Bryan Cantrill
Appears in 169 Episodes
Surviving Conventional Wisdom
Bryan, Adam, and Steve consider nuggets of conventional wisdom that turn out to be turds.
RIP Optane
The Oxide Friends pour one out for Optane, Intel's great hope that never managed to find traction.
Deep Tech Investing
Seth Winterroth and Ian Rountree join Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about investing in deep tech / hard tech.
Across the Chasm with Rust
Bryan and Adam talk with Steve Klabnik and Luqman Aden about their deep, abiding love for Rust... despite a rocky start.
Integrating Hardware and Software Teams
Jon Masters joins the Oxide and friends to talk about the benefits of having hardware and software engineers working together... and the peril of separating them!
Books in the box redux
Scott Johnson shares his library of tech/business/culture books
Paths into Systems Programming
Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends tackle the question of how to break into systems programming.. with only some philosophizing on the nature of systems programming......
The Rise and Fall of DEC
After Bryan's binge reading of all things DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), the Oxide and Friends talk through the its meteoric rise and slow descent into ... Compaq.
Surviving the Dot-Com Bust
Signs are pointing to another tech bust, and we've been through this before. Oxide and Friends reminisce about the 2001 dot-com bust, from layoffs and bankruptcies to ...
Debugging Methodologies
Jordan Hendricks and Luqman Aden join Bryan and Adam to talk about two terrifying bugs and their commensurately terrific analyses.
Fail Whaling
Joined by Json Hoffman, formerly founder of Joyent, the cloud platform on which Twitter was initially hosted, the Oxide friends reminisce about debugging early issues ...
More Tales from the Bringup Lab
Members of the Oxide hardware team talk about their recent bringup struggles and triumphs with the server sled (Gimlet) and rack switch (Sidecar)
Another LPC55 ROM Vulnerability
Laura Abbott joins Bryan and Adam to talk about **another** vulnerability she uncovered in the LPC55
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...