Best Oxide Computer Company Podcasts (2025)

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NOT a swarm! (Friends) 1:41:10

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Practical AI co-host, Chris Benson, joins us to discuss the latest advancements in AI, drones, home automation, and robotic swarming tech. Chris defines “swarm” with detail/precision and it turns out that what most people are calling a swarm today is NOT a swarm! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they ma…

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Creating communal computers (Interview) 57:48

2d ago57:48

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Spencer Chang caught our attention with the alive internet theory website, but he creates all kinds of computery things to bring people together around play, connection, and creation. Spencer’s experiments with computing-infused objects inspired him to create an entire line of internet sculptures and real-world computing shrines that will hopefully…

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Why is Zig so cool? (News) 9:07

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Nilo Stolte explains why Zig is “a totally new way to write programs”, George Mack gives twelve actionable ways to be more creative, Mario Zechner shares his findings on using MCP vs Bash tools, Josh Collinsworth compares creating AI art to medieval alchemy, LibrePods unlocks AirPods features for Android, and our first ever Changelog News Classifie…

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Retreat to attack (Friends) 1:44:16

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Do you like director’s commentaries and extended cuts? This episode is like that, but for this week’s News. We go deep on the alive internet theory, Meshtastic mesh networks, Zstandard compression, the FDE job explosion, React’s seemingly perpetual dominance, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because t…

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DO repeat yourself! (Interview) 1:19:58

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Prolific software blogger, Sean Goedecke, joins us to discuss why he believes software engineers need to be involved in the politics of their organization, how to avoid worry driven development, what is “good taste” in software engineering, where agentic coding will take our industry, why getting the main thing right is so important, and how to get…

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This new AI role is exploding (News) 8:43

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A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won’t tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes deeper on his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher says to stop vibe coding your unit tests. View the newsletter Join t…

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#define: sheer resistance (Friends) 1:42:41

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On this seventh iteration of our award-worthy game show filled with obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery: past winners battle to determine the champion of champions. (Also, Adam.) Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres…

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Futurelock 1:37:52

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We're big users of async Rust at Oxide, and recently we found (another) very odd and hard to debug pathology related to async Rust that we dubbed "Futurelock". Oxide engineers who diagnosed the problem join Bryan and Adam to describe Futurelock and discuss methods to identify and avoid it. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers …

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The world of open source metadata (Interview) 1:43:59

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Andrew Nesbitt builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He’s been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First with libraries.io and now with ecosyste.ms, which tracks over 12 million packages, 287 million repos, 24.5 billion dependencies, and 1.9 million maintainers. Wh…

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The overlooked power of URLs (News) 7:30

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Ahmad Alfy explains how URLs are state containers, Shrivu Shankar shares how he uses every Claude Code feature, Yusuf Aytas laments how AI broke technical interviews, Wu Xiaoyun tells how he saved TikTok $300k during his internship, and TOON is a new serialization format to save us some LLM tokens. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog+…

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We see dead projects (Friends) 1:18:33

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It’s a FRIGHT…when your record a podcast with dead projects all around. Tech debt, poor choices, timing, market shift, and optimizing for the wrong things are all lurking around waiting to pop out at you! Just don’t forget to push record. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Joi…

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Books in the Box V 1:20:51

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Revisiting an annual tradition--Books in the Box! Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends share book recommendations (and--sometimes--anti-recommendations). Take a listen if you're looking for your next read. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by some guests noted below: Previously, on Oxide and Friends: OxF s05e06 - A Half…

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Agentic infra changes everything (Interview) 2:03:40

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Adam Jacob joins us to discuss how agentic systems for building and managing infrastructure have fundamentally altered how he thinks about everything, including the last six years of his life. Along the way, he opines on the recent AWS outage, debates whether we’re in an AI-induced bubble, quells any concerns of AGI and a robot uprising, eats some …

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Code like a surgeon (News) 8:24

25d ago8:24

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The Dead Internet Theory dies, Geoffrey Litt tries to code like a surgeon, Matt Sephton thinks spreadsheets are great for UI design, Nate Meyvis advocates for front-end maximalism, Hemant Pandey thinks 9-5 employment is a great option for most, David Miranda compares React to Backbone in 2025. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ mem…

