Software Oxide previously used for PCB design
Altium - Software Oxide now uses for PCB design
Hubris - Oxide’s embedded operating system, run on the SP and RoT
Humility - The Hubris debugger
PLM - Product Lifecycle Management – a class of software used for managing hardware BOMs
BOM - Bill of Materials – the components required to build a hardware product
RFK - Our colleague, Robert Keith (to distinguish him from our…
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Character Limit with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac
17 april 2025 · 1 uur 27 min
Bryan and Adam have been gushing for months over Character Limit, the fantastic book by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac about Elon Musk's haphazard and disastrous takeover of Twitter. They're joined by the authors themselves to discuss the book, Musk, DOGE, and some of the Character Limit unreleased B-sides. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our guests were Ryan Mac and Kate Conger.
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Hell is other networks
4 april 2025 · 1 uur 27 min
An Oxide customer encountered a peculiar issue at the intersection of their Oxide network and their broader network. Bryan and Adam were joined by several members of the Oxide team who collaborated to investigate and--ultimately--solve the problem using a combination of tooling, intuition, and dark knowledge. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Levon Tarver, Alan Hanson, Will Chandler, and Trey Aspelund.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
PRs needed!
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Raiding the Minibar
1 april 2025 · 1 uur 52 min
Much of the work at Oxide goes into hardware and software used to build and test the eventual product. Bryan and Adam were joined by Ian, Doug, and Nathanael to talk about "Minibar", a rig for connecting up an Oxide server (code name: Gimlet) for manufacturing and internal use. Triumphs and catastrophes including stabbing a connector with a guide pin and bringup mishaps! Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Ian Sobering, Doug Wibben, and Nathanael Huffman,
Some other, related Oxide and Friends
OxF: Cabling the Backplane
OxF: The Network Behind the Network
OxF: The Power of Protoboards
Images from the show:
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Lip-Bu Tan's Intel
21 maart 2025 · 1 uur 23 min
Intel has a new CEO! And it's Lip-Bu Tan. We had assumed it would not be Lip-Bu--he was such a clear front-runner that the more time passed the less likely it seemed it would be him... and yet! Bryan and Adam were joined by Reuter's Max Cherney to discuss. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our esteemed guest was Max Cherney; we were also joined by Bryan Russett, and Alex Kesling.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Cooking with Oxide and Friends
The Oxide John von Neumann bust
Intel's new CEO plots overhaul of manufacturing and AI operations
Lip-Bu Tan: Remaking Our Company for the Future
Intel oneAPI
Morris Chang: "A very discourteous fellow"
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A Happy Day For Rust
15 maart 2025 · 1 uur 20 min
Recently, a change to a utility in the Rust toolchain changed behavior in a way that impacted users. Rather than being a story of frustration and aspersions, it was a story of a community working... and working well together! Bryan and Adam were joined by Dirkjan Ochtman (of the rustup team) and Steve Klabnik to discuss. Lees meer
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Dirkjan Ochtman, and treasured colleague, Steve Klabnik.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Steve: A Happy Day For Rust
PRs needed!
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!