Kevin Spring

Screenshot of a GitHub pull request review approval. User david-crespo approves the changes with the comment: “Checked it further, I think it’s good. Congratulations, you have been promoted to website engineer. Your raise of $0 will be processed shortly.” followed by a note about a CI job not running, suspecting GitHub is to blame.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Used Claude Code to fix a small but impactful problem in how the @oxide.computer website presented our FAQ Friday posts. Enjoyed proposing a solution rather than only writing up an issue that would add to a real engineer’s already full plate.

Because the marketing VP forced them to

Oxide x Noctua collab when?

Discord's Disturbing Ties to Global Surveillance | ID Verification, Palantir, & Thiel YouTube video by Gamers Nexus

Big “I told you so” energy from me on this one. Discord has always been corrosive to the internet.

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Sean Gelbaugh Photography

You look at them and understand that a real computer company builds our own real, tangible hardware. It’s not just an idea anymore, an incredible team has brought their ideas into the real world. Wanted to make sure to thank Sean for bringing that to life in his photos. www.seangelbaugh.com

Close-up of an Oxide Cosmo compute sled circuit board showing the Oxide logo.

A row of green NVMe drive sleds seated in an Oxide rack, shot at an angle with dramatic lighting.

Front view of a fully populated Oxide rack with rows of green compute and storage sleds, networking switches, and power shelves against a dark background.

Macro shot of high-density network and power connectors on the edge of an Oxide compute sled PCB.

They’re in the press release, in our investors’ galleries, and in presentations our sales team puts together. They’re grounded in the reality of a startup; they’re real photos of real pre-production hardware that’s had a long life being shipped around the country to trade shows and customer demos.

Oxide Closes $200M Series C to Scale On-Premises Cloud Computing /PRNewswire/ -- Oxide Computer Company, the on-prem cloud computing company, today announced it has raised its $200 million Series C led by Thomas Tull's US...

The photo of our next-gen @oxide.computer compute sled in our Series C announcement is Sean Gelbaugh’s work. He spent a short window in our office with minimal direction and came back with images we’ve now used everywhere. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Oxide plans new rack attack with Zen 5 CPUs, DDR5 : Oxide says AMD’s Turin EPYCs are coming, switch revamp under review, more open hardware in the works

We raised a $200M Series C, now we're putting it to work.

New compute sleds with the latest AMD EPYC CPUs are coming. We're also working with Xsight Labs on next-gen switch silicon with a fully open instruction set architecture (ISA).

The Register has the details: buff.ly/6ghM2b6

Our $200M Series C / Oxide Raising our Series C round of financing

Thrilled to share that we have closed our $200M Series C.

Thank you to Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund for leading this round, along with Eclipse, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Intel Capital, Counterpart, Friends and Family Capital and all of our additional investors.

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Most accurate description of CEVA I’ve read. This is why I order all my toilets on the Costco app.

Tony Fadell Unfiltered on Apple, OpenAI & the Next Big Device YouTube video by Newcomer

Good conversation with Tony Fadell on where AI in products is BS and where it can practically improve concrete product experiences - are you building a product to enable AI or are you solving a human problem?
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Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed.

The next could be you.

What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.

This is personal — to every one of us.

This week I joined Anthropic to work on alignment and build on the foundation of Claude's character. Over my three years at OpenAI, I created the model policy discipline and built its associated…... This week I joined Anthropic to work on alignment and build on the foundation of Claude's character. Over my three years at OpenAI, I created the model policy discipline and built its associated rese...

And then take out their aggression on model company employees
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It will never get old seeing my boss post that I’ve gotten a raise, and it’s happened a few times now!

Usually when I meet someone who is excited about AI but uses ChatGPT, they’ve never heard of Claude or Anthropic.

“Stop telling people to use LLMs” seems like it would be mostly (only?) concerning coming from management in the context of a job. Though I suppose that means it could have better parallel construction with the “stop telling people not to use LLMs” rule.

Except from RFD banning LLM mandates

There was already a “no one can be told to use LLMs” rule in the RFD, perhaps you haven’t had a chance to read it yet?

That was quick

Just came across the CachyOS installer and this is worse than anything MacOS has ever done on install

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Counterpoint: my Ubuntu install that failed multiple times yesterday

You’ve graduated from developer to Thought Leader™️

A Framework laptop with its bottom panel removed, exposing internal components including the battery and speaker, resting on a striped kitchen towel. In the foreground, a Crucial DDR5-5600 128GB RAM kit ready for installation.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Close-up of a screwdriver removing a Wi-Fi module inside a computer chassis, showing internal components including circuit boards, connectors, and cable routing. Photo credit: iFixit.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The @frame.work 16 w/ 5070 build day went pretty smoothly

It didn’t want to install Ubuntu via the USB-C ports but worked fine on the USB-A port 🤷‍♂️

WiFi card was slightly tougher to swap for an Intel AX210 than I expected due to getting the antenna retention bracket back on

A Framework laptop with its bottom panel removed, exposing internal components including the battery and speaker, resting on a striped kitchen towel. In the foreground, a Crucial DDR5-5600 128GB RAM kit ready for installation.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Built a Framework 16 w/my SO today & installed Ubuntu. Windows getting worse and worse plus Linux gaming getting good made it an easier move. And a last hurrah for Crucial memory.

How Much Diet Coke Can You Drink A Day? YouTube video by Jeff Nippard

Looks like someone did the math on the maximum number of diet cokes @bcantrill.bsky.social can safely consume per day

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The most aggressive WiFi blocking I’ve ever seen. I was fully logged out of the Bluesky app by trying to connect on hospital WiFi.

Why do Oxide Compute Sleds have one processor? FAQ Friday #31

Could be a blog post, @davidcrespo.bsky.social?

I can’t believe how hard it is to get great (not just okay) meeting notes out of LLMs provided a transcript. I’ve only been able to dial it in with ChatGPT 4.5 and now Opus 4.5