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Bryan and Steve are joined by Adam to revisit some highlights from almost two years of the Oxide and Friends live show and podcast.

Bryan’s blog entry on Twitter Spaces: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2021/05/02/twitter-spaces-a-few-weeks-in/

Oxide and Friends, “Mr. Leventhal, Come here I want you”:
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/mr-leventhal-come-here-i-want-to-see-you-2021-05-03 (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-WSU3kiXVg#t=28m10s)

Oxide and Friends, “NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/next-objective-c-and-contrasting-histories-2021-07-05

Oxide and Friends, “Tales from the Bringup Lab”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-the-bringup-lab-2021-12-06

Flying Blind: Boeing's Max Tragedy and the Lost Soul of an American Icon by Peter Robison: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55994102

Oxide and Friends, “Flying Blind with Peter Robison”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/flying-blind-with-peter-robison-2022-01-10 (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6i9NPslfE4&t=1141s)

Oxide and Friends, “Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/losing-the-signal-with-sean-silcoff

Oxide and Friends, “The Pragmatism of Hubris”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-pragmatism-of-hubris-2021-12-13

Oxide and Friends, “The Books in the Box”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-books-in-the-box-2021-09-27

Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust by Alex Payne: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57118893

Oxide and Friends, “Podcasts for Podcast-Lovers”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/podcasts-for-podcast-lovers

Playdate podcast: https://podcast.play.date/

Dijkstra quote on BASIC: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF

Oxide and Friends, “Dijkstra's Tweetstorm”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/dijkstras-tweetstorm-2021-10-18

Oxide and Friends, “Economics and Open Source”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/economics-and-open-source-2021-10-04 (Clip with Tim Burnham reading his tweet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDd8xGSP9DA&t=249s)

Oxide and Friends, “Open Source Inside Baseball (with Stephen O'Grady)”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/open-source-inside-baseball-with-stephen-ogrady

Oxide and Friends, “The Oxide Supply Chain“: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/epi=-sodes/the-oxide-supply-chain Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32774875

Oxide and Friends, “The Rise and Fall of DEC”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-rise-and-fall-of-dec (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m6GFs3GuU0&t=12s)

Oxide and Friends, “Potpourri: Product, Platform, Paravirtualization”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/potpourri-product-platform-paravirtualization

Oxide and Friends, “Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/oxide-and-the-chamber-of-mysteries

Oxide and Friends, “Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/theranos-silicon-valley-and-the-march-madness-of-tech-fraud-2021-09-20 (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdk9CKML2g&t=2901s)

Bad Bets Season 2, “The Unraveling of Trevor Milton”: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/the-journal/8whnlvj

Oxide and Friends, “Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/engineering-incentives-and-misincentives (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU4WT5RZAPY&t=461s)

Oxide and Friends, “The Power of Proto Boards!”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-power-of-proto-boards

Oxide and Friends, “A Debugging Odyssey”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/a-debugging-odyssey

Oxide and Friends, “Debugging Methodologies”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/debugging-methodologies

Oxide and Friends, “from /proc to proc_macro”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/from-proc-to-proc_macro-2021-05-24 (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85eApYSj3ic&t=108s)

Oxide and Friends, “Tech Layoffs”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tech-layoffs (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBTMUc1Q5vY#t=1h1m39s)

PagerDuty CEO’s apology for using an MLK quote in a layoff announcement: https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/letter-to-employees/

Oxide and Friends, “Memory Safety with Yael Grauer”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/memory-safety-with-yael-grauer

Oxide and Friends, “Predictions 2022”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions-2022-2022-01-03 (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZylf2gbg_E&t=7113s)

Oxide and Friends, “I Know This! (Purpose-built systems with general-purpose guts)”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/i-know-this-purpose-built-systems-with-general-purpose-guts-2022-02-07 (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsvJT6i_atw#t=1h6m30s)

Cackle-bladder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cackle-bladder

Assassination of James Garfield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_James_A._Garfield

On the Metal with Tom Lyon: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal/tom-lyon

Oxide and Friends, “RIP Optane”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/rip-optane (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6a_32vvbU)

On the Metal with Jon Masters: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal/jon-masters

Oxide and Friends, “Integrating Hardware and Software Teams”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/integrating-hardware-and-software-teams

Oxide and Friends Discord: https://discord.gg/4PEMYUZt7H

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You can find Ken on Twitter at twitter.com/kenshirriff and his blog righto.com.

- Soyuz blog post:

http://www.righto.com/2020/01/inside-digital-clock-from-soyuz.html

- IBM System/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370

- Amdahl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_Corporation

- Build Your Own Z80 Computer:

https://books.google.com/books?id=mVQnFgWzX0AC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false

- Euler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler

- Commodore PET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET

- TRS-80 (Trash-80): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 https://techland.time.com/2012/08/03/trs-80/

- Visual 6502: http://www.visual6502.org/

- MOS 6502: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502

- Metallurgy microscope: https://www.amscope.com/compound-microscopes/metallurgical-microscopes.html

- AM2900: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am2900

- MOS transistor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET

- Cray-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1

- Intel 4004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004

- Datapoint 2200: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200

- Intel 8008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8008

- Endianness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

- TTL chips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor%E2%80%93transistor_logic

- Big Endian and Little Endian:

https://chortle.ccsu.edu/AssemblyTutorial/Chapter-15/ass15_3.html

- Xerox Alto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto

- Charles Simonyi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simonyi

- Punched cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card

- Why did line printers have 132 columns?:

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7838/why-did-line-printers-have-132-columns

- Teletype 33: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33

- Analogue computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer

- Analogue computer thread: https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1223675683387265024

- Differential analyser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_analyser

- Bitcoin mining on a 1401:

http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old-ibm-1401.html

- Mining bitcoin with pencil and paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dqhixzGVo

- Bitcoin mining on a Xerox Alto:

http://www.righto.com/2017/07/bitcoin-mining-on-vintage-xerox-alto.html

- Bitcoin mining on the Apollo Guidance computer:

http://www.righto.com/2019/07/bitcoin-mining-on-apollo-guidance.html

- Colossus computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer

- Accounting machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_machine

- Memory phosphor: https://www.britannica.com/science/memory-phosphor

- Rowhammer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer

- Core memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory

- Williams tube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube

- Core rope memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory

- Honeywell 800: https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/h800.html

- Honeywell 1800: https://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/doc-4372956da1170/

http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64-h.html#HONEYWELL-1800

- SPARC delayed branching:

https://arcb.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/codeopt/codeopt00/notes/delaybra.html

- IBM 360 Model 50: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_50

- RR Auction: https://www.rrauction.com/

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You can find Star on Twitter at https://twitter.com/starsandrobots.

Super Munchers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchers
Metrowerks CodeWarrior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior
RadioShack (RIP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack
\"Marilyn Monroe's World War II Drone Program\": https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/upshot/marilyn-monroes-world-war-ii-drone-program.html
Radioplane Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_Company
Piasecki PA-97: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_PA-97
TacoCopter: https://tacocopter.com/
TacoCopter on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742676
TacoCopter's cameo on Stephen Colbert: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/53yh09/the-colbert-report-thought-for-food---tacocopter
Wired on TacoCopter: https://www.wired.com/2012/03/qa-with-tacocopter/
FAA Section 333 (now Section 44807): https://www.faa.gov/uas/advanced_operations/certification/section_44807/
FAA Part 107: https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/part_107_summary.pdf
Canidu: http://www.canidu.com/
Boeing 737 MAX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX
Road train: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train
Checklists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checklist
United Airlines Channel 9: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/726789-consolidated-interesting-things-heard-channel-9-thread-merged.html
United Airlines ad from 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch/mU2rpcAABbA
TRACON-II PC game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracon_II
National Transportation Safety Board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_Board
ValuJet 592: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592
Amelia Earhart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
Skunk Works by Ben Johnson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101438.Skunk_Works
Lockheed Skunk Works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
Clarence \"Kelly\" Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_(Unix_shell)
Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On by Stuart Banner: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402086-who-owns-the-sky
Turbulent Skies by T. A. Heppenheimer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1492469.Turbulent_Skies
Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinget: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/438607.Hard_Landing
SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am by Robert Gandt: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13010881-skygod
Deregulation Knockouts: Round One by Tom Norwood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4718255-deregulation-knockouts
Convertiplane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertiplane
The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey by Richard Whittle: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8008152-the-dream-machine

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Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a wild couple of weeks in AI. First, we have a high-profile, AI-induced, AI-diagnosed security incident. Next we have the rise of frontier-class open-weights models. Who's for or against open weights? Do they make for a more or less secure future? Exciting times!

