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 and Adam Leventhal.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 podcastOxF 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, 2025Simpsons scene deleted in syndicationOxF s05e29 – AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman — October 17, 2025OxF s05e28 – Systems Software in the LargeOxF s05e18 – AI, Materials, and Fraud with Ben ShindelOxF s04e21 – Adventures in Data Corruption"Duck season, Fire!"MLG Airhorn aka "the jj airhorn"OxF s05e31 – FuturelockLaura's blog post: A disappearing Service ProcessorOxF s05e34 – Death by Uptime"Painfully concrete" - ChatGPTOxF s05e03 – Holistic Engineering with Robert MustacchiOxF s05e30 – RIP USENIX ATCTeam DTrace meets Dennis Richie, redux"Fart Boy"OxF s05e?? – Books in the Box V — The latest annual book recommendation episode.Oxide Bingo by John HollowayOxF s05e16 – Scaling ManufacturingOxF s05e22 – Founder vs. InvestorOxF s05e27 – Character LimitStretch goal for 2026: finally a C&DOxF s05e24 – Diving InBryan's blog: College Baseball, Venture Capital, and the Long MaybeOxF s03e31 – Hiring Processes with Gergely OroszOxF s04e06 – Crucible: The Oxide Storage Service"Don't worry, Alan, no one will listen" -> one of our most popular episodesOxF s04e23 – RFDs: The Backbone of OxideOffice 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 SanabriaAlexander 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. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!