About this episode

The episode discusses the creation of a 3D rack explorer by Oxide, featuring insights from designer Ben Leonard.

Recently, Oxide rolled out an eye-popping 3D rack explorer at explorer.oxide.computer. Oxide's designer extraordinaire, Ben Leonard, joined Bryan and Adam to describe the process of turning CAD drawings into an interactive site. In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal , our special guest was Oxide colleague, Ben Leonard . Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: The Explorer its repo Pierre Lamond oral history PRs needed! If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar . We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!

People in this episode

Hosts: Bryan Cantrill, Adam Leventhal

Guest: Ben Leonard

Topics covered

• 3D modeling
• interactive design
• CAD drawings
• technology
• software development

Keywords

• 3D explorer
• CAD
• interactive site
• Oxide
• design process

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oxide Computer Company

Products: 3D rack explorer

Places: Pacific Time

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