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Simon Willison.

Previously, on Oxide and Friends:

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

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Ramy Katrib has been at the forefront of digital storytelling for over 25 years, with his post-production company, DigitalFilm Tree, earning a reputation as one of Hollywood's most technically adventurous post-production houses. He joined Bryan and Adam to explore the past, present, and future of digital storytelling.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Ramy Katrib.

","https://share.transistor.fm/s/73d466bc",{"_14":71,"_16":72,"_18":19,"_20":73,"_22":74,"_24":58,"_26":75,"_28":-7,"_29":76,"_31":77},"The Oxide 3D Explorer","3360749","2026-06-27T14:00:00.000Z",4470,"15","

Recently, Oxide rolled out an eye-popping 3D rack explorer at explorer.oxide.computer. Oxide's designer extraordinaire, Ben Leonard, joined Bryan and Adam to describe the process of turning CAD drawings into an interactive site.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Oxide colleague, Ben Leonard.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

","https://share.transistor.fm/s/c9e8b249","jobCount",12,"routes/blog/_index/route",{"_82":83,"_145":146,"_374":375},"pinnedPosts",[84,106,124,137],{"_16":85,"_14":86,"_18":87,"_20":88,"_89":90,"_101":102,"_103":-7,"_104":105},"oxide-anthropic-project-glasswing","Oxide joins Anthropic's Project Glasswing","Oxide joins Anthropic's Project Glasswing, applying Claude Mythos 5 to find and patch vulnerabilities across its open-source stack, firmware to network.","2026-07-28T17:00:00.000Z","authors",[91],{"_92":93,"_14":94,"_95":96,"_97":98,"_99":100},"name","Kevin Spring","Marketing","twitter","kspring404","portrait","authors/kevin-portrait.jpg","linkedin","https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinspring/","thumbnail","blog/glasswing/anthropic-glasswing-thumbnail.svg","thumbnailAlt","category","News",{"_16":107,"_14":108,"_18":109,"_20":110,"_89":111,"_101":122,"_103":-7,"_104":123},"the-cloud-computer","The Cloud Computer","Announcing the world's first commercial cloud computer.","2023-10-26T09:00:00.000Z",[112],{"_92":113,"_14":114,"_95":115,"_116":117,"_97":118,"_99":119,"_120":121},"Bryan Cantrill","CTO","bcantrill","bluesky","bcantrill.bsky.social","authors/bryan-portrait.jpg","https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-cantrill-b6a1/","website","http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/","blog/the-cloud-computer/oxide-pcb-closeup.jpg","Company",{"_16":125,"_14":126,"_18":127,"_20":128,"_89":129,"_101":136,"_103":-7,"_104":123},"our-200m-series-c","Our $200M Series C","Raising our Series C round of financing","2026-02-05T00:00:00.000Z",[130,131],{"_92":113,"_14":114,"_95":115,"_116":117,"_97":118,"_99":119,"_120":121},{"_92":132,"_14":133,"_95":134,"_97":135},"Steve Tuck","CEO","sdtuck","authors/steve-portrait.jpg","blog/series-c/series-c-announcement-thumbnail.svg",{"_16":138,"_14":139,"_18":140,"_20":141,"_89":142,"_101":144,"_103":-7,"_104":105},"oxide-computer-company-and-lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory","A New Standard in National Security and 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some.","2022-04-20T18:00:00.000Z",[182],{"_92":183,"_14":184,"_97":185,"_120":186},"iliana etaoin","Systems Engineer","authors/iliana-portrait.jpg","https://iliana.fyi",{"_16":188,"_14":189,"_18":45,"_20":190,"_89":191,"_101":197,"_103":-7,"_104":123,"_161":162},"building-big-systems-with-remote-hardware-teams","Building Big Systems with Remote Hardware Teams","2023-03-08T15:30:00.000Z",[192],{"_92":193,"_14":194,"_97":195,"_99":196},"Nathanael Huffman","Hardware Engineer","authors/nathanael-portrait.jpg","https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanael-huffman-5128024a/","blog/small-boards/psc-closeup.jpg",{"_16":107,"_14":108,"_18":109,"_20":110,"_89":111,"_101":122,"_103":-7,"_104":123,"_161":162},{"_16":200,"_14":201,"_18":202,"_20":203,"_89":204,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":123,"_161":162},"compensation-as-a-reflection-of-values","Compensation as a Reflection of Values","Our thoughts on compensation, and how they reflect Oxide's