It’s Saturday; time for the weekly “work- and tech-related” picdump on Global Nerdy! www.globalnerdy.com/2026/03/28/s... These four are just a sample. You can always see the latest set here: 🌐globalnerdy.com/picdump.

I think I need to write this parody song and add it to the accordion tech repertoire. Someone *please* tell me they get the (admittedly dated) reference...

Every week, I publish the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in Tampa Bay on Global Nerdy. Here’s this week’s list; find your event, find your people, make some opportunities, and #MakeItTampaBay! globalnerdy.com/list

I was there, I took notes, and here’s the result you can use: Five Things We Learned at AI Salon St Pete/Tampa – Notes from a fireplace conversation with Accenture’s James Gress and Brian Peret! www.globalnerdy.com/2026/03/26/f...

🌴🌴🌴 Tampa Bay deal of the day: If you have $300 and no sense of self-preservation, your new hobby ride awaits in Dade City! www.joeydevilla.com/2026/03/26/t...

TONIGHT in Tampa Bay: not one, but TWO AI events, one for each side of the Bay! 🤖 On the St. Pete side: AI Salon St Pete/Tampa at spARK Labs by ARK Invest. luma.com/q1g7r6vd?tk=... 🤖 On the Tampa side: AI Workshop Tampa 2026 at Embarc Collective. luma.com/kqp2trk0

A PORTFOLIO PAGE often does a better job of telling your story than a resume. I’ve just updated mine: globalnerdy.com/portfolio. We can do a workshop at the Suncoast Software Skills Meetup on how you can set up your own portfolio page for ZERO COST, aside from the time and effort you put into it.

Happening in Tampa Bay’s tech scene... TODAY: ✅ Tampa Digital Mixer, 6 pm TOMORROW: ✅ Heart of Agile @ online, 12:30 pm ✅ AI Salon St Pete/Tampa, 5:30 pm ✅ AI Workshop by Clarky AI, 6 pm Want more Tampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, & nerd events? The latest version is always on at globalnerdy.com/list

In just under three weeks, I’ll be at the ArcOfAI Conference (April 13 - 16), and as a SPEAKER! I’m giving a brand-new talk on brand-new best practices titled “AEO – Writing Docs and Code for Machines!” Find out more about my talk and the conference here: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/03/23/m...

[1 of 2] This pic captures the vibe for junior developers circa 1998: Java was going to destroy the Microsoft hegemony, we were all going have applets or Shockwave pushed to our desktops, RAD IDE tools abounded...

Welcome to the working week! There’s always something happening in Tampa Bay’s tech, entrepreneur, and nerd scene, and you can always find out what’s happening with the “official unofficial” list of events on Global Nerdy: globalnerdy.com/list!

Gearing up for a new week like so: www.joeydevilla.com/.../gearing-...

I continue to vibe code “Eternal Grind,” my version of the parody game “Progress Quest!” The latest version has more monsters, treasure, tasks, and locations, plus an improved equipment list. “Play” the game here: accordionguy.github.io/eternal-grind/ See the code here: github.com/AccordionGuy...

It’s Sunday, which means I’m linking to my “opinion” picdump, which includes Lord of the Rings’ most unfortunate alternate name (in Quenya — High Elven — Celeborn’s other name means “silver tall tree”). These 4 are just a sample; you can always see the current set at: joeydevilla.com/picdump

Hey, Tampa Bay! Would anyone be up for a tech coffee social in Temple Terrace sometime in the next few weeks? Fantastic coffee, amazing sweets, and scintillating conversations — who’s with me? (Pictured: coffees and a delightfully custard-y chocolate cheesecake bomb at Qamaria Coffee.)

Here’s next week’s list of extracurricular tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in Tampa Bay, courtesy of Tampa Bay’s tech blog, Global Nerdy! You can always find the latest list here: globalnerdy.com/list

TONIGHT in Tampa Bay: ✅ Tampa Devs presents “Hands-On Workshop: Media IQ for Developers with Cloudinary and Next.js” ✅ Tampa Open Claw Set Up Function presents “Open Claw For All! Ai for Beginners - Advanced” Find out more about Tampa Bay tech events here: globalnerdy.com/list

Tampa Bay Tech Week is only a couple of weeks away! Billed as “a multi-day, citywide celebration of technology, culture, and community,” it’s a week worth of events taking place across Tampa Bay, from Ybor and downtown Tampa to midtown Tampa to St. Pete. Read more about it here:

The Lunar New Year “Sad Horse” is a plush manifestation of the adage “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!”, and ours finally arrived! Read more about it here: 🐴 The sad horse arrived: www.joeydevilla.com/2026/03/18/t... 🐴 It’s the Year of the Sad Horse!: www.joeydevilla.com/2026/02/17/i...

Once again, if you miss “Progress Quest,” you’ll love “Eternal Grind!” Agentically coded by Yours Truly. 🌐 Play it here: accordionguy.github.io/eternal-grind/ 🌐 GitHub repo here: github.com/accordionguy...

I’m reasonably flexible and forgiving with humans in my employ, but I’m an insult comedian when dealing with LLMs. It’s not that it produces better revised results; it’s just that doing so is a great catharsis and creative outlet. More here: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/03/18/m...

