Ben Leonard

Today we're announcing our $445M Series D and announcing that we've reached profitability. Huge thanks to Eclipse for leading the round, which included participation from existing investors USIT, Jane Street, Riot Ventures, Intel Capital, Friends and Family Capital, and Counterpart Ventures.

Some artwork prep for upcoming event. I've always had the habit of choosing colours that cannot be mistaken for the final artwork to avoid print mistakes.

Little @oxide.computer brand refresh

Experimenting with the ability to write and edit ASCII animation scripts in our brand asset tool using a MCP server

Experimenting with a Figma plugin that generates two overlapping aligned grids. A 12-column layout grid and a full-bleed ASCII grid so that illustrative text and content are aligned to the same baselines.

On this week's Oxide and Friends, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by @benleonard.bsky.social to talk about the amazing Oxide rack explorer (explorer.oxide.computer) he designed, turning CAD models into a 3D interactive site.

Added the ability to load templates from GitHub Gists with our little ASCII tool: mitos.shared.oxide.computer?gist=35b5b8b...

@oxide.computer CLI keyring

explorer.oxide.computer

Web 3d explorer for @oxide.computer. Built in three.js/r3f. Tonnes of little interactions and details in this. Poke around, and take a look at the guided tours. explorer.oxide.computer

The poster of this year Lyon's Algorave is out ! Printed using risograph thanks to Eidamned and Ralt144mi. If you are in France around May 2nd, book the date for a blast of a night with 44 artists for 12 hours of live coding performances ! #textmode #pixelart #poster #livecoding #algorave

Interactive 3d explorer with React Three Fiber. Worked with an artist to fix the topology and reduce the size of the CAD model. Custom LUT to more closely match the colour grade of the renders.

Amongst other things, I am MUCH better at coding and making software having worked with David all this time.

hello. are you an incredibly good UI designer? want to work with people who will love and respect your work and your process? want to make $250k (same as every other employee) and work fully remote? take a look

The height of this container is responsive but I wanted to create a `#` border without any partial characters. Discovered I could use `round(up, 100%, 1lh)` to round up to the nearest multiple of the mono char line height.

Happy New ASCII Blog Header Day (for those who celebrate) oxide.computer/blog/our-200...

For those doing any sort of semi-automated colour or theme management – any workflow recommendations? Fixed contrast ratios results in dull green/yellows, but something like HSLuv washes out the other colours. Any approach better than rough generation then manually nudging by eye from there?

cool job at a very special computer company - write TypeScript and Rust - everyone makes $235k - fully remote - everything is open source

Been fun collaborating on a web 3d rack explorer UI for @oxide.computer with @krystianzun.com. It always feels a little magic to have shared state between the main UI and the canvas so the user can interact with either. Placeholder content and rack model coming soon.

The soul of a new machine

Little responsive type scale tip with @tailwindcss, you can use container query units to scale your text in relation to the container size e.g. `font-size: 8.75cqw;`. In this case, I want the padding to be uniform regardless of screen size. tailwindcss.com/docs/respons...

Super simple Figma plugin that generates realistic mock content based on layer names with special patterns. github.com/oxidecompute...

Business cards for @oxide.computer Front: Single colour custom matched digital Pantone + hit of white Back: Oxide logo blind deboss Colorplan Racing Green duplex 2 x 270gsm Die cut rounded corners 2mm Printed by www.with-print.co.uk

Last week, we were treated to an extraordinary talk internally at @oxide.computer. It was at once an expository talk of a complicated software system and an experience talk of developing systems software in the large -- and it was far too good to keep to ourselves! oxide.computer/blog/systems...

Here's a technique I've used previously to implement noisy gradients at almost 1/10th of the file size (noise compresses very badly). Essentially splitting it into two layers; base blurry colour image, and a repeating noise image overlayed on top with a CSS blend mode. codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/wy...

🎉We raised $100M USD in our Series B financing. Thank you to USIT for leading this round, to our existing investors for their participation, and to our team, customers, and community for getting us to where we are today! oxide.computer/blog/our-100...