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Cliff Biffle
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The Mid-Morning Mike Check
Mid Morning Mike Check 12/19/2025
Mike and Austin break down the dramatic end to the six-day manhunt in the Brown University mass shooting case, as suspect Claudio Nevis Valente is found dead in a New Hampshire storage unit, leaving major questions about motive unanswered. As new details emerge, the case quickly turns political, with fierce debate over law enforcement decisions, transparency, and how tragedies are handled in today’s climate. We also cover U.S. military airstrikes targeting alleged drug trafficking boats and the devastating North Carolina plane crash that killed former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and members of his family. On the football front, it...
2025-12-19
52 min
Oxide and Friends
Death by Uptime
We hit a new (and disturbing!) failure mode recently when a production rack that had been up for several months saw every (!) compute sled's service processor become simultaneously unresponsive. Bryan and Adam were joined by the members of the Oxide team who debugged the vexing issue -- and reached its surprising root cause.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Oxide colleagues, Cliff Biffle, Matt Keeter, and Will Chandler.Previously, on Oxide and Friends:OxF s05e03 – Holistic Engineering with Robert MustacchiOxF s04e14 – Rebooting a datacenter: A decade late...
2025-12-08
1h 00
Changelog Master Feed
Voices of Oxide (Changelog Interviews #659)
Voices of Oxide on the pod! Cliff Biffle (engineer), Dave Pacheco (engineer), and Ben Leonard (designer) are on the show today. Jerod and I were invited to Oxide’s annual internal conference called OxCon to meet the people and to hear the stories of what makes Oxide a truly special place to work right now. Cliff Biffle is working on all Hubris and firmware. Cliff says “There’s a lot that happens before the ‘main CPU’ can even power on.” Dave Pacheco is leading the efforts on Oxide’s “Update” system. And Ben Leonard in charge of all things brand a...
2025-09-26
1h 16
Changelog Interviews
Voices of Oxide
Voices of Oxide on the pod! Cliff Biffle (engineer), Dave Pacheco (engineer), and Ben Leonard (designer) are on the show today. Jerod and I were invited to Oxide’s annual internal conference called OxCon to meet the people and to hear the stories of what makes Oxide a truly special place to work right now. Cliff Biffle is working on all Hubris and firmware. Cliff says “There’s a lot that happens before the ‘main CPU’ can even power on.” Dave Pacheco is leading the efforts on Oxide’s “Update” system. And Ben Leonard in charge of all things brand a...
2025-09-26
1h 16
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Voices of Oxide (Interview)
Voices of Oxide on the pod! Cliff Biffle (engineer), Dave Pacheco (engineer), and Ben Leonard (designer) are on the show today. Jerod and I were invited to Oxide’s annual internal conference called OxCon to meet the people and to hear the stories of what makes Oxide a truly special place to work right now. Cliff Biffle is working on all Hubris and firmware. Cliff says “There’s a lot that happens before the ‘main CPU’ can even power on.” Dave Pacheco is leading the efforts on Oxide’s “Update” system. And Ben Leonard in charge of all things brand a...
2025-09-26
1h 16
Oxide and Friends
Settling Beef
Recently, a clip from Oxide and Friends was played by another podcast as something of a punching bag. Adam was called "uneducated" and Bryan, it was observed accurately, "hadn't used C++ since the '90s". Well, Conor Hoekstra from the ADSP pod joined us to settle the beef.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by special guest Conor Hoekstra and Oxide colleague Cliff Biffle.
2023-10-17
1h 39
Oxide and Friends
The Power of Proto Boards!
We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from January 16th, 2023.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, we were joined by Nathanael Huffman, Cliff Biffle, Rick Altherr, Matt Keeter, Eric Aasen, and Dan Cross.Check out the show notes on github to browse the images.(00:00) - Intro (11:42) - Gemini (18:33) - Root of Trust (RoT) carrier (20:53) - Power (23:41) - Trimmed Power (28:11) - SPI MUX (29:38) - SPI MUX rework (33:14) - Gimletlet (41:10) - Gimletlet NIC (46:28) - DIMMlet (56:39...
2023-01-17
1h 41
Oxide and Friends
The Pragmatism of Hubris
Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: December 13th, 2021The Pragmatism of HubrisWe’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for December 13th, 2021.In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on December 13th included special guests Cliff Biffle and Steve Klabnik as well as Laura Abbott, Rick Altherr, James Tucker, Simeon Miteff and MattSci. (Did we miss your...
2021-12-14
2h 03
Puttin' Up Numbers
Number 16
2:50 – “Even if I might be greater at the sport, I might not care.”Jake “The Snake” Plummer shares the story behind #16, his 10 year NFL career, the life and legacy of Pat Tillman and his new business venture, ReadyList Sports.13:28 – “So Rudy, here we go.”We lead off with football and college greats Chuck Long, Chris Weinke, Gary Beban, Johnny U., Norm Snead, some Bears guys, Snake Stabler, Snake Plummer and Peyton Manning. Contenders are Jim Plunkett, Frank Gifford, George Blanda, Len Dawson and Joe Montana.21:03 – “Our lone contender.”Whitey Ford is...
2020-10-25
00 min