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Shawn Reed

@shekari.bsky.social
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Self proclaimed good guy with some bad habits including Porsche, Ducati & sugar. Also very lucky to have @sparklyseaster.bsky.social in my life.

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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Spent 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
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
My morning coding buddy.
Young male seal point cat relaxing on a blanket on a computer deal right beside the keyboard
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Chad Bianco should arrest Chad Bianco.
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Qwen'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
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Love 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
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Common Saints - Cinema 3000 Afternoon stress relief with a signed CD. commonsaints.com
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Now playing, first CDs purchased in many years and signed even. Thank you Maz for the wonderful music. mazoconnor.com
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Initial 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
Fosi audio and Klipse speakers and Audiolab CD transport
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I am quitting music streaming and I am quite excited about it too. #RedBookAudio #PCM #44khz #16bit
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Loving my new keyboard! wooting.io/wooting-60he... the more I use it and adjust/tweak the better it gets! Thank you Wooting!! #wooting
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Wooting 60HE v2 now available for pre-order
The 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.
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Whoa!! Seeing some insane improvements with #ROCm 7.1! #AMD VAE decoding is lightning fast.
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.com · 02/11/2025
Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark #Linux #LinuxGaming #Steam #SteamOS #SteamDeck
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Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark
It finally happened. Linux gamers on Steam as of the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for October 2025 have crossed over the elusive 3% mark.
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Just in case it helps save someone else some frustration. #Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-Q8_0 #RooCode github.com/RooCodeInc/R...
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Getting a lot of "Roo tried to use apply_diff without value for required parameter 'path'." with qwen3-coder · Issue #7406 · RooCodeInc/Roo-Code
App 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...
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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.
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François Zaninotto @francoisz.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Agentic 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...
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The RAG Obituary: Killed by Agents, Buried by Context Windows
Why Retrieval-Augmented Generation Won’t Survive the Context Revolution and the End of Chunking, Embeddings, and Rerankers as We Know Them.
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
No thanks Grok-Code-Fast-1 I'll take it from here.
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Beth Reed ✨⛵️ @sparklyseaster.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
A reminder for all. Please repost this to get the word out. I, and your local wildlife, thank you. 🥰 #Halloween #birds #wildlife
BEWARE!
Your Halloween decorations may be hazardous to wildlife!
[picture of a distressed owl caught in fake netting]
Any decorations, like fake spider webbing, that dangle, hang or wrap can entangle wild animals like this Screech Owl!
Please consider wildlife safety when decorating your home for the holiday, and remember to properly dispose of Halloween candy, pumpkins and other edibles to prevent unwanted wildlife visitors.
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
After a day of tuning and testing models, another variable has entered the fray. #AMD #RYZENAIMAX #GMKtec
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Some 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
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I modified the world clock example of the Pimoroni Presto to give it some much needed Matrix. @pimoroni.com #micropython #RaspberryPiPico #Pimoroni
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Never underestimate the healing powers of an occasional rm -rf ~/.cache/uv #python #softwaredevelopment
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I 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
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Cline is WAY better than GitHub Copilot. For my current workflow at least #python #Neo4j #Gemma3-27b-q5
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Just 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
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Up most of the night because your brain won’t stop coming up with new software solutions? Yea me too, you’re not alone.
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
And 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
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
AMD 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/...
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We decided to make an apple duchbaby for dinner.
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
PNW Porche club rally day!
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
@sparklyseaster.bsky.social Happy anniversary love!
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Who says the GT4 is not practical? We got a Cisco and grocery story trip in her no problem.
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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.
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Shawn Reed earned the Graph Data Modeling Fundamentals badge on #Neo4j #GraphAcademy
On Mar 24, 2025, Shawn Reed earned the Graph Data Modeling Fundamentals badge. Test yourself with #Neo4j #GraphAcademy...
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I was literally asked to stop the AI rendering on my PC because I was causing the dining room lights to flicker. I have succeeded.
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Thank you for this feature bsky!
block/mute words and tags including , currently adding "NFL".
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Fingers crossed for snow over the next couple days!!!!
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Lectronz: The new maker marketplace. @lectronz.com · 29/11/2024
New on Lectronz: SC601 RCBus-40pin Z80 CPU module kit lectronz.com/products/sc601-rcbus-4… #Retrocomputing #Kits
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SC601 RCBus-40pin Z80 CPU module kit
This is a Z80 CPU module with reset and clock designed for RC2014/RCBus
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Arch Linux @archlinux.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
Arch 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...
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Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration - Arch-dev-public - lists.archlinux.org
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Motivation to clean out the gutters on the house, a nice drive along the coast after.
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Shawn Reed @shekari.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
38 F and foggy after 2.6" of rain the past couple days. It is perfect here.
Foggy morning showing our backyard with green ground cover and large Douglas Fir and Western Red Cedar trees.  Also a couple Big Leaf Maple that have dropped their leaves for the season.
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