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Work. Life. Code. Game. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. — Husband and father of three. Son of mountain men. Geek. Graybeard. Gamemaster. Works at @redis.io. W8GUY.
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These images from the nitric acid spill in Vinton County, Ohio are both disturbing and oddly beautiful. www.10tv.com/article/news...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I watched a YouTuber react to The Rocky Horror Picture Show last night and now all the songs are stuck in my head.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

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 🤡🎶📈.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

I'm trying an experiment on my Renaissance Guy blog on Medium. Here's the first post: medium.com/renaissance-...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Y'all know what's gonna happen. But you wanna here the song anyhow!

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

I think we should call the new pontiff Bob Pope.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

🎤 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

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Good news, everyone.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

I'm looking to subscribe to cool stuff. Where and by whom do you get your developer news?

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

I was able to talk @redis.io into putting together a happy hour at Forbidden Root in Easton the night before @stirtrek.com. Just a chance to network, share some food and drink, and talk with nerds.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

I keep finding myself having to embed images for testing. So, I wrote this little tool that I imaginatively called the Embeddinator. guy.dev/embeddinator/ I only have two models in the drop down, but it's just using @hf.co's Transformers.js library. Easy enough to add more.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Redis 8 adds a new data type called vector sets. I wrote some code to play with them and shared some my thoughts on when I think they're useful. Check out the code and thoughts at guy.dev/2025/04/15/a.... Or—if you prefer Medium—at medium.com/the-guy-wire....

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

More ChatGPT images. "Using this image, please render me as a comic book superhero. I am a software developer, public speaker, D&D nerd, and ham radio operator. Come up with a clever superhero name for me and incorporate that into the image. Make it look like a panel from a classic comic book."

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Well, all the cool kids are doing it.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Science confirms that I am as white as you can get. But does that Danish bit mean I'm part Viking?

submitted 75 days ago • 4 comments

Redis 8 RC1 is out! New features include numerous performance improvements, more commands around hash field expiration, and a new data type written by @antirez.bsky.social—the OG himself—called vector sets. Redis 8 RC 1: hub.docker.com/_/redis. Vector sets: github.com/redis/redis/... @redis.io

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments