OxF 2025 Wrap-Up

Bryan and Adam reflect on Oxide and Friends in 2025--favorite moments, episodes, and images. Happy new year and see you in 2026!
Your hosts are Bryan Cantrill (bsky.app/profile/bcantrill.bsky.social) and Adam Leventhal (bsky.app/profile/ahl.bsky.social).
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
• RFD 576: Using LLMs at Oxide (rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576) (hacker news comments (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178347))
• OxF: Oxide and Friends 6/2/2025 -- AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik (youtube.com/watch?v=rOIDw38CEu8) (around 1:08:00)
• Shell Game podcast (shellgame.co/podcast)
• OxF s05e12 – Hell is other networks (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/hell-…) — April 4, 2025• "No Egress" was a ChatGPT joke!

• OxF s05e33 – A Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/grown…) — November 26, 2025
• Simpsons scene deleted in syndication (simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/scg-8.txt#:~:text…)
• OxF s05e29 – AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-in…) — October 17, 2025
• OxF s05e28 – Systems Software in the Large (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/syste…)
• OxF s05e18 – AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben Shindel (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/ai-ma…)
• OxF s04e21 – Adventures in Data Corruption (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/adven…)
• "Duck season, Fire!" (youtube.com/watch?v=9-k5J4RxQdE)
• MLG Airhorn aka "the jj airhorn"
• OxF s05e31 – Futurelock (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/futur…)
• Laura's blog post: A disappearing Service Processor (oxide.computer/blog/cosmo-sp)
• OxF s05e34 – Death by Uptime (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/death…)
• "Painfully concrete" - ChatGPT
• OxF s05e03 – Holistic Engineering with Robert Mustacchi (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/holis…)
• OxF s05e30 – RIP USENIX ATC (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/rip-u…)• Team DTrace meets Dennis Richie, redux

• "Fart Boy"
• OxF s05e?? – Books in the Box V (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/books…) — The latest annual book recommendation episode.
• Oxide Bingo by John Holloway (oxide.bingo)
• OxF s05e16 – Scaling Manufacturing (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/scali…)
• OxF s05e22 – Founder vs. Investor (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/found…)
• OxF s05e27 – Character Limit (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/chara…)
• Stretch goal for 2026: finally a C&D
• OxF s05e24 – Diving In (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/divin…)
• Bryan's blog: College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long Maybe (bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/06/15/college-baseba…)
• OxF s03e31 – Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/hirin…)
• OxF s04e06 – Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/cruci…)• "Don't worry, Alan, no one will listen" -> one of our most popular episodes

• OxF s04e23 – RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/rfds-…)
• 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..." (youtube.com/watch?v=n5fQMiPJ_PM)
• OxF s05e16 – Solutions Software Engineering with Matthew Sanabria (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/solut…)
• Alexander Hamilton: amazing. Also the world's pre-eminent subtweeter and blogger?
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar (calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/c_318925f418…). We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!