Adam Leventhal
Appears in 126 Episodes
Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving
Time is the bane of programmers and the villain for far too many operator horror stories. Oxide and Friends discuss time, timezones, standard time, daylight time, leap...
Trolltron, Assemble!
Unable to resist the call of Trolltron, Bryan and Adam are forced to discuss an odious tweet that undervalues education, struggle, and experience while aggrandizing yo...
Ukraine
Russia's illegal war in Ukraine has created a humanitarian crisis. For those of us in tech, how can we help? Bryan and Adam talk to Andrey Akselrod, CTO at People.ai, ...
The Future Of Work
We figured out how to work remotely by necessity. How will that change how we work in the future? Is remote work here to stay? Is it for everyone?
Engineering Culture
Building a strong, virtuous engineering culture is hard. No silver bullets in this Twitter Space, but plenty of pitfalls to avoid.
Breakthroughs Delayed
Steven Johnston's Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer observes that in addition to breakthroughs, and incremental progress, there is a class of innovation tha...
I Know This! (Purpose-built systems with general-purpose guts)
Purpose-built systems, computing appliances, are typically built around or on top of general purpose systems. In this week's Twitter Space we look at how those similar...
Taxonomy of Hype
Hype comes in many forms. In this week's Twitter Space we look at Johannes Klingebiel 5-stage taxonomy of hype and try to slot some of our favorite over-hyped (and und...
Flying Blind with Peter Robison
Peter Robison, author of Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing, discusses Boeing, the 737 disasters, corporate culture, and more.
Predictions 2022
The Oxide and Friends revive an old Solaris Kernel Group tradition of making predictions, Adam and Bryan are joined by Redmonk's most famous Red Sox fan, Stephen O'Gra...
The Pragmatism of Hubris
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: December 13th, 2021The Pragmatism of HubrisWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though i...
Tales from the Bringup Lab
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: December 6th, 2021Tales from the Bringup LabWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though ...
The Sidecar Switch
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 29th, 2021The Sidecar SwitchWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s no...
Talking Turkeys
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 22nd, 2021Talking TurkeysWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s not (...
The Wrath of Kahn
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 15th, 2021The Wrath of KahnWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s not...
Supercomputers, Cray, and How Sun Picked SGI's Pocket
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 8th, 2021Supercomputers, Cray, and How Sun Picked SGI’s PocketWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for ...
On Code Review
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 1st, 2021On Code ReviewWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s not (ye...
Coder's Block
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 25th, 2021Coder’s BlockWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s not (yet...
Dijkstra's Tweetstorm
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 18th, 2021Dijkstra’s TweetstormWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s ...
Economics and Open Source
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 4th, 2021Economics and Open SourceWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it...
The Books in the Box
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 27th, 2021The Books in the BoxWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s...
Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 20th, 2021Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech FraudWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays ...
Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 13th, 2021Docker, Inc., an Early EpitaphWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even t...
Put the OS back in OSDI
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 6th, 2021Put the OS back in OSDIWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it...
A brief history of talking computers
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 30th, 2021A brief history of talking computersWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Eve...
The episode formerly known as ℔
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 23rd, 2021The episode formerly known as ℔We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even tho...
The Showstopper Show
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: August 16th, 2021The Showstopper ShowWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s no...
Agile + 20
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 26, 2021Agile + 20We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s not (yet?) a fea...
NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 5, 2021NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting historiesWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. ...
What's a bug? What's a debugger?
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: June 21, 2021What’s a bug? What’s a debugger?We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though...