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Ben Leonard

@benleonard.bsky.social
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Designer / Developer @ Oxide. Formerly Pentagram

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Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer · 10h
Today we're announcing our $445M Series D and announcing that we've reached profitability. Huge thanks to Eclipse for leading the round, which included participation from existing investors USIT, Jane Street, Riot Ventures, Intel Capital, Friends and Family Capital, and Counterpart Ventures.
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 9h
I sadly didn't see the machine in action!
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Do you want my custom slides tool … it even comes with an MCP
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think it was here: pmt-industrial.en.alibaba.com/company_prof... One of our logistics folks chatted to them in Chinese, which might have helped too!
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Framed print from an @oxide.computer trip to the Computer History Museum September 10, 2025
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The cards themselves were printed by www.with-print.co.uk and the lanyard cords we got from some factory on Alibaba. I can link them directly if you need.
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hello! Thanks for reporting, if you did have a moment to make an issue here: github.com/oxidecompute... then I can try to figure it out. And we are still using webgl for now, webGPU wasn’t any more performant in my tests.
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Always good to see a colophon!
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Yous doesn’t read right
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Some artwork prep for upcoming event. I've always had the habit of choosing colours that cannot be mistaken for the final artwork to avoid print mistakes.
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Only the changes in time become visible" is such a lovely line. Thanks for sharing.
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yep! mitos.shared.oxide.computer and code here: github.com/oxidecompute... I haven't pushed the motion branch yet though
mitos.shared.oxide.computer
Mitos ASCII Tool
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Added motion character mapping to my ASCII tool inspired by @maxime.bsky.social's fantastic post "Shading Motion" blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/shadin...
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Little @oxide.computer brand refresh
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
wackaging has been a scourge on supermarkets for a long time now
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Experimenting with the ability to write and edit ASCII animation scripts in our brand asset tool using a MCP server
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
That sounds much less interesting!
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Experimenting with a Figma plugin that generates two overlapping aligned grids. A 12-column layout grid and a full-bleed ASCII grid so that illustrative text and content are aligned to the same baselines.
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Why does it make the heads so massive
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Save us from gen-AI thumbnails
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Web designers assume people are resizing their windows non stop!
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thanks Jim
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Do you use the liquid one, our baby loves the taste? We always have one on hand for allergies.
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I’ll bring a handful as an OxCon gift
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Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
On this week's Oxide and Friends, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by @benleonard.bsky.social to talk about the amazing Oxide rack explorer (explorer.oxide.computer) he designed, turning CAD models into a 3D interactive site.
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Oxide and Friends 6/22/2026 -- The Oxide 3D Explorer
YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Added the ability to load templates from GitHub Gists with our little ASCII tool: mitos.shared.oxide.computer?gist=35b5b8b...
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Mitos ASCII Tool
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This is my fault, more like post child bedtime
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Matthew!
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Also not that I sanction it but in theory I think Blender should be able to … if you have the latest version of the glb importer I think.
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I’ll defer to @kev507.bsky.social … we are currently working on open sourcing the explorer but the models are still a question mark
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
IIRC that was some combination of ad hoc GitHub programs
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
He has in previous videos trained for face swapping effects I believe
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
@oxide.computer CLI keyring
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Kind of gross, kind of cool! What device is this?
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thank you, I’ll investigate! No idea if this is Android specific or something else. I see it already knocked the scene down to the lower tier materials.
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Oof! Don’t suppose you have any other mobile browsers? Does it happen in those
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I built a couple sites with A-Frame years back which feels in the spirit of VRML
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thank you! Get your wishlist in for 2028 😉
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Fortunately oxide is the cloud you own!
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I had to ship this thing, but I'm tempted to choreograph something to music for an even showier showcase mode
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
explorer.oxide.computer
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Web 3d explorer for @oxide.computer. Built in three.js/r3f. Tonnes of little interactions and details in this. Poke around, and take a look at the guided tours. explorer.oxide.computer
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Well I guess it is CAD! Though I can’t take credit, I merely slapped their wonderful mechanical engineering on there.
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Have I accidentally upset Big RAL? The only thing I’ve found the book useful for is to verify the vividness of the Rabbit R1
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
That pathetically small gamut
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I would never willingly choose a RAL
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
david
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Ben Leonard @benleonard.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is stunning! Can we do a print swap?
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