Absense makes the heart grow fonder? After a couple of weeks away, our most recent episode of Oxide and Friends is the most downloaded ever after 2 days. Check it out! Tell your friends. Smash that like button?
Universe be small :)
Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
Thrilled to share that we have closed our $200M Series C.
Thank you to Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund for leading this round, along with Eclipse, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Intel Capital, Counterpart, Friends and Family Capital and all of our additional investors.
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When your existing investors show up a few months after putting in $100m, asking to put in another $200m something must be going very right!
dope.
NEW: Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court.
The cases, known as habeas petitions, total more than were filed under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.
A new web page for my book! tomasp.net/cultures/
It has all the links you may need to get the open access PDF, buy a hardcopy or an ebook as well as some older talks & slides.
If you run a podcast, conference or a user group, I'm always hapy to join & talk about something from the book!
NEW: Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.
“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.
The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
Looking forward to coming to this amazing conference exploring the gaps in computer science research!
I just learned that William Cook, one of the creators of Applescript, together with Jose Falcon invented an s-expression alternative that many mainstream languages can parse as with few changes 🤯 (link below)
New year, new Oxide and Friends predictions episode! @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by @simonwdc.bsky.social and @steveklabnik.com to predict 1, 3, and 6 years into the future. Winners from previous years? Apple in and out of the VR/AR business? Looking prescient! Agents not a thing? Sure!
New on my blog: "Why Study CS? Thoughts on LLM-assisted software engineering" kmicinski.com/claude-code-...
Poster for Medea
Now playing (01:05 AM PST):
"Medea" (1969)
By Pier Paolo Pasolini
Runtime: 118 min.
✨📝 I’m excited to be on the program committee for PaPoC 2026 (conference for consistency for distributed data)! The call for papers and lightening talks is up here: papoc-workshop.github.io/2026/ and closes 23 Jan 2026. Looking forward to reading everyone’s submissions 👀
I recently wrote some thoughts on wrapping Rust libraries for Wasm plus a couple patterns that I use to make wasm-bindgen feel a bit more manageable. No silver bullets here but maybe some sensible defaults (fight me in the comments 😛) notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Notes-o...
Up top, the title "Happy Holidays!" Below, the subtitle "Celebrate your Yuletide season with this festive Santa display for the C-128. Center, a screenshot, showing the words "Happy Holidays" in faux calligraphic text composed of PETSCII line segments; behind the text, Santa and his reindeer run in front of a star screen towards a glowing north star. To the left, the text describes the function of the program "Five spriates - one for Santa and his sleigh, four for the reindeer - are sent across the screen with the MOVSPR command. To create the illusion of flying..." The remainder of the page is a 63 line program, much of which are data statements.
"Here's a colorful and festive 40-column, animated display for the 128..." (Source.)
Look, I know you think that @oxide.computer only builds computers to turn interesting bugs into podcasts, but that's obviously not true: we also write blog entries
Hell yeah. Dope to see you doing this kinda work.
Poster for Oedipus Rex
Now playing (04:45 AM PST):
"Oedipus Rex" (1967)
By Pier Paolo Pasolini
Runtime: 104 min.
Poster for The Ascent
Now playing (12:55 AM PST):
"The Ascent" (1977)
By Larisa Shepitko
Runtime: 111 min.
A blue square that says "Job Opportunity" from Ferrous Systems. Text says: Hiring: Research Engineer We're hiring for a rare role: Join us to formalize the semantics of Rust on a real, multi-year project.You'll work with leading experts, contribute to the foundations of the language, and can also be used as an opportunity to pursue a PhD alongside the work.
🦀 A unique #opportunity for #RustLang enthusiasts and verification researchers: Join us for a three-year project formalizing a Rust subset – and pursue a PhD if you choose.
Interested? 👉 ferrous-systems.com/blog/researc...
I love getting to work on strange debugging problems and get to learn a little more about a system oxide.computer/blog/cosmo-sp
What defines a correct program? What education makes a good programmer? The answer depends on what culture of programming you subscribe to!
This has been a long time in the making, but my open access book on the history of programming is available for pre-order!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
A production rack–up for several months–suddenly had all service processors become unresponsive. Last week, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by the Oxide team that investigated the issue--and discovered its surprising root cause!
Like everything I've seen from Oxide, this is very well done.
