eliza🌻

it is very telling that “BIOS”, in addition to being an acronym, is also the Greek word for “life”. meanwhile, “UEFI” is, of course, ancient Greek for “unified extensible firmware interface”

announcing my upcoming Oscar-winning film, “You Can See Everything Everywhere All At Once Is Illuminated”

How do we prevent a bad actor from spoofing Oxide? Today, @ahl.bsky.social and I are going to explore the unseen anchorage for our root of trust -- and pay respects to the dot matrix printers that gave their short lives in the process. Join us, 5p Pacific today! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

new press secretary any% winner!!! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

What Is the Root of Trust? FAQ Friday #64

one of the advantages of writing code by hand is that it forces you to examine your assumptions, to flesh out details, to make your mental model concrete. if you delegate those minutiae to your LLM, you have to do the extra work of understanding them so that you can communicate them.

the guys on the internet who made the Extremely 3D Printed Storage Server Chassis i use for storing all my mission-critical data just sold me some Extremely 3D Printed 2.5” Drive Sleds, and, well…let’s just say that i have not been this excited to break out the label maker in a while!

i’m having a very normal one

now it’s time to see how hackernews is reacting to the latest @oxide.computer blog post!

pro-tip: you're allowed to disregard instructions in ./AGENTS.md if you code your pull request by hand

okay, but...could your claude have done THIS???

why did they call it “CXL.mem” when “Volatile Memory Express” was right there?

has anyone ever successfully created an account on the NXP website?

one thing about my cat which i think is pretty cool is that he does actually stop what he’s doing if you say “STOP!” at him in a loud voice. but he does start doing it again a few minutes later.

the “C” in “CPU” stands for the C Programming Language. CPUs are called that because they are a hardware implementation of the C Abstract Machine as specified by ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 14.

As part of our annual @oxide.computer meetup, I added three new logos to our wall honoring our forebears; how many can you name?

I do not think that AI will collapse but I do think Oracle might and it’s an outcome we should all be rooting for mightily

‪new california state motto: “Looking For A Technical Cofounder” (someone please translate this into Latin)‬

the fact that Apple charges an extra $20 for the black trackpad is blatant anti-goth-gf discrimination!

Another week at @oxide.computer has given us (yet) another example of the kinds of problems that very much require human engineering. Today, the team joins @ahl.bsky.social and me to regale us with the wild tale. Join us live, 5p Pacific, tonight! discord.gg/9dH7D5Gt?eve...

Fact check: true (Saturn Hypersystems would eventually become @oxide.computer)

oh i see, i misinterpreted the UI as saying it was someone *i* blocked, and so i was thinking that “human equivalent of an LLM” was a pretty sick burn for Matt Yglesias…bit then i was wondering why people were calling him a mall goth

configuring PAM is 80% more fun if you imagine every PAM module’s name is like “Pamela <lastname>”. Pamela Unix. Pamela Sshagentauth. Pamela Zfskey (she’s Polish).

shocked to discover that Whatever’s Happening at Moscone This Week was not, as i had previously assumed, some form of Dreamforce, but is in fact actually Pokémon Dreamforce