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Bryan Cantrill

@bcantrill.bsky.social

Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.

16,383 Followers  |  660 Following  |  3,848 Posts  |  Joined: 28.04.2023  |  2.3448

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God, he is SUCH an asshole.

03.02.2026 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reminder that this is today: join @booch.com, @ahl.bsky.social and me at 5p Pacific for what promises to be a lively and wide-ranging discussion!

02.02.2026 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(Much) more on Sky Station International here: lynceans.org/wp-content/u...

31.01.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Passage from "Eccentric Orbits" mentioning Sky Station International

Passage from "Eccentric Orbits" mentioning Sky Station International

That feeling when you're reading a book and something is mentioned casually in passing that you would gladly read another book on

31.01.2026 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not too late to edit, @edzitron.com!

30.01.2026 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

brb updating my bio

30.01.2026 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Look, it's been a long six months.

29.01.2026 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Good on you for not letting MechaHitler be lost to the dustbin of internet history -- it is our responsibility to younger generations to bear witness!

29.01.2026 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Notorious child murderer and creator of pedophilic technology launches new threat against children everywhere

29.01.2026 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 116    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

Robotic help for caregivers, sure -- but robots AS caregivers?! I mean, especially from this guy of course, but honestly any guy. Feels like there's something tautological here in that any human broken enough to suggest this is not someone you would trust to look after your own kids?

29.01.2026 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is at once totally unhinged and yet deeply revealing.

29.01.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sorry, Elon, nobody wants your robot babysitting their kids Elon Musk proposes the exact wrong job for his Optimus robot

Amazingly, he seems to have actually claimed this in 2024 -- and glad to see that some caught it and reacted appropriately www.techradar.com/computing/so...

29.01.2026 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Quote from a CNBC story about Tesla halting production of car models to focus its work on Optimus, "an intelligent robot capable of everything from factory work to babysitting."

Quote from a CNBC story about Tesla halting production of car models to focus its work on Optimus, "an intelligent robot capable of everything from factory work to babysitting."

Capable of everything from factory work to... wait, what?!

29.01.2026 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4
576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD / Oxide

The Oxide RFD on using LLMs is exceptionally well written (h/t @bcantrill.bsky.social). This is a more coherent idea of what writing/text/language *is* and what's it's for---and why its expedited manufacture won't invalidate all aspects of that ontology---than a good chunk of the humanist hysterics.

28.01.2026 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide
YouTube video by Bryan Cantrill Leaping the chasm from proprietary to open: A survivor's guide

In 2015, several years after that (in)famous talk, I revisited both the talk and some of Oracle's bad behavior in the intervening years www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpnn...

27.01.2026 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Not Neil Patrick Harris?

27.01.2026 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

At the risk of being self-aggrandizing: if there is Hater's Guide to Oracle being written, it feels like I should at least be on the shortlist to write the foreword?

27.01.2026 03:56 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 0
Join the Oxide Computer Company & Friends Discord Server! The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 4841 members

No Oxide and Friends today, BUT...

Next week @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by software engineering pioneer @booch.com to talk about the past, present, and (especially!) future of software engineering. Join us, 5p Pacific next Monday!

discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

27.01.2026 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Even ICE wants to abolish ICE

26.01.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Marzipan at Shloss Dagstuhl

Marzipan at Shloss Dagstuhl

MARZIPAN SECURED

20.01.2026 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NEWS I CAN USE!

20.01.2026 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hardware/Software Co-design: Motivations and reflections with respect to security My talk at a Dagstuhl seminar in January 2026 ("Trustworthy System Architectures for the Age of Custom Silicon"). Talk was not recorded.

I am currently at a Dagstuhl seminar (my first!), "Trustworthy System Architectures for the Age of Custom Silicon." Slides for
talk yesterday (not recorded, unfortunately): speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/so...

20.01.2026 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And yes, we’re hiring!

oxide.computer/careers

17.01.2026 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
Screenshot from our website showing our salary now at $250,000

Screenshot from our website showing our salary now at $250,000

At @oxide.computer, we pride ourselves on terse performance reviews: we have exceeded expectations!

17.01.2026 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 162    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5

There are two different questions there for @ahl.bsky.social and me: the challenges of difficult people -- and of remote work. On the former: we try to not have that problem by hiring very, very carefully -- and we will err on the side of discarding people where we fear that they are difficult.

16.01.2026 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of Gas Town, showing the fox as a mayor

Screenshot of Gas Town, showing the fox as a mayor

The Mayor!

16.01.2026 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Socks that say "Zero Fox Given"

Socks that say "Zero Fox Given"

Wearing my Gas Town socks today

15.01.2026 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Boot the Dog will thank you to not so demean him!

15.01.2026 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can't stop thinking about how bonkers this is -- it's like Urbit as imagined by Richard Scarry

14.01.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0

Like, this is performance art, right?

14.01.2026 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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