Adam Leventhal

@ahl
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Writing software at Oxide, mostly Rust, not too much
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Twitterhttps://twitter.com/ahl
Sitehttps://ahl.dtrace.org

On Monday, Ben Shindel joined me and @bcantrill on the latest Oxide and Friends Fraudcast. AI assisting materials researchers in ways that sounded too good to be true... for a reason!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRjRkYs0x9k

Oxide and Friends 5/19/2024 -- AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel

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It was a wild week for crooked AI! On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by Ben Shindel, who wrote a terrific piece on the fraud at MIT:

https://thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materials-and-fraud-oh-my

Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific for a discussion on AI, materials, and fraud!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1373775425725005874

AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!

The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm

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On last night's Oxide and Friends, @bcantrill and I discussed the end of USENIX ATC, reminiscing about our experiences there and its impact to the industry. @aka_pugs joined to dial the reminiscence back another couple of decades! https://youtu.be/kd6dIonsxUw
Oxide and Friends 5/12/2025 -- RIP USENIX ATC

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Last week, the USENIX association announced that they are discontinuing their flagship conference, USENIX ATC:

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/05/11/rip-usenix-atc/

Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I are going to talk about the demise of ATC. Come for the discussion on the intersection of academia with the practitioner; stay for the retelling of awkward encounters with Unix pioneers.

Join us today ,and bring your own memories of ATC! 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1371556074796220426

RIP USENIX ATC | The Observation Deck

Solutions Software Engineer / Oxide

Last night @sudomateo joined me and @bcantrill to talk about his role at Oxide--Solutions Software Engineer. It's a somewhat distinct role at the intersection of the Oxide product and customer requirements. Hear how Matthew got here... and what he does now! https://youtu.be/uY6YgNc7vkY
Oxide and Friends 5/5/2025 -- Solutions software engineering with Matthew Sanabria

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Our approach to solutions software engineering at @oxidecomputer may be seen by some as unusual; today @ahl and I will be joined by our colleague @sudomateo to talk about his experience -- and what drew him to Oxide. Join us, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1369015261574987818

Recorded and syndicated as always:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/

And note that we are hiring for this role; more details:

https://oxide.computer/careers/solutions-software-engineer

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Kerfuffle between the CNCF, one of its projects, and the company that contributed it? Sounds like a topic tailor-made for Oxide and Friends! @bcantrill and I were joined by @rstephensme and @adamhjk to discuss how we got here and possible outcomes. https://youtu.be/dYIgswVvIt0
Oxide and Friends 4/28/2025 -- Shootout at the CNCF Corral

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Attached: 1 image Honestly I can get behind this. #nbpy

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Hacker News 50 (@hn50@social.lansky.name)

ZFS: Apple's New Filesystem that wasn't (2016) Link: https://ahl.dtrace.org/2016/06/15/apple_and_zfs/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43810566 #apple

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