Guy Royse
@guy.dev
Work. Life. Code. Game. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Husband and father of three. Son of mountain men. International speaker. Geek. Graybeard. Gamemaster. W8GUY.
"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy."
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy."
I like decentralized networks. In particular, I'm a fan of Reticulum. Reticulum is a fully-encrypted, anonymous, and decentralized mesh network that runs over all sorts of hardware—from Ethernet to LoRa radios to serial cables.
Reticulum Network
reticulum.network
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I like decentralized networks. In particular, I'm a fan of Reticulum. Reticulum is a fully-encrypted, anonymous, and decentralized mesh network that runs over all sorts of hardware—from Ethernet to LoRa radios to serial cables.
The Great State of Ohio has seen fit to pass a law requiring me to perform age verification on this platform. For the children or something.
If I don't do this, I won't have access to DMs. I know how to VPN, not a huge problem. But, it does means I won't check my DMs as much. So, email me instead.
If I don't do this, I won't have access to DMs. I know how to VPN, not a huge problem. But, it does means I won't check my DMs as much. So, email me instead.
October 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Great State of Ohio has seen fit to pass a law requiring me to perform age verification on this platform. For the children or something.
If I don't do this, I won't have access to DMs. I know how to VPN, not a huge problem. But, it does means I won't check my DMs as much. So, email me instead.
If I don't do this, I won't have access to DMs. I know how to VPN, not a huge problem. But, it does means I won't check my DMs as much. So, email me instead.
Reposted by Guy Royse
Modern problems require…modern memes?
At #Devnexus, @guy.dev showed how embeddings + vector databases unlock quirky use cases (like discovering your meme twin) while solving real-world challenges 🦾
Recap here ⤵️
devnexus.org/posts/modern...
🙌 Join us for more inspiring sessions at Devnexus 2026!
At #Devnexus, @guy.dev showed how embeddings + vector databases unlock quirky use cases (like discovering your meme twin) while solving real-world challenges 🦾
Recap here ⤵️
devnexus.org/posts/modern...
🙌 Join us for more inspiring sessions at Devnexus 2026!
Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions , Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings and Vector Databases, with Guy Royse
The modern developer faces a growing challenge: making sense of the world’s fastest-expanding resource—unstructured data. In his Devnexus 2025 talk, Guy Roys...
devnexus.org
October 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Modern problems require…modern memes?
At #Devnexus, @guy.dev showed how embeddings + vector databases unlock quirky use cases (like discovering your meme twin) while solving real-world challenges 🦾
Recap here ⤵️
devnexus.org/posts/modern...
🙌 Join us for more inspiring sessions at Devnexus 2026!
At #Devnexus, @guy.dev showed how embeddings + vector databases unlock quirky use cases (like discovering your meme twin) while solving real-world challenges 🦾
Recap here ⤵️
devnexus.org/posts/modern...
🙌 Join us for more inspiring sessions at Devnexus 2026!
So, @dcdietrich.bsky.social will be delighted to know that I got a pair of DMR radios. Once I figure them all out, we’ll have to chat!
September 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
So, @dcdietrich.bsky.social will be delighted to know that I got a pair of DMR radios. Once I figure them all out, we’ll have to chat!
Always a great time chatting with @davidgiard.bsky.social—even on a Monday morning at 9am! I wasn't able to cover nearly as much about ham radio as I would have liked, but if anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer them.
August 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Always a great time chatting with @davidgiard.bsky.social—even on a Monday morning at 9am! I wasn't able to cover nearly as much about ham radio as I would have liked, but if anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer them.
Reposted by Guy Royse
August 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Everybody's putting AI in their apps. They're stringing APIs together and sending the results down to the browser. But those APIs are expensive, the round trips are long, and there's a lot of data being exposed.
Maybe there's a better way?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBaG...
Maybe there's a better way?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBaG...
Run AI in the browser - faster, cheaper, and private
YouTube video by Redis
www.youtube.com
July 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Everybody's putting AI in their apps. They're stringing APIs together and sending the results down to the browser. But those APIs are expensive, the round trips are long, and there's a lot of data being exposed.
Maybe there's a better way?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBaG...
Maybe there's a better way?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBaG...
Vector search is cool. Really cool.
And, we're all itching a reason to use it. And there are some really good reasons. But there are some, well, not so good ones as well. Know the difference and don't let vector search become your latest Golden Hammer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryme...
And, we're all itching a reason to use it. And there are some really good reasons. But there are some, well, not so good ones as well. Know the difference and don't let vector search become your latest Golden Hammer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryme...
When to use vector search (and when NOT to)
YouTube video by Redis
www.youtube.com
July 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Vector search is cool. Really cool.
And, we're all itching a reason to use it. And there are some really good reasons. But there are some, well, not so good ones as well. Know the difference and don't let vector search become your latest Golden Hammer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryme...
And, we're all itching a reason to use it. And there are some really good reasons. But there are some, well, not so good ones as well. Know the difference and don't let vector search become your latest Golden Hammer.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryme...
Reposted by Guy Royse
Explore the fascinating world of probabilistic data structures with @guy.dev ‘s session from Devoxx UK 2025. Learn how to use Bloom Filters, MinHash, and Top-K to analyse 112,092 UFO sightings.