values.","2021-03-03T18:00:00.000Z",[205],{"_92":113,"_14":114,"_95":115,"_116":117,"_97":118,"_99":119,"_120":121},{"_16":207,"_14":208,"_18":208,"_20":209,"_89":210,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":212,"_161":162},"cosmo-sp","A disappearing Service Processor","2025-12-11T18:00:00.000Z",[211],{"_92":170,"_14":171,"_95":172},"Product",{"_16":214,"_14":215,"_18":216,"_20":217,"_89":218,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":105,"_161":162},"dtrace-conf24","dtrace.conf(24)","A new conference and a new approach for the DTrace Olympiad!","2024-12-05T08:00:00.000Z",[219],{"_92":113,"_14":114,"_95":115,"_116":117,"_97":118,"_99":119,"_120":121},{"_16":221,"_14":222,"_18":223,"_20":224,"_89":225,"_101":227,"_103":-7,"_104":123,"_161":162},"engineering-culture","Engineering a Culture","A revelation, a bug, and a fix – how it all reflects the culture at Oxide.","2024-03-31T18:00:00.000Z",[226],{"_92":113,"_14":114,"_95":115,"_116":117,"_97":118,"_99":119,"_120":121},"blog/engineering-a-culture/engineering-structure-thumbnail.svg",{"_16":229,"_14":230,"_18":231,"_20":232,"_89":233,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":175,"_161":162},"exploiting-undocumented-hardware-blocks-in-the-lpc55s69","Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69","A write up of the LPC55S69 ROM Patch.","2021-04-30T23:00:00.000Z",[234],{"_92":170,"_14":171,"_95":172},{"_16":236,"_14":237,"_18":238,"_20":239,"_89":240,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":212,"_161":162},"how-oxide-cuts-data-center-power-consumption-in-half","How Oxide Cuts Data Center Power Consumption in Half","A rack-scale design that drives data center power efficiency.","2024-11-08T12:00:00.000Z",[241],{"_92":93,"_14":94,"_95":96,"_97":98,"_99":100},{"_16":243,"_14":244,"_18":245,"_20":246,"_89":247,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":249,"_161":162},"hubris-and-humility","Hubris and Humility","The release of a small open-source operating system for deeply-embedded computer systems.","2021-11-30T18:00:00.000Z",[248],{"_92":113,"_14":114,"_95":115,"_116":117,"_97":118,"_99":119,"_120":121},"Open-source",{"_16":251,"_14":252,"_18":253,"_20":254,"_89":255,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":249,"_161":162},"iddqd-unsafe","iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust","How our Rust collections library defends against adversarial trait implementations.","2026-06-02T16:00:00.000Z",[256],{"_92":257,"_14":171,"_99":258,"_120":259},"Rain Paharia","https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunshowers/","https://sunshowers.io",{"_16":261,"_14":262,"_18":263,"_20":264,"_89":265,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":175,"_161":162},"lpc55s69-tzpreset","A Gap in the TrustZone Preset Settings for the LPC55S69","A weakness with TrustZone preset settings.","2023-11-20T18:00:00.000Z",[266],{"_92":170,"_14":171,"_95":172},{"_16":268,"_14":269,"_18":270,"_20":271,"_89":272,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":123,"_161":162},"moores-scofflaws","Moore's Scofflaws","The tyranny of per-core licensing.","2024-02-20T18:00:00.000Z",[273],{"_92":113,"_14":114,"_95":115,"_116":117,"_97":118,"_99":119,"_120":121},{"_16":275,"_14":276,"_18":277,"_20":278,"_89":279,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":123,"_161":162},"navigating-todays-supply-chain-challenges","Navigating Today’s Supply Chain Challenges","The tale of a small tech startup navigating procurement in the most constrained market in recent history.","2022-09-08T17:00:00.000Z",[280,286],{"_92":281,"_14":282,"_97":283,"_95":284,"_99":285},"Kate Hicks","Director of Operations","authors/kate-portrait.jpg","mrskatehicks","https://www.linkedin.com/in/katemhicks/",{"_92":287,"_14":288,"_97":289,"_99":290},"Kirstin Neira","Operations Manager","authors/kirstin-portrait-2.jpg","https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstin-neira-31494b7/",{"_16":292,"_14":293,"_18":294,"_20":295,"_89":296,"_101":299,"_103":-7,"_104":123,"_161":162},"our-100m-series-b","Our $100M Series B","Raising our Series B round of 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Frazelle","CPO","jessfraz","authors/jessie-portrait.jpg",{"_16":318,"_14":319,"_18":320,"_20":321,"_89":322,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":123,"_161":162},"oxides-compensation-model-how-is-it-going","Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going?","Reflecting