Oxide and Friends

Oxide Computer Company
Oxide and Friends

Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB Subscribe to our calendar: https://sesh.fyi/api/calendar/v2/iMdFbuFRupMwuTiwvXswNU.ics

  1. Technical Blogging

    -9 H

    Technical Blogging

    Bryan and Adam were joined by authors of the forthcoming book "Writing for Developers", Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop, to talk about blogging--for Bryan and Adam, it's been 20 years since they started blogging at Sun. The Oxide Friends were also joined by Tim Bray and Will Snow who kicked off blogging at Sun. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Tim Bray (BlueSky), Will Snow, Cynthia Dunlop and Piotr Sarna. Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: Writing for Developers50% off (!) with code OXIDE50ongoing by Tim BrayTim Bray on blogs.sun.comScobleizerBryan: Blogging through the decadesBryan: Remembering Charles BeelerAdam: APFS in Detail: ConclusionsBeastie Boys Book: Live & DirectAdam: AWS Outposts by the Numbers: A Far-Too-Deep Dive Into PricingAdam: I Love Go; I Hate GoAdam: I am not a resourceAdam: First Rust Program Pain (So you can avoid it...)Bryan: Falling in love with RustAdam: On Blogging (Briefly)Bryan: The Power of a PronounAdam: DTrace "Scobleized"Appendix: Cool Technical Blogs Crowdsourced by the Oxide Friends: Nova - in the writer's words, "a JavaScript apologist's exploration of how JavaScript could be good"The Pragmatic EngineerTigerBeetleFaster than Lime - a very humane and deep dive into all sorts of technology, with special focus on tools and infrastructure. Recommended article: I want off Mr. Golang's Wild RideHillel Wayne - tons of formal methods talk. Also about quality assurance in the world of software, in general.Reid Atcheson - down the rabbit hole of computational math; this person is a floating point savant.Computational Complexity Blog - what it says on the tin. It might be the best blog-like resource on computational complexity.Without boatsBonus technical articles from chat and beyond: Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY - Saagar JhaShip Shape: How Canva does hand-drawn shape recognition in the browserRust after the honeymoon - Bryan CantrillRedpanda vs. Kafka: A performance comparison25% or 6 to 4: the 11/6/23 authentication outage - DiscordMeta: From zero to 10 million lines of KotlinSun almost bought Apple in 1996If 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!

    1 h 40 min
  2. Books in the Box IV

    1 NOV.

    Books in the Box IV

    The 4th installment of the Oxide and Friends book recommendation series. After a brief(ish) diversion into Crimson Twins, Tomax and Xamot, Bryan and Adam are joined by several Oxide Friends to discuss their favorite recent reads. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Nick Gideo, Josh, Ian Grunert, Tom Lyon, Zander, and Oliver Herman. Tomax and XamotRecommendations: Into the Raging Sea - SladeThe Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan MechnerThe Big Score - MaloneCHM: Oral History of Hector RuizAMD Founder Jerry Sanders Rare Interview (video)Chip War - MillerCHM: Morris Chang, in conversation with Jen-Hsun Huang (video)Acquired: TSMC (audio)Creativity Inc. - Catmull and WallaceHardcore Software - SinofskyOxF: The Showstopper ShowExploding the Phone - LapsleyThe Cuckoo's Egg - StollInside the Hidden World of Elevator Phone PhreakingThe Last BookstoreThe MouseDriver Chronicles - Lusk, HarrisonHatching Twitter - BiltonCharacter Limit - Conger, MacThe Maniac - LabatutShift Happens - WicharyThe Last Philosopher in Texas - ChaconThe Idea Factory - GertnerObservability Engineering - Majors, Fong-Jones, MirandaRed Cloud at Dawn - GordinBiohazard - AlibekMore Money than God - MallabyRemembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War - CarlsonIBM and the Holocaust - BlackBryan's blog on the topicDEC is Dead, Long Live DEC - Schein, DeLisi, Kampas, SonduckOxF: The Rise and Fall of DECBonus recommendations from chat Not the End of the World - RitchieThe Man Who Broke Capitalism - GellesChildren of Time (series) - TchaikovskyThe Murderbot Diaries (series) - WellsOrganizational Behavior Real Research for Real Managers - PearceHacking: The Art of Exploitation - EricksonTakeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power Hardcover - RybackSuccessful Aging - Levitin (felt like maybe a dig at Adam and Bryan?)Speeding the Net: The Inside Story of Netscape and How It Challenged Microsoft - Quittner, SlatallaCreative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs - KociendaIf 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!

    1 h 35 min

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Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB Subscribe to our calendar: https://sesh.fyi/api/calendar/v2/iMdFbuFRupMwuTiwvXswNU.ics

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