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Kaizen! Mop-up job (Friends) 1:47:36

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It’s our first Kaizen after the big Pipely launch in Denver and we have some serious mopping to do. Along the way, we brainstorm the next get-together, check out our new cache hit/miss ratio, give Pipely a deep speed test, discuss open video standards, and more! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they mad…

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Bringing Atuin to the desktop (Interview) 56:39

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Ellie Huxtable’s magical shell tool, Atuin, won developers’ hearts by syncing, searching, and backing up our shell history with ease. Now Ellie is tackling the desktop with a GUI built to help teams make their workflows repeatable, shareable, and reliable. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and …

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The science behind developer flow states (News) 6:47

1M ago6:47

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Csaba Okrona lays out exactly what Flow is (then shows you how to engineer your way back to it), a smart vacuum turned against an innocent hacker, Matz and the Ruby core team step up to steward RubyGems, Simon Willison things Claude Skills could be bigger than MCP, and Luke Plant looks at technical debt from a more positive perspective. View the ne…

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There will be bleeps (Friends) 1:41:45

1M ago1:41:45

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Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of open source (or not), and more. Bleep! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode an…

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AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman 1:20:56

1M ago1:20:56

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LLMs have had a dramatic impact on education. There are obvious reasons for concern, but what about the less obvious opportunities afforded by LLMs? Bryan and Adam were joined by Michael Littman, professor at Brown University and Associate Provost for AI, to talk about his role advising the university on productive, innovative, creative uses for AI…

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Spec-driven development with Kiro (Interview) 1:25:20

1M ago1:25:20

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We’re joined by Deepak Singh from the Kiro team. Kiro is AWS’s attempt at building an AI coding environment to take you from prototype to production. It does that by bringing structure to your agentic workflow with spec-driven development. Their aim: the flow of AI coding, leveled up with mature engineering practices. Join the discussion Changelog+…

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The great software quality collapse (News) 8:45

1M ago8:45

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Denis Stetskov describes how we’ve “normalized catastrophe” in the software industry, Meta is officially handing React and React Native over to a foundation, The New Stack reports on GitHub’s Azure migration priority, Miguel Grinberg benchmarks Python 3.14, and The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman published his take on AI art. View the newsletter Join the d…

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A new direction for AI developer tooling (Friends) 1:29:52

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Elixir creator, José Valim, is throwing his hat into the coding agent ring with Tidewave –a coding agent for full-stack web development. Tidewave runs in the browser alongside your app, but it’s also deeply integrated into Rails and Phoenix. On this episode, José tells us all about it. Also: his agent flow, YOLO mode, an MCP hot take, and more. Joi…

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Vite documentary companion pod (Interview) 1:12:22

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Our friends at Cult.Repo launch their epic Vite documentary on October 9th, 2025! To celebrate, Jerod sat down with Evan You to discuss Vite’s adoption story, why he raised money to start VoidZero, how developer documentaries get made, open source sustainability, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode becau…

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The best coders should exit the feed (News) 7:42

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npm under siege (what to do about it) (Friends) 1:35:20

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Over the past two months, we’ve seen some of the most serious supply chain attacks in npm history: phishing campaigns, maintainer account takeovers, and malware published to packages with billions of weekly downloads. What is going on?! What can we do about it? Our old friend, Feross Aboukhadijeh, joins us to help make sense of it all. Join the dis…

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Reinventing Python tooling with Rust (Interview) 1:43:20

2M ago1:43:20

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Charlie Marsh built Ruff (an extremely fast Python linter written in Rust) and uv (an extremely fast Python package manager written in Rust) because he believes great tools can have an outsized impact. He believes it so much, in fact, that he started an entire company that builds next-gen Python tooling. On this episode, Charlie joins us to tell us…

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Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies (News) 6:41

2M ago6:41

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Andrew Churchill thinks companies should really be hiring junior engineers, Addy Osmani announces Chrome DevTools MCP, GitHub lays out a roadmap to fend off npm attacks, Jerry Liu builds an app that generates a timeline of your day’s activities, and Sean Goedecke attempts to define “good taste” in the context of software engineering. View the newsl…