on how our compensation model is going","2025-05-01T12:00:00.000Z",[323],{"_92":113,"_14":114,"_95":115,"_116":117,"_97":118,"_99":119,"_120":121},{"_16":325,"_14":326,"_18":327,"_20":328,"_89":329,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":212,"_161":162},"performance-has-layers","Performance Has Layers","Tuning network performance across the layers of a stack you build end to end","2026-06-18T16:30:00.000Z",[330],{"_92":331,"_14":332,"_97":333,"_99":334,"_95":335},"Steve Karam","Product Assurance","authors/stevek-portrait.jpg","https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevekaram/","yaystevek",{"_16":337,"_14":338,"_18":339,"_20":340,"_89":341,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":123,"_161":162},"reflections-on-founder-mode","Reflections on Founder Mode","Reflections on a recent Paul Graham piece – and on the culture at Oxide.","2024-09-02T17:00:00.000Z",[342],{"_92":113,"_14":114,"_95":115,"_116":117,"_97":118,"_99":119,"_120":121},{"_16":344,"_14":345,"_18":346,"_20":347,"_89":348,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":105,"_161":162},"remembering-charles-beeler","Remembering Charles Beeler","Remembering Oxide investor Charles Beeler, who passed away in September.","2024-11-12T08:00:00.000Z",[349,350],{"_92":132,"_14":133,"_95":134,"_97":135},{"_92":113,"_14":114,"_95":115,"_116":117,"_97":118,"_99":119,"_120":121},{"_16":352,"_14":353,"_18":354,"_20":355,"_89":356,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":123,"_161":162},"rfd-1-requests-for-discussion","RFD 1 Requests for Discussion","A look inside our internal Requests for Discussion process.","2020-07-24T18:00:00.000Z",[357],{"_92":313,"_14":314,"_95":315,"_97":316},{"_16":359,"_14":360,"_18":361,"_20":362,"_89":363,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":105,"_161":162},"rip-khaled-bichara","RIP Khaled Bichara, 1971-2020","We were deeply saddened to learn that Khaled Bichara, one of Oxide's angel investors, died in a car accident in Cairo on Friday night. Our heart goes out to his family, and to all those who he touched over his career.","2020-02-03T17:00:00.000Z",[364,365,366],{"_92":132,"_14":133,"_95":134,"_97":135},{"_92":113,"_14":114,"_95":115,"_116":117,"_97":118,"_99":119,"_120":121},{"_92":313,"_14":314,"_95":315,"_97":316},{"_16":368,"_14":369,"_18":370,"_20":371,"_89":372,"_101":-7,"_103":-7,"_104":123,"_161":162},"systems-software-in-the-large","Systems Software in the Large","An extraordinary talk on developing systems software in the large","2025-09-18T13:00:00.000Z",[373],{"_92":113,"_14":114,"_95":115,"_116":117,"_97":118,"_99":119,"_120":121},"faqFridayPosts",[376,380,384,388,392,396,400,404,408,412,416,420,424,428,432,436,440,444,448,452,456,460,464,468,472,476,480,484,488,492,496,500,504,508,512,516,520,524,528,532,536,540,544,548,552,556,560,564,568,572,576,580,584,588,592],{"_16":377,"_14":378,"_20":379,"_161":302},"how-does-oxide-think-about-the-supply-chain","How Does Oxide Think About the Supply Chain?","2026-07-31T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":381,"_14":382,"_20":383,"_161":302},"what-is-the-lifespan-of-the-oxide-cloud-computer","What is the Lifespan of the Oxide Cloud Computer?","2026-07-24T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":385,"_14":386,"_20":387,"_161":162},"how-is-oxide-able-to-air-cool-the-rack","How is Oxide Able to Air Cool the Rack?","2026-07-17T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":389,"_14":390,"_20":391,"_161":162},"how-is-oxide-different-from-hyperscaler-infrastructure","How is Oxide Different from Hyperscaler Infrastructure?","2026-07-10T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":393,"_14":394,"_20":395,"_161":162},"why-cant-the-commodity-server-vendors-just-do-what-oxides-done","Why Can’t the Commodity Server Vendors Just Do What Oxide’s Done?","2026-06-26T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":397,"_14":398,"_20":399,"_161":162},"what-is-oxide-doing-about-system-management-mode-smm","What Is Oxide Doing About System Management Mode (SMM)?","2026-06-12T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":401,"_14":402,"_20":403,"_161":162},"why-use-oxide-instead-of-the-public-cloud","Why Use Oxide Instead of the Public