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?...

A production rack–up for several months–suddenly had all service processors become unresponsive. Last week, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by the Oxide team that investigated the issue--and discovered its surprising root cause!

I have put together a (long overdue!) draft RFD on using LLMs at @oxide.computer, but I know that there is a ton more to be said on the topic; thoughts and experiences welcome! rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576

I will say among people I've worked with professionally, there's technical disagreement all the time (which is good), but there's absolutely zero disagreement on lock poisoning. I haven't seen this kind of unanimous opinion in a long time

Your intellectual fly is open bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/y...

New post: a defense of lock poisoning in Rust. Followup to recent discussion: decided to write about lock poisoning, looking at the arguments on each side, and informed by our experience at @oxide.computer dealing with the parallel problem of unexpected async cancellations Please give it a read!

On brand, @ahl.bsky.social and I are picking this one up on the podcast today. Join us at 5p Pacific for a wild tale of death by uptime! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Reminder: Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/08/w...

Today is my 3 year anniversary at @oxide.computer. It's been a blast, by far the best role and best colleagues I've ever had

A book I am reading made such casual reference to Arthur C. Clarke being a pedophile that it sent me digging a little, and... yikes. 😬 www.patreon.com/posts/yes-ar...

Happy Thanksgiving! Need a pod while washing dishes? New Oxide and Friends examines a bug introduced over 18 years ago. Performance is great but not—it turns out—without correctness oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/gro...

Just another day of content generation at @oxide.computer github.com/oxidecompute...

Hey hey! We recently tripped over a ZFS data corruption bug–introduced over 18 years ago! @bcantrill.bsky.social and I discuss with members of the Oxide team as well as Matt Ahrens, the co-inventor of ZFS.

This is despicable, but I am grateful to (non-scout) Pete Hagseth for giving me the subject of my Scoutmaster Minute tonight!

On Monday, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by members of the Oxide team to talk about a doozy: an 18-year-old ZFS data corruption bug that we recently nailed. We'll be at a special Europe-friendly time: 9a Pacific/noon Eastern/5p GMT -- join us for the wild tale! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

On Monday, OxF hosted @oxide.computer founders, @sdtuck.bsky.social and @bcantrill.bsky.social, Oxide investor Seth Winterroth, and the authors of Founder vs. Investor, Liz Zalman and @ganeumann.bsky.social. Delved into best and worst investor behavior. Check it out!

This was definitely a dead-dove-do-not-eat kind of a talk

True to our vow a few months ago, today we're having @ganeumann.bsky.social back: he and Elizabeth Zalman join @ahl.bsky.social, @sdtuck.bsky.social, Seth Winterroth, and me today to discuss their book, Founder vs. Investor. Join us live, at a special time: 12p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

I love these kinds of software systems talks by @bcantrill.bsky.social "The Complexity of Simplicity" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...

I know I’m a massive fan boy and can’t shut up about @oxide.computer buuuut, you should really, really watch this talk by Bryan. It’s tremendous. ”Abstractions allow us to build software systems that do sophisticated things; they are the shoulders we stand upon - and provide to others”

The recording is available and, as expected, it is exceptionally good! It will genuinely ignite (or re-ignite) your enthusiasm for being an engineer! Thank you, @bcantrill.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...

The video for my #taloscon2025 keynote is now up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...

OH: "LinkedIn is really just Business Grindr"

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"

Forgive me, for I have broken my vow to not tweet.

ngl that one felt good

A reminder that this is tonight at 5p Pacific; join us for what promises to be a lively discussion! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Neural imaging would surely reveal that my carpaccio aphasia is due to damage in the center of the brain that forms short-term food memories, a condition first popularized in Oliver Sacks's landmark book, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Cheeseburger"

A message that's more easily heard today than in the spring: if you live in Seattle (say) and want neither the sun to rise at 4a on the summer solstice nor it to rise at 9a on the winter solstice (and most people want neither of these things!), there will be DST or something like it. Happy fall!

So, the episode that @ahl.bsky.social and I did on AI in higher education has an "information panel" on climate change (?) that they show on "videos related to topics prone to misinformation"?! WTAF? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2vc...

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

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!

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

My "All postmortems are blameless, but this one is especially so" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

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...