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.
Oxide Computer Company
Show overview
Oxide and Friends has been publishing since 2021, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 192 episodes. That works out to roughly 280 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence, with the show now in its 6th season.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 18m and 1h 40m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Technology show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 25 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Oxide Computer Company.
From the publisher
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
Latest Episodes
View all 192 episodesBooks in the Box VI
Dead Printers Tell No Tales
Oxide's $445M Series D
Working on Wicked Problems
For Want of a Resistor
Emulating Oxide: How Faux Can You Go?
AI Detection with Max Spero
The Return to the Chamber of Mysteries
The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison
The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Storytelling with Ramy Katrib
The Oxide 3D Explorer
The Hardest Kind of Unsafe Rust
This Old Repo: LLMs and the Restoration of BattleTris
Rooting for the Home Team with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel
The Tale of Reverso
AI in Computer Science Education
Mechanical Engineering at Oxide [chapter images]
Are LLMs Insufficently Lazy
S6 Ep 7Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack
The Oxide rack contains within it a distributed system that needs to trust itself. But how is this trust built? Bryan and Adam were joined by colleagues Andrew and Finch to explore how Trust Quorum was designed, built, and verified.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Andrew Stone, and Finch Foner.Previously, on Oxide and Friends:OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM AgeOxF s03e17 - Software VerificationpaloozaOxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM AgeOxF s05e20 - Debugger-Driven DevelopmentSome of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Oxide RFD 238: Trust Quorum and Rack UnlockPRs needed!If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!
S6 Ep 6When Nine Nines Isn't Enough
Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide team to describe the multi-year search for a mysterious source of hardware failures. All related to an ultra-reliable--and yet still not reliable enough--component.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by members of the Oxide team: Nathanael Huffman, Alan Hanson, Cliff Biffle, Eric Aasen, Robert "RFK" Keith, and Jordan Hendricks.Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:Oxide RFD 630: BMR491 Glitch Mitigation PlanRFK's reportPRs needed!If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!