Nothing like a meeting with a bunch of @oxide.computer folks to raise one's spirits

Release 20 is LIVE & bringing even more network performance. Jumbo frame support for external networks ( already used internally) raises instance MTU from 1500 to 8500 bytes, substantial for network IO-intensive workloads, plus additional self-service update and block storage services goodness.

@mplsnightmayor.bsky.social I passed this during my ride today, and it seemed relevant to your interests: www.google.com/maps/@44.330...

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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An update on @ersc.io availability #jj-vcs ersc.io/blog/ersc-av...

This is a BIG one that enables our customers to expand the types of workloads they land on the Cloud Computer. Read more here: buff.ly/4EGrUq6

On the @oxide.computer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl.bsky.social) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...

Deep Blue

We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many …

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We raised a $200M Series C, now we're putting it to work. New compute sleds with the latest AMD EPYC CPUs are coming. We're also working with Xsight Labs on next-gen switch silicon with a fully open instruction set architecture (ISA). The Register has the details: buff.ly/6ghM2b6

Oxide plans new rack attack with Zen 5 CPUs, DDR5

: Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works

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this guy gets it

Our $200M Series C oxide.computer/blog/our-200...

Our $200M Series C / Oxide

Raising our Series C round of financing

oxide.computer

I wanted to explore LLM coding capabilities, and had a low-stakes personal project in mind: github.com/pfmooney/ad2...

GitHub - pfmooney/ad2cfp: ACME-DNS to Cloudflare Proxy

ACME-DNS to Cloudflare Proxy. Contribute to pfmooney/ad2cfp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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In case you're wondering if he's the real deal, Brewster often rushes down in a power event to personally power up servers on notifications from the staff.

Jason Scott@textfiles.com · 8mo ago

Another power outage in SF, affecting Internet Archive.

It's time for the State of Rust Survey! The Rust Project invites you to take this year’s survey, whether you have just begun using Rust, you consider yourself an intermediate to advanced user, or you have not yet used Rust but intend to one day 🦀

Launching the 2025 State of Rust Survey | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Every time I see physical attacks on TEEs, I wish someone would put out a position paper on @hdevalence.bsky.social 's "guy with a glock" model x.com/hdevalence/s...

rust-analyzer now fully uses the new trait solver! 🎉🎉 rust-analyzer.github.io/thisweek/202...

Proposal: any product from a vendor who's going to DMCA you for doing fun things with their product needs a sticker on the box saying that

🎉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...

Our $100M Series B / Oxide

Raising our Series B round of financing

oxide.computer

IMHO, make this the default, github: github.com/ghostty-org/...

Why users cannot create Issues directly · Issue #3558 · ghostty-org/ghostty

Users are not allowed to create Issues directly in this repository - we ask that you create a Discussion first. Unlike some other projects, Ghostty does not use the issue tracker for discussion or ...

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hello my talk is online now and you can watch it www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxGx... (it's pretty good IMHO)

Implicit Surfaces & Independent Research

YouTube video by Matt Keeter

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"lol" said GitHub, "lmao"

8am on Saturday and he's driven from his house to crouch behind one of the screaming machines in a server room helping diagnose an outage. Typical CEO shit Come for the grifters and the sociopaths, but Brewster is one of the good ones

We're excited to announce dtrace.conf(24), the premier unconference for all things DTrace! 🎉 📅 Date: December 11th, 2024 📍 Location: Emeryville, CA As an unconference, the agenda is driven by attendees. Come ready to actively participate! https://dtraceconf24.eventbrite.com

dtrace.conf(24)

Our (mostly!) quadrennial unconference on DTrace! (BYO topic!)

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I really, truly, wish Rust leadership would just stop trying to create more designs for radical changes in the language. And instead work on finishing things that were half started.

“#16555, #16692 speed up completions by considering coherence” (from rust-analyzer.github.io//thisweek/20...). I did a big chunk of that! At work, this halved the completion times at p50 and p75. At p95, it was roughly a 25% decrease.

Using `mem::take` to reduce heap allocations ferrous-systems.com/blog/rustls-... this post is wild, never used take on a slice before

You’ve probably heard that Mickey Mouse is moving into the public domain in 2024. What does that mean for reusing & remixing this iconic character in new works of art? Well, as Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain explains, it’s…complicated: web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/

Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle

by Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0 On January 1, 2024, after almost a century of copyright protection, Mickey Mouse, or at least a version of

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I present to you the TRUE story of the Minnesota State Flag.

Wow, sounds like this was quite an ordeal, @mmasnick.bsky.social ! Read This: "Getting an Itemized Hospital Bill Is Basically Impossible" www.thedailybeast.com/getting-an-i...

Getting an Itemized Hospital Bill Is Basically Impossible

How a minor bike accident and a few stitches turned into thousands of dollars in medical bills and a months-long quest for a straight answer from somebody—anybody.

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