| Pronouns | he/him |
| https://twitter.com/ahl | |
| Site | https://ahl.dtrace.org |
Recently, @oxidecomputer rolled out an eye-popping 3D rack explorer at https://explorer.oxide.computer/. Today, @ahl and I will be joined by designer extraordinaire, Ben Leonard, to describe the process behind realizing this dream of turning CAD drawings into something you can twirl on a website.
Join us at a special time: 2p Pacific/5p Eastenr/10p London
We love Rust for how much the compiler helps enforce safety. But sometimes it's up to us to uphold the complex--and often unclear--expectations of what constitutes safety on our own. Oxide colleague, @rain, joined me and @bcantrill to talk about the technical details of what it takes to impose safety on the hardest type of unsafe Rust.
Last week @bcantrill and I talked about the process of restoring a software project--BattleTris--untouched and unbuilt in over 20 years! How did LLMs help restore code Bryan started in the mid-1990s and what does that teach us about developing and maintaining software in the future?
youtube.com/watch?v=mfulfhTWTQA
Last week, @bcantrill and I were joined by members of the Oxide mechanical engineering team to talk the mechanical challenges of building a rack-scale computer, and--in particular--of scaling manufacturing from just a few racks to hundreds.
LLMs are changing every aspect of higher education, but perhaps none more so than computer science, where LLMs inflame the age-old tension between the thrill of building and the importance of first-principles understanding. Today, @ahl and I will be joined by Brown University CS professors Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi Fisler to talk about their experience teaching an agentic AI course -- and what it might bode for the future of CS education.
Join us, 5p Pacific today! https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1500866494588780544
Oxide and Friends is back, at a special time! @ahl 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!
Have you heard? Oxide raised a $200M Series C (on top of our $100M Series B 6 months earlier)! On this week's Oxide and Friends, @sdtuck and @bcantrill talk about the raise, and answer the wicked, wise, and simple questions from Hacker News.
On last night's Oxide and Friend, @bcantrill and I were so grateful to be joined by Evan Ratliff to discuss his incredible, mesmerizing podcast "Shell Game" in which he starts a company, staffed entirely by agentic AIs. I hope you enjoy the conversation half as much as we did!
Okay, listen up Oxide fam: on Monday, @ahl and I will be joined by Evan Ratliff and Maty Bohacek from the extraordinary Shell Game podcast -- which gives you the rest of the weekend to binge listen to it:
(Both seasons are terrific, but if you only have one to listen to between now, and then, check out Season 2.)
Join us for what promises to be a fun discussion: Monday, 5p Pacific!
Bryan Cantrill
Simon Willison
