No Oxide and Friends today, as @ahl.bsky.social and I will be watching the @usmnt.ussoccer.com try to advance to the World Cup quarter finals for only the second time in history!

I celebrated America by shoving five wires into a wire nut (while traitorous fantasizing about WAGO connectors) 🇺🇸

I just stuck this device behind some switches in a wall so that I can control the smart lights in my garden from a wall switch. Its CPU is more than an order of magnitude more capable than my first home computer. It runs a web server and has WiFi. And it cost me $30. The future is amazing.

This scene from Sunday’s @redsox.com walk off win is like a renaissance painting

“I told them, I’m going to give you a chance to prove me wrong,” he said… The catch, of course, was that the final was going to be “in-person.” It was at that point, he said, that 27 out of the 86 students dropped the course.

As promised!

OTOH it's better than the old slogan "move fast and kill things"

I enjoyed this talk by Zack Freedman. A lot of what he describes in the domain of 3d printing applies to open source, particularly regarding community, control, and value youtu.be/crH-0q64vLA?...

This man’s complete and utter amorality is chilling

On this week's Oxide and Friends, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by @benleonard.bsky.social to talk about the amazing Oxide rack explorer (explorer.oxide.computer) he designed, turning CAD models into a 3D interactive site.

This year there has been significant movement by Anduril - the largest venture capital weapons company- into Israel, including Palmer Luckey meeting with Netanyahu, now putting together in-country operations and in talks to put an Israeli war criminal to run things over there for them.

If you haven't seen it, oxide.bingo is easily the best domain that @oxidecomputer.bsky.social owns (thanks @jholloway77.bsky.social)

In what percentage of your remote meetings do you fantasize about self-immolation as a way to express your emotional state? Asking for a friend

Who’s preordering one? What design? When is your delivery window? I’m very very very tempted for reasons that defy explanation.

Recently, @oxide.computer rolled out an eye-popping 3D rack explorer at explorer.oxide.computer. Today, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by designer extraordinaire, @benleonard.bsky.social, to describe the process behind realizing this dream! Join us, 2p Pacific discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

I got a new 3d printer a few weeks ago and have been having a great time. If you like building or have kids or have kids who like building, it's a pretty fun time to own a 3d printer. ahl.dtrace.org/2026/06/19/3...

Puppies are back

Did the U.S. get a good deal with Iran?

No Oxide and Friends this week -- but look for @ahl.bsky.social and me to be back next week at a Europe-friendly time; stay tuned!

Puppy

today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names

We love Rust for how much the compiler helps enforce safety. But sometimes it's up to us to uphold the complex--and often unclear--expectations of what constitutes safety on our own. @sunshowers.io, joined me and @bcantrill.bsky.social to talk about the hardest type of unsafe Rust.

Everything about this is delightful

Also: ring the chime for the first Heated Rivalry reference on OxF

Last week @bcantrill.bsky.social and I talked about the process of restoring a software project--BattleTris--untouched and unbuilt in over 20 years! How did LLMs help restore code Bryan started in the mid-1990s and what does that teach us about developing and maintaining software in the future?

Baby hummingbird is filling the nest

IT’S THE FIRST RULE OF ROBOTICS! YOU FOOLS!

Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules. n.pr/3RK4U7X

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We must be careful with our plans for BattleTris: the good people of Delaware hang in the balance

Hummingbird chick hatched!

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

New baseball episode just dropped share.transistor.fm/s/6098caad

Last week, @bcantrill.bsky.social were joined again by the founders of the @oaklandballers.bsky.social--that's right, another baseball episode! @oxide.computer is excited to announce both our sponsorship of the Ballers and our upcoming joint, baseball/tech hackathon!

No podcast from @ahl.bsky.social and me this week, as we are both coming back from our college reunions (his 25th, my 30th) -- which we celebrated by resurrecting (and playing!) a local classic of that era. (And it's still fun as hell.)

Sleepy puppy. Best puppy.

Rebuttal @freddieoconnell.bsky.social?

Hummingbird mom still sitting on those eggs

Trust good ol' 31na22fxs6fszqooqlgpqydistfu to come to our defense in the face of burgerking's predictable slander...

Today, Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel from the @oaklandballers.bsky.social return to Oxide and Friends, joining @ahl.bsky.social, @sdtuck.bsky.social and me to reveal some exciting collaborations with @oxide.computer! Join us, 5p Pacific today: discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

After today, Oxide and Friends fans, you’ll no longer be able to say “I like the podcast, even the baseball episode” without people asking “**which** baseball episode?” Yes! The @oaklandballers.bsky.social founders are joining us again!

Even more Oxide and Friends! Reverso isn’t a ‘60s era Batman villain; it’s a hardware component for accelerating Oxide’s manufacturing. Check it out share.transistor.fm/s/ada46428

We’re ramping up manufacturing at @oxide.computer; part of that is efficiently validating the cabled backplane and network switches. On Monday @bcantrill.bsky.social and I spoke with colleagues about “Reverso”—a huge boon to manufacturing… with one bizarre bug to fix first

DOJ lawyer: “the power to control who gets access to classified information has never been circumcised by Congress.”

Oof. I might actually have to buy that Slate truck now..

I feel bad for Dan Quayle. I’m not sure younger folks will believe me when I saw we all thought—everyone!—that he was the dumbest fucking politician of all time. So fucking dumb. But no way even that dumbfuck would ever use the putative word “I’s” and pat himself on the back for talking smart.

I built a JSON Schema to Rust type generator about 5 years ago. It turned out be more useful to more people than anticipated. It also turned out to have a bunch of issues! While I've fixed many of these over the years, there were some more fundamental design flaws. An update on a slow rewrite:

Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by our colleagues to tell the tale of Reverso, an interesting (and deceptively simple!) piece of hardware that has proved essential to scaling manufacturing. Join us today, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Hey, ChatGPT, what do you think of this blog post (and this is *with* the standard sycophancy)