Bryan Cantrill
@bcantrill
Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
Reminded that invitations on LinkedIn could really use a "Get Restraining Order" button
We must be careful with our plans for BattleTris: the good people of Delaware hang in the balance
No podcast from @ahl.bsky.social and me this week, as we are both coming back from our college reunions (his 25th, my 30th) -- which we celebrated by resurrecting (and playing!) a local classic of that era. (And it's still fun as hell.)
Cleaning out the garage -- and looks like I found a new decoration for the Oxide office
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?
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...
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
Look, I know this line of thinking can be overly reductive, BUT HOLY SHIT CARTA, YOU HAVE ONE JOB
My conversation with @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social definitely hit some interesting spots, which my 18-year-old observed with characteristic bluntness...
Oracle's t-shirt about the quality of partner financing has people asking a lot of questions already answered by their shirt!
That feeling when you're reading a book and something is mentioned casually in passing that you would gladly read another book on
At @oxide.computer, we pride ourselves on terse performance reviews: we have exceeded expectations!
Added an "LLM shaming" section to RFD 576 rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576#_ll...
The state of LLMs in 2026, in all of its weird glory: at once impressive, disconcerting, acutely limited -- and unfailingly polite
A post to my future self, who may find this unbelievable: somehow, over a course of a decade, this dude managed to continue to shock and horrify -- that whenever you thought he could sink no lower, he found a way with some new act of unfathomable indecency. And he did it for A DECADE.
Reminder: Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/08/w...