Cloud?","2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":405,"_14":406,"_20":407,"_161":162},"cant-i-just-build-my-own-cloud-computer","Can’t I Just Build My Own Cloud Computer?","2026-05-29T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":409,"_14":410,"_20":411,"_161":162},"why-does-oxide-talk-about-fan-noise-so-much","Why Does Oxide Talk About Fan Noise So Much?","2026-05-22T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":413,"_14":414,"_20":415,"_161":162},"why-does-the-oxide-power-shelf-have-a-root-of-trust","Why Does the Oxide Power Shelf Have a Root of Trust?","2026-05-15T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":417,"_14":418,"_20":419,"_161":162},"can-i-reuse-my-existing-servers-with-oxide","Can I Reuse My Existing Servers with Oxide?","2026-05-08T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":421,"_14":422,"_20":423,"_161":162},"whats-the-differentiator-for-oxide-computer-company","What’s the Differentiator for Oxide Computer Company?","2026-05-01T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":425,"_14":426,"_20":427,"_161":162},"how-does-the-oxide-cloud-computers-power-shelf-work","How Does the Oxide Cloud Computer’s Power Shelf Work?","2026-04-17T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":429,"_14":430,"_20":431,"_161":162},"can-oxide-run-across-an-air-gap","Can Oxide Run Across an Air Gap?","2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":433,"_14":434,"_20":435,"_161":162},"why-the-obsession-with-diet-coke","Why the Obsession with Diet Coke?","2026-04-01T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":437,"_14":438,"_20":439,"_161":162},"is-oxide-hardware-made-by-super-micro","Is Oxide Hardware Made by Super Micro?","2026-03-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":441,"_14":442,"_20":443,"_161":162},"why-does-oxide-use-amd-epyc-processors","Why Does Oxide Use AMD EPYC Processors?","2026-03-13T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":445,"_14":446,"_20":447,"_161":162},"which-network-operating-system-does-oxide-use","Which Network Operating System Does Oxide Use?","2026-03-06T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":449,"_14":450,"_20":451,"_161":162},"was-oxide-crazy-for-building-their-own-network-switch","Was Oxide Crazy for Building Their Own Network Switch?","2026-02-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":453,"_14":454,"_20":455,"_161":162},"why-did-oxide-raise-200m","Why Did Oxide Raise $200M?","2026-02-13T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":457,"_14":458,"_20":459,"_161":162},"can-i-use-oxide-to-satisfy-data-residency-requirements","Can I Use Oxide to Satisfy Data Residency Requirements?","2026-01-30T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":461,"_14":462,"_20":463,"_161":162},"how-do-i-integrate-with-the-oxide-computer","How Do I Integrate with the Oxide Computer?","2026-01-23T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":465,"_14":466,"_20":467,"_161":162},"does-oxide-support-windows-instances","Does Oxide Support Windows Instances?","2026-01-16T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":469,"_14":470,"_20":471,"_161":162},"what-does-it-mean-to-love-our-customers","What does it mean to love our customers?","2025-12-26T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":473,"_14":474,"_20":475,"_161":162},"why-oxide-sleds-have-one-processor","Why do Oxide Compute Sleds have one Processor?","2025-12-19T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":477,"_14":478,"_20":479,"_161":162},"can-oxide-run-in-an-air-gapped-environment","Can Oxide Run in an Air-Gapped Environment?","2025-12-12T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":481,"_14":482,"_20":483,"_161":162},"is-oxide-ideal-for-ci-cd-runners","Is Oxide Ideal for CI/CD Runners?","2025-12-05T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":485,"_14":486,"_20":487,"_161":162},"does-oxide-have-enterprise-grade-support","Does Oxide Have Enterprise-Grade Support?","2025-11-21T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":489,"_14":490,"_20":491,"_161":162},"what-kubernetes-integrations-does-oxide-have","What Kubernetes Integrations Does Oxide Have?","2025-11-14T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":493,"_14":494,"_20":495,"_161":162},"how-does-oxide-manage-kubernetes","How