View session at buff.ly/5dcCMaS
View session at buff.ly/5dcCMaS
June 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Explore the fascinating world of probabilistic data structures with @guy.dev ‘s session from Devoxx UK 2025. Learn how to use Bloom Filters, MinHash, and Top-K to analyse 112,092 UFO sightings.
View session at buff.ly/5dcCMaS
View session at buff.ly/5dcCMaS
These images from the nitric acid spill in Vinton County, Ohio are both disturbing and oddly beautiful.
www.10tv.com/article/news...
www.10tv.com/article/news...
June 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
These images from the nitric acid spill in Vinton County, Ohio are both disturbing and oddly beautiful.
www.10tv.com/article/news...
www.10tv.com/article/news...
RAG !== vectors.
The R is for retrieval—i.e. get useful stuff. You can do that lots of ways:
📄 Full-text search
🧾 SQL query
⚡ @redis.io key lookup
🧠 Yes, even vector search
It's not how you retrieve—it's what you retrieve.
Get the right data. Feed it to your #LLM. That’s the magic of #RAG.
The R is for retrieval—i.e. get useful stuff. You can do that lots of ways:
📄 Full-text search
🧾 SQL query
⚡ @redis.io key lookup
🧠 Yes, even vector search
It's not how you retrieve—it's what you retrieve.
Get the right data. Feed it to your #LLM. That’s the magic of #RAG.
June 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Whenever things get broken and absurd, the circus music starts playing in my head. I sometimes say “Circus Music Intensifies”. From now on, I think I’m gone use the emoji combo of 🤡🎶📈.
May 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Whenever things get broken and absurd, the circus music starts playing in my head. I sometimes say “Circus Music Intensifies”. From now on, I think I’m gone use the emoji combo of 🤡🎶📈.
Left my hotel in Antwerp at 8:30 am. 20 hours and 6 time zones later, I shall arrive home at about 10:30 pm. It’s gonna be a long day.
May 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Left my hotel in Antwerp at 8:30 am. 20 hours and 6 time zones later, I shall arrive home at about 10:30 pm. It’s gonna be a long day.
I'm trying an experiment on my Renaissance Guy blog on Medium. Here's the first post: medium.com/renaissance-...
Flight Into Nightmare
This is the first in a series of TTRPG campaign ideas that I’m generating using a custom Model Context Protocol server and Claude. The core…
medium.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I'm trying an experiment on my Renaissance Guy blog on Medium. Here's the first post: medium.com/renaissance-...
Wanna search images? It's all about embeddings!
Join my live session—Semantic Image Search with Hugging Face & Redis.
→ Image embeddings with @huggingface
→ Fast search with @Redisinc
→ Step-by-step code walkthrough
Register now.
redis.io/events/seman...
Join my live session—Semantic Image Search with Hugging Face & Redis.
→ Image embeddings with @huggingface
→ Fast search with @Redisinc
→ Step-by-step code walkthrough
Register now.
redis.io/events/seman...
Semantic image search with Hugging Face & Redis - Redis
Learn how to build semantic image search with Redis and embeddings. Join our hands-on session to discover how to turn images into searchable data.
redis.io
May 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Wanna search images? It's all about embeddings!
Join my live session—Semantic Image Search with Hugging Face & Redis.
→ Image embeddings with @huggingface
→ Fast search with @Redisinc
→ Step-by-step code walkthrough
Register now.
redis.io/events/seman...
Join my live session—Semantic Image Search with Hugging Face & Redis.
→ Image embeddings with @huggingface
→ Fast search with @Redisinc
→ Step-by-step code walkthrough
Register now.
redis.io/events/seman...
Y'all know what's gonna happen. But you wanna here the song anyhow!
Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable.
The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Rick Astley
www.youtube.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Y'all know what's gonna happen. But you wanna here the song anyhow!
Reposted by Guy Royse
Missed a session you really wanted to see? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified when the 2025 recordings are published - buff.ly/2qOSCNF
May 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Missed a session you really wanted to see? Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified when the 2025 recordings are published - buff.ly/2qOSCNF
🎤 Speaking TONIGHT at @dotnetsheff.co.uk (May 5)!
"Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases" at Pendo. I'll show how to transform memes into embeddings and then find your meme twin! Doors open at 6:15pm.
www.meetup.com/dotnetsheff/...
#Embeddings #VectorDatabases
"Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases" at Pendo. I'll show how to transform memes into embeddings and then find your meme twin! Doors open at 6:15pm.
www.meetup.com/dotnetsheff/...
#Embeddings #VectorDatabases
[🏫 In-Person] Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases, Mon, May 5, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
**This event will be a single talk on Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions: Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases with Guy Royse**
⚠️ This will be
www.meetup.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🎤 Speaking TONIGHT at @dotnetsheff.co.uk (May 5)!
"Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases" at Pendo. I'll show how to transform memes into embeddings and then find your meme twin! Doors open at 6:15pm.
www.meetup.com/dotnetsheff/...
#Embeddings #VectorDatabases
"Finding Your Meme Twin with Embeddings & Vector Databases" at Pendo. I'll show how to transform memes into embeddings and then find your meme twin! Doors open at 6:15pm.
www.meetup.com/dotnetsheff/...
#Embeddings #VectorDatabases