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...

I cannot say this strongly enough: under no condition should you ever travel with your teenage daughter

A VC that passed on us is trying to introduce me to a portfolio company, and the only thing from preventing me from taking her bullshit "cheering from the sidelines" rejection mail and sending it on to the portco is that the entrepreneur is not to blame for their classless investor

Today, @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to be joined by folks from the @oxide.computer operations and engineering teams to talk about the challenges of scaling manufacturing. Join us at 5p Pacific today -- and bring your questions! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Apologies for the delay on Monday's OxF [email protected] has been doing our annual all-company, in-person, get-together this week. Congrats to @bcantrill.bsky.social and @sdtuck.bsky.social on Oxide's 6th birthday!

Update: It was awesome.

In the Bay Area with a free evening? We're bringing the entire @oxide.computer team to the @oaklandballers.bsky.social game tonight. It's postseason baseball in Oakland, and tickets are still available; join us in the 1st base side GA bleachers -- and go Ballers!

Excited to announce that @ganeumann.bsky.social will join @ahl.bsky.social and me on the podcast tomorrow to reflect on his 2015 piece -- and what it might portend about current technological frenzies. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Repo for my #rustconf talk with links and notes is at github.com/sunshowers/c... -- have a look!

The RFD Rain wrote on how to handle async cancellation is amazing rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/400

Thought it might be fun to get this (limited edition!) A&W ice cream sundae-flavored soda; my 13-year-old.reports that it tastes "like birthday-flavored acid"

Really looking forward to giving this talk at #TalosCon2025; hope to see you in Amsterdam in October!

@jmsdnns.bsky.social put me on to this excellent 2015 piece from @ganeumann.bsky.social, which examines @carlotaperez.bsky.social's ideas and muses about what the coming (last!) decade might look like. A must-read -- and with very thought-provoking comments! reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-...

GPUs ca. 1875

Every once in a while you encounter someone and ask yourself "how am I just now discovering this person?!" That's how I feel about @carlotaperez.bsky.social on reading her seminal 2002 book, "Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital"

My kids know when to text me

Being a parent of a teenage girl with older brothers means I get to be called "Dad-uhh!" and "BRUH" in the same sentence

I am trying to cut the birdsite out of my diet entirely, but posts like this -- from a founder building "Tinder for jobs" (their words!) -- make it really tough to quit

Bad news: we had to postpone today's episode. Good news: @tylerhillery.com has a great blog entry that features some of the Oxide and Friends back catalog you might have missed!

With my apologies for the short notice, we have needed to postpone this conversation -- with the promise that we will have even more to talk about when we have it!

Listening to our last episode about manufacturing to prep for our recording this afternoon--can't believe it was *over* 2 years ago! share.transistor.fm/s/d4da0196

You can take the boy out of Oakland, and (gallingly) you can take the Athletics out of Oakland -- but you can never take the Oakland Athletics out of the boy

This week's Oxide and Friends is going to be at a special day and time: on Wednesday at 3p Pacific @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by our operations team to talk about the myriad challenges the team has surmounted in scaling manufacturing. Join us on Wednesday! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Stop making it weird, LinkedIn

An overdue new license plate holder

Two boys settled at school -- with all the feels back at a much quieter nest. 🥲

Vibe coding.

In the words of a former colleague: "Every line of code is a business decision."

Catbus!

I'm still out for college drop-off, so no Oxide and Friends today -- but @ahl.bsky.social and I will be back next week!

Modernity isn't all bad: dropping a kid off at college (in Arkansas) a long way from home (in California) and he realized his walls were a bit... barren. We went though a decade of photos and he picked a few to print into posters at Walgreens -- and 90 minutes later, he has a room decorated.

One day late, but I'm excited to be joining the @oxide.computer team!

out of all the things people say about @oxide.computer's compensation model, the thing that infuriates me most is "support isn't worth the ($235k) salary". Have you been on an oncall rotation? Do you not know how stressful that can be? Great support engs are worth their weight in gold

Loved this conversation with the @changelog.com crew!

Scott Hanselman gave a terrific talk about the promises of tech: connection, convenience and creativity. Did it deliver? On Monday, @scott.hanselman.com joined me and @bcantrill.bsky.social to discuss... and also wander around as one expects from an Oxide and Friends episode. youtu.be/Clk_3Ihy4BA

I think about this speech all the time www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eHu...

Reminder: our conversation with @scott.hanselman.com is this evening!

This absolute hot garbage from Craig Barrett reeks of the arrogant Intel exceptionalism that got the company into its current mess: his "plan" is to force customers to bail Intel out! finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusi...

Some news from @oxide.computer: we got a raise! Our annual salary now stands at $235K. oxide.computer/blog/oxides-...

New on the pod: Oxide raises $100M and the Internet tells us how they feel about it. share.transistor.fm/s/76086f29

YOU SAID YOU HAD TWO TAINTS

Oxide and Friends is back with a banger! We raised $100M in our series B, so @sdtuck.bsky.social and @bcantrill.bsky.social answered questions about the round, Oxide, and the future. (not to bury the lede) also the OxF bingo card generator! youtu.be/TMnTC1OhDs8

By popular demand (ht: @paolobarbolini.bsky.social!): @scott.hanselman.com will be joining @ahl.bsky.social and me on the next Oxide and Friends to discuss the promises of tech -- both fulfilled and broken. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...