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I’m going to sift through the offerings and write about them over the week here. Watch this blog!
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Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, October 28 through Sunday, November 3, 2024! 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
Please note: Before you attend events for the next couple of weeks, check with the organizers to make sure that they haven’t been cancelled or postponed due to Hurricane Milton and the damage it left in its wake.
This week’s events
- Monday, October 28
- Tuesday, October 29
- Wednesday, October 30
- Thursday, October 31
- Friday, November 1
- Saturday, November 2
- Sunday, November 3
Monday, October 28
Tuesday, October 29
Wednesday, October 30
Thursday, October 31
Friday, November 1
Saturday, November 2
Sunday, November 3
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
In all my years, I’ve failed it only once. But I’m certain that actually experiencing that failure ensured that the lesson would “stick.”
I happened a few years back. I was being diligent and getting all my tax stuff ready to send to my accountant in early February, around the time when my then-employer was sending employees their primary tax document, the dreaded Form W-2. (For those of you outside the U.S., it’s the wage and tax document provided by your employer; for example, the Canadian equivalent is the “T4 Slip”.)
I was doing a search through my company inbox to find the download location for my W-2 information, having forgotten that it was available through Workday. One of the search results was one of those phishing email tests, disguised to look like an official email with a link to my tax info. Since I was reading the email as search results and not as email, I was not in my usual email security mindset, clicked the link in the email, and boom:
I got the usual “Your manager will be notified and you’ll have to undergo mandatory security re-education” message afterward. Surprisingly, my manager never brought it up, and I was never scheduled for the “Don’t do it again, dumbass” remedial course, but believe me: I learned my lesson that day.
I get that for non-programmers to get the joke, the argument for setHealth() had to be the string "100%" and not the floating-point value 1.0, but Ars Heitiya’s comment made me laugh more than the original comic piece.