Oxide and Friends Change Computing Forever
Change Computing Forever:
Computing is our shared passion; our calling is to advance the state of the art, bringing those advances to the broadest possible audience.
This is part of Oxide’s mission statement. I believe their podcast, Oxide and Friends, will have a bigger impact on computing than their rack scale computer.
Kramer: Do you ever yearn?
George: Yearn? Do I yearn?
Kramer: I yearn.
George: You yearn.
Kramer: Oh, yes. Yes, I yearn. Often, I… I sit… and yearn. Have you yearned?
Like Kramer, I yearn.
I consider myself a young technologist. I’ve been programming professionally for 1.5 years, recreationally for 4 years. I made the switch from finance into tech July 2021, well after everything had gone remote. Ever since, I felt something was missing.
I yearned for the lunchtime chats, spontaneous whiteboard sessions, after work drinks, and office games. The Oxide and Friends podcast has helped fill this gap, recreating these conversations I felt I was missing. A unique format where the podcast is live and listeners can participate in chat.
The topics span production war stories, hiring processes, culture, security incidents, baseball, silicon valley lore, heterogeneous computing, operating systems, rust and much much more.
The podcast has given me a new found interest in computing history, a greater appreciation for hardware and deepened my love for technology. Inspiring other technologists, that is how you change computing forever.
Not everyone can buy an Oxide computer but they can listen to Oxide and Friends.
Thank you to all those involved in making the Oxide and Friends podcast.