RIP Tracy Kidder, who inspired so many of us, and gave us permission to feel unapologetic passion for our chosen craft bcantrill.dtrace.org/2019/02/10/r...

I have been more or less silent on the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter, and even though the algorithm will prevent anyone from seeing it, I felt this needed to be said...

Our spring break continues for one more week: @ahl.bsky.social and I are out for Oxide and Friends today -- but we'll be back next Monday!

Over my three decades working here, I have always found that the billboards in the Bay Area tell us something about the current zeitgeist -- but these ads feel particularly on point

Look, I know this line of thinking can be overly reductive, BUT HOLY SHIT CARTA, YOU HAVE ONE JOB

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.

What is the most stressful sport/position to watch as a parent of an athlete? Or rather: what is the second most after being the parent of a pitcher?

My conversation with @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social definitely hit some interesting spots, which my 18-year-old observed with characteristic bluntness...

@bcantrill.bsky.social always offers great insights, and this episode with @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social (The Peterman Pod) is no different with some awesome stories from the industry trenches 🤠 Worth a listen 🤘 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSL...

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...

I really enjoyed this wide-ranging conversation with @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social, in which we talked about my biggest regrets (and hoo-boy there's an easy one!) -- and why @oxide.computer is not active on the bird site www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhSL...

I spoke to @bcantrill.bsky.social about the joy of bad hard drive firmware, struggling to make NodeJS a systems programming language, and a hint about Oxide's (old) wifi password. www.softwaresessions.com/episodes/oxi...

Have you heard? Oxide raised a $200M Series C (on top of our $100M Series B 6 months earlier)! On this week's Oxide and Friends, @sdtuck.bsky.social and @bcantrill.bsky.social talk about the raise, and answer the wicked, wise, and simple questions from Hacker News.

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

When looking for something else, I stumbled across this deck for an internal presentation I gave at Sun in 2003 -- one that I believe to be the first that formally tied our work in DTrace to the more abstract idea of software observability speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/so...

An advantage of having met online in 2000: the singular pleasure of reading our cringey e-mails aloud to our 13-year-old daughter and listening to her howl with embarrassment for us -- as if surgery were being performed without anesthesia. Wow, was I ever a dork!

It has legs

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...

Looks like I am about to have my own private bonus episode?

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

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

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

Latest Oxide and Friends is up on the pod. Great conversation with @booch.com!

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...