When your talk happens on the last time slot of the ArcOfAI Conference (three days; four days, if you’re also going to do one of the workshops), you need to put in some extra effort to get the attendees to show up. Brent Laster did just that, coming up with my favorite talk title of the conference.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! www.joeydevilla.com/2026/03/17/h...

Do you miss “Progress Quest,” the Windows XP adventure game that played itself? I used Zencoder’s Zenflow to agentically build “Eternal Grind,” a web homage to that classic game! Play it here: accordionguy.github.io/eternal-grind/ Read more about it here: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/03/17/e...

The Arc of AI conference is happening in Austin in four weeks, and it’s not too late to get tickets (and a flight) for this event! I’ll be writing about Arc of AI over the next little while, starting with this article about the pre-conference workshops: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/03/15/t...

SUNDAY! Time for the “opinion” picdump on the “Accordion Guy” blog. These four are just a sample, and you can always see the latest picdump at joeydevilla.com/picdump !

This accordion gimmick has gotten me into some pretty interesting places…such as on a float in Tampa’s St. Patrick’s Bay parade!

It’s Saturday, and time for another Global Nerdy picdump! The latest version is always at globalnerdy.com/picdump

Either the author of the article’s parents had avant-garde baby name ideas or someone at the NYT forgot to replace the “Byline Name” with the author’s name. This is my first “double-check your work before putting it out there” reminder of 2026: www.joeydevilla.com/2026/03/13/m...

Every week, I publish the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in and around the Tampa Bay area. You can always find the latest version at globalnerdy.com/list!

Here’s next week’s list of Tampa Bay tech events... www.globalnerdy.com/2026/03/13/t...

TONIGHT! Tampa Bay AI Meetup presents a vibe coding workshop. The word “workshop” is in the title, so bring your laptop — we’re going to write at least one useful application right there. Join us (me, Anitra, and the Tampa Bay AI Meetup members) at the Hays office in Westshore tonight at 6.

TOMORROW! Everybody on social media says they’re vibe coding right now, but most of us haven’t tried it yet. If you’re starting now, you’re still early! Join me and Anitra tomorrow at Tampa Bay AI Meetup. We’ll lead through through a workshop where you’ll learn the basics of vibe coding.

Here’s the next in my series of notes from Advantage, the AI leadership summit that was preceded the Devnexus conference: Pratik Patel and the leadership edition of “AI Architecture” talk: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/03/11/n...

Tonight in Tampa Bay’s tech scene... ⚾️ Tampa Devs presents “A Night to Network” at Steinbrenner Stadium www.meetup.com/tampadevs/ev... 🖥️ AI & Data Analytics’ monthly meetup at the ECC will feature a dive into what it takes to scale AI systems within an enterprise. www.meetup.com/dataanalytic...

Last week, Anitra and I attended Advantage, the AI leadership summit that was preceded the Devnexus conference. I took copious notes and photos of all the Advantage talks, and wrote them up in Global Nerdy. Here’s the first in my series — Frank Greco’s “A Leader’s Playbook for AI”!

TOMORROW in Tampa Bay: Some interesting events happening in the Tampa Bay tech scene, including: ⚾️ Tampa Devs’ presents “A Night to Network” at Steinbrenner Stadium: 🖥️ AI & Data Analytics’ monthly meetup at the Entrepreneur Collaborative Center Find them (and more) here: globalnerdy.com/list

The “Arc of AI” conference, organized by Venkat Subramaniam, takes place in Austin, Texas from April 13 - 16, and it features a lot technical AI workshops and sessions, including one from their newest speaker: me! arcofai.com More details here: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/03/10/i...

11 years ago, Anitra and I got married: www.joeydevilla.com/2026/03/09/e...

Murphys Law reared its ugly head today when the team working on the house foundation cut our internet fiber. We both do remote work, so in case it takes a while to get reconnected, I’m taking this emergency short-term measure.

I’m on this week’s edition of the “This Week in Tech” podcast with Cory Doctorow! We talk a LOT about AI, and it’s a long one. Catch it on your favorite podcast service (it’s episode 1074) or watch it on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDnT...

Current situation.

It’s Daylight Sunday Time (in North America, at least), which means it’s time for the “opinion” picdump on my personal “Accordion Guy” blog. Below are just 4 of the 100+ images I found relevant or interesting this week. You can find the rest here: joeydevilla.com/picdump.

It’s Saturday, which means it’s time for the “work- and tech-related” picdump on the Global Nerdy blog! These four are just a sample — check out the full set here: globalnerdy.com/picdump

If they serve soft drinks in Clown Hell, it’s this one.

Hello from Atlanta! We’re here for the week, partly for our 11th wedding anniversary, partly to attend Dev/Nexus and its associated AI summit. If you’re in the area of downtown Atlanta and want to catch up, let me know! (Photo: Me and Anitra at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.)

Find out what’s happening in Tampa Bay’s tech scene at Tampa Bay’s “official unofficial” list of tech events: 🌐https://www.globalnerdy.com/list

It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for the “opinion” picdump on the Accordion Guy blog. These 4 are just a sample — the rest are here: joeydevilla.com/picdump.

It’s Saturday, so once again it’s time for the weekly “work- and tech- related” picdump on Global Nerdy. These four are just a sample; you’ll find the rest here: globalnerdy.com/picdump!

The latest edition of the Tampa Bay Tech Events list is live! www.globalnerdy.com/2026/02/27/t... Find your event, find your people, make some opportunities, and #MakeItTampaBay!