Much of the work at Oxide goes into hardware and software used to build and test the eventual product. Bryan and Adam were joined by Ian, Doug, and Nathanael to talk about "Minibar", a rig for connecting up an Oxide server (code name: Gimlet) for manufacturing and internal use. Triumphs and catastrophes including stabbing a connector with a guide pin and bringup mishaps!

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers included Ian Sobering, Doug Wibben, and Nathanael Huffman,

Some other, related Oxide and Friends

• OxF: Cabling the Backplane
• OxF: The Network Behind the Network
• OxF: The Power of Protoboards

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Intel has a new CEO! And it's Lip-Bu Tan. We had assumed it would not be Lip-Bu--he was such a clear front-runner that the more time passed the less likely it seemed it would be him... and yet! Bryan and Adam were joined by Reuter's Max Cherney to discuss.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our esteemed guest was Max Cherney; we were also joined by Bryan Russett, and Alex Kesling.

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

• Cooking with Oxide and Friends
• The Oxide John von Neumann bust
• Intel's new CEO plots overhaul of manufacturing and AI operations
• Lip-Bu Tan: Remaking Our Company for the Future
• Intel oneAPI
• Morris Chang: "A very discourteous fellow"

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Recently, a change to a utility in the Rust toolchain changed behavior in a way that impacted users. Rather than being a story of frustration and aspersions, it was a story of a community working... and working well together! Bryan and Adam were joined by Dirkjan Ochtman (of the rustup team) and Steve Klabnik to discuss.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest, Dirkjan Ochtman, and treasured colleague, Steve Klabnik.

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

• Steve: A Happy Day For Rust
• PRs needed!

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Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleagues Andrew, Rain, and John to talk about creating a general purpose crate for diffing structures. More generally, how do you know when something new is needed? How do you know when the investment of time to validate an idea is warranted? Software engineering is hard! (And also: general enthusiasm for Rust macros.)

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Andrew Stone, Rain Paharia, and John Gallagher.

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

• Checking in on Bryan's 1 Year Intel CEO prediction
• Hiring letter to Intel's co-CEO
• From The Register "Re-hire Gelsinger!"
• Oxide RFD 457: Control plane sled lifecycle
• Oxide RFD 459: Control plane component lifecycle
• daft crate
• diffus crate

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The value of transparency in engineering can have huge benefits--nothing can compare to the momentum of an enthusiastic community! Bryan and Adam discuss the value of transparency at the hardware/software interface with Oxide colleague, Ryan Goodfellow. Transparency can be scary--especially in the hardware domain where secrecy is the norm--but once we knock down some of those fears, the business benefits start to emerge.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Ryan Goodfellow.

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

• Oxide RFD 552: Transparency in Hardware/Software Interfaces
• Belling the cat
• openSIL
• Kerckhoff's principle
• PRs needed!

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Randy Shoup joined Bryan, Adam, and the Oxide Friends to look at the history of Silicon Valley through the lens of Randy's 50 years--as the child of graphics legend, Dick Shoup; an intern at Intel; aspiring diplomat; engineering leader; and father to the next generation of Shoup engineers.

Ratatui is a Rust framework for building rich--and incredible--UIs in the terminal. Bryan and Adam were joined by Orhun Parmaksız, who leads the project, to discuss the glory--as well as the ubiquity and utility!--of TUIs.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Orhun Parmaksız. We were also joined by slightly-less-special guests Andrew Stone, Rain Paharia, and Josh Clulow.

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

• Ratatui
• Orhun's blog
• Orhun's FOSDEM 2025 talk (YT) or (fosdem.org) with slides link etc.
• Minitel
• Minitel rust stack
• ratatui on Minitel
• Spotify player tui
• Discord TUI
• Orhun: tui-rs to ratatui transition blog post
• OxF: Oxide's ratatui based configuration
• tui-rs
• OxF: Describing the Oxide management network
• Ratzilla
• Terminal Collective
• tui web bub / art
• ratatui testing with snapshots
• rizzup
• tui-realm
• Asterion (game)

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DeepSeek was a disruptive surprise at the start of 2025--an open weights model trained at a fraction of the cost of previous models. Bryan and Adam were joined by Andy Hock and James Wang from Cerebras, whose wafer-scale silicon executes these models faster than is possible with any number of GPUs.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Andy Hock, and James Wang, both of Cerebras.

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

• interactive inference with Cerebras
• 100x Defect Tolerance: How Cerebras Solved the Yield Problem
• Tweet from Eric Meijer
• Ouroborus
• Quine Relay
• Simon Willison’s Weblog when DeepSeek fell from space
• Tweet from Naveen Rao

BONUS

• MST3K archive

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In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleague, Robert Mustacchi.

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

• Experiences Porting KVM to SmartOS
• Meltdown and Spectre
• Robert's "Big Theory Statement" for MAC
• Robert's "Big Theory Statement" for cpuid
• AGESA
• OxF: Put the OS back in OSDI
• Oxide RFD 63: Network Architecture
• Oxide RFD 82: Motivations and Principles for the Design of Operator Facilities
• Oxide RFD 88: Chassis Management Responsibility Allocation

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Love Rust? Us too. One of its great strengths is its ecosystem of crates. Rain, Eliza, and Steve from the Oxide team join Bryan and Adam to talk about the crates we love.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Rain Paharia, Eliza Weisman, and Steve Klabnik.

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

• prettyplease
• winnow
• Blessed.rs crate list
• Adam's codegen template
• miette
• eliza_error
• serde_path_to_error
• ratatui
  • Ratatui episode on January 27th!
• modular-bitfield
• lexopt
• loom
• OxF: Software Verificationpalooza
• CDSCHECKER: Checking Concurrent Data Structures Written with C/C++ Atomics
• The Postcard Wire Format
• postcard
• BBQueue Explained [video]
• petgraph
• U2
• MatrixGraph in petgraph::matrix_graph
• What does ## (double hash) do in a preprocessor directive? - Stack Overflow
• samitbasu/rhdl: A Hardware Description Language based on the Rust Programming Language
• httpmock
• camino
• OxF: The episode formerly known as ℔
• OxF: Dijkstra's Tweetstorm - YouTube
• evmap
• buf-list

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