Does Oxide Manage Kubernetes?","2025-11-07T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":497,"_14":498,"_20":499,"_161":162},"how-does-oxide-engage-analysts","How Does Oxide Engage Analysts?","2025-10-31T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":501,"_14":502,"_20":503,"_161":162},"what-is-the-minimum-oxide-configuration","What is the Minimum Configuration for Oxide?","2025-10-24T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":505,"_14":506,"_20":507,"_161":162},"why-do-companies-move-workloads-on-prem","Why Do Companies Move Workloads On-Prem?","2025-10-17T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":509,"_14":510,"_20":511,"_161":162},"is-oxide-a-mainframe","Is Oxide a Mainframe?","2025-10-10T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":513,"_14":514,"_20":515,"_161":162},"how-long-does-it-take-to-deploy-oxide","How Long Does It Take to Deploy Oxide?","2025-10-03T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":517,"_14":518,"_20":519,"_161":162},"what-do-oxide-software-licensing-fees-look-like","Does Oxide Have Software Licensing Fees?","2025-09-26T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":521,"_14":522,"_20":523,"_161":162},"how-do-i-try-oxide","How Do I Try Oxide?","2025-09-19T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":525,"_14":526,"_20":527,"_161":162},"why-does-power-matter-in-the-data-center","Why Does Power Matter in the Data Center?","2025-09-12T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":529,"_14":530,"_20":531,"_161":162},"how-does-oxide-make-decisions","How Does Oxide Make Decisions?","2025-09-05T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":533,"_14":534,"_20":535,"_161":162},"what-happened-to-my-root-password","What Happened to My Root Password?","2025-08-29T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":537,"_14":538,"_20":539,"_161":162},"who-is-oxide-built-for","Who is Oxide Built For?","2025-08-22T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":541,"_14":542,"_20":543,"_161":162},"how-do-i-customize-a-virtual-machine-image","How do I Customize Virtual Machine Images?","2025-08-15T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":545,"_14":546,"_20":547,"_161":162},"does-oxide-have-instance-types","Does Oxide Have Instance Types?","2025-08-08T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":549,"_14":550,"_20":551,"_161":162},"why-did-oxide-raise-100m","Why Did Oxide Raise $100M?","2025-08-01T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":553,"_14":554,"_20":555,"_161":162},"is-oxide-a-private-cloud","Is Oxide a Private Cloud?","2025-07-25T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":557,"_14":558,"_20":559,"_161":162},"why-is-it-called-oxide","Why is it Called Oxide?","2025-07-11T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":561,"_14":562,"_20":563,"_161":162},"is-the-oxide-service-processor-a-bmc","Is the Oxide Service Processor a BMC?","2025-07-04T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":565,"_14":566,"_20":567,"_161":162},"why-does-oxide-use-rust","Why Does Oxide Use Rust?","2025-06-27T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":569,"_14":570,"_20":571,"_161":162},"what-skills-do-you-need-to-operate-an-oxide-system","What Skills Do You Need to Operate an Oxide System?","2025-06-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":573,"_14":574,"_20":575,"_161":162},"is-oxide-hci","Is Oxide HCI?","2025-06-13T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":577,"_14":578,"_20":579,"_161":162},"does-oxide-oversubscribe","Does Oxide Oversubscribe?","2025-06-06T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":581,"_14":582,"_20":583,"_161":162},"how-does-multi-tenancy-work-in-oxide","How Does Multi-tenancy Work in Oxide?","2025-05-23T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":585,"_14":586,"_20":587,"_161":162},"does-oxide-phone-home","Does Oxide Phone Home?","2025-05-16T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":589,"_14":590,"_20":591,"_161":162},"is-oxide-for-vm-or-containers","Is Oxide for Virtual Machines or Containers?","2025-05-09T12:00:00.000Z",{"_16":593,"_14":594,"_20":595,"_161":162},"what-is-oxide","What is Oxide?","2025-05-02T12:00:00.000Z","actionData","errors"]

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