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Oxide and Friends

by Oxide Computer Company
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Episode releases
#112#131#150#168#187Chart rankOct 18Oct 21Oct 24Oct 27#138Episode released Oct 18: Oxide's $445M Series DEpisode released Oct 24: Dead Printers Tell No Tales
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Oct 27#138#131
Oct 26#122#112
Oct 25#123#117
Oct 24#172#168
Oct 23#132#123
Oct 22#171#165
Oct 21#175#170
Oct 20#144#136
Oct 19#130#118
Oct 18#124#113
Oct 17#177#169

Latest episodes

  • Dead Printers Tell No Tales

    October 24, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    We've talked about Oxide's Root of Trust--the hardware underpinning the security of the product--but how do we keep a bad actor from spoofing Oxide to load malicious software? Philip Tricca joined Bryan and Adam to describe the key…

  • Oxide's $445M Series D

    October 18, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

    After raising $200M in February... we raised another $445M in July! Your favorite computer company is capitalized to the gills--enough to weather the supply chain upheaval even! Come for co-founders Steve and Bryan describing the raise…

  • Working on Wicked Problems

    October 16, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

    Wicked problems defy simple solutions. Even as we describe the problem, we may be presupposing particular solutions and narrowing scope. Our greatest, most persistent societal problems fit this model. Wicked problems may not be solvable…

  • For Want of a Resistor

    September 16, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

    When the supply chain crunch catches up with you, sometimes a tiny resistor the size of a fleck of pepper is the difference between a world-class computer and... e-waste. Members of the Oxide operations and electrical engineering teams…

  • Emulating Oxide: How Faux Can You Go?

    September 11, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

    We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording. How do you test configurations you haven't built yet? Steve, Andrew, and Rain join Bryan and Adam to talk about the…

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  • AI Detection with Max Spero

    September 3, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    More and more, people are relying on AI to do their writing for them. Is this the new normal, or the intellectual equivalent of claiming take-out is your own home cooking? Max Spero, founder and CEO of Pangram, joined Bryan and Adam to…

  • The Return to the Chamber of Mysteries

    August 25, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

    Oxide returns to the chamber... of EMC compliance to earn FCC approval to sell our next generation rack. Did it go smoothly? If it had, would there be a podcast episode? Oxide teammates Robert, Dan, and Stu join Bryan and Adam to discuss…

  • The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison

    July 31, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

    Simon Willison joined Bryan and Adam to discuss a wild couple of weeks in AI. First, we have a high-profile, AI-induced, AI-diagnosed security incident. Next we have the rise of frontier-class open-weights models. Who's for or against open…

  • The Past, Present, and Future of Digital Storytelling with Ramy Katrib

    July 23, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    Ramy Katrib has been at the forefront of digital storytelling for over 25 years, with his post-production company, DigitalFilm Tree, earning a reputation as one of Hollywood's most technically adventurous post-production houses. He joined…

  • The Oxide 3D Explorer

    June 27, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min

    Recently, Oxide rolled out an eye-popping 3D rack explorer at explorer.oxide.computer. Oxide's designer extraordinaire, Ben Leonard, joined Bryan and Adam to describe the process of turning CAD drawings into an interactive site. In…

  • The Hardest Kind of Unsafe Rust

    June 13, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min

    We love Rust for how much the compiler helps enforce safety. But sometimes it's up to us to uphold the complex--and often unclear--expectations of what constitutes safety on our own. Oxide colleague, Rain, joins Bryan and Adam to talk…

  • This Old Repo: LLMs and the Restoration of BattleTris

    June 9, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    Bryan and Adam discuss the process of restoring a software project--BattleTris--untouched and unbuilt in over 20 years! How did LLMs help restore code Bryan started in the mid-1990s and what does that teach us about developing and…

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About the show

Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join us live (usually Mondays at 5pm PT) https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB Subscribe to our calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f4185aa71c4524d0d6127f31058c9e21f29f017d48a0fca6f564969cd0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics