Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Spent some time with claude optimizing mandelbrot rendering on my RC2014 Pro Z80. Down to 24 seconds! Also showing off a new pixel mode in mt Bridge application. A pyGame terminal emulator that also exposes an MCP so your model can take over control of your retro computer. youtu.be/uB60Z52KaVk 100
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Qwen's newish open-weights models are very good. I was able to get a couple of them 27B (dense) and 122B (MoE) to get real coding done yesterday. So local coding with the only expense being the the power used. It is not fast but it is still 10X what I could do in a day. #llama.cpp #Fedora #ROCm #AMD 130
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Love Anna Weatherup's new album! I was so excited to get the CDs delivered from down under and signed to boot. Thank you Anna and especially for sharing your music. annaweatherup.com www.instagram.com/annaweatheru... www.youtube.com/annaweatherup 010
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Common Saints - Cinema 3000 Afternoon stress relief with a signed CD. commonsaints.com 010
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Now playing, first CDs purchased in many years and signed even. Thank you Maz for the wonderful music. mazoconnor.com 000
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Initial test of my streaming replacement system is going very well. I think I can tough it out. So long Spotify, Google, and Tidal I got it from here. #Fosi #klipsch #audiolab 210
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I am quitting music streaming and I am quite excited about it too. #RedBookAudio #PCM #44khz #16bit 010
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Loving my new keyboard! wooting.io/wooting-60he... the more I use it and adjust/tweak the better it gets! Thank you Wooting!! #wootingwooting.ioWooting 60HE v2 now available for pre-orderThe Wooting 60HE v2 Founders' campaign is live. Pre-order before December 4th to become a Founder and unlock exclusive perks. Orders ship in waves starting December, so early birds get theirs first. 000
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Whoa!! Seeing some insane improvements with #ROCm 7.1! #AMD VAE decoding is lightning fast. 010
Reposted by Shawn ReedLiam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 02/11/2025Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark #Linux #LinuxGaming #Steam #SteamOS #SteamDeckgamingonlinux.comLinux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% markIt finally happened. Linux gamers on Steam as of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2025 have crossed over the elusive 3% mark. 726050
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Just in case it helps save someone else some frustration. #Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-Q8_0 #RooCode github.com/RooCodeInc/R...github.comGetting a lot of "Roo tried to use apply_diff without value for required parameter 'path'." with qwen3-coder · Issue #7406 · RooCodeInc/Roo-CodeApp Version 3.25.23 API Provider LM Studio Model Used unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-UD-Q5_K_XL Roo Code Task Links (Optional) Started to get a lot of errors using Roo, even with the simplest... 010
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 23/10/2025#AMD 's #ROCm continues to improve! 43 tokens/sec with a 30B MOE Q8 and 512k of context < $2k mini PC For those worried about power consumption it just means I need to run the heater less now. 010
Reposted by Shawn ReedFrançois Zaninotto @francoisz.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Agentic Search surpasses Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG): Teaching an agent to use grep is far more efficient than chunking, embedding and similarity search. #AI www.nicolasbustamante.com/p/the-rag-ob...nicolasbustamante.comThe RAG Obituary: Killed by Agents, Buried by Context WindowsWhy Retrieval-Augmented Generation Won’t Survive the Context Revolution and the End of Chunking, Embeddings, and Rerankers as We Know Them. 031
Reposted by Shawn ReedBeth Reed ✨⛵️ @sparklyseaster.bsky.social · 09/10/2025A reminder for all. Please repost this to get the word out. I, and your local wildlife, thank you. 🥰 #Halloween #birds #wildlife 032
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 29/09/2025After a day of tuning and testing models, another variable has entered the fray. #AMD #RYZENAIMAX #GMKtec 020
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Some fun building llama.cpp with ROCm 6.4, ROCm 7.0 RC2 and Vulkan in addition to testing some kv cache quants. Note, don't bother with iq4_nl for k & v , it pushes prompt processing to CPU. Without quantizing kv, ROCm is beating vulkan in my testing. Dolphin-Mistral-24B-Venice-Edition-Q5_K_M.gguf 500
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 21/09/2025I modified the world clock example of the Pimoroni Presto to give it some much needed Matrix. @pimoroni.com #micropython #RaspberryPiPico #Pimoroni 2232
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Never underestimate the healing powers of an occasional rm -rf ~/.cache/uv #python #softwaredevelopment 220
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 25/08/2025I spent some time with Gemini CLI today. Made great progress on a local project until I ran out of free Gemini Pro 2.5 requests and it switch me to Gemini Flash. Then it was more hassle fixing the errors it cause... Even the Premium plan is only 1500 a day. #Gemini #Google #SoftwareDevelopment 010
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Cline is WAY better than GitHub Copilot. For my current workflow at least #python #Neo4j #Gemma3-27b-q5 000
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Just a call out that gpt-oss:20b got an update and it now can be shown the error of it's ways. And for some specific tasks it really is a great tool. 30k context and fully loaded into VRAM in 18GB, 87.93 tok/sec, 1.20s to first token in LM Studio - ROCm llama.cpp (Linux) v1.46.0 #ROCm #AMD 021
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Up most of the night because your brain won’t stop coming up with new software solutions? Yea me too, you’re not alone. 010
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 06/08/2025And how do I know the new GPT-OSS:20B OpenAI model is shit? How about a 20 min conversation where I am unable to convince the model that it is wrong. That my 718 Cayman GT4 is in fact a flat 6 not a flat 4. Hallucinating and arrogant. #GPT-OSS #UnuseableModel 010
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 23/07/2025AMD ROCm 6.4.2 with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Python 3.12 working great for my purposes. Still awaiting ROCm 7 but thank you for releasing 6.4.2! #AMD #TeamRed #ROCm www.amd.com/en/products/...amd.com 011
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Who says the GT4 is not practical? We got a Cisco and grocery story trip in her no problem. 110
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 16/04/2025#AMD, thank you for all the hard work on ROCM www.amd.com/en/products/... 6.4 is working great with pyTorch 3.2! I have been able to run a 23.8GB flux1-dev-F16.gguf on my RX 7900 XTX.amd.com 000
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 24/03/2025graphacademy.neo4j.com/c/79962348-8...graphacademy.neo4j.comShawn Reed earned the Graph Data Modeling Fundamentals badge on #Neo4j #GraphAcademyOn Mar 24, 2025, Shawn Reed earned the Graph Data Modeling Fundamentals badge. Test yourself with #Neo4j #GraphAcademy... 000
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 24/03/2025I was literally asked to stop the AI rendering on my PC because I was causing the dining room lights to flicker. I have succeeded. 100
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Fingers crossed for snow over the next couple days!!!! 010
Reposted by Shawn ReedLectronz: The new maker marketplace. @lectronz.com · 29/11/2024New on Lectronz: SC601 RCBus-40pin Z80 CPU module kit lectronz.com/products/sc601-rcbus-4… #Retrocomputing #Kitslectronz.comSC601 RCBus-40pin Z80 CPU module kitThis is a Z80 CPU module with reset and clock designed for RC2014/RCBus 001
Reposted by Shawn ReedArch Linux @archlinux.bsky.social · 28/09/2024Arch Linux has announced a direct collaboration with Valve! This is great news, and with the Steam Deck powered by Arch, it makes a lot of sense. lists.archlinux.org/archives/lis...lists.archlinux.org Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org 0234
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Motivation to clean out the gutters on the house, a nice drive along the coast after. 161
Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 15/11/202438 F and foggy after 2.6" of rain the past couple days. It is perfect here. 110