RFDs: The Backbone of Oxide

RFDs--Requests for Discussion--are how we at Oxide discuss... just about everything! Technical design, hardware component selection, changes in process, culture, interview systems, (even) chat--we have RFDs for all of these, over 500 in a bit under 5 years. Bryan and Adam were joined by Oxide colleagues instrumental to RFDs, from their most prolific author to those making them more consumable.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill (mastodon.social/@bcantrill) and Adam Leventhal (mastodon.social/@ahl), we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Robert Mustacchi, David Crespo, Ben Leonard, and Augustus Mayo.

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
• We're sorry, Germany
• Oxide RFD site (rfd.shared.oxide.computer)
• RFD 1: Requests for Discussion (rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0001)
• A Tool for Discussion (oxide.computer/blog/a-tool-for-discussion) (Oxide blog post from Ben)
• Sun PSARC cases (illumos.org/opensolaris/ARChive/PSARC)
• The Queen's Duck (bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck)
• The Hairy Arm (1099.com/c/pz/pdfs/issue1/columns/insanity.pdf)
• Joyent RFDs (github.com/TritonDataCenter/rfd)
• RFC-3 (datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3)
• AsciiDoc (asciidoc.org)
• Joyent RFD 77 (github.com/TritonDataCenter/rfd/blob/master/rf…)
• OxF: Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz (share.transistor.fm/s/ac83d63e)
• Oxide RFD API (github.com/oxidecomputer/rfd-api)
• ... with it's CLI generated by github.com/oxidecomputer/progenitor
• ... which we talked about some on OxF here (share.transistor.fm/s/db64d619) and here (share.transistor.fm/s/8460f5be)
• "Own your strategic weirdness" (youtube.com/watch?v=UptsQuOlhBU)
• RFD 113: Engineering Determination (rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0113), or how we close out RFDs
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