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A Half-Century of Silicon Valley with Randy Shoup
Season 5 Episode 6
Randy Shoup joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to look at the history of Silicon Valley through the lens of Randy's 50 years--as the child of graphics legend, Dick Shoup; an intern at Intel; a…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Textual UIs with Orhun Parmaksız
Season 5 Episode 5
Ratatui is a Rust framework for building rich--and incredible--UIs in the terminal. Bryan and Adam were joined by Orhun Parmaksız, who leads the project, to discuss the glory--as well as the ubiquity…
Published on 7 months ago
AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras
Season 5 Episode 4
DeepSeek was a disruptive surprise at the start of 2025--an open weights model trained at a fraction of the cost of previous models. Bryan and Adam were joined by Andy Hock and James Wang from Cerebr…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi
Season 5 Episode 3
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Robert Mustacchi.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Experiences Porting KVM to SmartOSMel…Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Crates We Love
Season 5 Episode 2
Love Rust? Us too. One of its great strengths is its ecosystem of crates. Rain, Eliza, and Steve from the Oxide team join Bryan and Adam to talk about the crates we love.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill…
Published on 8 months ago
Predictions 2025
Season 5 Episode 1
The annual predictions tradition returns for 2025! Bryan and Adam were joined by Simon Willison, Mike Cafarella, Steve Tuck, and Steve Klabnik to review past predictions and look 1-, 3-, and 6-years …
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
OxF 2024 Wrap-Up
Season 4 Episode 33
Bryan and Adam look back on the year of Oxide and Friends episodes, reflecting on favorite shows, moments, and (at length) cover images.
Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.
Some of the t…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Scaling Bluesky with Paul Frazee
Season 4 Episode 32
Paul Frazee joins Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about the inner workings of Bluesky and the AT Protocol. Paul and the Bluesky team have been working on decentralized systems for years an…
Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago
Conferences in Tech
Season 4 Episode 31
Bryan and Adam were joined by Theo Schlossnagle, KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, and Steve O'Grady to talk about conferences in tech. A lot has changed in the past couple of decades about the impetus for confe…
Published on 9 months ago
Intel after Gelsinger
Season 4 Episode 30
Holy Sh**! Pat Gelsinger announced his "retirement" leaving a rudderless Intel without a captain. How did Intel get here? Some of the cultural problems may be deep in the DNA. Bryan and Adam have som…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago