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Dr. Berto/Rally Lamb @bertoinpublic.bsky.social · 1d

I only know Bryan from social media but he’s so nice. If you’re an #OaklandBallers fan or just a fan of Oakland, this is a good read.

Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 3d

There's an @oaklandballers.bsky.social parade tomorrow to celebrate their magical season, and it affords an opportunity to reflect on why this team is so meaningful to Oakland
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/10/04/a...

A parade in Oakland | The Observation Deck

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 2d

The winner of the bracket faces Cinnamon Life, right? RIGHT?!

SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social · 2d

my friends and i did a CEREAL BRACKET, randomized seeds, it was very enlightening for me to learn that half of my friends have DOGSHIT GRANDPA TASTE IN CEREAL, how did CORN POPS get to TOP 4, anyways we landed on

1. Cinnamon Toast Crunch
2. Frosted Flakes
3. Honey Bunches of Oats
4. Corn Pops

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 3d

I stand by my reaction.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 3d

With a tip to the B's cap to @bertoinpublic.bsky.social, who helped me with a clip of him being interviewed from 2023 that I had found very meaningful but couldn't find -- thank you!

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 3d

There's an @oaklandballers.bsky.social parade tomorrow to celebrate their magical season, and it affords an opportunity to reflect on why this team is so meaningful to Oakland
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/10/04/a...

A parade in Oakland | The Observation Deck

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 5d

New blog post: Cancelling async #rustlang!

This is a written version of my talk at #RustConf 2025, where I talk about the joys and sorrows of future cancellations in Rust, with lessons from our work at @oxide.computer. Includes a video of the talk as well. Check it out!

Cancelling async Rust ꞏ sunshowers

Correctness in the face of cancellations: a written version of my talk at RustConf 2025.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 5d

Slides for my #monktoberfest talk today, "Trust as Infrastructure" (video to come): speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/tr...

Trust as Infrastructure

Presentation that I gave at Monktoberfest 2025. Video to come.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 5d

The conference started with a Tweet ends with me in the trunk #monktoberfest

Laura Fitton she/her @pistachio.bsky.social · 5d

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 7d

Poseidon: Did someone say ocean?

steve o’grady @sogrady.org · 7d

adding insult to injury, carriers apparently don’t feel it’s necessary to include the ocean in their coverage maps so i can’t tell what my coverage is going to be like on the cruise tonight

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 7d

The gods have apparently grown bored punishing @sogrady.org with weather systems, and have now sent him something much more creative: a Red Sox playoff series against the Yankees DURING #monktoberfest. Kudos, gods!

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 7d

The Portlands share certain... idiosyncrasies

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Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 12d

This is kind of cool: today, Oxide and Friends is going to pass 1,000,000 downloads. I’m not sure what @bcantrill.bsky.social had in mind when we did our first Twitter Space in 2021, but I’m surprised and delighted to have reached so many folks.

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Nick Gideo @engid.bsky.social · 13d

i don't know why i was compelled to request this from chatgpt but here you go @bcantrill.bsky.social . It even got the diet coke in there for accuracy.

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Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 14d

On Monday, Dave Pacheco joined @bcantrill.bsky.social and me to reflect on his experience leading a large, complex (very complex) project to build automated update into the Oxide Rack. Hard-won wisdom on leadership and the avoidance of debilitating "organizational procrastination".

Oxide and Friends 9/22/2024 -- Systems Software in the Large

YouTube video by Oxide Computer Company

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 15d

I don't think you have spent much time looking at LLM-generated stuff? The high-polish/over-refinement is often a dead-giveaway of an LLM, where you seem to be inferring it as the opposite. (Even pacing is something that's unusual in human writing -- but very common in LLM-writen stuff!)

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 15d

Were humans only so self-aware!

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 16d

You might be surprised! We have had some otherwise-serious applications that are clearly using LLMs to author aspects of the questionnaire.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 16d

Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 16d

And do you feel "mother stuff" makes it more or less likely to be authored by an LLM? (Spoiler: it's entirely human-authored.)

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 16d

Surely you're joking?

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 16d

New @oxide.computer application FAQ just dropped

Answer from an Oxide FAQ: "Can I use an LLM to help write my materials?"

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 16d

As promised last week: today on the podcast, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by Dave to talk about this extraordinary talk, the system that it describes -- and the experiences of the team in developing it. Join us, 5p Pacific today!

discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 16d

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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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 17d

Pretty sure I read them today -- and you will be unsurprised to learn that they were LLM-generated

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 17d

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