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

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

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1518629059427569794

Oxide 3D Explorer

Explore the Oxide Cloud Computer in 3D. Navigate from rack to sleds to CPUs with guided tours of the components that make up the Cloud Computer.

Oxide 3D Explorer

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.

https://youtu.be/mdcu3dKMjyg

Oxide and Friend 6/8/2026 -- The Hardest Kind of Unsafe Rust

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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

@efraim @bcantrill well… we’re still looking for the sound files on old laptops

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.

https://youtu.be/sF0xVSenfGk

Oxide and Friends 4/27/2028 -- Mechanical Engineering at Oxide

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@cjek420 @bcantrill exactly. Wait. Have you shopped at Walmart?

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

Join the Oxide Computer Company & Friends Discord Server!

The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 4965 members

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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!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1488196531852152873

Join the Oxide Computer Company & Friends Discord Server!

The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 4965 members

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO-tcU2a4vU

Oxide and Friends 2/23/2026 -- Oxide's $200M Series C

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