Podcast Episodes

Technological Revolutions with Jerry Neumann

Season 5 Episode 26

Jerry Neumann joined Bryan and Adam to discuss his blog post from 2015, examining the work of Carlota Perez on technological revolutions. These waves have similarities, in particular: frenzy, bust, a…

Published on 9 hours ago

The Promises of Tech with Scott Hanselman

Season 5 Episode 25

Scott Hanselman gave a terrific talk about the promises of tech: connection, convenience and creativity. Did it deliver? Scott joins Bryan and Adam to discuss... and also wander around as one expects…

Published on 1 month ago

Oxide's $100M Series B

Season 5 Episode 24

Oxide raised its $100M Series B round of venture capital. Oxide's founders, Bryan and Steve, answer questions selected by Adam from social media about the round, the company, and the future.

In additi…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Adventures in Data Corruption

Season 5 Episode 23

Two years ago, the Oxide team encountered data corruption during a fairly simple network data transfer. The ensuing debugging sessions uncovered a truly bizarre bug involving CPU speculation! Bryan a…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

When Async Attacks!

Season 5 Episode 22

What happens when the Oxide API is slow? A podcast episode! More specifically, one about how the team employed all manner of debugging techniques to track it down to one obscure and configurable asyn…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Diving In with Robert Bogart

Season 5 Episode 21

On the heels of Bryan's blog post about the similarities between aspiring college athletes finding a team and entrepreneurs raising a round of capital, Bryan and Adam were joined by Robert Bogart to …

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

Debugger-Driven Development

Season 5 Episode 20

Building systems software can be quite opaque, leading to the need for great debugging tools. At Oxide, we've found that debuggers can be even more valuable leading rather than following system devel…

Published on 3 months ago

AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik

Season 5 Episode 19

Last week, our colleague (and frequent Oxide and Friends guest) Steve Klabnik made some new friends on the Internet with a blog entry on AI discourse. Bryan and Adam were joined by Steve to try to de…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel

Season 5 Episode 18

Late in 2024, an economics paper captured the attention of the world. AI, it claimed, had a tremendous impact on materials research, disproportionally benefitted the most productive, and--sadly--redu…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

RIP USENIX ATC

Season 5 Episode 17

Bryan and Adam discuss the recent announcement of the discontinuation of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), reminiscing about their own visits to the ATC and the impact of the conference. …

Published on 4 months ago