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Inside Oxide (Friends) 1:10:48

2M ago1:10:48

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Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck, the co-founders of Oxide, are on the pod live (to tape) from the stage at OxCon. Jerod and I were invited to Oxide’s annual internal conference to meet the people and to hear the stories of what makes Oxide a truly special place to work right now. The best part was this on-stage discussion with Bryan and Steve. Enjoy!…

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Voices of Oxide (Interview) 1:16:14

2M ago1:16:14

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Voices of Oxide on the pod! Cliff Biffle (engineer), Dave Pacheco (engineer), and Ben Leonard (designer) are on the show today. Jerod and I were invited to Oxide’s annual internal conference called OxCon to meet the people and to hear the stories of what makes Oxide a truly special place to work right now. Cliff Biffle is working on all Hubris and …

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Systems Software in the Large 1:44:57

2M ago1:44:57

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Dave Pacheco is leading Oxide's multi-year effort around full-system update. He recently gave a talk about his experience leading that project, the complexities of designing the system and organizing the team. Dave, Bryan, and Adam discuss the project, the many sources of leadership, and the often underestimated peril of "organizational procrastina…

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An escape route from YAML hell (News) 6:45

2M ago6:45

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Adolfo Ochagavía believes we’re approaching the problem of configuration from a flawed starting point, Annie Mueller hits us with a wakeup call about how she reads beginner tutorials, Brian Kihoon Lee spends some time meditating on taste, Namanyay thinks vibe coding is coders braindead, and Can Elma speculates on why AI helps senior engineers more …

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Linux Fest in Texas! (Friends) 1:19:17

2M ago1:19:17

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Carl George joins the show to talk about Texas Linux Fest, Omarchy, Linux desktop environments, configuring Linux, and more. Use the code CHL15 for 15% off your ticket to Texas Linux Fest. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 10 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: CodeRabbit – AI-native code reviews…

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Scaling Manufacturing 1:30:06

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Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide manufacturing team to talk about all that goes into ramping up production, from people and processes to expanding the team and refining inefficiencies. It's a great problem to have! In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, CJ Mendes, Kirstin Neira, Erik …

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Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann 1:25:04

2M ago1:25:04

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Jerry Neumann joined Bryan and Adam to discuss his blog post from 2015, examining the work of Carlota Perez on technological revolutions. These waves have similarities, in particular: frenzy, bust, and deployment. Is AI a new wave or the culmination of the IT wave of the last 50 years? In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joine…

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Flowing with agents (Interview) 2:05:58

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Everything is changing. Adam is joined by his good friend Beyang Liu from Sourcegraph — this time, talking about Amp (ampcode.com). Amp is one of the many, and one of Adam’s favorite agentic coding tools to use. What makes it different is how they’ve engineered to it to maximize what’s possible with today’s frontier models. Autonomous reasoning, ac…

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Just enough automation (News) 7:30

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Zach Gates quantifies the value of automating things, Albania’s new prime minister names an AI “minister” to his Cabinet, Eckart Walther launches Really Simple Licensing (RSL) along with some big names on the web, Vishnu Haridas praises UTF-8’s design, and Justin Searls disagrees with last week’s headline story about AI coding tools and shovelware.…

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Why AI coding claims don't add up (News) 8:53

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Mike Judge breaks down why he doesn’t believe the AI coding claims add up, the folks behind Cactoide create an open source alternative to Meetup / Eventbrite, Ryan Farley tells the story of how RSS beat Microsoft, Dominik Szymański ditched Docker for Podman (and thinks you should too), and Stripe announces a new layer 1 blockchain called Tempo. Vie…

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XO Ruby is hitting the road (Interview) 1:32:03

3M ago1:32:03

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Jim Remsik has lived on the bleeding edge (but also the heart’s center) of the Ruby world for decades. This fall, he’s organizing six (yes, SIX) XO Ruby confs all around the United States. On this episode, Jim joins us to reminisce about the early days of Ruby and Rails, share what he’s learned from so many years of organizing events, and invite al…

