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Oxide and Friends — 188 episodes

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1

For Want of a Resistor

2

Emulating Oxide: How Faux Can You Go?

3

AI Detection with Max Spero

4

The Return to the Chamber of Mysteries

5

The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison

6

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

7

The Oxide 3D Explorer

8

The Hardest Kind of Unsafe Rust

9

This Old Repo: LLMs and the Restoration of BattleTris

10

Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel

11

The Tale of Reverso

12

AI in Computer Science Education

13

Mechanical Engineering at Oxide [chapter images]

14

Are LLMs Insufficently Lazy?

15

Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack

16

When Nine Nines Isn't Enough

17

Oxide's $200M Series C

18

Shell Game with Evan Ratliff

19

Software Engineering Past, Present, and Future with Grady Booch

20

Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age

21

Predictions 2026!!

22

OxF 2025 Wrap-Up

23

Death by Uptime

24

Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug

25

Founder vs. Investor with Liz Zalman and Jerry Neumann

26

Futurelock

27

Books in the Box V

28

AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman

29

Systems Software in the Large

30

Scaling Manufacturing

31

Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann

32

The Promises of Tech with Scott Hanselman

33

Oxide's $100M Series B

34

Adventures in Data Corruption

35

When Async Attacks!

36

Diving In with Robert Bogart

37

Debugger-Driven Development

38

AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik

39

AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel

40

RIP USENIX ATC

41

Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria

42

Shootout at the CNCF Corral

43

Bringing up Cosmo

44

Character Limit with Kate Conger and Ryan Mac

45

Hell is other networks

46

Raiding the Minibar

47

Lip-Bu Tan's Intel

48

A Happy Day For Rust

49

A Crate is Born

50

Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces

51

A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup

52

Textual UIs with Orhun Parmaksız

53

AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras

54

Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi

55

Crates We Love

56

Predictions 2025

57

OxF 2024 Wrap-Up

58

Scaling Bluesky with Paul Frazee

59

Conferences in Tech

60

Intel after Gelsinger

61

Technical Blogging

62

Books in the Box IV

63

Unshrouding Turin (or Benvenuto a Torino)

64

Querying Metrics with OxQL

65

RTO or GTFO

66

Reflecting on Founder Mode

67

RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide

68

Whither CockroachDB?

69

The Saga of Sagas

70

Pragmatic LLM usage with Nicholas Carlini

71

CrowdStrike BSOD Fiasco with Katie Moussouris

72

Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri

73

Innovation Tokens with Charity Majors

74

Is NVIDIA like Sun from the Dot Com Bubble?

75

Musing with Changelog's Adam Stacoviak

76

Rebooting a datacenter: A decade later

77

Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball

78

All we have to fear is FUD itself

79

A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel

80

Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund

81

Cultural Idiosyncrasies

82

Adversarial Machine Learning

83

Data Visualization

84

Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service

85

Innovation Stagnation?

86

Helios

87

What's taking so long?!

88

Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison

89

Predictions 2024!

90

AMD's MI300 and the Future of Accelerated Compute

91

Framework Computer with Nirav Patel

92

OpenAI's Boardroom Brawl

93

Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz

94

Launching the Cloud Computer

95

Open Source and Capitalism with Ashley Williams and Adam Jacob

96

Settling Beef

97

Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride

98

DTrace at 20

99

Open Source Anti-Patterns with Kelsey Hightower

100

Fork in the road for Terraform?

101

No Silver Bullets

102

Books in the Box III

103

The Frontend of the Computer

104

Tales from Manufacturing: Shipping Rack 1

105

Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered!

106

Okay, Doomer: A Rebuttal to AI Doom-mongering

107

Software Verificationpalooza

108

Virtualizing Time

109

Open Source Governance

110

Building Together: Oxide and Samtec

111

The Network Behind the Network

112

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

113

Rust Trademark: Argle-bargle or Foofaraw?

114

Cabling the Backplane

115

Get You a State Machine for Great Good

116

Does a GPT future need software engineers?

117

On Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria

118

Rack-scale Networking

119

Memory Safety with Yael Grauer

120

Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries

121

Revisiting Unikernels

122

The Power of Proto Boards!

123

Predictions 2023!

124

Breaking it down with Ian Brown

125

A Debugging Odyssey

126

Podcasts for Podcast-Lovers

127

Leaving Twitter with Tim Bray

128

Mastodon with Kris Nova

129

Tech Layoffs

130

Open Source Firmware

131

Let That Sink In! (Whither Twitter?)

132

Open Source Inside Baseball (with Stephen O'Grady)

133

Holistic Boot

134

Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives

135

Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff

136

Threads, async/await, Promises, Futures

137

Potpourri: Product, Platform, Paravirtualization

138

The Oxide Supply Chain

139

Bringup Lab Chronicles: A Measurement Two Years in the Making

140

Surviving Conventional Wisdom

141

RIP Optane

142

Deep Tech Investing

143

Across the Chasm with Rust

144

Integrating Hardware and Software Teams

145

Books in the box redux

146

Paths into Systems Programming

147

The Rise and Fall of DEC

148

Surviving the Dot-Com Bust

149

Debugging Methodologies

150

Fail Whaling

151

More Tales from the Bringup Lab

152

Another LPC55 ROM Vulnerability

153

Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving

154

Trolltron, Assemble!

155

Ukraine

156

The Future Of Work

157

Engineering Culture

158

Breakthroughs Delayed

159

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

160

Taxonomy of Hype

161

Flying Blind with Peter Robison

162

Predictions 2022

163

The Pragmatism of Hubris

164

Tales from the Bringup Lab

165

The Sidecar Switch

166

Talking Turkeys

167

The Wrath of Kahn

168

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

169

On Code Review

170

Coder's Block

171

Dijkstra's Tweetstorm

172

Economics and Open Source

173

The Books in the Box

174

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

175

Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph

176

Put the OS back in OSDI

177

A brief history of talking computers

178

The episode formerly known as ℔

179

The Showstopper Show

180

Agile + 20

181

NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories

182

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

183

Barracuda 7200.11: broken firmware is broken software!

184

Silicon Cowboys

185

from /proc to proc_macro

186

golang asserts and the PLATO terminal

187

A Requiem for SPARC with Tom Lyon

188

Mr. Leventhal, Come here I want to see you