As promised! @gregore.in joins @ahl.bsky.social and me tomorrow (Monday) at noon Pacific (9p in Europe) to discuss. Join us!
discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

I am -- as @adamhjk.me predicts -- firmly in what he calls "camp two", but this delightfully bonkers piece is very much worth reading.

I took it off of a dead man

Enough DDR5 to pay for a house

I feel like a million bucks

With my apologies, today is the final Monday of The Year of Many Spring Breaks: between our families, @ahl.bsky.social and I have FIVE different spring break calendars this year -- with no overlap! So no podcast today, but back next week with guest @gregore.in to discuss the peril of laziness lost!

I... think he might actually believe this? Which is a real testament to his extraordinary combination of narcissism, stupidity, and dementia!

The trifecta!

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

Bingo! (Though not necessarily an office -- unless you work out of a data center.)

OH at @oxide.computer: "It's remarkably hard to explain to people what is it that we do, despite the fact that what we do is actually quite simple."

No Oxide and Friends today: @ahl.bsky.social's UConn Huskies are in the NCAA basketball championship tonight, and all Nutmeggers find themselves at last united in common cause -- transcending the Munson-Nixon line that has so long divided them. Go Whalers -- and see you next week!

Tweet that is a parody of Trump Truth Social post

I LOL'd

A 1990s-era map from the third floor of Sun's MPK17 building (now a part of Meta)

Cleaning out the garage -- and looks like I found a new decoration for the Oxide office

Oxide and Friends 3/30/2026 -- Building a Quorum of Trust in the Oxide Rack YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company

The @oxide.computer rack contains within it a distributed system that needs to trust itself. But how is this trust built? This week, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by colleagues Andrew and Finch to explore how Trust Quorum was designed, built, and verified.

Why the obsession with Diet Coke? FAQ Wednesday #1

A virtio-socket packet flow between guest and host generated by DTrace probes and pretty printed by jq.

Debugging an issue for work and I forgot how powerful it is to return json from a DTrace probe. This is tracking a virtio-socket packet flow between guest and host.

Millennials, then.

A dialogue box from Discord upon logging in that wonders if I might want to "bring guild back together" for "a new World of Warcraft expansion."

Discord always gives me the troubling feeling that I am an adult in a space meant for children -- or perhaps just an adult in a space meant for Millennials?

Oxide and Friends is back, at a special time! @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by Oxide engineers Andrew Stone and Finch Foner to talk about how we build a quorum of trust in the distributed system that is the Oxide rack. Join us today at 2p Pacific/5p Eastern! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

It actually reminds me of an old Billy Crystal bit, retelling when his (then) teenager exclaimed "Paul McCartney was in another group before Wings?!"

WAT

Very much thinking of you and your family today -- and I do wish that the NYT obit had spoken of his and your father's friendship (or of your father at all), which I think is helpful context to put SOANM in perspective

RIP Tracy Kidder, who inspired so many of us, and gave us permission to feel unapologetic passion for our chosen craft bcantrill.dtrace.org/2019/02/10/r...

Yes, there are plenty of shitheads in Silicon Valley -- but they are also the ones pledging to leave California. (Good riddance!)

A tweet -- or whatever a tweet is called now -- saying that anti-trans locales will never displace Silicon Valley

I have been more or less silent on the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter, and even though the algorithm will prevent anyone from seeing it, I felt this needed to be said...

Bystanders may think you're joking, but you and I both know that you're deadly serious

Our spring break continues for one more week: @ahl.bsky.social and I are out for Oxide and Friends today -- but we'll be back next Monday!

WOW -- no! This... feels like progress? I don't know if this article is directly related to the perspective that we (bluntly) conveyed to them, but the dates do line up...

Code Rabbit ad at Montgomery BART in San Francisco

Over my three decades working here, I have always found that the billboards in the Bay Area tell us something about the current zeitgeist -- but these ads feel particularly on point

A report from someone using Carta about getting SSNs wrong

Look, I know this line of thinking can be overly reductive, BUT HOLY SHIT CARTA, YOU HAVE ONE JOB