Let's be real. If you were a procrastinator before AI you'll likely be a procrastinator after AI. Those who aren't procrastinators needed to invest a ton of time to get ahead. Now they can use AI to improve in a fraction of the time. Where does that leave you?

Do other fans even exist?

It's amazing that our minds are capable of actual intelligence, memory, and thinking. We fake all of that using technology. People are losing their minds, literally and figuratively, over what AI is doing, without realizing how powerful their own mind is.

50% off flowers soon! Shift those holidays and save!

Over two decades ago, the only reporter to really dig into what we had done with DTrace was @ashleevance.bsky.social at @theregister.com -- so it is unsurprising that the best reportage on @oxide.computer is from El Reg's @tobiasmann.bsky.social www.theregister.com/2026/02/13/w...

Why Did Oxide Raise $200M? FAQ Friday #36

Legit though why does it take up to 10 days to unsubscribe from a mailing list? You send me an email immediately after I subscribe. It can't be that difficult to set a database column to false and remove my email address from batch jobs, can it?

We raised a $200M Series C, now we're putting it to work. New compute sleds with the latest AMD EPYC CPUs are coming. We're also working with Xsight Labs on next-gen switch silicon with a fully open instruction set architecture (ISA). The Register has the details: buff.ly/6ghM2b6

it’s nice to see @oxide.computer written up like this in The Register, a publication that still reminds me of a time when people still loved computers: www.theregister.com/2026/02/13/w...

🥹 An order came in with this note. Thank you for the kind words!

My wife is amazing! I was able to get a front row seat on the set to watch her segment. I love her! I'd advertise the chocolate shop here but we're slammed! We're open for walk-ins.

The tech industry fooled mostly everyone into thinking they can't migrate providers. People remain stuck paying more for subpar service. You can migrate things in less than a day. DNS ISPs Cellular I migrated all of these overnight with zero disruption.

Gemini 3 Fast is such an underrated model.

My wife has been crushing it lately! 8 months pregnant. Chocolate & wine tasting. Interview with local news. Slammed with Valentine's Day orders. Couldn't be more proud of her! Of course I told her this myself and am helping out across all fronts.

Atuin was down for ~2hrs today due to an upstream outage. Our longest downtime in ~5yrs. Sorry for any impact 🙁 We're migrating back to Hetzner. Full incident report: forum.atuin.sh/t/atuin-inci...

If Google could email me this, surely they could have applied the 6-month free credit to my existing subscription instead.

When I published this post last year people told me that taste wasn't important. Nowadays there are entire podcast episodes about taste and AI. matthewsanabria.dev/posts/you-ha...

If it sounds nice, it's Latin America Spanish. If it sounds wrong, it's European Spanish. Don't @ me.

What would I do in a situation like this? If I were just starting my career, I'd be listening to everything. I'd bet on the future and hedge on the fundamentals. I'd pick the most popular agentic coding tool and go all in. I'd hedge that bet by learning the fundamentals of software development.

Goodbye T-Mobile, you especially won't be missed!

Every time you contact a company just say you're trying to cancel service. Immediate human agent every time.

I think I'm going to make a video about the Go 2025 developer survey results. After Valentine's Day of course because chocolate shop is slammed this week. go.dev/blog/survey2...

Thrilled to share that we have closed our $200M Series C. Thank you to Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund for leading this round, along with Eclipse, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Intel Capital, Counterpart, Friends and Family Capital and all of our additional investors. buff.ly/EIxngne

Feels great to finally be able to share this! oxide.computer/blog/our-200...

Our $200M Series C oxide.computer/blog/our-200...

Goodbye Xfinity, you won't be missed!

Bay area peeps -- we're hosting an East Bay #rustlang meetup on the 18th! Come join us in downtown Oakland :)

There's no right dog bed color to get when you have both a light and dark colored dog. Dark dog lays on light bed and leaves fur. Light dog lays on dark bed and leaves fur. What's the solution?

We are better together!

That half-time show was so Puerto Rican.

elongated toilets > round toilets

There's so much opportunity to improve existing technology yet we're aimlessly "building" new things with AI. Here are two things I've been thinking about in a "what if" context.

On this week's Oxide and Friends, @booch.com joined @bcantrill.bsky.social and me to talk about the past, present, and future of software engineering. From hand-made computers and the software crisis of the late '60s to LLMs (of course) we covered a lot... with--as always--many dated references!

This is the longest video in the series thus far but arguably the most important. If you can understand networking and protocols fundamentals you're in a great spot to grow. youtu.be/ljA3YL2hqS0

When you all are bored with your Mac Mini that you hyped up with openclaw let me know. I'm in the market for an entry model Mac Mini.

Just like that Gas Town is available to Claude Code users.

"AI is very accommodating to whatever foolishness you want to get yourself into." Yessss. So how do we get clarity on what we should be doing. Catch the full episode at: youtu.be/b-1EZ0yNW8A?... Catch the full after-show at: youtu.be/i72XE05xEq4?... @fallthrough.fm

Person: Code doesn't matter! Person: Pays an LLM to generate more code than ever before.

Middle of the night meetings are some of the best meetings.

Physically writing things down is so much better than Obsidian, Notion, etc. to me.

It really is just macOS and Linux at this point for developer workstations. Windows has dropped the ball in almost every aspect. I fear that Linux's distribution fragmentation will lead to macOS winning. We're already seeing this with macOS only releases of software.

⏳ Two weeks to go. The #rustconf 2026 CFP closes Feb 16. We’re especially excited about future-focused Rust talks — from interoperability and robotics to Rust + AI — as well as real-world experiments and lessons learned. Submit today! bit.ly/4rsNh9e 🗓 Sept 8–11, 2026 📍 Montréal + online

Now my main man @goinggo.net speaking at the AI Plumbers #fosdem unconf about Kronk/yzma #golang #ml #llama

This was funny to witness live.

Reminder that this is today: join @booch.com, @ahl.bsky.social and me at 5p Pacific for what promises to be a lively and wide-ranging discussion!

If you don't know what web servers, load balancers, or caching servers are then you should take 18 minutes and watch this video. youtu.be/FA013zSJ0Uc

I remember reading this over a decade ago and I'm reminded of its content as AI replaces human relationships. www.sherryturkle.com/alone-together

I'm (re)watching The Nanny with my wife and it's a fun show. I definitely didn't appreciate the humor when I was a child watching it with my grandmother. There was an episode when they thanked the audience for watching. When do you see that in modern times?

People post more about artificial agents while they leave their actual human friends and family on read. Make it make sense.