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Just heard this one the other day. Here's the episode from anyone interested.
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Podcast
Oxide and Friends
Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB Subscribe to our calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f4185aa71c4524d0d6127f31058c9e21f29f017d48a0fca6f564969cd0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
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Oxide and Friends did a great episode on it at the time, covering CockroachDB's move to a non-free license that mandates telemetry.
@_huayra_ +2 more
Whither CockroachDB?
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A great episode where Kelsey Hightower discusses the Terraform license change and why maintainers should be upfront about project governance.
@msteffen +2 more
Open Source Anti-Patterns with Kelsey Hightower
with Kelsey Hightower
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The NeXT and Objective-C episode (S1E8) was excellent; the commenter is still working through the old catalog.
@guiambros +2 more
NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories
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Bryan Cantrill's story about the motivation for DTrace, debugging a suspected Solaris networking bug on E10k machines. The ending is great.
@rhinoceraptor +1 more
Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel
with Bryan Cantrill
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Commenter calls the Oxide and Friends episode possibly the most powerful vote of confidence in Rust, on how Rust enabled sweeping storage refactors.
@zellyn +1 more
Mechanical Engineering at Oxide [chapter images]
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Andres Freund will be on Oxide and Friends with bcantrill and ahl on April 9th at 5pm PT.
@kaliszad +1 more
Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund
with Andres Freund
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The "Paths into Systems Programming" episode is relevant and was a good discussion.
@faitswulff +1 more
Paths into Systems Programming
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A great talk by Bryan Cantrill on the history of OS-level virtualization, with the note that the first version of Jails was only a few hundred lines of code.
@kohtatsu +1 more
A brief history of talking computers
with Bryan Cantrill
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Episode on engineering rigor in the LLM age directly addresses using AI to build software better, not just faster.
@Philpax
Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
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The commenter calls the talk extraordinary, one of the best on challenges of large systems software, and says Dave discussed it on Oxide and Friends.
@bcantrill
Systems Software in the Large
with Dave
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I feel like we had a good Oxide and Friends on this too... has some info about our power setup.
@steveklabnik
Bringing up Cosmo
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Steve Klabnik discusses how the early Rust team recognised the importance of tools like this; it's well worth a listen.
@K0nserv
A Happy Day For Rust
with Steve Klabnik
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A fantastic discussion of AI agents, the problems with their definitions, and at least one promising use case.
@williamstein
Predictions 2025
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Recommends the Oxide and Friends episode on technical blogging, arguing static site generators make writing more worthwhile than ever.
@bcantrill
Technical Blogging
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Oxide offers an episode on RFDs with colleagues Robert Mustacchi, David Crespo, Ben Leonard, and Augustus Mayo, for readers interested in the process.
@bcantrill
RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide
with Robert Mustacchi, David Crespo, Ben Leonard, Augustus Mayo
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Oxide and Friends has good coverage on the book, so it's worth a listen alongside the book itself.
@kierangill
Bookclub: How Life Works by Philip Ball
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A recorded debate between Bryan Cantrill and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols on whether we would have had to invent Linux.
@ghaff
All we have to fear is FUD itself
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Although it's rambling at times, the commenter loves the show, and the Crucible storage episode was awesome for someone interested in storage.
@louwrentius
Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service
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Oxide and Friends episode on it! It's quite good
@vsgherzi
Mr. Nagle's Wild Ride
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Some of the OpenTF team joined us on Oxide and Friends to talk about the project. It was a great conversation.
@ahl
Fork in the road for Terraform?
with OpenTF team
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Oxide and Friends episode on virtualizing time explains live-migrating containers between racks without the VM noticing.
@NortySpock
Virtualizing Time
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By far my favorite discussion about it was Oxide's last podcast, with Erin Kissane as guest.
@grimgrin
Blue Skies Over Mastodon (with Erin Kissane and Tim Bray)
with Erin Kissane
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Two favorites this year; the SVB episode with Eric Vishria was super interesting from their perspective.
@tuckerman
On Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria
with Eric Vishria
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Points readers to the Oxide and Friends episode "The Power of Proto Boards" for more detail on the company's approach.
@bcantrill
The Power of Proto Boards!
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The Oxide and Friends episode on holistic boot explains how the host CPU is booted on Oxide compute sleds.
