Can Oxide run across an air gap? FAQ Friday #41

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.

maybe the biggest question everyone has been asking about Oxide, finally answered!

Amongst other things, I am MUCH better at coding and making software having worked with David all this time.

Interactive 3d explorer with React Three Fiber. Worked with an artist to fix the topology and reduce the size of the CAD model. Custom LUT to more closely match the colour grade of the renders.

Why the obsession with Diet Coke? FAQ Wednesday #1

I was struggling to get a full height hero to work here until I realised I could dynamically change the number of racks on screen. From the latest @oxide.computer (oxide.computer) refresh.

Debugging an issue for work and I forgot how powerful it is to return json from a DTrace probe. This is tracking a virtio-socket packet flow between guest and host.

How can I get started with an Oxide Preview Silo? FAQ Friday #41 youtu.be/7evfJd7jmyo

If you like a v in front of your TPM I encourage you to check this role out as well.

if you have been personally victimized by bhyve’s lack of nested virt, you may be entitled to compensation! see here for more information: oxide.computer/careers/sw-h...

** Sponsor announcement ** Oxide is a Silver Sponsor of RustWeek! Find out more about them here: oxide.computer Thank you for your support! 🙏 More info about RustWeek and tickets: rustweek.org @oxide.computer #rustweek2026 #rustlang

excellent new homepage. I only have one recommended revision for the hero copy:

anybody seen our new homepage? oxide.computer I had almost nothing to do with it so I can say: it's pretty good. I think it makes clear we sell a big computer that you plug in and turn on. this was a common complaint about the previous site

really enjoying listening to the most recent @oxide.computer podcast episode, detailing a multi-year hardware debugging adventure in which my colleague Cliff utters this absolutely incredible phrase: oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/whe...

Lowkey, Oxide is only company giving me hope for future computers. Y’all are the only one innovating

Is Oxide hardware made by Super Micro (or any other OEM/ODM)? FAQ Friday #40

Shout out @benleonard.bsky.social for the eye candy on the refreshed @oxide.computer website

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?

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

The cloud you own

I get a lot of people asking me how to run Oxide at home. Here's how I do it. youtu.be/qwXtS0-r1uQ

Good news everyone! I’ve joined @oxide.computer! I’m super excited about my position, new coworkers, the organization and the Oxide rack and I’m looking forward to getting up to speed on everything. Happy Friday y’all!

Why does Oxide use AMD EPYC Processors? FAQ Friday #39

Small announcement: April 1st (no fooling) I'll be joining the @oxide.computer team! I'll still be building embedded systems in Rust, but excited to be working on slightly larger computers than I have in the past :)

It's always great to chat with other folks who deal with all the ways that atoms and bits interact. @sunshowers.io ​and @oxide.computer have thought longer and harder about these problems than most, here they are in conversation with our infrastructure lead, Justin Moore.

Which Network Operating System Does Oxide Use? FAQ Friday #38

Why should owning your compute on-prem mean giving up the cloud computing experience? Our CEO @sdtuck.bsky.social sat down with theCUBE at the NYSE to talk about what happens when you design hardware and software together. buff.ly/SEFWthc

Come work with me! We now have an open position to join my team @oxide.computer. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

hello. are you an incredibly good UI designer? want to work with people who will love and respect your work and your process? want to make $250k (same as every other employee) and work fully remote? take a look

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...

** Speaker announcement ** Catch Cliff L. Biffle's talk 'Common Pitfalls of Rewriting Things In Rust' at RustWeek 2026! Info & tickets: 2026.rustweek.org/talks/cliff/ See you in Utrecht May 18-23, 2026! #rustweek2026 #rustlang

This is a BIG one that enables our customers to expand the types of workloads they land on the Cloud Computer. Read more here: buff.ly/4EGrUq6

cool job alert. help with a varied set of internal tools. very interesting, very high leverage, can help a lot of people from manufacturing to sales to engineering. remote + $250k like every role at Oxide oxide.computer/careers/oper...

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...

Were we crazy for building our own network switch? FAQ Friday #37

Lots of fun working on a light mode theme for the @oxide.computer design system, backed by an generative OKLCH palette and Figma plugin for token syncing

Had an old gaming laptop lying around and managed to get @oxide.computer's platform booted up on it

On the @oxide.computer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl.bsky.social) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...

The photo of our next-gen @oxide.computer compute sled in our Series C announcement is Sean Gelbaugh’s work. He spent a short window in our office with minimal direction and came back with images we’ve now used everywhere. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

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...

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...

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

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

On last night's Oxide and Friends, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were so grateful to be joined by @evrat.bsky.social to discuss his incredible, mesmerizing podcast "Shell Game" in which he starts a company, staffed entirely by agentic AIs. I hope you enjoy the conversation half as much as we did!

this guy gets it

Happy New ASCII Blog Header Day (for those who celebrate) oxide.computer/blog/our-200...

When your existing investors show up a few months after putting in $100m, asking to put in another $200m something must be going very right!

damn that’s crazy