[1 of 4] On Saturday, I had the honor of speaking on the Careers in Tech panel at the TechX Florida conference, which was organized by USF’s student branch of the IEEE Computer Society.

“SCIENCE!!!” I finally got to meet the person who inspired me to mix both technology and keyboard playing last night: Thomas Dolby, who performed at the Capitol Theater in Clearwater last night, which I attended with Anitra. More details in an upcoming article about a very busy birthday weekend.

This is going in next Saturday’s ”work and tech” picdump on Global Nerdy, but I had to share it now.

New week, new events! Here’s the list of extracurricular tech, entrepreneur, and nerd things happening in Tampa Bay. Find your event, find your people, make some opportunities, and #MakeItTampaBay!

And now, the Sunday picdump... www.joeydevilla.com/2025/11/09/s...

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It’s time for Global Nerdy’s Saturday picdump, where I post the photos, comics, and memes related to tech and work that I found this week that I thought were interesting or amusing. These four are just a sample; click the link below to see the full set! www.globalnerdy.com/2025/11/08/s...

TOMORROW! The TechX Florida conference happens at USF’s Engineering Building II from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.. Lots of interesting talks, including the “Careers in Tech” session at 4:15, where I’ll be part of the panel! It’s FREE to attend — register at techxflorida.com!

[1 of 3] I have to respect the hustle that viewers of Tony Robbins’ AI Summit have shown. The Summit is set up like a scaled-up all hands Zoom call, and viewers are encouraged to turn their cameras on.

And now, the first two minutes of the closing session of Tony Robbins’ AI Summit, Day One. Be thankful I’m not posting the full ten minutes...

Here’s next week’s list of Tampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events, courtesy of Tampa Bay’s tech blog, Global Nerdy!

[1 of 2] I’ve had Tony Robbins’ and Dean Graziosi’s “AI Summit” on in the background, and Day One (yes, it’s three days’ worth) can be best described as “No stuff, just fluff.”

[1 of 2] I didn’t know they did this until recently: there’s a “Just the HP ZGX Nano” version of that recent “Intelligent Machines” podcast featuring Product Manager Andrew Hawthorn and Yours Truly talking about the AI workstation. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out!

Sending a laptop back to the client today. There was too little bubble wrap in the box to safely ship the laptop. Fortunately, I have lots of grocery bags; they’re pretty good packing material. I included a note for whoever will unpack it, plus a little something to make their day.

You’ve probably seen the YouTube ad with Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi talking about their upcoming AI seminar. I have some free time on my hands this week, so I signed up with one of my “sock puppet” accounts and plan to watch it and report my findings. This should be interesting...

The next leap for AI? Going local. 🤖 @leolaporte.me, @paris.nyc, & @mikeelgan.bsky.social talk with HP’s Andrew Hawthorne & @accordionguy.bsky.social about AI on the edge. 🎥 buff.ly/W8w3K3N 🎧 buff.ly/cBk8Cmm

Glenn Clifton Jr.’s rapper name, Young Bleed, was eerily prescient. I know I’ve already got the “Accordion Guy” moniker, but I should also porbably adopt “MC Awesome New Job” just in case your name is your fate. In the spirit of nominative determinism, what’s your rapper name?

🤖 TechX Florida is an AI conference run by IEEE-CS taking place on Saturday. It’ll feature speakers from industry and Tampa Bay AI startups, you can get a free professional headshot for your LinkedIn profile, and there’s the TechX After Dark afterparty! Find out more here: techxflorida.com

⭐️ Techstars Startup Weekend Tampa happens this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! It’s a hackathon where you compete to build the best startup in 54 hours. There’ll be mentors from industry to help out, and the event is calling for developers, designers, and domain experts. More here: swtampa.vfairs.com

It’s Day One of my SIXTH layoff, and a box has arrived! Why? Because it’s a box that may or not contain another box for returning my work computer. In this quick video, I talk the one thing you can do to make the experience a little bit better. Here’s the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWau...

New week, along with a new month and new time (I hope you took advantage of the extra hour)! And with that, we get a new list of the extracurricular tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. It’s all on Tampa Bay’s tech blog, Global Nerdy!

[1 of 2] Welcome to Monday! For those of you who aren’t working today because of a layoff — or, like me and my team, had their contract canceled — here’s another video: Mental health strategies. I recorded this last year after my layoff, and it features strategies that kept me on an even keel.

I’ve updated my list of food banks and restaurants that where kids get to eat for free. Share this far and wide to help people who rely on SNAP benefits (currently cut off due to the government shutdown)!

Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY! Here’s this week’s picdump on the Accordion Guy blog, a collection of the images, comics, and memes that I found amusing, interesting, or relevant this week. There are a LOT of them in the post — these are merely four. To see the full set: www.joeydevilla.com/2025/11/02/s...

Once again: RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), a way to give LLMs additional information, explained by Yours Truly using Star Wars characters. It’s all in the latest video posted to the Global Nerdy YouTube channel. Give it a watch, and please like and subscribe!

SNAP provides food assistance to about 3 million Floridians, and 1 million of those are children. With the shutdown, SNAP benefits are expected to end today. As a service to the community, I’ve put together a Tampa Bay list of food banks and restaurants are serving free meals to kids.

