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, June 23 through Sunday, June 29!
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
| Event name and location | Group | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Brunch at Wat Mong with Gen Geek Wat Mongkolratanaram |
Gen Geek | 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM EDT |
| Sunday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, Tampa Whole Foods Market |
Chess Republic | 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT |
| D&D Adventurers League Critical Hit Games |
Critical Hit Games | 2:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT |
| Moulin Rouge! @ Tampa Theatre Tampa Theatre |
The Tampa Bay Movie Fans Meetup Group | 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM EDT |
| Traveller – Science Fiction Adventure RPG Black Harbor Gaming |
St Pete and Pinellas Tabletop RPG Group | 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT |
| Intro to Crochet MakerSpace St. Petersburg |
Makerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group | 4:00 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 |
| Lankhmar: City of Adventure Nerdy Needs |
Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group | 5:00 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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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:
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, June 9 through Sunday, June 15, 2025!
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
Wednesday from 6 – 8 p.m. at Embarc Collective (Tampa): Tampa Bay Artificial Intelligence Meetup and Tampa Bay Python present Intro to AI agents with MCP: Model Context Protocol!
MCP is short for “Model Context Protocol.” Introduced to world by Anthropic not too long ago, it’s an open source, open standard that gives AI models connection to external data sources and tools. You could describe MCP as “a universal API for AIs to interact with online services.”
You’ll learn what MCP is, why it was made and how it came about, and then show you actual working code by building a simple MCP server connected to an LLM. Joey will demonstrate a couple of examples of MCP in action, and they’ll be examples that you can take home and experiment with!
Find out more and register here.
Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at Green Bench Brewing Company (St. Pete): Tampa Bay Designers is hosting a Design Hangout! Join your fellow designers for some drinks, talking shop, or whatever else comes to mind.
Thursday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. (online): GDG presents Future of Mobile Apps: Integrating AI into Flutter & Android.
The first speaker, Anthony Atuoha, will guide you on Bringing AI to Mobile Apps with Flutter. Learn practical ways to integrate AI, focusing on advanced tools like Vertex AI, Gemini, and Firebase AI Studio, enabling you to deliver personalized and intelligent experiences through your apps.
Following this, Sagar Das will present Using Gemini API in Android Apps, including a hands-on coding session. Discover the basics of Gemini models and learn to implement Gen AI features in your Android apps using Gemini SDK.
Find out more and register here.
Thursday from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Magnanimous Brewery (Tampa): Tampa M365 and Tampa Power Platform are holding their regular joint social meetup where you can enjoy beers, socialize, and network with awesome local techies. Whether you’re new to Microsoft 365 or an experienced M365 IT Pro / Developer, or new to Power Platform or an experienced Citizen Developer, this event is a great opportunity to meet new faces and get to know your local counterparts.
Find out more and register here.
Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Wild Rover Brewery (Tampa): Tampa Bay Agile and ClearlyAgile present Lean Beer for All Things Agile! It’s an alternative to the early morning Lean Coffees and a great place to ask questions and share your stories of using Agile and Lean software approaches, over an adult beverage (if you choose).
They discuss any topics on Agile and Lean that are of interest to whomever is gathered. You suggest the topics, then the group prioritizes that list democratically, through a good ol’ fashioned vote. They manage discussions via time boxes, and a Roman vote (drinks up/drinks down).
Find out more and register here.
Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Feather Sound Country Club: ISACA, in partnership with OWASP, ISSA, InfraGard and ISC2, and hosting the Tampa Bay Cyber Resilience + AI Summit 2025!
This conference will explore issues such as:
Find out more and register here.
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:
Here’s a screenshot of my half of a Zoom meeting that I was on earlier this morning. I assure you that I had a valid, strategic reason for wearing an old-school Starfleet command/engineering uniform.
I’ll post more details later as events warrant.
Back in mid-March, the Tampa Bay AI Meetup hosted a session at Embarc Collective called Build an AI job application helper app, where we did just that: we built an application that helps you apply for jobs.
I’ve since refined the app and posted it on GitHub, where you can download it and try it out for yourself.
According to the Silicon Valley-based career guidance service Pathrise, job seekers who sent 20+ job applications every week got more interviews and landed a job sooner.
That’s a lot of work, especially since the general advice is to customize your résumé for every job application, and then write a cover letter too. This app makes it easier to take on this big task by taking your résumé and the description of the job you’re applying for, then uses an LLM to generate a résumé and cover letter optimized for that job application.
The app is written in Python and uses Jupyter Notebook as a platform. I wrote this as a Jupyter Notebook rather than a regular command-line Python app because Jupyter Notebooks also allow me to mix explanatory documentation with my code:
Give it a try! You can either clone the GitHub repo for this application, or simply download a .zip file containing all its files.
Another Saturday has come around, and so has another “picdump!” This is the article where I post the technology- and work-related memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy!
3D Anywhere: Collaborative design w/ Unity Asset Manager Wed, Jun 25th,
Sarasota