The best tech podcast that I had chance to listen. Especially I like history episodes, like the fall of DEC. The only podcast that I often relisten.
Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries [video]
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Re: Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries [video]
#32I'm still catching up on the Oxide and Friends "birdsite"/"discord" recordings/podcast, and look forward to listening to this one in a few weeks (I save them for my walks in the big blue room).
In a time when tech is imploding under the weight of its own hype, the amazing retrospectives, history lessons and low-level hardware/software lore contained in that podcast has been the highlight of my days every. Single. Time.
It reminds me that there is a side to this industry that is still actually solving real problems (from testbench design to firmware/software supply chain and attestation) instead of just throwing GPUs at a problem and virtualizing an infinite number of monkeys to generate Shakespeare sonnets.
In these days of layoffs done to compensate for hyped investments and lack of strategic focus, it is a shining beacon of... actual engineering.
A minor sidenote, for those who probably care more about software: The podcast drew me back to Rust because, all of a sudden, here were these people who actually _reasoned out why_ it made sense, and had decades of expertise that allowed them to spell that out with actual examples.
But I really stuck around because of the low-level hardware discussions, and the history background (I just listened to the Optane episode yesterday, and although I knew some folk at Micron and understood why it had failed in general, the discussion was amazing).
(I'm a telco/hardware guy drifting inside the bowels of a cloud/software behemoth and dearly wish I could burn to the ground all the paperwork, ceremony and "strategic investments" that surrounds me and just go and do interesting stuff, so forgive me if this seems a bit much. If I can stay up late enough--I'm in Europe--I might try to join on Discord some day.)
Re: Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries [video]
#33Those are always fun to watch. I've been wondering, what's the plan at Oxide with the recent announcement from Intel about moving away from the Intel Tofino business? Are you still going to be using tofino 2 chips for the network?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34550969
Thanks for the link. Interesting, I know Intel said they'd continue to support it, but I don't remember for how long.
Re: Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries [video]
#34I felt a loss when the On the Metal podcast series wrapped up. I figured these Oxide guys now have too much real work to do, they won’t be able to keep up this podcast, even if it is the best tech podcast I’ve listened to. Bryan is an unbeatable host. If you love retro-computing or just the history of our industry in general, you will walk away learning something from anything he talks about. His quick wit and deep t…
Wow, those are incredibly kind and inspiring words -- thank you! The good news is that these are all made available via RSS wherever you get podcasts.[0] What I (we!) love about social audio is that it allows for many more voices -- both on the team here at Oxide and in the broader community. As a result, we've been able to get into some really deep detail with members of the team; I collected a few of my favorites i…
I missed the On the Metal podcast and hadn't noticed the Oxide and friends format until a few weeks ago. It just ended without any hint as to what if anything to expect next. I really enjoy it when the conversation goes of whatever script there may be, someone can't/won't stop and dives ever deeper into a topic or pet pieve/past trauma. It may not have the highest production quality (looking at you Twitter spaces), but who cares? Often times it feels like some random encounter in a hackspace (e.g. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi stop working as soon as someone mentions firmware bugs).