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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As part of our annual @oxide.computer meetup, I added three new logos to our wall honoring our forebears; how many can you name?

A wall of Oxide logos paying homage to defunct companies

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Homage shirt #4 memorializes a company that burned fast and bright -- and whose operational miscues gained eternal life as an eponymous effect

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Homage shirt #3 is at once a tribute to a company, an engineer, a law -- and a mug

An Oxide homage shirt to a defunct computer company

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ngl homage shirt #2 goes just as hard

Oxide homage to a defunct computer company

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think I'm really regretting asking Google how it hallucinated me as Sideshow Bob

Google LLM'splaining hallucination to me -- and then insulting me for its hallucination

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(When pressed, Google folds, BTW.)

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

WTAF, Google? (There is... no such line in the debate -- though it did give me a bit of a start!)

Google incorrectly attributing "these ghoulish claims strike brazenly at the hearth" to the Sideshow Bob/Mayor Quimby debate in S6E5.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

American Megatrends welcomes you to Montréal!

A BIOS configuration screen at a security kiosk at YUL

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Reminded that invitations on LinkedIn could really use a "Get Restraining Order" button

Invitation on LinkedIn that has several red flags

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

We must be careful with our plans for BattleTris: the good people of Delaware hang in the balance

LinkedIn comment from the Delaware Governor Matthew Meyer, who apparently is a BattleTris fan

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

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.)

From left to right: me, Adam Leventhal, and Matt Amdur, all playing BattleTris, a 2-person networked Tetris game that I and two classmates wrote for our CS32 final project at Brown University in 1994.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Don't threaten me with a good time, Slack

A message from Slack saying that the browser won't be supported

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Cleaning out the garage -- and looks like I found a new decoration for the Oxide office

A 1990s-era map from the third floor of Sun's MPK17 building (now a part of Meta)

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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?

A dialogue box from Discord upon logging in that wonders if I might want to "bring guild back together" for "a new World of Warcraft expansion."

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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...

A tweet -- or whatever a tweet is called now -- saying that anti-trans locales will never displace Silicon Valley

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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

Code Rabbit ad at Montgomery BART in San Francisco

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Look, I know this line of thinking can be overly reductive, BUT HOLY SHIT CARTA, YOU HAVE ONE JOB

A report from someone using Carta about getting SSNs wrong

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

My conversation with @ryanlpeterman.bsky.social definitely hit some interesting spots, which my 18-year-old observed with characteristic bluntness...

Text message from my 18-year-old noting that Peterson had asked me about some hot topics

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Looks like I am about to have my own private bonus episode?

Well-known CEO Kyle Law accepting my invitation

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Oracle's t-shirt about the quality of partner financing has people asking a lot of questions already answered by their shirt!

Tweet from Oracle describing their data center deals.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

That feeling when you're reading a book and something is mentioned casually in passing that you would gladly read another book on

Passage from "Eccentric Orbits" mentioning Sky Station International

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Capable of everything from factory work to... wait, what?!

Quote from a CNBC story about Tesla halting production of car models to focus its work on Optimus, "an intelligent robot capable of everything from factory work to babysitting."

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

At @oxide.computer, we pride ourselves on terse performance reviews: we have exceeded expectations!

Screenshot from our website showing our salary now at $250,000

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Added an "LLM shaming" section to RFD 576 rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576#_ll...

Section on "LLM shaming" added to RFD 576 ("Using LLMs at Oxide")

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The state of LLMs in 2026, in all of its weird glory: at once impressive, disconcerting, acutely limited -- and unfailingly polite

A conversation with Gemini 3, after it suggested an MDB pipeline that would attempt to read through a BAR (!)

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

🎶 It's beginning to look a lot like Catmas... 🎶

Photo of a Christmas tree, with an orange cat curled up among the presents

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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.

Absolutely horrifying post from Trump disparaging Rob Reiner, who was tragically murdered (along with his wife) by a son with a history of mental health and substance abuse problems.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Reminder: Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/12/08/w...

Excerpt from an interview with the Financial Times in which fired Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger plainly fails to take responsibility for the company's failures under his leadership

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This was definitely a dead-dove-do-not-eat kind of a talk

Bill Joy giving a talk at UC Berkeley giving an update on his 2000 Wired piece, "Why the future doesn't need us"

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Forgive me, for I have broken my vow to not tweet.

A screenshot of a quote tweet from Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire quoting Silicon Valley legends (including Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, and Mike Moritz) explaining that he has "Sequoia-sized shoes to fill". The quote tweet is an image of Lloyd Bentsen in the 1988 VP debate, immediately before telling Dan Quayle that he is "no Jack Kennedy."

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

So, the episode that @ahl.bsky.social and I did on AI in higher education has an "information panel" on climate change (?) that they show on "videos related to topics prone to misinformation"?! WTAF? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2vc...

Screenshot showing an "information panel" on the Oxide and Friends episode "AI in Higher Education with Michael Littman"

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

How is it that the company that effectively invented both modern search AND modern AI is now managing to grievously fuck up BOTH of them? I mean, my affection for @matthewsanabria.dev aside, this is just COMICALLY bad.

A Google search result for my name, which is somehow identifying two co-workers -- one present, one past -- as me

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The Portlands share certain... idiosyncrasies

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Tonight was absolutely electric at Raimondi in West Oakland: the @oaklandballers.bsky.social won three do-or-die games in a row to win the championship in five games. Respect Oakland baseball!

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