Oxide and Friends

The Power of Proto Boards!

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from January 16th, 2023.In add...

Predictions 2023!

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

See github for the list of predictions (and add your own!)

Breaking it down with Ian Brown

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Break it down with Ian BrownWe've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording fr...

A Debugging Odyssey

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A Debugging OdysseyWe've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from Decemb...

Podcasts for Podcast-Lovers

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends: December 12th, 2022Podcasts for Podcast-LoversWe've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recordi...

Leaving Twitter with Tim Bray

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends: November 28th, 2022Leaving Twitter with Tim BrayWe've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recor...

Mastodon with Kris Nova

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been re...

Tech Layoffs

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 7th, 2022Tech LayoffsWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even thou...

Open Source Firmware

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 31st, 2022Open Source FirmwareWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. E...

Let That Sink In! (Whither Twitter?)

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 27th, 2022Let That Sink In! (Whither Twitter?)We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for ...

Open Source Inside Baseball (with Stephen O'Grady)

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 24th, 2022Open Source Inside BaseballWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an ...

Holistic Boot

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 10th, 2022Holistic BootWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even tho...

Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives

03 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by the incentives at Google that apparently promote launching--but not sustaining--new products, Bryan, Adam and the Oxide Friends discuss th...

Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan and Adam interview Sean Silcoff, co-author of "Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBe...

Threads, async/await, Promises, Futures

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A problem has been eating at Adam: we use async/await in many languages and yet we're not so good at explaining the moving parts. Bryan and the Oxide ...

Potpourri: Product, Platform, Paravirtualization

05 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Oxide Supply Chain

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Hicks from Oxide operations joins to talk about the supply chain meltdown, war stories from the past, and the innovative ways she and her team ha...

Bringup Lab Chronicles: A Measurement Two Years in the Making

22 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Oxide electrical engineers share their experience bringing up a 100Gb link--it's got everything from a purpose-built probing station to a 100Ω re...

Surviving Conventional Wisdom

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan, Adam, and Steve consider nuggets of conventional wisdom that turn out to be turds.

RIP Optane

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Oxide Friends pour one out for Optane, Intel's great hope that never managed to find traction.

Deep Tech Investing

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Seth Winterroth and Ian Rountree join Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about investing in deep tech / hard tech.

Across the Chasm with Rust

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 18th, 2022Across the Chasm with RustWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour...

Integrating Hardware and Software Teams

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 11th, 2022Integrating Hardware and Software TeamsWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for ...

Books in the box redux

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been re...

Paths into Systems Programming

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

pending

The Rise and Fall of DEC

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: June 13th, 2022The Rise and Fall of DECWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. ...

Surviving the Dot-Com Bust

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 23rd, 2022Surviving the Dot-Com BustWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour....

Debugging Methodologies

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 16th, 2022Debugging MethodologiesWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Ev...

Fail Whaling

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: April 25th, 2022Fail WhalingWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though...

More Tales from the Bringup Lab

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: April 18th, 2022More Tales from the Bringup LabWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about a...

Another LPC55 ROM Vulnerability

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: April 4th, 2022Another LPC55 ROM VulnerabilityWe've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an...

Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 28th, 2022Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and SavingWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays...

Trolltron, Assemble!

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 21st, 2022Trolltron, Assemble!We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. E...

Ukraine

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 14th, 2022UkraineWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it...

The Future Of Work

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 7th, 2022The Future Of WorkWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even...

Engineering Culture

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: February 21st, 2022Engineering CultureWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour....

Breakthroughs Delayed

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: February 14th, 2022Breakthroughs DelayedWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hou...

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

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: February 7th, 2022I Know This! (Purpose-built systems with general-purpose guts)We’ve been holding a Twitter Space ...

Taxonomy of Hype

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: January 24th, 2022Taxonomy of HypeWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Eve...

Flying Blind with Peter Robison

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: January 10th, 2022Flying Blind with Peter RobisonWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for abo...

Predictions 2022

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: January 3rd, 2022Predictions 2022We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even...

The Pragmatism of Hubris

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: December 13th, 2021The Pragmatism of HubrisWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an ...

Tales from the Bringup Lab

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: December 6th, 2021Tales from the Bringup LabWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an...

The Sidecar Switch

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 29th, 2021The Sidecar SwitchWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. ...

Talking Turkeys

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 22nd, 2021Talking TurkeysWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Eve...

The Wrath of Kahn

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 15th, 2021The Wrath of KahnWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. E...

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

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 8th, 2021Supercomputers, Cray, and How Sun Picked SGI’s PocketWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly ...

On Code Review

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 1st, 2021On Code ReviewWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even ...

Coder's Block

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 25th, 2021Coder’s BlockWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even...

Dijkstra's Tweetstorm

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 18th, 2021Dijkstra’s TweetstormWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an ho...

Economics and Open Source

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 4th, 2021Economics and Open SourceWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an h...

The Books in the Box

27 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 27th, 2021The Books in the BoxWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hou...

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

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 20th, 2021Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech FraudWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space...

Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 13th, 2021Docker, Inc., an Early EpitaphWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for ab...

Put the OS back in OSDI

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 6th, 2021Put the OS back in OSDIWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an h...

A brief history of talking computers

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 30th, 2021A brief history of talking computersWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for...

The episode formerly known as ℔

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 23rd, 2021The episode formerly known as ℔We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for ab...

The Showstopper Show

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 16th, 2021The Showstopper ShowWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. ...

Agile + 20

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 26, 2021Agile + 20We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it...

NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 5, 2021NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting historiesWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p ...

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

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: June 21, 2021What’s a bug? What’s a debugger?We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for abo...

Barracuda 7200.11: broken firmware is broken software!

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: June 7, 2021Barracuda 7200.11: broken firmware is broken software!We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mond...

Silicon Cowboys

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 31, 2021Silicon CowboysWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. In additio...

from /proc to proc_macro

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 24, 2021from /proc to proc_macroWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. I...

golang asserts and the PLATO terminal

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 17, 2021golang asserts and the PLATO terminalWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for abo...

A Requiem for SPARC with Tom Lyon

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 10, 2021A Requiem for SPARC with Tom LyonWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about a...

Mr. Leventhal, Come here I want to see you

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 3, 2021Mr. Leventhal, Come here I want to see youWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space on Mondays at 5p for about ...