Oxide and Friends

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, joins Bryan and Adam to talk about the technical details of what it takes to impose safety on the hardest type of unsafe Rust.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest star, Rain Paharia,
Previously on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
OxF s03e01 - Predictions 2023!
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Oxide Blog: iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust
PRs needed!
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Bryan and Adam discuss 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?
Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.
Previously on Oxide and Friends
OxF s03e24 - Fork in the road for Terraform?
OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
OxF s06e01 - Predictions 2026!!
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
BattleTris on github
Surge 2011 ~ Closing Plenary ~ Theo Schlossnagle
From the Governor of Delaware
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

Two years ago we introduced listeners to the Oakland Ballers, the startup returning baseball to the city of Oakland. Bryan and Adam were joined again by Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel to discuss the Ballers first two--highly successful--seasons, and to announce some exciting new collaborations between the Ballers and Oxide!
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Paul Freedman, Bryan Carmel, and Steve Tuck.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
OxF S4 E11: A Baseball Startup with Paul Freedman and Bryan Carmel
OxF S4 E7: Data Visualization
Bryan's blog: A parade in Oakland
Ballers x Oxide hackathon
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

Oxide ships a rack scale system--how to test the manufacturing of the backplane and switches? Previously we've been using a collection of sacrificial servers, but this was unwieldy, expensive, and unscalable--all big problems as we ramp up manufacturing to 100s a month! Enter "Reverso", an extremely simple test fixture, that uncovered an extremely complex bug.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Oxide colleagues, Robert "RFK" Keith, Adam "The Hammer" Suczewski, and Matt Keeter.
Previously, on Oxide and Friends:
OxF s01e26 - The Pragmatism of Hubris
OxF s01e24 - The Sidecar Switch
OxF s03e13 - The Network Behind the Network
OxF s05e23 - Adventures in Data Corruption
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
Adam Leventhal, Hardware Engineer
dendrite
Paddle-to-the-Sea
PRs needed!
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

AI is an existential topic for all aspects of education--for none more so than Computer Science. Bryan and Adam were joined by Kathi Fisler and Shriram Krishnamurthi, professors of Computer Science at Brown, to discuss their experimental introductory course that strongly incorporates agentic programming. What do students take away from their "smoke the whole pack" approach?
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Shriram Krishnamurthi, Kathi Fisler, and Will.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
OxF s5e29: AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman
Greenspun's tenth rule
Andy van Dam
Brown CS15 Tetris
Wesleyan Tetris
Generating Programs Trivially: Student Use of Large Language Models
Data-Centricity: A Challenge and Opportunity for Computing Education -- Shriram Krishnamurthi and Kathi Fisler
LLMs ⭢ Regular Expressions, Responsibly!
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!