A bunch of folks at Oxide uncovered a tricky deadlock associated with async Rust (yes, another!), so--of [email protected] and I got the crew together to discuss. If you're writing async Rust, you'll want to know how to avoid and diagnose "Futurelock"

I’m confused. No mention of jj???

Surprised he heard about it.

Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything

A sneak peek at the cover of next week’s issue, which celebrates Zohran Mamdani’s historic win. #NewYorkerCovers https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/451hFM

Democrat Abigail Spanberger was elected governor of Virginia, the first woman to hold the office. The race, one of only two gubernatorial contests this year with New Jersey’s, offered Democrats a test ground for rebuilding ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Say what you will about the Speaker but he sure as shit doesn’t get sucked into the doomscroll

I just realized: next week we’ll have 6 people on the pod including 4 founders and 2 VCs. There’s going to be a surplus of confidence… and probably a lot of interruptions to clean up in post…

The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.

Do y’all think 💨 fish can 💨 see water?

Join us on Monday at 5p Pacific to discuss! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

My colleague Dave Pacheco wrote up a great description of a new (to us?) Rust async pathology--"futurelock"--another extremely sharp edge to watch out for, with no particular guardrails. Of course, we'll be talking about it with @bcantrill.bsky.social on Monday's Oxide and Friends

Thoughts?

Wondering if I can take this off my todo list or if I'll get around to it one of these days...

Looking for your next read this weekend as you either ignore oversugared kids or do your own candy bingeing? The Oxide Friends have you covered: oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/boo...

On Monday, @bcantrill and I revisited an Oxide and Friends tradition: Books in the Box! We--and live listeners--share recommendations--worth a listen if you're looking for your next read!

What if we gave the worst people in the world, the people who are just fundamentally assholes, all the power? What an experiment.

Everything is LLMs! blogs.oracle.com/linux/dtrace...

Love it when adorable artwork comes home from school

@molly.wiki your book review of the abominable Read, Write, Own was so delightful and likely saved humanity from so much wasted time. May I ask you to share your perspectives on this dreck? ifanyonebuildsit.com

All of our other plans have fallen through, so it must be time for our annual Books in the Box episode! Bring the books you have read (and would recommend!) from the past year, and join @ahl.bsky.social and me, today at 5p Pacific discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Love to show how smart I am by bragging about my score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

I’ve made a huge mistake

Poor guy’s wings didn’t form right. Wild seeing the proboscis probing away

Go home, fascists

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

Here’s a block list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

This conversation @bcantrill.bsky.social and I had with @browncsdept.bsky.social’s Michael Littman was so delightful and engaging. Hope you enjoy! share.transistor.fm/s/2f7628de

This is why we do it. For the children

LLMs have the potential to dramatically impact education... for the better! @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by Michael Littman, Associate Provost for AI at @browncsdept.bsky.social, to talk about his role advising the university on productive, innovative, creative uses for AI.

1. Can't wait to get Monday's Oxide and Friends recording up. 2. Dying on my line to @bcantrill.bsky.social "you mentioned your high school calculator without really going into sufficient detail about it..."

And while I'm on the subject of appearances, where I'll be tomorrow night, with Kim Stanley Robinson, in San Francisco: www.jccsf.org/event/john-s...

I’m glad there is no market for betting who this is because I would make an emotionally large wager

As a reminder, this is coming up in a little bit -- join us!

This is going to be tremendous. Hope you can join us… or catch the recording

Hey fuck you @mbenioff.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

I think I prefer the future where humanity is eaten by genAI to the shell script apocalypse alternative

Google calendar feature request: allow me to choose violence and set the default 1:1 meeting title to be "quick chat..."

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to get Daily Cartoons delivered to your inbox: nyer.cm/0EivDaD

OOPSLA 2026 deadline is just a week away! Can you please help us get the word out by sharing? Thanks! 2026.splashcon.org/track/oopsla...

Nice ewaste find on the dog walk the other night. Anyone able to educate me about what the heck this is?

This is kind of cool: today, Oxide and Friends is going to pass 1,000,000 downloads. I’m not sure what @bcantrill.bsky.social had in mind when we did our first Twitter Space in 2021, but I’m surprised and delighted to have reached so many folks.

If frinkiac.com started charging $5/month I would not hesitate to put that on the corporate card as a legitimate, critical business expense.

Latest Oxide and Friends is up on the pod share.transistor.fm/s/20b6e3dc

On Monday, Dave Pacheco joined @bcantrill.bsky.social and me to reflect on his experience leading a large, complex (very complex) project to build automated update into the Oxide Rack. Hard-won wisdom on leadership and the avoidance of debilitating "organizational procrastination".

OxF from last night will be up shortly, but I couldn't resist sharing this teaser... which pretty much speaks for itself (and I swear is 100% unedited)

As promised last week: today on the podcast, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by Dave to talk about this extraordinary talk, the system that it describes -- and the experiences of the team in developing it. Join us, 5p Pacific today! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...