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Next.js is infuriating (News) 8:14

3M ago8:14

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Dominik Meca is infuriated by Next.js, Josh Bressers explains why open source is just one person, Huon Wilson describes the usefulness of “Copy as cURL”, Herman Martinus re-licenses Bear, and Nawaz Dhandala unpacks why dependency bloat is such a pervasive problem. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get clo…

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Action absorbs anxiety (Friends) 1:22:54

3M ago1:22:54

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Arun Gupta, now a “free agent” after his surprise exit from Intel, joins us to discuss how he’s dealing with his first job hunt since the 1990s. Along the way, we talk about agentic coding strategies, what GPT-5’s release implies about the future, and more. (US buys 10% of Intel)++ Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 12 minutes at t…

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Python documentary companion pod (Interview) 1:54:19

3M ago1:54:19

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Our friends at Cult.Repo launched their epic Python documentary on August 28th, 2025! To celebrate, we sat down with Travis Oliphant –creator of NumPy, SciPy, and more– to get his perspective on how Python took over the software world. Stick around for the twist ending! We set aside Python and dissect Travis’ big idea to make open source projects f…

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Omarchy 2.0: Best Linux setup ever? (News) 7:41

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Elon Musk and xAI take on Microsoft, DHH ships version 2 of Omarchy (his love letter to Linux), Glyn Normington on managing developer’s block, Mitchell Hashimoto declares that all Ghostty contributions must disclose AI tooling, the United States government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and Adam Derewecki thinks we should do things that don’t scale, t…

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Git with your friends (remastered) (Friends) 1:47:23

3M ago1:47:23

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Our Changelog & Friends proof-of-concept with Mat Ryer has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Originally recorded: 2023-02-08 Mat joins us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun. Join the discussion …

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From Chef to System Initiative (remastered) (Interview) 2:22:30

3M ago2:22:30

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The epic show with Adam Jacob has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Adam goes solo with Adam Jacob for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up…

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Cursor’s problem isn't just Cursor's problem (News) 7:37

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Cursor has a big problem, Alireza Bashiri thinks plaintext beats todo apps, Manish built an offline AI workspace, OverType is a WYSIWYG markdown editor that’s just a textarea, and sshrc lets you bring your config with you to remote machines. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and m…

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Oxide is crossing the chasm (Friends) 1:39:58

3M ago1:39:58

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Bryan Cantrill returns in the wake of Oxide Computer Company’s $100M Series B. Bryan tells us how he’s avoiding an appearance on Silicon Valley (ding), why their uniform compensation is working, where Oxide fits in the AI datacenter, what scaling to 50+ rack orders looks like, and more. (GitHub has no CEO and saving Intel)++ Join the discussion Cha…

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The Promises of Tech with Scott Hanselman 1:26:00

3M ago1:26:00

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Scott Hanselman gave a terrific talk about the promises of tech: connection, convenience and creativity. Did it deliver? Scott joins Bryan and Adam to discuss... and also wander around as one expects from an Oxide and Friends episode. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Scott Hanselman. Past episodes mentioned: O…

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Biocomputing on human neurons (Interview) 57:21

3M ago57:21

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Dr. Ewelina Kurtys is leading the way in biocomputing at FinalSpark where she is working on the next evolutionary leap for AI and neuron-powered computing. It’s a brave new world, just 10 years in the making. We discuss lab-grown human brain organoids connected to electrodes, the possibility to solve AI’s massive energy consumption challenge, post-…

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Open source regrets (News) 9:29

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Open source maintainers share their regrets, Thomas Dohmke steps down as GitHub CEO, James Kettle breaks down HTTP/2 from a security perspective, PHP is getting the pipe operator this November, and a class action copyright suit threatens Anthropic and the rest of the AI industry. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 mi…

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Oxide's $100M Series B 1:32:05

3M ago1:32:05

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Oxide raised its $100M Series B round of venture capital. Oxide's founders, Bryan and Steve, answer questions selected by Adam from social media about the round, the company, and the future. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide CEO, the man, the myth, the legend, Steve Tuck. Previous episodes mentioned: OxF s05e…