I'm still catching up on the Oxide and Friends "birdsite"/"discord" recordings/podcast, and look forward to listening to this one in a few weeks (I save them fo

I'm still catching up on the Oxide and Friends "birdsite"/"discord" recordings/podcast, and look forward to listening to this one in a few weeks (I save them for my walks in the big blue room). In a time when tech is imploding under the weight of its own hype, the amazing retrospectives, history lessons and low-level hardware/software lore contained in that podcast has been the highlight of my days every. Single. Time. It reminds me that there is a side to this industry that is still actually solving real problems (from testbench design to firmware/software supply chain and attestation) instead of just throwing GPUs at a problem and virtualizing an infinite number of monkeys to generate Shakespeare sonnets. In these days of layoffs done to compensate for hyped investments and lack of strategic focus, it is a shining beacon of... actual engineering. A minor sidenote, for those who probably care more about software: The podcast drew me back to Rust because, all of a sudden, here were these people who actually _reasoned out why_ it made sense, and had decades of expertise that allowed them to spell that out with actual examples. But I really stuck around because of the low-level hardware discussions, and the history background (I just listened to the Optane episode yesterday, and although I knew some folk at Micron and understood why it had failed in general, the discussion was amazing). (I'm a telco/hardware guy drifting inside the bowels of a cloud/software behemoth and dearly wish I could burn to the ground all the paperwork, ceremony and "strategic investments" that surrounds me and just go and do interesting stuff, so forgive me if this seems a bit much. If I can stay up late enough--I'm in Europe--I might try to join on Discord some day.)