It’s Saturday — time for the Global Nerdy picdump, where I post the amusing or interesting work- and tech-related images, comics, and memes I found this week. These four are just a sample; you can see the whole set by clicking the link: www.globalnerdy.com/2025/11/01/s...

[1 of 2] It’s my last day as the HP ZGX Nano spokesmodel! I thought I’d mark it by sharing my writeup on observations by Sebastian Raschka, PhD, whose book I’m currently working my way through. He ran some benchmarks on a Mac Mini, NVIDIA datacenter GPUs, and DGX Spark (the ZGX Nano’s twin cousin).

Here’s the list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in and around Tampa Bay next week. Find your event, find your people, make some opportunities, and #MakeItTampaBay!

Here’s a video of my presentation from last year’s Civo Navigate Local conference, where I use “Star Wars” characters and some live Python/LangChain coding to show how RAG can improve LLM results!

[1 of 3] Can you do me a favor? Could you do a Google Search for “zgx nano” (without quotes) and let me know in the comments if any of my Global Nerdy articles on the ZGX Nano — the AI workstation I’m doing developer relations for until the end of the week — are on the first page of results for you?

[1 of 5] 🎃 It’s neither a trick nor a treat: HP ended the Kforce contract for the team I’m on, so my LAST DAY for doing developer relations for HP’s ZGX Nano is Halloween — this is, THIS FRIDAY. (It’s a good thing that the podcast happened last week!)

Check it out — my appearance on “Intelligent Machines” got a quick writeup on This Week In Tech’s summary, “How HP’s ZGX Station and NVIDIA’s Blackwell are Bringing AI Processing to the Edge!”

NEW VIDEO on the Global Nerdy YouTube Channel: “How Computers Work ‘Under the Hood’!” Learn how the CPU in your computer, smartphone, and electronic devices work in this presentation from my November 2023 talk for Tampa Devs, which even features assembly language programming!

Welcome to the working week! Here’s this week’s list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd extracurricular events happening in and around Tampa Bay, courtesy of Tampa Bay’s tech blog, Global Nerdy!

Anitra and I had a grand old time at the Salvador Dali Museum’s “Suenos de Dali” party last night.

Here’s this Sunday’s “opinion” picdump, courtesy of The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century. It’s a collection of photos, comics, memes, and other visuals that I found amusing or relevant this week. Check them out, and share them widely! www.joeydevilla.com/2025/10/26/s...

It’s Saturday, which means it’s time for Global Nerdy’s Saturday picdump, a collection of the work- and tech-related photos, comics, memes, and images that I found amusing or relevant this week. These four are just a sample — click the link to see the full set. www.globalnerdy.com/2025/10/25/s...

Hey, if you’re on LinkedIn, could you do me a favor? Could you “like” my comment? The links to that LinkedIn post and my comment are below. My comment: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Full LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/allen-...

[1 of 2] In case you missed it: the “Intelligent Machines” podcast episode featuring Yours Truly and Andrew Hawthorn chatting with Leo Laporte, Paris Martineau, and Mike Elgan is on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast places.

Happy Friday! It’s time for me to publish next week’s list of tech, entrpreneur, and nerd events happening in and around Tampa Bay. Find your event, find your people, make some opportunities, and #MakeItTampaBay!

[1 of 2] IT’S ONLINE! The episode of the “Intelligent Machines” podcast where HP’s Andrew Hawthorn (ZGX Nano product mgr) and I talk about the ZGX Nano AI workstation is now online! You can watch the episode on YouTube or grab it from your favorite podcast source, such as Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

5 p.m. eastern / 2 p.m. Pacific / 2100 UTC! www.youtube.com/@Intelligent...

Just doing a little home office tidying up before my LIVE appearance on the Intelligent Machines podcast, which happens THIS AFTERNOON at 5 Eastern / 2 Pacific!

TODAY at 5 p.m. Eastern / 2 p.m. Pacific: I’ll on the “Intelligent Machines” podcast, talking about HP’s ZGX Nano AI workstation with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau! They record LIVE, and you’ll be able to catch the recording on YouTube and wherever you download your podcasts.

Damn, now THERE’S a serious techbro-style putdown, and it’s definitely going in Saturday’s picdump! We’re sticking with the old-school mechanical not-connected-to-the-internet locks on our house doors for the next little while.

TOMORROW at 5 p.m. EDT: I’m doing a live appearance on the “Inteliigent Machines” podcast, and you can catch it on YouTube. I’ll be talking about the AI workstation I’m doing developer relations for: HP’s ZGX Nano! Here’s “Intelligent Machines’” YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@Intelligent...

Running a quick errand on my preferred “quick errand” vehicle: my trusty bike!

I’ve already fielded a couple of questions about where to get the T-shirt that Michael Carducci wore at his Tampa Java User Group / Tampa Bay AI Meetup / Tampa Devs talk last week — here’s where!

TOMORROW in TAMPA BAY: Join Tampa Bay Generative AI Meetup at Buffalo Wild Wings in Oldsmar for a casual and engaging evening of AI discussions, great food, and new connections at Wings, Beer, and AI: www.meetup.com/tampa-bay-ge...