Shows / Oxide and Friends

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://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f4185aa71c4524d0d6127f31058c9e21f29f017d48a0fca6f564969cd0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
Episodes
Oxide and FriendsOn Silicon Valley Bank with Eric Vishria
Eric Vishria of Benchmark and Oxide CEO, Steve Tuck, join Bryan and Adam to talk about Silicon Valley Bank, its role in the startup ecosystem, and the short-…
Oxide and FriendsRack-scale Networking
Bryan and Adam are joined by a number of members of the Oxide networking team to talk about the networking software that drives the Oxide rack. It turns out…
Oxide and FriendsMemory Safety with Yael Grauer
Yael Grauer joined Bryan, Adam, Steve Klabnik, and the Oxide Friends to talk about her recent Consumer Reports article on memory safety and memory safe…
Oxide and FriendsOxide and the Chamber of Mysteries
Members of the Oxide team join Bryan and Adam to talk about our journey through compliance (spoiler: we passed!). Oxide and Friends: February 6th, 2023 We've…
Oxide and FriendsRevisiting Unikernels
Oxide and Friends: January 23rd, 2023 Revisiting Unikernels We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all…
Oxide and FriendsThe Power of Proto Boards!
We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from January 16th, 2023. In addition to…

Oxide and FriendsBreaking it down with Ian Brown
Break it down with Ian Brown We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from…
Oxide and FriendsA Debugging Odyssey
A Debugging Odyssey We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from December 19th…
Oxide and FriendsPodcasts for Podcast-Lovers
Oxide and Friends: December 12th, 2022 Podcasts for Podcast-Lovers We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them…
Oxide and FriendsLeaving Twitter with Tim Bray
Oxide and Friends: November 28th, 2022 Leaving Twitter with Tim Bray We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording…
Oxide and FriendsMastodon with Kris Nova
We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording…
Oxide and FriendsTech Layoffs
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 7th, 2022 Tech Layoffs We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's…
Oxide and FriendsOpen Source Firmware
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 31st, 2022 Open Source Firmware We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsLet That Sink In! (Whither Twitter?)
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 27th, 2022 Let That Sink In! (Whither Twitter?) We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about…
Oxide and FriendsOpen Source Inside Baseball (with Stephen O'Grady)
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 24th, 2022 Open Source Inside Baseball We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour…
Oxide and FriendsHolistic Boot
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 10th, 2022 Holistic Boot We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though…
Oxide and FriendsEngineering Incentives... and Misincentives
Inspired by the incentives at Google that apparently promote launching--but not sustaining--new products, Bryan, Adam and the Oxide Friends discuss the…
Oxide and FriendsLosing the Signal with Sean Silcoff
Bryan and Adam interview Sean Silcoff, co-author of "Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry"…
Oxide and FriendsThreads, async/await, Promises, Futures
A problem has been eating at Adam: we use async/await in many languages and yet we're not so good at explaining the moving parts. Bryan and the Oxide Friends…

Oxide and FriendsThe Oxide Supply Chain
Kate Hicks from Oxide operations joins to talk about the supply chain meltdown, war stories from the past, and the innovative ways she and her team have…
Oxide and FriendsBringup Lab Chronicles: A Measurement Two Years in the Making
The Oxide electrical engineers share their experience bringing up a 100Gb link--it's got everything from a purpose-built probing station to a 100Ω resistor…
Oxide and FriendsSurviving Conventional Wisdom
Bryan, Adam, and Steve consider nuggets of conventional wisdom that turn out to be turds.
Oxide and FriendsRIP Optane
The Oxide Friends pour one out for Optane, Intel's great hope that never managed to find traction.
Oxide and FriendsDeep Tech Investing
Seth Winterroth and Ian Rountree join Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to talk about investing in deep tech / hard tech.
Oxide and FriendsAcross the Chasm with Rust
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 18th, 2022 Across the Chasm with Rust We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsIntegrating Hardware and Software Teams
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: July 11th, 2022 Integrating Hardware and Software Teams We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about…
Oxide and FriendsBooks in the box redux
We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording…

Oxide and FriendsThe Rise and Fall of DEC
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: June 13th, 2022 The Rise and Fall of DEC We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsSurviving the Dot-Com Bust
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 23rd, 2022 Surviving the Dot-Com Bust We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsDebugging Methodologies
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: May 16th, 2022 Debugging Methodologies We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsFail Whaling
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: April 25th, 2022 Fail Whaling We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it's…
Oxide and FriendsMore Tales from the Bringup Lab
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: April 18th, 2022 More Tales from the Bringup Lab We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour…
Oxide and FriendsAnother LPC55 ROM Vulnerability
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: April 4th, 2022 Another LPC55 ROM Vulnerability We've been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour…
Oxide and FriendsTime, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 28th, 2022 Time, Timezones, Metric Time, Losing and Saving We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p…
Oxide and FriendsTrolltron, Assemble!
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 21st, 2022 Trolltron, Assemble! We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsUkraine
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 14th, 2022 Ukraine We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s not…
Oxide and FriendsThe Future Of Work
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: March 7th, 2022 The Future Of Work We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though…
Oxide and FriendsEngineering Culture
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: February 21st, 2022 Engineering Culture We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsBreakthroughs Delayed
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: February 14th, 2022 Breakthroughs Delayed We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsI Know This! (Purpose-built systems with general-purpose guts)
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: February 7th, 2022 I Know This! (Purpose-built systems with general-purpose guts) We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on…
Oxide and FriendsTaxonomy of Hype
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: January 24th, 2022 Taxonomy of Hype We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though…
Oxide and FriendsFlying Blind with Peter Robison
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: January 10th, 2022 Flying Blind with Peter Robison We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an…
Oxide and FriendsPredictions 2022
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: January 3rd, 2022 Predictions 2022 We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though…
Oxide and FriendsThe Pragmatism of Hubris
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: December 13th, 2021 The Pragmatism of Hubris We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour…
Oxide and FriendsTales from the Bringup Lab
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: December 6th, 2021 Tales from the Bringup Lab We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour…
Oxide and FriendsThe Sidecar Switch
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 29th, 2021 The Sidecar Switch We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsTalking Turkeys
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 22nd, 2021 Talking Turkeys We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though…
Oxide and FriendsThe Wrath of Kahn
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 15th, 2021 The Wrath of Kahn We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsSupercomputers, Cray, and How Sun Picked SGI's Pocket
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 8th, 2021 Supercomputers, Cray, and How Sun Picked SGI’s Pocket We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays…
Oxide and FriendsOn Code Review
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: November 1st, 2021 On Code Review We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though…
Oxide and FriendsCoder's Block
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 25th, 2021 Coder’s Block We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though…
Oxide and FriendsDijkstra's Tweetstorm
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 18th, 2021 Dijkstra’s Tweetstorm We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsEconomics and Open Source
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 4th, 2021 Economics and Open Source We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsThe Books in the Box
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 27th, 2021 The Books in the Box We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…
Oxide and FriendsTheranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 20th, 2021 Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly…
Oxide and FriendsDocker, Inc., an Early Epitaph
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 13th, 2021 Docker, Inc., an Early Epitaph We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an…
Oxide and FriendsPut the OS back in OSDI
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: September 6th, 2021 Put the OS back in OSDI We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even…