Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by our colleagues Dave Pacheco and @mycoliza to talk about a subject near and dear to our heart: our debugger-driven development at @oxidecomputer. Join us today, 5p Pacific! Recorded and syndicated as always.
Bryan Cantrill
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Nom de guerre: General Protection Fault.
@JamesWidman @ahl @steveklabnik.com Those aren't actually interruptions -- that's a track misalignment. (You might also note some periods of silence, which also didn't exist live!) Thanks for noticing; we'll get it fixed before syndicating.
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Last week, our colleague (and frequent Oxide and Friends guest) @steveklabnik.com made some new friends on the Internet with a blog entry on AI discourse. @bcantrill and I were joined by Steve to try to de-polarize the discussion a little.
Last week, @steveklabnik.com indicated his disappointment with AI discourse:
https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/
Perhaps unsurprisingly, @ahl and I are going to be joined by Steve today to talk AI discourse; join us, 5p Pacific!
It was a wild week for crooked AI! On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by Ben Shindel, who wrote a terrific piece on the fraud at MIT:
https://thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materials-and-fraud-oh-my
Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific for a discussion on AI, materials, and fraud!
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On last night's Oxide and Friends, @bcantrill and I discussed the end of USENIX ATC, reminiscing about our experiences there and its impact to the industry. @aka_pugs joined to dial the reminiscence back another couple of decades! https://youtu.be/kd6dIonsxUw
Last week, the USENIX association announced that they are discontinuing their flagship conference, USENIX ATC:
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/05/11/rip-usenix-atc/
Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I are going to talk about the demise of ATC. Come for the discussion on the intersection of academia with the practitioner; stay for the retelling of awkward encounters with Unix pioneers.
Join us today ,and bring your own memories of ATC! 5p Pacific!
@darryl_ramm Fortunately, they bought a family plot back in the Dot Com boom!
RIP USENIX ATC https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/05/11/rip-usenix-atc/
@SteveBellovin @danmcd @ahl Great idea! We did talk about a bit about Brooks's work in our "No Silver Bullet" episode:
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/no-silver-bullets
Our approach to solutions software engineering at @oxidecomputer may be seen by some as unusual; today @ahl and I will be joined by our colleague @sudomateo to talk about his experience -- and what drew him to Oxide. Join us, 5p Pacific!
https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1369015261574987818
Recorded and syndicated as always:
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/
And note that we are hiring for this role; more details:
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Kerfuffle between the CNCF, one of its projects, and the company that contributed it? Sounds like a topic tailor-made for Oxide and Friends! @bcantrill and I were joined by @rstephensme and @adamhjk to discuss how we got here and possible outcomes. https://youtu.be/dYIgswVvIt0
This week saw a new kind of failure mode for open source projects: a company (Synadia) trying to claw back a project (NATS) that it had donated to a foundation (the CNCF) -- and the foundation fighting back. The belligerents themselves have their own agendas, but @ahl and I will be joined by fellow non-combatants @adamhjk and @rstephensme to talk about their perspective on the shootout -- and what it means for open source. Join us live, Monday, 5p Pacific!
We got our AMD Turin sled booting! And --in classic @oxidecomputer fashion -- we're going to regale with tales of the adventure: join @ahl and me on Monday at 5p Pacific when we will have the engineering team on hand to talk about bringing up Cosmo!
https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1362938379364466941
If you want the backstory, check out our earlier tales from the bringup lab:
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-the-bringup-lab-2021-12-06
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/more-tales-from-the-bringup-lab
And learn ,more about Turin:
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/unshrouding-turin-or-benvenuto-a-torino
Thrilled that @kateaconger and @mac_ryan_ are going to join @ahl and me to discuss their superlative Character Limit on the next Oxide and Friends. Join us, Monday 4p Pacific!
@lightning Yes, recorded and syndicated as always: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/
Hell is other networks. Today @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by Oxide engineers to discuss an incident where our combination with particular networking equipment resulted in a pathological system -- and how it was debugged and resolved. Join us, 5p Pacific!
Hardware isn't just what you ship; today @ahl and I are going to be joined our colleagues Ian Sobering and Doug Wibben to talk about Minibar, a board that simulates a rack to allow a single sled to be programmed and tested in manufacturing. Join us, 5p Pacific!
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Intel has a new CEO and it's Lip-Bu Tan! He was such an obvious front-runner that we assumed the more time that passed, the less likely it would be him. And yet! @bcantrill and I were joined by Max Cherney to discuss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sYvYYSxz2Y
Surprising no one, @ahl and I are going to be talking Lip-Bu Tan's ascension at Intel today on @oxidecomputer and Friends. Join us, 5p Pacific!
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