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Saturday picdump for Saturday, August 9
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy,
Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics,
and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, August 11 through Sunday, August 17!
This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:
✅ When the event will take place
✅ What the event is
✅ Where the event will take place
✅ Who is holding the event
This week’s events
- Monday, August 11
- Tuesday, August 12
- Wednesday, August 13
- Thursday, August 14
- Friday, August 15
- Saturday, August 16
- Sunday, August 17
Monday, August 11
Tuesday, August 12
Wednesday, August 13
Thursday, August 14
Friday, August 15
Saturday, August 16
Sunday, August 17
| Event name and location | Group | Time |
|---|---|---|
| CNC Bootcamp week 3 MakerSpace St. Petersburg |
Makerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group | 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT |
| Venice Strategy Board Gamers Venice |
Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton | 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT |
| Sunday Gaming Tampa Bay Bridge Center |
Tampa Gaming Guild | 1:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT |
| First Documentary: Oceangate Dissent Craft Brewing |
Tampa Bay Documentary Book Club | 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT |
| D&D Adventurers League Critical Hit Games |
Critical Hit Games | 2:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT |
| Sunday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, Tampa Whole Foods Market |
Chess Republic | 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT |
| Lego building afternoon Southern Lights Brewing Company |
Gen Geek | 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT |
| Sunday Pokemon League Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! |
Sunshine Games | 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT |
| Sew Awesome! (Textile Arts & Crafts) Tampa Hackerspace West |
Tampa Hackerspace | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT |
| The Marmoreal Tomb Nerdy Needs |
Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group | 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT |
| A Duck Presents NB Movie Night Discord.io/Nerdbrew |
Nerd Night Out | 7:00 PM to 11:30 PM EDT |
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About this list
How do I put this list together?
It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.
In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.
What goes into this list?
I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:
-
- Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
- Tech project management / agile processes
- Video, board, and role-playing games
- Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
- Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
- Toastmasters and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
- Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
- Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
- Anything I deem geeky
I’d normally save this for the Saturday picdump, but this meme was just too good to let sit for another few days. Share and enjoy!
In case you’re wondering what the original line was:
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Saturday picdump for August 2, 2025
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!
Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, August 4 through Sunday, August 10!
This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:
✅ When the event will take place
✅ What the event is
✅ Where the event will take place
✅ Who is holding the event
This week’s events
- Monday, August 4
- Tuesday, August 5
- Wednesday, August 6
- Thursday, August 7
- Friday, August 8
- Saturday, August 9
- Sunday, August 10
Monday, August 4
Monday at 8 p.m., online: Masterminds Tampa Bay is hosting a virtual speed networking event to grow your business network.
This is a “cameras on” event — you have to keep them on for the entire event, and you must commit to the full two hours!
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday, August 5
Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. at Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (Tampa): Alex from the Tampa AI Applications Group presents the Model Context Protocol and Function Calling, demonstrating how agents can perform tasks on your computer.
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. at New World Brewery (Tampa): Ideas On Tap, the quarterly lecture series over pizza and craft beer, is back with three talks on the rise of Artificial Intelligence and what that means for the world around us. Join us as three industry experts help us start to build a roadmap for an AI-enabled society:
- Teaching in an AI World: How will AI impact how we teach, what we teach, and what careers we prepare students for? Get perspectives on all this and more with John Licato, Director of the USF Advanced Machine and Human Reasoning lab.
- Regulators, Mount Up: So many AI discussions end with, “We need to regulate this.” But what does that really mean? Adam Sloope joins us for a frank discussion on AI regulation and legislation from the viewpoint of a data governance expert.
- Your AI Preparation Kit: In these parts we know what storm preparation looks like – and with AI, storm season is already here. UX specialist Justin Davis talks about what steps you can take to prepare your career, your life, and your family for success in an AI-enabled world.
Find out more and get your tickets here.
Wednesday, August 6
Thursday, August 7
Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at Embarc Collective (Tampa):
Find out more and register here.
Friday, August 8
Saturday, August 9
Sunday, August 10
About this list
How do I put this list together?
It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.
In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.
What goes into this list?
I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:
-
- Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
- Tech project management / agile processes
- Video, board, and role-playing games
- Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
- Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
- Toastmasters and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
- Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
- Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
- Anything I deem geeky
Last week, I interviewed for a developer relations leadership role at a company whose product I genuinely use and admire.
I made it to round 2 of 3, but ultimately wasn’t selected.
While I didn’t land the job and a chance to work with an amazing company and incredible team, I’m honored to have been considered and incredibly proud of the work I put in:
- 30+ hours of research and preparation
- 100+ slides across two presentations
- Some of the most meaningful conversations I’ve had with a team in years
I could simply throw up my hands in resignation and leave all that work and content to languish in a folder on a backup drive or in the cloud…
…but instead, I’m sharing it here. Why?
Because:
- Good ideas deserve to circulate! Maybe there’s a framework, approach, or creative solution in my presentations that could help someone else.
- We’re not alone in this. The job market is tough right now, and I want people to know they’re not the only ones putting in extraordinary effort. I know you’re out there, giving it your all!
- Transparency builds community and helps others. Real examples of strategic work are worth way more than hand-waving abstract advice.
I’m sharing the slides that outline my complete developer relations strategy presentation plus my tactical execution plan, anonymized and annotated with speaker notes. You’ll see my “Foundation / Focus / Flywheel” framework, community engagement strategies, and how I approached everything from attribution tracking to expanding into Europe.
- If you’re job searching: Take what’s useful here and build on it! No attribution necessary. We’re all in this together, and your success doesn’t diminish mine.
- If you found this valuable: Please share it! It helps me and others going through this.
- If you’re hiring: This shows how I think about DevRel strategy. If your team builds for developers, let’s chat!
My philosophy is that either I win or I learn. I learned a lot from this process, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to have engaged with such a thoughtful team.
Next time, I just might win.