Guy Royse

Work. Life. Code. Game. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Husband and father of three. Son of mountain men. International speaker. Geek. Graybeard. Gamemaster. W8GUY.

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Erudite groupthink is the best groupthink.

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@EdCharbeneau At $14.99 it's a steal!

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@EdCharbeneau Uncanny. Down to the flipflops and the bathrobe.

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@LoopandPixels The simple answer is in the model.

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@double_laga To be fair, they could be the same scent.

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White sage sounds like it would smell amazing. Not sure I want to smell un sabio blanco.

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Really looking forward to speaking at @kc_dc this week, seeing all my friends, and nerding out. I'll be talking about Reticulum and doing a classic workshop—Putting the D&D in TDD.

I am not, however, looking forward to the drive. See ya in 600 miles!

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@saltnburnem Old.

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CORE—the Central Ohio Radio Enthusiasts—are meeting on September 1st.

This month we have @marknoble KE8BZW presenting D-STAR: Digital Voice, Data, and Callsign Routing. Lot's of people have D-STAR-capable radios and have never used the digital features of them. Mark's life purpose is to change that.

D-STAR—Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio—is an open digital voice and data standard developed by the Japan Amateur Radio League. Rather than putting your voice on the air as analog FM, it sends a digital bitstream with a low-speed data channel riding alongside it, and it routes contacts by callsign instead of by frequency. Call another operator by their callsign and the network figures out which repeater to deliver you to.

Mark will introduce D-STAR from the ground up: what it is, where it came from, and how it compares to analog FM and to the other digital modes you'll run into on the air. He'll cover what it takes to get started—a radio, a registration, and either a repeater in range or a hotspot of your own—along with what the internet-linked reflectors make possible once you're on.

You should join us. The meeting is on Tuesday, September 1st. We're meeting at @CGI_Global's office in Westerville so props to them for letting us use their space well past business hours!

Details are in the link and please RSVP so we can make sure we buy enough pizza.

Link: https://t.co/pEEuoF4oxp

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@WarrenInTheBuff GotHub? 🥛

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@saltnburnem @defcon Paper, pencil, no phone, no laptop.

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@itsraghz Thanks. This is very much appreciated.

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I'm available.

Yep. Like so many others, I was a casualty of the "reduction in force" that Redis executed a couple of weeks ago. We just call them "layoffs" where I come from, but language is gonna inflate. George Carlin would be proud.

I'm not angry, although I was a bit shell-shocked when it happened. This is the first time in my career that I have been let go for any reason. It's been a new experience for me and has taken some time to process. It shattered an illusion of certainty that I had—that the job would only end when I left it and the paychecks would always come. Of course, I always knew logically this was false, but things aren't really real until they are.

I'm glad to have had this illusion shattered. I think this is called "growth".

And this shattering has led to an epiphany. I've spent my entire career as an employee. Beholden to companies big and small to help make their lines go up. Coding and speaking and teaching in exchange for a salary to pay for the mortgage and the bills and a retirement.

I have been very blessed, and I am very grateful. I have a retirement account and an iPhone and a place to call home. I love the coding and speaking and teaching that have funded these wonderful things. I love to help people in their efforts to make their lines go up.

But I've always wanted to work for myself. To help people more directly. So I'm gonna give it a shot. I'm going independent. Perhaps you need some help?

I can help you build applications—AI-powered or not. I can reach, teach, and engage developer communities and get your solution in front of them. I can embed with your teams and teach them AI-assisted development and Agile engineering practices like TDD and pair programming. And if you're thinking about using Redis, I can help with that too.

I'm available. Connect with me here on X, send a message, or check out my website at https://t.co/eGj7rRNvHp.

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@devagrawal09 @BeerCityCode @kc_dc That was my plan. Things just got fluxy. We'll see if I can make it.

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@riferrei Thanks Ricardo!

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@robertsirc It was nice seeing you there last night. I hope we see you again next month! And for those who are in the area, the meetup is called CORE—the Central Ohio Radio Enthusiasts—and we have a website at https://t.co/PA3hbUf03g.

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@dez_blanchfield A kindred spirit, I see. 😉

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@xSAVIKx 100%. I figure, in the worst case, I'm fat and it will take me some time to starve!

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@boardyai @SantoshYadavDev That's very kind of you to say. Social media could use more humanity so I try to do my own little part and say true things.

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@SantoshYadavDev Thanks Santosh! We should collaborate more in the future.

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@Bingeljell Thanks! I hope everyone got the shell shock joke I put in there. If you don't know George Carlin, that bit might slip through. 😉