Ben Leonard

Super simple Figma plugin that generates realistic mock content based on layer names with special patterns.

github.com/oxidecompute...

You can get in on the next batch

I made the mistake of upgrading my Mac

I smell a giveaway

Ha! And I am afraid I don't know how heavy the glue is

540gsm in total 🪨

Business cards for @oxide.computer
Front: Single colour custom matched digital Pantone + hit of white
Back: Oxide logo blind deboss
Colorplan Racing Green duplex 2 x 270gsm
Die cut rounded corners 2mm

Printed by www.with-print.co.uk

Systems Software in the Large / Oxide An extraordinary talk on developing systems software in the large

Last week, we were treated to an extraordinary talk internally at @oxide.computer. It was at once an expository talk of a complicated software system and an experience talk of developing systems software in the large -- and it was far too good to keep to ourselves! oxide.computer/blog/systems...

If you buy a rack I’ll throw one in for free!

I didn't apply

And against all odds, two people of our intelligence made it into Oxide

You know it didn't real dawn on me until I stuck them down ha!

Backing card produced by dotstudio.xyz.
Silver foil text, coin impression deboss, screen printed ASCII pattern on GF Smith Wild Natural Brown 450gsm. Double-Sided Challenge Coin by www.madebycooper.co.uk.

Each year the @oxide.computer team comes together and meets at an internal conf. It's a good excuse to make something pretty. This year it's a coin, with a snapshot of our compute sled's PCB and modular logo.

Here's a technique I've used previously to implement noisy gradients at almost 1/10th of the file size (noise compresses very badly). Essentially splitting it into two layers; base blurry colour image, and a repeating noise image overlayed on top with a CSS blend mode.
codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/wy...

Thanks Jason!

Our $100M Series B / Oxide Raising our Series B round of financing

And of course, check out the announcement for yourself

oxide.computer/blog/our-100...

You can play with the ASCII animation script on our brand tool here: bsky.app/profile/benl...

The hardest part, perhaps unsurprisingly is the typography. Inspired by the capsize library, it trims the top and bottom space out of the title. Then we can set the leading and type size as a multiple of grid cell height, which itself is sized in relation to the ASCII char size

Happy to say that we've (@oxide.computer) raised $100M for our Series B ... which was a wonderful excuse to work on this little featured blog header ASCII element. With text trimming, responsive text sizing and funky SDF coins

Our $100M Series B / Oxide Raising our Series B round of financing

🎉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...

Like a static fallback?

oxide.computer/404

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Playing with more sophisticated code input bindings. Nested / object inputs. Uses regex so expecting some jank.

Try it here: mitos.shared.oxide.computer?template=coins

spin

Working through some ideas for a featured blog header, would be animated or interactive ASCII mixed with text aligned to the same baseline grid

That’s so nice to hear! I’m going to add more presets (you can select in the bottom left) as I add more little snippets. Recently been using it for release note images so I added a little number renderer. Also starting working on a way to interact with both image and code within the same canvas

"What's more hyper than hyper?"