@bcantrill
Holistic Boot
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They did another one on the book Losing the Signal about the rise and fall of Blackberry, which is worth checking out.
@matt_daemon
Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff
with Sean Silcoff
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If you're curious in the details, we have discussed them quite a bit in our Oxide and Friends podcast.
@bcantrill
Bringup Lab Chronicles: A Measurement Two Years in the Making
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The Optane episode's discussion was amazing; the show is a shining beacon of actual engineering.
@rcarmo
RIP Optane
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Went through the entire backlog; standout episodes include Engineering Culture and The Rise and Fall of DEC.
@sfaxon
The Rise and Fall of DEC
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I would also recommend the conversation that we had with Robison on Oxide and Friends shortly after the book was published.
@bcantrill
Flying Blind with Peter Robison
with Peter Robison
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Talks through the challenges of high-speed circuit design and debugging hardware bring-up, e.g. 'Tales from the Bring Up Lab'.
@benrow
Tales from the Bringup Lab
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Coder's Block episode had good stuff; best part: when stuck, write debugging infrastructure.
@EdwardCoffin
Coder's Block
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Oxide and Friends is compelling; episodes like "Tales from the Bringup Lab" show why, and fans of On the Metal won't be disappointed.
@bcantrill
Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud
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Some very interesting stuff here, including debugging Node.js programs from core dumps using debugger extensions that can display the JavaScript stack.
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Very informative about what happened at Sun in the 90s and DTrace, and the guest is quite funny and smart.
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Bryan Cantrill has a wonderful talk about exactly this in Illumos that I recommend at every opportunity.
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Commenter points readers to Bryan Cantrill's DTrace conference wrap-up as a worthwhile summary of the event.
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Bryan Cantrill's YouTube videos on Manta are even better at explaining it than the write-up.
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Bryan Cantrill's lightning talk on ta(1) is fascinating, and shows how long-lived software can be.
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A 2007 Bryan Cantrill DTrace talk is a gem, especially the middle story of tracking down a GNOME applet killing a Sun Ray server.
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Points readers to Bryan Cantrill's lightning talk on the Linux kernel's sins, including its POSIX violations.
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Bryan Cantrill, Principles of Technology Leadership: a talk on leadership principles for technology teams, shared as a link.
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Bryan Cantrill hosts it, which the commenter says makes it totally worth it.
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I would recommend the entire episode, it was very good. Only a small part is about Rust.
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Cantrill's talk on Rust removing green threads shows how bold change won over the community; the whole thing is worth a listen.
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Bryan Cantrill's blog post on the relative performance of C and Rust is worth reading, and the commenter found it fascinating.
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Bryan Cantrill explains why the GPL was unsuitable for Sun's open source scope; the talk is linked and called "brilliant at explaining stuff."
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Would read anything the commenter writes about FOSS, organizational psychology, and governance, comparing them to Hintjens, Shirky, Cantrill, and Eghbal.
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Bryan Cantrill of Oxide Computer discusses open source hardware, embedded Rust experience, sharing knowledge, and debugging hard systems problems.
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Pretty funny and educational talk by Bryan Cantrill about that particular incident.
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Adam Leventhal and I have been doing a Twitter Space every Monday at 5p Pacific; so far it's been incredible with amazing people dropping by.
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Bryan Cantrill has many interesting and thoughtful recorded talks on YouTube. I highly recommend them.
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Bryan Cantrill's blog is engaging, and the commenter tunes in every time a new entry appears.
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Brendan Gregg's video shows a hard disk latency spike caused by shouting at drives, a vivid demo of vibration effects.
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Nice and worthwhile interview of the inventor of DTrace.
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Bryan Cantrill's talk has an anecdote at about 58 minutes showing a B-tree library beating a hand-rolled balanced binary tree by 35%.
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A good dip into how deep in the weeds Oxide gets, from their podcast and videos.
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Bryan Cantrill's talks are some of the best I've ever seen; worth sharing with colleagues.
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Stories from low-level programming world (firmware, operating systems, etc.)
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Worth a watch, featuring Bryan Cantrill's "I've got to ding you on something."
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Oxide and Friends is a great interdisciplinary podcast with a lot of focus on hardware and low-level stuff.
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Oxide and Friends covers a pretty good range of topics from hardware, software, business, company values.
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Anything by Bryan Cantrill; an hour with him teaches more about computer history and system design than most things. Monktoberfest series and Joyent years are standouts.
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Oxide and Friends has deep-detail episodes with many team voices; the back catalog is worth exploring.
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Bryan Cantrill draws technical details into a cohesive story; the electromagnetic and safety compliance episode builds palpable momentum before the Oxide rack sale.
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Bryan Cantrill's epic Oracle Lawnmower rant is worth hearing, linked at the 34-minute mark.
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Oxide and Friends goes surprisingly deep on systems programming and open source, staying fast-paced and stream-of-consciousness.
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Oxide and Friends is BY FAR the best tech podcast you could ever listen to.
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You can follow our progress in our Oxide and Friends podcast.
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I highly recommend folks check out the Oxide and Friends calls on discord, usually on Mondays 5pm PST.
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One might be especially interested in the Q&A we did on Monday after our launch.
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Bryan Cantrill draws excellent parallels between this incident and software systems in his "Debugging Under Fire" talk.
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Oxide and Friends: weekly talks on the software space, with excellent guests like Kelsey Hightower. Definitely the best computer podcasts out there.
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Lists several favorite technical podcasts, including Oxide and Friends, as shows the commenter enjoys.
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Oxide and Friends just did an episode talking about this.
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Any talk by Bryan Cantrill is worth your time.
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Obligatory posting of Bryan Cantrill's interview with Arthur Whitney, linking the ACM Queue interview.
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On The Metal and Oxide and Friends cover the on-the-ground view of a large high-tech hardware project, some episodes going into the nitty-gritty of custom electronics design.
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Bryan and Adam discuss Helios, the OS on the Oxide Rack, a distro of illumos, with plenty of cross-generational appeal.
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The commenter really likes Bryan Cantrill's talk on tool making, "Sharpening the Axe: The Primacy of Toolmaking."
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Recommends the Oxide and Friends podcast as a follow-up to watching Oxide's progress.
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Several really good episodes on the dangers license proliferation, copyright assignment, and open source business models pose to shared projects.
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The only podcast I consistently listen to is Oxide and Friends; it comes across as genuine.
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Shares a list of favourite podcasts, including Oxide and Friends, as picks for authentic listening.
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Worth watching from 33m: Cantrill praises Sun management, then discusses Larry Ellison and Oracle.
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Bryan Cantrill's podcast touches on Intel's deeper cultural issues, offering an Intel customer's perspective on them.
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Recently Oxide and Friends did an episode on this topic, and I'd highly recommend that episode and the podcast itself.
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Bryan Cantrill's sharp Oracle takedown, the lawnmower analogy, is worth hearing at the 33-minute mark.
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Oxide and Friends is Oxide Computer's second podcast; around half the episodes are serious technical deep dives.
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One of my all-time favorite talks, so good. Thank you Bryan Cantrill!
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On the Metal and Oxide and Friends make programming topics entertaining and educational; Bryan Cantrill is wildly entertaining and knowledgeable. Highly recommended, especially for Rust folks.
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Loves the Oxide and Friends podcast; the book club discussions are a fly-on-the-wall listen that teaches a lot.
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Oxide and Friends is a flexible format that lets the Oxide team speak in its own voice on whatever is on their minds.
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Recently listened to an Oxide and Friends episode on the tension between open source and building a sustainable business.
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Points readers to Bryan Cantrill's Oracle rant, starting at the 33-minute mark, as an example to watch.
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Bryan Cantrill's talk on tail -f showed how it "treasures up" data in buffers, changing the commenter's view of old Unix code.
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You should check out their podcast, Oxide And Friends
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Oxide and Friends is the only computing podcast I listen to anymore; they have insights I actually value.
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Has seen Bryan Cantrill present at several conferences and says his talks are consistently the best.
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Those On the Metal episodes are about six years old; please check out Oxide and Friends instead.
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Oxide and Friends: great tech interviews and various tech topics from the Oxide Computers team.
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Highly recommends the "Oxide and Friends" podcast and the original "On The Metal" show.
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Oxide and Friends has a good mix of light banter and interesting technical talk across the stack.
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LLMs come up a good bit on the Oxide and Friends podcast; they have very reasonable takes on LLM usage.
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