Bryan and Adam reflect on Oxide and Friends in 2025--favorite moments, episodes, and images. Happy new year and see you in 2026!
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
- RFD 576: Using LLMs at Oxide (hacker news comments)
- OxF: Oxide and Friends 6/2/2025 -- AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik (around 1:08:00)
- Shell Game podcast
- OxF s05e12 – Hell is other networks — April 4, 2025
- "No Egress" was a ChatGPT joke!
- OxF s05e33 – A Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug — November 26, 2025
- Simpsons scene deleted in syndication
- OxF s05e29 – AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman — October 17, 2025
- OxF s05e28 – Systems Software in the Large
- OxF s05e18 – AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel
- OxF s04e21 – Adventures in Data Corruption
- "Duck season, Fire!"
- MLG Airhorn aka "the jj airhorn"
- OxF s05e31 – Futurelock
- Laura's blog post: A disappearing Service Processor
- OxF s05e34 – Death by Uptime
- "Painfully concrete" - ChatGPT
- OxF s05e03 – Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi
- OxF s05e30 – RIP USENIX ATC
- Team DTrace meets Dennis Richie, redux
- "Fart Boy"
- OxF s05e?? – Books in the Box V — The latest annual book recommendation episode.
- Oxide Bingo by John Holloway
- OxF s05e16 – Scaling Manufacturing
- OxF s05e22 – Founder vs. Investor
- OxF s05e27 – Character Limit
- Stretch goal for 2026: finally a C&D
- OxF s05e24 – Diving In
- Bryan's blog: College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe
- OxF s03e31 – Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz
- OxF s04e06 – Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service
- "Don't worry, Alan, no one will listen" -> one of our most popular episodes
- OxF s04e23 – RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide
- Office Space: Michael Bolton as AI em-dash
- "This isn't nostalgia, it's epistemology" - ChatGPT
- "Weaponized weariness" - ChatGPT
- "Dry Fatalism" - ChatGPT
- "Cougar turned in his wings..."
- OxF s05e16 – Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria
- Alexander Hamilton: amazing. Also the world's pre-eminent subtweeter and blogger?
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