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Oxide and Friends — 183 episodes

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1

The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Storytelling with Ramy Katrib

2

The Oxide 3D Explorer

3

The Hardest Kind of Unsafe Rust

4

This Old Repo: LLMs and the Restoration of BattleTris

5

Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel

6

The Tale of Reverso

7

AI in Computer Science Education

8

Mechanical Engineering at Oxide [chapter images]

9

Are LLMs Insufficently Lazy?

10

Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack

11

When Nine Nines Isn't Enough

12

Oxide's $200M Series C

13

Shell Game with Evan Ratliff

14

Software Engineering Past, Present, and Future with Grady Booch

15

Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

16

Predictions 2026!!

17

OxF 2025 Wrap-Up

18

Death by Uptime

19

Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug

20

Founder vs. Investor with Liz Zalman and Jerry Neumann

21

Futurelock

22

Books in the Box V

23

AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman

24

Systems Software in the Large

25

Scaling Manufacturing

26

Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann

27

The Promises of Tech with Scott Hanselman

28

Oxide's $100M Series B

29

Adventures in Data Corruption

30

When Async Attacks!

31

Diving In with Robert Bogart

32

Debugger-Driven Development

33

AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik

34

AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel

35

RIP USENIX ATC

36

Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria

37

Shootout at the CNCF Corral

38

Bringing up Cosmo

39

Character Limit with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

40

Hell is other networks

41

Raiding the Minibar

42

Lip-Bu Tan's Intel

43

A Happy Day For Rust

44

A Crate is Born

45

Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces

46

A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

47

Textual UIs with Orhun Parmaksız

48

AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras

49

Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

50

Crates We Love

51

Predictions 2025

52

OxF 2024 Wrap-Up

53

Scaling Bluesky with Paul Frazee

54

Conferences in Tech

55

Intel after Gelsinger

56

Technical Blogging

57

Books in the Box IV

58

Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino)

59

Querying Metrics with OxQL

60

RTO or GTFO

61

Reflecting on Founder Mode

62

RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide

63

Whither CockroachDB?

64

The Saga of Sagas

65

Pragmatic LLM usage with Nicholas Carlini

66

CrowdStrike BSOD Fiasco with Katie Moussouris

67

Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri

68

Innovation Tokens with Charity Majors

69

Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble?

70

Musing with Changelog's Adam Stacoviak

71

Rebooting a datacenter: A decade later

72

Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball

73

All we have to fear is FUD itself

74

A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel

75

Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund

76

Cultural Idiosyncrasies

77

Adversarial Machine Learning

78

Data Visualization

79

Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service

80

Innovation Stagnation?

81

Helios

82

What's taking so long?!

83

Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison

84

Predictions 2024!

85

AMD's MI300 and the Future of Accelerated Compute

86

Framework Computer with Nirav Patel

87

OpenAI's Boardroom Brawl

88

Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz

89

Launching the Cloud Computer

90

Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob

91

Settling Beef

92

Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride

93

DTrace at 20

94

Open Source Anti-Patterns with Kelsey Hightower

95

Fork in the road for Terraform?

96

No Silver Bullets

97

Books in the Box III

98

The Frontend of the Computer

99

Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1

100

Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered!

101

Okay, Doomer: A Rebuttal to AI Doom-mongering

102

Software Verificationpalooza

103

Virtualizing Time

104

Open Source Governance

105

Building Together: Oxide and Samtec

106

The Network Behind the Network

107

Blue Skies Over Mastodon (with Erin Kissane and Tim Bray)

108

Rust Trademark: Argle-bargle or Foofaraw?

109

Cabling the Backplane

110

Get You a State Machine for Great Good

111

Does a GPT future need software engineers?

112

On Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria

113

Rack-scale Networking

114

Memory Safety with Yael Grauer

115

Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries

116

Revisiting Unikernels

117

The Power of Proto Boards!

118

Predictions 2023!

119

Breaking it down with Ian Brown

120

A Debugging Odyssey

121

Podcasts for Podcast-Lovers

122

Leaving Twitter with Tim Bray

123

Mastodon with Kris Nova

124

Tech Layoffs

125

Open Source Firmware

126

Let That Sink In! (Whither Twitter?)

127

Open Source Inside Baseball (with Stephen O'Grady)

128

Holistic Boot

129

Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives

130

Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff

131

Threads, async/await, Promises, Futures

132

Potpourri: Product, Platform, Paravirtualization

133

The Oxide Supply Chain

134

Bringup Lab Chronicles: A Measurement Two Years in the Making

135

Surviving Conventional Wisdom

136

RIP Optane

137

Deep Tech Investing

138

Across the Chasm with Rust

139

Integrating Hardware and Software Teams

140

Books in the box redux

141

Paths into Systems Programming

142

The Rise and Fall of DEC

143

Surviving the Dot-Com Bust

144

Debugging Methodologies

145

Fail Whaling

146

More Tales from the Bringup Lab

147

Another LPC55 ROM Vulnerability

148

Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving

149

Trolltron, Assemble!

150

Ukraine

151

The Future Of Work

152

Engineering Culture

153

Breakthroughs Delayed

154

I Know This! (Purpose-built systems with general-purpose guts)

155

Taxonomy of Hype

156

Flying Blind with Peter Robison

157

Predictions 2022

158

The Pragmatism of Hubris

159

Tales from the Bringup Lab

160

The Sidecar Switch

161

Talking Turkeys

162

The Wrath of Kahn

163

Supercomputers, Cray, and How Sun Picked SGI's Pocket

164

On Code Review

165

Coder's Block

166

Dijkstra's Tweetstorm

167

Economics and Open Source

168

The Books in the Box

169

Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud

170

Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph

171

Put the OS back in OSDI

172

A brief history of talking computers

173

The episode formerly known as ℔

174

The Showstopper Show

175

Agile + 20

176

NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories

177

What's a bug? What's a debugger?

178

Barracuda 7200.11: broken firmware is broken software!

179

Silicon Cowboys

180

from /proc to proc_macro

181

golang asserts and the PLATO terminal

182

A Requiem for SPARC with Tom Lyon

183

Mr. Leventhal, Come here I want to see you