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Published: April 14, 2026 17:34

I feel like a million bucks

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Published: April 13, 2026 18:27

With my apologies, today is the final Monday of The Year of Many Spring Breaks: between our families, @ahl.bsky.social and I have FIVE different spring break calendars this year -- with no overlap! So no podcast today, but back next week with guest…

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Published: April 13, 2026 17:10

I... think he might actually believe this? Which is a real testament to his extraordinary combination of narcissism, stupidity, and dementia! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: April 12, 2026 18:31

The peril of laziness lost https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-laziness-lost/

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Published: April 9, 2026 17:15

OH at @oxide.computer: "It's remarkably hard to explain to people what is it that we do, despite the fact that what we do is actually quite simple."

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Published: April 6, 2026 15:03

No Oxide and Friends today: @ahl.bsky.social's UConn Huskies are in the NCAA basketball championship tonight, and all Nutmeggers find themselves at last united in common cause -- transcending the Munson-Nixon line that has so long divided them. Go Whalers…

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Published: April 5, 2026 18:24

I LOL'd

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Published: April 5, 2026 00:00

Cleaning out the garage -- and looks like I found a new decoration for the Oxide office

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Published: March 31, 2026 00:14

Discord always gives me the troubling feeling that I am an adult in a space meant for children -- or perhaps just an adult in a space meant for Millennials?

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Published: March 30, 2026 15:29

Oxide and Friends is back, at a special time! @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by Oxide engineers Andrew Stone and Finch Foner to talk about how we build a quorum of trust in the distributed system that is the Oxide rack. Join us today at 2p…

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Published: March 25, 2026 21:29

RIP Tracy Kidder, who inspired so many of us, and gave us permission to feel unapologetic passion for our chosen craft https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2019/02/10/reflecting-on-the-soul-of-a-new-machine/

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Published: March 23, 2026 18:11

I have been more or less silent on the dumpster fire formerly known as Twitter, and even though the algorithm will prevent anyone from seeing it, I felt this needed to be said...

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Published: March 23, 2026 13:26

Our spring break continues for one more week: @ahl.bsky.social and I are out for Oxide and Friends today -- but we'll be back next Monday!

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Published: March 11, 2026 17:21

Over my three decades working here, I have always found that the billboards in the Bay Area tell us something about the current zeitgeist -- but these ads feel particularly on point

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Published: March 6, 2026 00:43

Look, I know this line of thinking can be overly reductive, BUT HOLY SHIT CARTA, YOU HAVE ONE JOB

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Published: March 5, 2026 02:56

What is the most stressful sport/position to watch as a parent of an athlete? Or rather: what is the second most after being the parent of a pitcher?

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Published: March 4, 2026 18:17

My conversation with @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social definitely hit some interesting spots, which my 18-year-old observed with characteristic bluntness... [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: March 2, 2026 20:43

We hear of "nine nines" of uptime as a goal for a system, but today @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to be joined by the @oxide.computer team to talk about a subsystem that had that uptime -- and how it wasn't nearly enough. Join us for a wild, multi-year…

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Published: March 2, 2026 16:32

I really enjoyed this wide-ranging conversation with @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social, in which we talked about my biggest regrets (and hoo-boy there's an easy one!) -- and why @oxide.computer is not active on the bird site…

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Published: February 23, 2026 20:25

People say that @oxide.computer is a podcasting company that built a computer for content generation, but we also use funding milestones for content generation: join @ahl.bsky.social, @sdtuck.bsky.social and me today at 5p Pacific as we talk about our…

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Published: February 16, 2026 21:16

When looking for something else, I stumbled across this deck for an internal presentation I gave at Sun in 2003 -- one that I believe to be the first that formally tied our work in DTrace to the more abstract idea of software observability…