Adam Leventhal

Pretty grim footnote to West's career that he ended up serving the richest man in the world's successful attempt to restore white nationalism to the US government.

Long time oxide and friends listeners will recognize…

It’s a call in show! Join or it’s going to be a short episode!!

petit four for You Can See Everything

We should maximize the amount of proof we can get out of AI while the money cannon is on. It's like early days of Uber, except the benefits are 100x more tangible. A fully-verified hw+sw stack? That's like gold everyone can share w/out having to divide. Generational opportunity.

New Oxide and Friends on the pod for your weekend

“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time.” ― Carl Sagan

While some folks are out there using 4 as their private key, the @oxidecomputer.bsky.social key ceremony is quite a bit more elaborate and--many would argue--more secure. On Monday Oxide's Philip Tricca joined me and @bcantrill.bsky.social to describe how we create and store this critical secret.

Is this a known amazon inspect source easter egg?

TIL a delightful legal term of art: a big-boy letter en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_boy...

In the middle of an exhausting semester I’m just 😵‍💫🤬☠️ to see announcement today from provost’s office that they have entered into a formal arrangement with Anthropic while a bunch of us faculty are literally still awaiting settlement from Anthropic because THEY STOLE OUR SCHOLARSHIP 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Spoiler, more people did not learn about the documentary:

How do we prevent a bad actor from spoofing Oxide? Today, @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to explore the unseen anchorage for our root of trust -- and pay respects to the dot matrix printers that gave their short lives in the process. Join us, 5p Pacific today! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

Maybe this is sincere but it sure smells like bullshit

Had almost—but not quite—enough Oxide and Friends? Perfect. The latest episode is now up on the pod. share.transistor.fm/s/867a87b6

More Oxide and Friends for your weekend. The usual hacker news commentary with @bcantrill.bsky.social and @sdtuck.bsky.social, and--for the first time--bonus tax, debt, and credit talk with Scott Orn.

At least she has her career as a lawyer to fall back on.

This sounds cool. Unfortunately, the blog post appears to be very very far ahead of the implementation.

In what is certainly not our coldest of opens, please join me and @bcantrill.bsky.social. Bathroom break in progress...

Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...

Troy Jackson: "Elon Musk is running ads for you. In fact, they're running ads in Portland, Oregon, for you. But you also got an ad where you use a Teamster official saying that he supports you. He's asked you for a cease and desist."

Someone tell me it’s not 1999 because 👇👇👇👇👇👇

Last week's Oxide and Friends is up; thanks to @noahharlan.bsky.social for joining (and apologies for the delay getting it out!)

Two years ago I was shocked by all these SDK codegen companies. Now: Stainless—acquired by anthropic Fern—acquired by postman Liblab—acquired by postman Konfig—dead Speakeasy—pivot to AI control plane? APIMatic—still plugging along

Morning wildlife photography

Don't worry: we'll have him test the passenger sides tomorrow.

To "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.

Autoref-specialization is one of those really cool Rust tricks for which I was delighted to find a pragmatic use! ahl.dtrace.org/2026/10/11/p...

The JSON Schema folks have a pretty comprehensive test suite. I vibe coded a conformance suite for typify, and some code generators in a few languages; pretty neat!

Interesting read from 2025. I particularly like the description of using a Markov chain to distinguish data (map keys) from member names (structured object).

Every well designed spreadsheet needs adequate parking (with surprising additions)

8 time Texas HS football state champion coach knows what’s at stake this November.

DO NOT CONGRATULATE

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

I think of this almost every day when talking to a computer

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Chaturbate for agents is inevitable. DM if you want to be part of our seed round

The Alito Op-ed in the WSJ on originalism (adapted from his book) is really remarkable. www.wsj.com/opinion/just...

The trolls on maker world show no mercy

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

Lost a large bet that it would be “American Intelligence”

It me

I had Claude extract the comments from my old wordpress blog. This one was fun to remember ahl.dtrace.org/2016/06/19/a...

“You've waited all summer long!” 31 years ago today, September 17, 1995, “Who Shot Mr. Burns (Part Two)” first aired on the Fox network. Guest starring Tito Puente as himself. #TheSimpsons

I work in an electronics-assembly adjacent company, and at one point in the depths of 2022 disruptions, we were buying lots of critical items off of ebay.