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.

New post: SocketAddrV6 is not roundtrip serializable 😱 A journey from an innocent property-based test at Oxide to the depths of the IPv6 specification, with tons of information about the flowinfo (and scope_id) fields. Give it a read!

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...

🎞️ @bcantrill.bsky.social shares two "sneaky hedges" he and @sdtuck.bsky.social deployed when raising VC for @oxide.computer youtube.com/shorts/Gf6_-...

Which @theonion.com story do you make reference to on at least a biannual cadence? I'll start. theonion.com/area-applebe...

Coming soon: #USDT probes for #nextest! Use nextest to trace events with #DTrace or #bpftrace. Uses our (Oxide's) usdt crate, and works on Linux, macOS, illumos and FreeBSD.

This conversation @bcantrill.bsky.social and I had with @browncsdept.bsky.social’s Michael Littman was so delightful and engaging. Hope you enjoy! share.transistor.fm/s/2f7628de

Slides for my #taloscon2025 keynote, "The Complexity of Simplicity" (video to come): speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/th...

I would say that I appear to be double-fisting Coke Zero, but apparently that's, um... more of an Americanism than I realized? dawnnicoleparks.wordpress.com/double-fisti...

LLMs have the potential to dramatically impact education... for the better! @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by Michael Littman, Associate Provost for AI at @browncsdept.bsky.social, to talk about his role advising the university on productive, innovative, creative uses for AI.

How is it that the company that effectively invented both modern search AND modern AI is now managing to grievously fuck up BOTH of them? I mean, my affection for @matthewsanabria.dev aside, this is just COMICALLY bad.

Do not ask for whom the mic is muted...

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

As a reminder, this is coming up in a little bit -- join us!

🚨 OxF EUROPE-FRIENDLY TIME ALERT 🚨 On Monday, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined my Brown CS prof Michael Littman (and AI provost!) to talk AI in higher ed. Join us at 9a Pacific for what promises to be a lively and wide-ranging discussion! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

😱 @bcantrill.bsky.social on the big stress that comes with big wire transfers 💸💸💸 youtube.com/shorts/5ThbF...

Dumb company names can never single-handedly kill a comp-- www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/...

I only know Bryan from social media but he’s so nice. If you’re an #OaklandBallers fan or just a fan of Oakland, this is a good read.

The winner of the bracket faces Cinnamon Life, right? RIGHT?!

There's an @oaklandballers.bsky.social parade tomorrow to celebrate their magical season, and it affords an opportunity to reflect on why this team is so meaningful to Oakland bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/10/04/a...

New blog post: Cancelling async #rustlang! This is a written version of my talk at #RustConf 2025, where I talk about the joys and sorrows of future cancellations in Rust, with lessons from our work at @oxide.computer. Includes a video of the talk as well. Check it out!

Slides for my #monktoberfest talk today, "Trust as Infrastructure" (video to come): speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/tr...

The conference started with a Tweet ends with me in the trunk #monktoberfest

Poseidon: Did someone say ocean?

The gods have apparently grown bored punishing @sogrady.org with weather systems, and have now sent him something much more creative: a Red Sox playoff series against the Yankees DURING #monktoberfest. Kudos, gods!

The Portlands share certain... idiosyncrasies

This is kind of cool: today, Oxide and Friends is going to pass 1,000,000 downloads. I’m not sure what @bcantrill.bsky.social had in mind when we did our first Twitter Space in 2021, but I’m surprised and delighted to have reached so many folks.

i don't know why i was compelled to request this from chatgpt but here you go @bcantrill.bsky.social . It even got the diet coke in there for accuracy.

On Monday, Dave Pacheco joined @bcantrill.bsky.social and me to reflect on his experience leading a large, complex (very complex) project to build automated update into the Oxide Rack. Hard-won wisdom on leadership and the avoidance of debilitating "organizational procrastination".

New @oxide.computer application FAQ just dropped

As promised last week: today on the podcast, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by Dave to talk about this extraordinary talk, the system that it describes -- and the experiences of the team in developing it. Join us, 5p Pacific today! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Tonight was absolutely electric at Raimondi in West Oakland: the @oaklandballers.bsky.social won three do-or-die games in a row to win the championship in five games. Respect Oakland baseball!

My use of the em-dash with respect to LLMs

Raimondi Park was electric tonight as the @oaklandballers.bsky.social beat Idaho Falls to send the Pioneer League Championship to game 4! If you are anywhere near the East Bay and you have a baseball bone in your body, you want to be at Raimondi tomorrow night!

On this week's OxF, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by the Oxide manufacturing team to talk about all that goes into ramping up production, from processes and tooling to expanding the team and refining inefficiencies. We can't build them fast enough, and it's a great problem to have!

Very compelling talk, right from the jump! Will take some live notes...

It’s been over a month but Oxide and Friends has a new episode up on the pod (and another one dropping tomorrow morning)

Last week, we were treated to an extraordinary talk internally at @oxide.computer. It was at once an expository talk of a complicated software system and an experience talk of developing systems software in the large -- and it was far too good to keep to ourselves! oxide.computer/blog/systems...