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...

Our spring break continues for one more week: @ahl.bsky.social and I are out for Oxide and Friends today -- but we'll be back next Monday!

Really interesting, in particular the update where some of the bots/bot owners articulate their setup glama.ai/blog/2026-03...

Absense makes the heart grow fonder? After a couple of weeks away, our most recent episode of Oxide and Friends is the most downloaded ever after 2 days. Check it out! Tell your friends. Smash that like button?

I guess a slightly nice thing about this tire fire is that we get to see all the world’s leaders’ “Christ what an asshole” face

Masterful gambit, sir

It looks like Senator John Fetterman will end up being the deciding vote for Markwayne Mullin’s nomination to lead DHS. Fetterman has said that he would support Mullin. ☎️ Call his office today at 202-224-4254 and tell him to vote NO.

We often speak of "Nine nines" of uptime (99.9999999%) as being a goal for a system; on the latest Oxide and Friends we talk about a subsystem that had exactly that uptime for Oxide -- and how that wasn't nearly enough. youtu.be/zUwmc_-SLFg

Iran negotiating with FIFA to move World Cup matches from United States to Mexico, says embassy. @theathleticfc.bsky.social - free to read. www.nytimes.com/athletic/712...

Elon Musk was once so mad that a random guy based in Thailand made fun of his failed cave rescue effort that he accused him of pedophilia and hired a private investigator to dig into his life.

TIL that in baseball 2nd base isn't where I thought it was. All other bases form a diamond connecting the BACK edge of the base; at 2nd that diamond goes through the CENTER of the base. This is also true in little league... though probably within the avg volunteer groundskeeping margin of error...

Too soon, ChatGPT--WTF!

Not only have these guys never read a book, but they’ve never spoken with someone who has read a book

I eagerly await the day when every obscure minor J.R.R. Tolkien character has a startup named after them and we can move on to some less irritating zeitgeist

Love this review. Reminds me of RedEdit, cdevs, and piles of MacUser magazines too precious to trash (recycling being a thing we didn’t do at home yet)

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

This was cool. Would recommend

Arrogant and clueless and facing a shocking crash out, Team USA got the manager it deserves in this cultural moment: open.substack.com/pub/mollykni...

EISEN: What do you say to American who are struggling with making ends meet and don't want foreign wars? WITKOFF: If they have children, think about what this world would look like if you didn't have Donald Trump as the president

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

International baseball in Tokyo

When AI makes generation of all kinds of content free... ... the review burden on folks with domain expertise increases immeasurably.

This is fun: editor.p5js.org/isohedral/fu...

Just spent an hour today in our agentic AI coding class showing all the way Claude Code produces *subtly* bad programs for a pretty trivial application. Wrong in some ways, but just bad in other ways. Reading its output is always a sobering experience.

We hear of "nine nines" of uptime as a goal for a system, but today @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to be joined by the @oxide.computer team to talk about a subsystem that had that uptime -- and how it wasn't nearly enough. Join us for a wild, multi-year debugging tale! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

I am old enough to remember when the FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something.

Sleepy boy

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Have you heard? Oxide raised a $200M Series C (on top of our $100M Series B 6 months earlier)! On this week's Oxide and Friends, @sdtuck.bsky.social and @bcantrill.bsky.social talk about the raise, and answer the wicked, wise, and simple questions from Hacker News.

Wasn't expecting to hear the familiar voices of @ahl.bsky.social and @bcantrill.bsky.social on a Veritasium video! youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ?...

I'm looking at AWS Outposts pricing for the first time since 2021. Many (all?) of the "1st gen" models are still for sale (with seemingly unchanged specs). Care to guess the percentage-wise price delta between then and now?

People say that @oxide.computer is a podcasting company that built a computer for content generation, but we also use funding milestones for content generation: join @ahl.bsky.social, @sdtuck.bsky.social and me today at 5p Pacific as we talk about our $200M Series C! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

You've heard that something is going on with colon cancer. I'm working on a thing...let me know what you think!! Is it helpful? What would you do different? hankgreen.com/crc

The level of amorality is shocking

Post a banger that isn’t in English youtu.be/fU-wH8SrFro?...

This new season of Heated Rivalry is awful.

I just joined the local pickleball club so of course…

RIP Sun Lab blog.cs.brown.edu/2026/02/17/a...

It has legs

Ho ho! What a knee-slapper from the man who invited the national guard to deploy to San Francisco