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TWITTER SPACES, A FEW WEEKS IN

As a kid, I listened to a lot of talk radio. This was in the 80s, before the
internet — and before the AM dial became fringe. I have fond memories of falling
asleep to the likes of Bruce Williams who just gave damned good, level-headed
advice. It was, at essence, both optimistic and temperate: [...]

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Posted on May 2, 2021 at 7:15 pm by bmc · Permalink · Comments Closed
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COMPENSATION AS A REFLECTION OF VALUES

Compensation: the word alone is enough to trigger a fight-or-flight reaction in
many. But we in technology have the good fortune of being in a well-compensated
domain, so why does this issue induce such anxiety when our basic needs are
clearly covered? If it needs to be said, it’s because compensation isn’t merely
about the [...]

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Posted on March 4, 2021 at 11:00 pm by bmc · Permalink · Comments Closed
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RUST AFTER THE HONEYMOON

Two years ago, I had a blog entry describing falling in love with Rust. Of
course, a relationship with a technology is like any other relationship: as
novelty and infatuation wears off, it can get on a longer term (and often more
realistic and subdued) footing — or it can begin to fray. So well [...]

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Posted on October 11, 2020 at 10:21 am by bmc · Permalink · Comments Closed
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THE SINGULAR URGENCY OF AVA DUVERNAY’S 13TH

On Sunday afternoon, I was on the phone with one of my Oxide co-founders, Steve
Tuck. He and I were both trying to grapple with the brazen state-sponsored
violence that we were witnessing: the murder of George Floyd and the widespread,
brutal, and shameless suppression of those who were demonstrating against it.
Specifically, we were [...]

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Posted on June 2, 2020 at 10:18 pm by bmc · Permalink · Comments Closed
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THE SOUL OF A NEW COMPUTER COMPANY

Over the summer, I described preparing for my next expedition. I’m thrilled to
announce that the expedition is now plotted, the funds are raised, and the bags
are packed: together with Steve Tuck and Jess Frazelle, we have started Oxide
Computer Company. Starting a computer company may sound crazy (and you would
certainly be forgiven [...]

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Posted on December 2, 2019 at 6:30 am by bmc · Permalink · Comments Closed
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USB TOPOLOGY

USB devices have been a mainstay of extending x86 systems for some time now. At
Joyent, we used USB keys to contain our own version of iPXE to boot. As part of
discussions around RFD 77 Hardware-backed per-zone crypto tokens with Alex
Wilson we talked about knowing and constricting which USB devices were trusted
based [...]

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Posted on September 27, 2019 at 9:34 am by rm · Permalink · Comments Closed
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SHELL REDIRECTION EXAMPLE

A friend emailed me to ask: [/tmp] $ ls > foo > bar [/tmp] $ ls -lh foo bar
-rw-r–r– 1 dsh wheel 7.1K Sep 26 16:01 bar -rw-r–r– 1 dsh wheel 0B Sep 26 16:01
foo [/tmp] $ What is happening here? It’s surprising at first glance, but it’s
simpler than it looks. Bash [...]

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Posted on September 23, 2019 at 1:35 pm by dap · Permalink · Comments Closed
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TRANSCEIVERS: THE DEVICE BETWEEN THE NIC AND THE NETWORK

One of the stories that has stuck with me over the years came from a support
case that a former colleague, Ryan Nelson, had point on. At Joyent, we had third
parties running our cloud orchestration software in their own data centers with
hardware that they had acquired and assembled themselves. In this particular
episode, [...]

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Posted on September 12, 2019 at 9:27 am by rm · Permalink · Comments Closed
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A TALE OF TWO LEDS

It was the brightest of LEDs, it was the darkest of LEDs, it was the age of data
links, it was the age of AHCI enclosure services, … Today, I’d like to talk
about two aspects of a project that I worked on a little while back under the
aegis of RFD 89 Project Tiresias. [...]

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Posted on September 6, 2019 at 10:44 am by rm · Permalink · Comments Closed
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CPU AND PCH TEMPERATURE SENSORS IN ILLUMOS

A while back, I did a bit of work that I’ve been meaning to come back to and
write about. The first of these are all about making it easier to see the
temperature that different parts of the system are working with. In particular,
I wanted to make sure that I could understand the [...]

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Posted on August 14, 2019 at 7:44 am by rm · Permalink · Comments Closed
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