Guy Royse

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

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

My beard has opinions, apparently.

[Hack Midwest @HackMidwest]

@guyroyse just wanted to make sure all participants were credited

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[Hack Midwest @HackMidwest]

@guyroyse just wanted to make sure all participants were credited

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[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

I built an agentic thing for an upcoming livestream that I'll be on. While building that agentic thing, I learned a lesson. I already knew the lesson. But I didn't know that I knew the lesson. Pretty sure this is called an epiphany. You probably know it too and might benefit from the epiphany. So, I'm gonna share it and then shamelessly plug the livestream.

The thing I built is called Earshot. Earshot consists of three agents: two listeners—one on a microphone, one on my ham radio—that transcribe whatever they hear, decide if it needs any correction, and write it down. And a chatbot that reads what they wrote and lets you, well, chat about it. That's the whole app.

Here's the cool bit. These three agents never talk to each other. The listeners don't know the chatbot exists. The chatbot doesn't know the listeners exist. They just read and write the same shared memory. Ain't nobody wired to anybody.

If that sounds familiar, it should. It's decoupling. The same decoupling we've done with message queues and shared databases and job tables for decades—producers on one side, consumers on the other, some sort of store in the middle. Neither end holding a reference to the other. I reached for it intuitively without realizing I was implementing the same distributed-systems pattern I've used scores of times in the past.

And since this isn't really new, the tradeoffs are the same. No delivery guarantees, no ordering. Things happen when they happen if they happen. Decoupling buys you flexibility at the cost of certainty, same as ever.

But that flexibility is so, so nice. It lets you scale and it lets you extend. Since nothing is wired together, you can add more listeners and more types of listeners, more chatbots and more types of chatbots. Potentially a lot more if your shared state can scale with them.

In Earshot, I used Redis for the shared state, specifically Redis Agent Memory. It was easy to use and gives me scaling, scaling that my toy agents don't really need. But your agents, which do real work for real users, will totally need it. Probably sooner than you think.

I built all of this in VS Code and used GitHub Copilot to assist. In particular, I used Redis' set of agent skills so that Copilot would know how, and more importantly when, to use Redis Agent Memory's APIs.

I plan to demo it all on VS Code Live this Thursday, June 4 at 9am PT. Join @ReynaldAdolphe and me as we take a chatbot that starts with no memory and, one capability at a time, learns to listen to what is in earshot.

Livestream:
https://t.co/8GTNskyvsI

GitHub repo with the demo:
https://t.co/kijROed9qx

Redis Agent Skills:
https://t.co/T5aWsRHvRV

Redis Agent Memory & Redis Iris:
https://t.co/vR768UmJcc
https://t.co/5Rpm7FP3sb

@Redisinc @code @GitHubCopilot

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

Hey folks. The Central Ohio Radio Enthusiasts is meeting tomorrow night at @CGI_Global in Westerville. The topic is DMR, or digital mobile radio, and Alex Barbur will be showing us how to use it, not only for voice communications, but as an IP transport.

If you're interested, all the details are in the link. And, please RSVP so we know how much pizza to get!

https://t.co/S5rf5oXrKu

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

@DavidGiard That pistol looks unpleasant to fire, honestly. How are your hands feeling? 😉

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

@saltnburnem I am on Mac. On Linux I also run Oh My Zsh.

You also will want to look at lsd. It's an alternative to ls that uses Nerd Fonts to render folder and file icons that match the type of file. I'm using Fira Code Nerd Fonts for my terminal.

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

And, special shout out to @CGI_Global for hosting us. Great meeting space. Great location. Great pizza. Great company! Thanks for making CORE possible.

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

The monthly CORE (Central Ohio Radio Enthusiasts) meeting is Tuesday, June 2. This month we have Alex Barbur presenting An Introduction to DMR as an IP Transport. Don't know what that is? You should come.

Details and RSVP are in the link:
https://t.co/0L3StvctzU

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

@unclebobmartin @ThePrimeagen @vxunderground Can confirm.

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

@marknoble @scottwww7 @TenthAmendment @realDonaldTrump @exjon ZAP sounds like a fancy version of what my father taught me. Never start a fight. But if you find yourself in one, be sure to finish it.

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

Everything is on a continuum. But some continuums are more lopsided than others.

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

@robertsirc Yes.

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

@Chromedaffodils @BSidesDayton I'll try to make it as awesome as I can!

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

I'm gonna be at @BSidesDayton this Saturday running the Radio Village and talking about Reticulum.

Wanna play with some radio? Want to build secure off-grid networks? Buy a ticket already. It's only $25 and they feed ya!

https://t.co/NgrE3I66vG

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

Every now and then it strikes me how much I miss @jimweirich.

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

No joke indeed. @rowantrollope is at the top of the leaderboard at Redis for Codex usage (at least the last time I looked).

It's pretty cool working for a company where the geek runs that deep. And even cooler when we can help companies like OpenAI scale.

[Rowan Trollope @rowantrollope]

Cool to see how OpenAI uses Redis to scale voice AI to 900M users:

https://t.co/1fpMcCyEzu

We're huge Codex fans here at Redis - I use Codex 5.5 extensively - amazing work by the team there. GPT 5.5 is the best model for most tasks IMO. It even fixed my wifi tonight (no joke)

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

@ScaryRebelBat @BRVTVSMAXIMVS @midwestern_ope Exactly!

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

@world_tourists_ Louisville

[Guy Royse @guyroyse]

@ScaryRebelBat @BRVTVSMAXIMVS @midwestern_ope I’ve been to Detroit and I’ve live in Columbus. Which one of these places is calm, polite, and minds their own business?