Bryan Cantrill

God, he is SUCH an asshole.

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!

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

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

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

brb updating my bio

Look, it's been a long six months.

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!

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

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?

It is at once totally unhinged and yet deeply revealing.

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...

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?!

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.

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...

Not Neil Patrick Harris?

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?

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!

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Even ICE wants to abolish ICE

Marzipan at Shloss Dagstuhl

MARZIPAN SECURED

NEWS I CAN USE!

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...

And yes, we’re hiring!

oxide.computer/careers

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!

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.

Screenshot of Gas Town, showing the fox as a mayor

The Mayor!

Socks that say "Zero Fox Given"

Wearing my Gas Town socks today

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

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

Like, this is performance art, right?