This was a cool talk! paperswelove.org/videos/rylan...

NEW: Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

Looking forward to coming to this amazing conference exploring the gaps in computer science research!

I just learned that William Cook, one of the creators of Applescript, together with Jose Falcon invented an s-expression alternative that many mainstream languages can parse as with few changes 🤯 (link below)

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!

New on my blog: "Why Study CS? Thoughts on LLM-assisted software engineering" kmicinski.com/claude-code-...

Now playing (01:05 AM PST): "Medea" (1969) By Pier Paolo Pasolini Runtime: 118 min.

✨📝 I’m excited to be on the program committee for PaPoC 2026 (conference for consistency for distributed data)! The call for papers and lightening talks is up here: papoc-workshop.github.io/2026/ and closes 23 Jan 2026. Looking forward to reading everyone’s submissions 👀

I recently wrote some thoughts on wrapping Rust libraries for Wasm plus a couple patterns that I use to make wasm-bindgen feel a bit more manageable. No silver bullets here but maybe some sensible defaults (fight me in the comments 😛) notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Notes-o...

"Here's a colorful and festive 40-column, animated display for the 128..." (Source.)

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

Now playing (04:45 AM PST): "Oedipus Rex" (1967) By Pier Paolo Pasolini Runtime: 104 min.

Now playing (12:55 AM PST): "The Ascent" (1977) By Larisa Shepitko Runtime: 111 min.

🦀 A unique #opportunity for #RustLang enthusiasts and verification researchers: Join us for a three-year project formalizing a Rust subset – and pursue a PhD if you choose. Interested? 👉 ferrous-systems.com/blog/researc...

I love getting to work on strange debugging problems and get to learn a little more about a system oxide.computer/blog/cosmo-sp

What defines a correct program? What education makes a good programmer? The answer depends on what culture of programming you subscribe to! This has been a long time in the making, but my open access book on the history of programming is available for pre-order! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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!

Like everything I've seen from Oxide, this is very well done.

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

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

it has been 7̶ 0 days since I have been on the Oxide podcast to talk about a Weird Bug

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...

Now playing (03:00 AM PST): "Monsieur Verdoux" (1947) By Charlie Chaplin Runtime: 124 min.

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

We've entered this interesting new phase of software engineering where we're writing tools for the agents: github.com/steveyegge/b... I'm in the business of building developer tools for a living and this is a shift in perspective I hadn't immediately recognized. I'm not mad about it! #swe #tools

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...

It's weird that I wound up doing programming languages at Zoo, because I never intended to write one, I barely studied compilers at uni, and I thought I would work on APIs and backend at Zoo. But hey. If you roll up your sleeves and do whatever needs doing, you'll learn a lot.

Oxide is hiring in the embedded space. If you enjoy baffling choices by hardware vendors and debugging performance issues come join me. oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...

oxide is awesome, the product team is awesome, go work with 'em

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Now playing (03:05 AM PST): "Daisies" (1966) By Věra Chytilová Runtime: 76 min.

Just released cargo-nextest 0.9.113, with support for a long-requested feature that I realized I needed all of a sudden: debugger support! Run individual tests under gdb, lldb, WinDbg, or Visual Studio Code via CodeLLDB! This preserves all the environment setup done by nextest.

New post: "Async and finaliser deadlocks", based on an accidental poke from a recent episode of the excellent @oxide.computer podcast tratt.net/laurie/blog/...

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

To give Kyle some credit, he's been writing (and speaking) brilliantly and beautifully for years on a variety of topics

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

Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."

New @oxide.computer application FAQ just dropped

Looking for your next read this weekend as you either ignore oversugared kids or do your own candy bingeing? The Oxide Friends have you covered: oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/boo...

I'm looking to hire someone to help me build KCL! It's a programming lang for 3D design that we're making at Zoo. You'd be working closely with me on the KCL interpreter, the CAD API it calls, and our mechanical engineers. This is a Rust-heavy role. DM me any questions. zoo.dev/jobs/4619187...

I see a future in #jj-vcs: steveklabnik.com/writing/i-se...

New paper with @jakehughes.uk : Garbage Collection for Rust: The Finalizer Frontier. There are lots of GCs for Rust: we tried pushing as far as we could in a new direction, particularly looking at what can be done about the headache that is finalizers.

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

mainframe for zoomers mentioned!

I can finally do some real work.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort