I think "adopted it eagerly' is likely a bit of a misread of history (I think it's much more: "made to see the light"), but we would need to talk to Larry McVoy to be sure. Maybe a future Oxide and Friends guest?

So fired up for this!!

Okay, listen up Oxide fam: on Monday, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by @evrat.bsky.social and @matybohacek.bsky.social from the extraordinary Shell Game podcast -- which gives you the rest of the weekend to binge listen to it. Join us Monday, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

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!

Oracle's t-shirt about the quality of partner financing has people asking a lot of questions already answered by their shirt!

God, he is SUCH an asshole.

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!

That feeling when you're reading a book and something is mentioned casually in passing that you would gladly read another book on

brb updating my bio

Notorious child murderer and creator of pedophilic technology launches new threat against children everywhere

Capable of everything from factory work to... wait, what?!

The Oxide RFD on using LLMs is exceptionally well written (h/t @bcantrill.bsky.social). This is a more coherent idea of what writing/text/language *is* and what's it's for---and why its expedited manufacture won't invalidate all aspects of that ontology---than a good chunk of the humanist hysterics.

At the risk of being self-aggrandizing: if there is Hater's Guide to Oracle being written, it feels like I should at least be on the shortlist to write the foreword?

No Oxide and Friends today, BUT... Next week @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by software engineering pioneer @booch.com to talk about the past, present, and (especially!) future of software engineering. Join us, 5p Pacific next Monday! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Even ICE wants to abolish ICE

I am currently at a Dagstuhl seminar (my first!), "Trustworthy System Architectures for the Age of Custom Silicon." Slides for talk yesterday (not recorded, unfortunately): speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/so...

And yes, we’re hiring! oxide.computer/careers

At @oxide.computer, we pride ourselves on terse performance reviews: we have exceeded expectations!

Wearing my Gas Town socks today

Can't stop thinking about how bonkers this is -- it's like Urbit as imagined by Richard Scarry

"Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" ca. 2026

WTAF steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-eme...

On Monday, @sunshowers.io and @davidcrespo.bsky.social joined me and @bcantrill.bsky.social to talk about their use of LLMs for building software--not to make vibe-coded one-offs, but to build much *more* robust systems software.

Today, @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to take on a hot topic: what does engineering rigor look like in the age of LLMs? We will be joined by Oxide engineers who have been at the forefront of using LLMs to increase the rigor in their own work. Join us, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

I just hope that those who believe that LLMs have "stolen" their open source software took the opportunity to file an amicus brief in support of Oracle in Google v. Oracle

Added an "LLM shaming" section to RFD 576 rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576#_ll...

Apropos of the current madness of publicly shaming LLM use, what punch cards teach us about AI risk (2023): bcantrill.dtrace.org/2023/11/26/w...

I've been sitting with the discomfort here a bunch, and to me this is it, right? What is being suggested is that I engage in an act of self-flagellation (resolving thousands of lines of merge conflicts by hand) because the richest man in the world uses some of the same underlying tech to peddle CSAM

In the final installment of our New Year's look back at Monktoberfest 2025, @bcantrill.bsky.social draws on decades of experience and more of engineering history to explore how accountability, transparency, and human fallibility shape the systems we build.

The right place at the right time bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/01/08/t...

New year, new Oxide and Friends predictions episode! @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by @simonwdc.bsky.social and @steveklabnik.com to predict 1, 3, and 6 years into the future. Winners from previous years? Apple in and out of the VR/AR business? Looking prescient! Agents not a thing? Sure!

By introducing a vendor-neutral orchestration layer, #Kubernetes shattered the "API lock-in" that once made @awscloud.bsky.social’s market dominance appear insurmountable. By @joabj.bsky.social feat. @bcantrill.bsky.social

Piotr's latest picks for writethat.blog ... - In defense of lock poisoning in Rust // @sunshowers.io - Why we built Lightpanda in Zig // Francis Bouvier - Lightpanda - Your intellectual fly is open // @bcantrill.bsky.social -Do not optimize away // matklad

The first Monday of the new year means... predictions! Thrilled to announce that @simonwillison.net will again be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me for 1- 3- and 6-year predictions. Bring your own predictions and join us today at a special time: 4p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

The state of LLMs in 2026, in all of its weird glory: at once impressive, disconcerting, acutely limited -- and unfailingly polite

Love your customers bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/31/l...

In a move eerily reminiscent of my own accurate-but-wrong three-year prediction of the iPhone in 2003, @ahl.bsky.social wanted to predict vibe coding in 2023 (!) -- but then dismissed it because "I don't know who is going to debug that" youtu.be/6nQbe9EYFaw?...

cool benefit of machine-executable specs -- they can be used by everyone, not just the author

What was the Dotcom Boom like? Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill.bsky.social - cofounder and CTO at Oxide): "One of my early life lessons: that boom will go on longer than you think possible, and when it switches, it will collapse faster than you can fathom."

Last OxF of the year! @bcantrill.bsky.social and I reflected on the year of Oxide and Friends. Big theme this year? Bugs and debugging. Or as ChatGPT put it inaccurately, "filled with painful specificity and earned insight". Sure, whatever! youtu.be/kGNoSYQchS8

🎶 It's beginning to look a lot like Catmas... 🎶

How have servers and the cloud evolved in the last 30 years, and what might be next? @bcantrill.bsky.social has been at the thick of the industry since the Dotcom Boom, and shares fascinating stories. Bryan is one of my all-time favorite people to talk with - don't miss this one. (cont'd)

I'll say here what I left unstated in my @monktoberfest.com talk: AWS in particular is in a state of cultural collapse because they have done exactly this -- and their RTO mandate has served to decimate organizational trust.

John Nagle -- yes, that one -- absolutely called the Luminar impact crater from a half decade out news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2427...

A post to my future self, who may find this unbelievable: somehow, over a course of a decade, this dude managed to continue to shock and horrify -- that whenever you thought he could sink no lower, he found a way with some new act of unfathomable indecency. And he did it for A DECADE.

It's our last episode of the year -- so @ahl.bsky.social and I will be engaging in our @changelog.com-inspired annual tradition of reviewing the year of episodes. Join us at 5p Pacific -- and bring your own favorite moments! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Gutted by the news out of Brown. I -- like generations before and after me -- have so many formative memories at B&H and the SciLi; this is all very close to home. ☹️ www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

I cannot recommend @evrat.bsky.social's Shell Game podcast highly enough: the first season is wild -- and the second season is absolutely unhinged. Hilarious, thought-provoking and timely; a must-listen! www.shellgame.co/podcast

Look, I know you think that @oxide.computer only builds computers to turn interesting bugs into podcasts, but that's obviously not true: we also write blog entries

Video for my #monktoberfest talk is now up! youtu.be/WF7J7qtZ8TA?...