Oxide Computer Company

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/gcQxNHAKCBSubscribe to our calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f4185aa71c4524d0d6127f31058c9e21f29f017d48a0fca6f564969cd0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

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Oxide Computer Company

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Technology

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Latest episode

Jun 27, 2026

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Episodes

Open Source Inside Baseball (with Stephen O'Grady) 25.10.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 24th, 2022 Open Source Inside Baseball 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for October 24th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was dear frien...

Holistic Boot 11.10.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 10th, 2022 Holistic Boot 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for October 10th, 2022 .

Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives 04.10.2022

Inspired by the incentives at Google that apparently promote launching--but not sustaining--new products, Bryan, Adam and the Oxide Friends discuss the efficacy of various incentives... and the incentives that can lead to unintended and negative outcomes.

Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff 27.09.2022

Bryan and Adam interview Sean Silcoff, co-author of "Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry"... Soon to be a major motion picture! Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff (The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry) 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...

Threads, async/await, Promises, Futures 13.09.2022

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 Friends therapeutically explore the space.

Potpourri: Product, Platform, Paravirtualization 06.09.2022
The Oxide Supply Chain 30.08.2022

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 have charted a steady course through these turbulent waters

Bringup Lab Chronicles: A Measurement Two Years in the Making 23.08.2022

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 resistor that proved to be the difference between life and death (of the company)

Surviving Conventional Wisdom 16.08.2022

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

RIP Optane 09.08.2022

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

Deep Tech Investing 02.08.2022

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 19.07.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 18th, 2022 Across the Chasm with Rust 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for July 18th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guests were Steve Klabnik a...

Integrating Hardware and Software Teams 12.07.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 11th, 2022 Integrating Hardware and Software Teams 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for July 11th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our esteemed guest was Jon...

Books in the box redux 28.06.2022

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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for June 27th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was Scott Johnson . Other speakers included XX and YY . (Did we miss your name and/or get it wron...

Paths into Systems Programming 21.06.2022

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The Rise and Fall of DEC 14.06.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: June 13th, 2022 The Rise and Fall of DEC 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for June 13th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers on June 13th included Tom Lyon ,...

Surviving the Dot-Com Bust 24.05.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 23rd, 2022 Surviving the Dot-Com Bust 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for May 23rd, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers on May 23rd included Dan McDonal...

Debugging Methodologies 17.05.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 16th, 2022 Debugging Methodologies 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for May 16th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guests on May 16th were Jordan H...

Fail Whaling 26.04.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: April 25th, 2022 Fail Whaling 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for April 25th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was Jason Hoffman . Other speaker...

More Tales from the Bringup Lab 19.04.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: April 18th, 2022 More Tales from the Bringup Lab 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for April 18th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , we were joined by members of the...

Another LPC55 ROM Vulnerability 05.04.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: April 4th, 2022 Another LPC55 ROM Vulnerability 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for April 4th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was Laura Abbott...

Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving 29.03.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 28th, 2022 Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for March 28th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers on Marc...

Trolltron, Assemble! 22.03.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 21st, 2022 Trolltron, Assemble! 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for March 21st, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers on March 21st included Antranig Va...

Ukraine 15.03.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 14th, 2022 Ukraine 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for March 14th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , we were joined by special guest Andrey Akselrod . Some o...

The Future Of Work 08.03.2022

Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 7th, 2022 The Future Of Work 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 recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for March 7th, 2022 . In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , speakers on March 7th included Lucas Ives , Dan...

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