[preston4tw]

I follow Jessie and Bryan both on Twitter and at least with what Jessie has been exploring since she left her last job, this seems like a natural progression.

It trips me out to see other people in the comments that don't know who Jessie and Bryan are. They're legends to me, and I consider myself basically a SRE. I highly recommend following them on Twitter as well as virtually any talk they've given. Just go type their names into YouTube. Steve Tuck doesn't ring a bell for me, but considering the company he's in I want to learn more about Steve.

I'm super interested to see what comes out of this. I think Jessie has a passion for security (also many other things, but it's what comes to mind), and Bryan for debugging (similarly, many other things as well). I think those are really good backgrounds to have when approaching hardware these days, considering the recent security vulnerabilities around speculative attacks on hardware (specter etc.).

Some of the conversations Jessie started on twitter in the past few months raised some interesting questions around open hardware and open firmware, and the problems with proprietary and closed source hardware and firmware.

It sounds like this Oxide project might be in a similar space as https://www.opencompute.org/. I'll be interested to see if they partner at all. I'm also very interested to see what the actual products are, how open any hardware or firmware ends up being, and if this venture is successful, if they end up at the same place as any other major hardware company or if they tread new ground.

[driverdan]

> It trips me out to see other people in the comments that don't know who Jessie and Bryan are.

I always find this funny. Why would everyone know who they are? There are thousands of interesting people in tech. It's impossible to know of everyone.

[preston4tw]

> There are thousands of interesting people in tech. It's impossible to know of everyone.

Totally! If you aren't familiar with who Jessie or Bryan are yet though I think you're in for a treat. So keeping in mind these are largely impressions from their public personas and I know neither of these people personally...

Bryan is one of my favorite speakers / presenters. Virtually every one of his talks conveys his passion and knowledge for the subject at hand, and it's presented in as much depth as the time allows for and any nuance involved, and Bryan conveys a great sense of humor with little tolerance for BS. Here's a non-comprehensive list of talks Bryan has given from his blog: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/02/03/talks/ .

Jessie, to me, is like the Adam Savage of tech: curious, interested in a ton of different things, a maker and tinkerer, and just a generally hard working huge talent. I love her sense of humor, and she puts content out into the world just to share that with others. Like she got to go tour CERN back in May and shared a bunch of cool stuff from it like this https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/1129845849054253056 which I really enjoyed. If you're on Twitter, I highly recommend following https://twitter.com/jessfraz .

If you have recommendations for other awesome interesting people worth knowing, I'd love suggestions!

[egdod]

Jessie’s blog gets posted here with some regularity.

[duxup]

I don't know about everyone else but I personally read a lot of HN and I probabbly remember a handful of people's names whose articles I have read.

[0x0aff374668]

"It trips me out to see other people in the comments that don't know who ____ and ____ are..."

That's what is meant by "cult of personality."

[ikeyany]

Are you really "tripped out"? That phrase is often used as gatekeeping by people who want to shame others into liking what they like.

[itomato]

It's just another way of saying "my own mind is blown". Nothing more.