Bryan and Adam look back on the year of Oxide and Friends episodes, reflecting on favorite shows, moments, and (at length) cover images.

Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Oxide and Friends 2024 in Images
• OxF: Musing With Changelog's Adam Stacoviak
• OxF: I know this!
• OxF: What's taking so long?
• XKCD: Dependency
• OxF: Discovering the XZ Backdoor with Andres Freund
• Making the background image
• OxF: Open Source LLMs with Simon Willison
• OxF bonus blather 9/16/2024
• OxF: Cultural Idiosyncrasies
• OxF: Technical Blogging
• OxF: RFDs: the Backbone of Oxide
• OxF: RTO or GTFO
• OxF: Unshrouding Turin
• OxF: Adversarial Machine Learning
• OxF: Innovation Stagnation
• OxF: Heterogeneous Computing with Raja Koduri

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