Bryan Cantrill

@bcantrill.bsky.social

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.

Me getting knocked on my ass at the Oakland Ballers game

Invitation on LinkedIn that has several red flags

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

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.

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

A cat not giving a fuck

Enough DDR5 to pay for a house

Tweet that is a parody of Trump Truth Social post

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

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."

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

Code Rabbit ad at Montgomery BART in San Francisco

A report from someone using Carta about getting SSNs wrong

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

Well-known CEO Kyle Law accepting my invitation

Tweet from Oracle describing their data center deals.

Passage from "Eccentric Orbits" mentioning Sky Station International

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."

Quote from an ICE official in the Independent piece, saying "I'm not sure I can see how we exist three years from now."

Marzipan at Shloss Dagstuhl

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

Screenshot of Gas Town, showing the fox as a mayor

Socks that say "Zero Fox Given"

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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."

Me after voting today in California

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

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

A neon sign in Portland, Maine

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

Final out of Game 5 of the Pioneer League Championship. Oakland Ballers win!

Wile E. Coyote, Genius.

The character Michael Bolton from "Office Space" explaining why he doesn't go by "Mike"

Fans at Raimondi park cheering for the Oakland Ballers as they defeat the Idaho Falls Chukars in a do-or-die Game 3 of the Pioneer League Championship

Oxide team -- among others! -- at the Oakland Ballers game.

A 12-pack of birthday-flavored acid

Text from David Wells ("Recent Economic Changes, and Their Effect on the Production and Distribution of wealth and the Well-Being of Society") in 1889 as quoted by Carlota Perez ("Technological Revolutions and Finance Capital") in 2002

Photo of Carlota Perez's book, "Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital"

Text message from my kids about recent food.

Twitter post from "Dada" decrying a candidate who turned down employment

Post on social media from the University of Central Arkansas Bears baseball showing my son holding a whiteboard featuring several details about himself, including his favorite pro athlete: former Oakland A's starting pitcher Sonny Gray.

LinkedIn mail asking if it should post our jobs that it "found on another site" to LinkedIn. (We do not post our job listings to any sites.)

Discarded license plate holder from the Oakland Athletics

Hats from Washington State and the University of Central Arkansas

Damaged programming header on an Oxide Cosmo EVT board.

An Oxide rack depicting a sled that has had a drive removed, and in its place is a USB cable connected to an on-board header for purposes of debugging

Headline from a Politico story: "Mamdani's social media savvy comes at a cost"

A paragraph from a New York Post story quoting Astronomer CEO Andy Byron talking about Astronomer Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot, with whom he was caught in an embrace at a Coldplay concert. Both Byron and Cabot are married to other people.

My wife in a No Kings hat and me in my Obama '08 shirt (from the primary!) en route to the No Kings protest in Oakland

Baseball game at the College of San Mateo, in which the pitcher is lit up by the setting sun, with the San Francisco Bay in the background

A screenshot of a tweet from my son, Tobin Cantrill, a left-handed pitcher from Chabot College, announcing his commitment to play Division 1 baseball at the University of Central Arkansas.

A LinkedIn invitation from Steve Klabnik