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)

3 podcast episodes in a week--smoke the whole pack, Oxide and Friends listeners! share.transistor.fm/s/31855e83

AI is an existential topic for all aspects of education--for none more so than Computer Science. @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by @kfisler.bsky.social and @shriram.bsky.social to discuss their agentic intro course. What do students take away from their "smoke the whole pack" approach?

My timeline contains stark contrasts

33 years ago today, #TheSimpsons opened their new episode with one of their finest film homages ever. “Bart’s Friend Falls in Love” first aired May 7, 1993.

New Oxide and Friends is up on the pod. Be sure to keep an eye on the chapter art for images we talk about! share.transistor.fm/s/fd105aef

New visitor for the Spring

Last week, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by members of the Oxide mechanical engineering team to talk the mechanical challenges of building a rack-scale computer, and--in particular--of scaling manufacturing from just a few racks to hundreds.

LLMs are changing every aspect of higher ed, but perhaps none more so than CS. Today, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by profs @shriram.bsky.social and @kfisler.bsky.social to talk about their experiences enabling students with agentic AI. Join us, 5p Pacific today! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Brogrammer Garry Tan has been boasting about "writing" tens of thousands of lines of code each day as the paragon of productivity. Last week, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by @gregore.in to take a closer look at what Tan was generating. Is this really the right way to build system?

All I'm saying is that these last two episodes are a little more labor-intensive in the edit (spoiler: we did eventually speak with the guest)

I don’t think I fully appreciated the fidelity of Colin Jost’s Hegseth in its union of petulance and ignorance

Holy shit: this 10 year old issue for the AWS CLI to support MFA login merged a couple of weeks ago. "Customer obsession" AND "long-term thinking" as lived values github.com/aws/aws-cli/...

Quick question? What the fuck

I continue to have regrets about the accountants at the company I founded using my personal cell phone in public tax filings... available to everyone trying to reach anyone at the company... for years after its end.

Good morning, Turkey

On Monday's episode, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by @oxide.computer's mechanical engineering team to talk about their work on the manufacturability, reliability, serviceability, and (yes!) safety of the Oxide rack. Join us, at a special time of 3p Pacific Monday discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

New puppy just dropped

NASA releases insane new image of the mighty hexagonal storm on Saturn's North Pole.

Had no idea: patented "podcasting" in 1996 and troll-sued the shit out of folks until the @eff.org (funded by Mark Cuban and Notch) successfully challenged the patent (ht The Phantom Plague)

As promised! @gregore.in joins @ahl.bsky.social and me tomorrow (Monday) at noon Pacific (9p in Europe) to discuss. Join us! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

This year's #kakapo breeding season has been the biggest on record: - 256 eggs (252 in 2019) - 148 fertile eggs (116 in 2019) - 105 eggs hatched (86 in 2019). It'll be 2+ months until we know how many chicks will fledge (73 in 2019). There are currently 95 alive. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds

30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers. #TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

I’ve been an @mlb.com tv subscriber for 20+ years. I have no idea how to subscribe this season. Wtf happened?

Sometimes I think that being a sportscaster is a vain and vapid and meaningless existence in times as fraught as ours, and then I think about what it would be like to be one of these miserable lowlifes.

Really interesting on the Neo—using binned (ie less than perfect) A18 chips that would have otherwise been scrapped. Now that it’s selling so well Apple might need to take GOOD A18s (and disable a GPU), eating the cost.

🚨 Artemis II’s BIGGEST milestones are tomorrow. Here’s when they’ll happen: 📍1:56 PM ET (1756 UTC) Crew surpasses the Apollo 13 distance record 📍2:45 PM ET (1845 UTC) Lunar observation period begins 📍6:47 PM ET (2247 UTC) Loss of signal expected as Orion heads behind the Moon (~40 min)

I remember making this exact same typo in 8th grade when I wrote about “reigndeer”. Very relatable!

The @oxide.computer rack contains within it a distributed system that needs to trust itself. But how is this trust built? This week, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by colleagues Andrew and Finch to explore how Trust Quorum was designed, built, and verified.

1,800 comments say otherwise—and I thoroughly enjoyed each of them, from across the whole plane

This guy makes a lot of points! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxjR...

i love the small print “because the regulators won’t let us :(“

Oxide and Friends is back, at a special time! @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by Oxide engineers Andrew Stone and Finch Foner to talk about how we build a quorum of trust in the distributed system that is the Oxide rack. Join us today at 2p Pacific/5p Eastern! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Braylon Mullins' magical March Madness moment sends UConn to the Final Four 🪄

Fuck yeah UConn!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"All right. Look, if you're in this demographic, you are going to think that we are belittling you by making other people aware of this..." "All listeners, please write down what large group of people Bryan's about to alienate." (Yes, I'm laughing at my own jokes that I had forgotten about.)

It took me a very very long time to understand how these were related I’m embarrassed to say. (“Ohhhhh it’s a bumper sticker not a laptop sticker!”)

LinkedIn without Kyle Law... unimaginable.

Our latest foster. If you’re in the Bay Area consider adopting this sweet boy. He had literally been sedated to be euthanized when he was rescued www.instagram.com/reel/DWVIIbo...

Fetch is happening? Cc: @bcantrill.bsky.social kotrotsos.medium.com/developers-n...