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October 2026

1. 30 OctTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, November 2 – Sunday, November 8)
2. 27 OctThe sparkle emoji we use for AI has a different meaning for Japanese toilets
3. 23 OctTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, October 26 – Sunday, November 1)
4. 17 OctSaturday picdump for Saturday, October 17
5. 16 OctTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, October 19 – Sunday, October 25)
6. 13 Oct“Back of the envelope” comics on network vs. cryptographic microsegmentation
7. 13 OctThis is what every AI company CEO sounds like
8. 11 Oct“Saturday Night Live” pokes fun at Kevin O’Leary and his Utah data center in a skit that’s funny because it’s true
9. 10 OctSaturday picdump for Saturday, October 10
10. 9 OctTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, October 12 – Sunday, October 18)
11. 7 OctMy DevRelCon NYC 2026 talk: “The Market is Trying to Tell You Something”
12. 3 OctSaturday picdump for Saturday, October 3
13. 3 OctTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, October 5 – Sunday, October 11)
14. 2 OctZiti TV Oct 2 2026 – LLM Gateway meets the OpenZiti Appetizer!
15. 1 Oct99% of orgs are PLANNING microsegmentation, but only 9% have followed through

September 2026

1. 30 SepHow NOT to promote an AI initiative
2. 30 SepTrump’s executive order to rebrand “AI” as “SI”
3. 30 SepSuper Cyber Friday: “Hacking Microsegmentation for Machine Workloads” (or: Old cybersecurity tricks don’t work with new AI agents)
4. 30 SepNorth/south vs. east/west (or: Where the security budget goes vs. where the attacker *actually* moves)
5. 28 SepThe first in a new walkthrough series: Add a working classifier to the Appetizer and host it as a dark service!
6. 28 SepAaron Patterson’s closing keynote (and antidote to the DHH funeral) at Rails World 2026: “Get in loser, we’re going programming”
7. 27 SepDHH’s opening keynote at Rails World 2026: “The most confusing funeral I’ve ever experienced”
8. 26 SepSaturday picdump for Saturday, September 26
9. 25 SepTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, September 28 – Sunday, October 4)
10. 24 Sep“You will never patch fast enough” (or: 5 days to exploit, 32 days to patch, and why better triage doesn’t close that)
11. 23 SepMy systems design advice
12. 23 Sep“Reachability Watch” for September 11 – 17, 2026: 8 CVEs against Langflow in one week, and why “publicly shared” = “publicly ownable”
13. 22 SepCan you use zrok’s Free hosted plan for your team’s internal tool? (or: 5 questions, answered)
14. 19 SepSaturday picdump for Saturday, September 19
15. 18 SepTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, September 21 – Sunday, September 27)
16. 17 SepMachine Learning / AI / Technology / Risk + Happy Hour Prototype v0: Thursday, September 17!
17. 16 SepNotes from Pratik Patel’s talk, “Building a Mini-Software Factory using Pi.dev and Local LLMs” (September 14, 2026)
18. 14 Sep“Reachability Watch” for September 4 – 10, 2026: Four different CVEs, but they have the same shape!
19. 14 SepTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, September 14 – Sunday, September 20)
20. 12 SepSaturday picdump for Saturday, September 12
21. 9 SepHow to “make the rounds” at KCDC 2026
22. 8 SepAnitra and I are at Kansas City Developer Conference this week!
23. 5 SepSaturday picdump for Saturday, September 5
24. 4 SepTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, September 7 – Sunday, September 13)
25. 3 SepNotes on OpenZiti Quickstart for an upcoming Ziti TV episode
26. 2 Sep“Retake the Lake” is now in the Chrome Web Store and easier to install!
27. 1 SepWould hardened Tailscale have changed the Hugging Face outcome?
28. 1 SepWaiting for Google to approve “Retake the Lake”…or not
29. 1 SepNotes from Venkat Subramaniam’s talk, “Power and Perils of AI Aided Coding”, at Tampa Java User Group (August 26, 2026)

August 2026

1. 31 AugRetake the Lake: A Chrome browser plug-in that corrects “Lake America” to “Lake Ontario”
2. 30 AugAI linkdump for Sunday, August 30
3. 29 AugSaturday picdump for Saturday, August 29
4. 28 AugTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, August 31 – Sunday, September 6)
5. 26 AugDebugging with Claude Code
6. 23 AugAI linkdump for Sunday, August 23
7. 22 AugSaturday picdump for Saturday, August 22
8. 21 AugTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, August 24 – Sunday, August 30)
9. 20 AugA new “back of the envelope” drawing for NetFoundry’s new “Reachability Watch”!
10. 18 AugMy new synth arrived: The M-VAVE FM-1
11. 18 AugIf you watch only one ad today (good luck with that), watch this one!
12. 16 AugGlobal Nerdy is 20 years old today!
13. 16 AugAI linkdump for Sunday, August 16
14. 15 AugSaturday picdump for Saturday, August 15
15. 14 AugI’m on “This Week in Tech” this Sunday, August 16!
16. 14 Aug“Culture eats cyber strategy for breakfast”: Notes from 813 Tech Day’s Security Panel
17. 14 AugTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, August 17 – Sunday, August 23)
18. 13 AugWatched a Black Hat interview on AI supply chain security and it’s NetFoundry’s report’s findings, but from the opposite direction
19. 12 AugTampa Bay’s “Scenius” and 813 Tech Day
20. 11 AugSecurity leaders we surveyed feel pressure to secure their AI, and almost none of them feel ready
21. 10 AugHow I explain how I use AI in my presentations
22. 9 AugTampa Bay Tech Week presents 813 Tech Day on 8/13!
23. 8 AugSaturday picdump for Saturday, August 8
24. 7 AugTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, August 10 – Sunday, August 16)
25. 6 Aug[Video] OpenZiti 2.0: Securing the Management API With Zero Open Ports
26. 6 AugThe best way to secure a public API might be to make it unreachable
27. 6 AugYou “Odyssey” this modern version of The Odyssey!
28. 5 AugTwo doors an attacker loves, and one they can’t find
29. 4 AugZrokGui: Windows GUI zrok front end built with WPF
30. 3 AugHappy 20th birthday, Pandoc!
31. 3 AugWhat’s new in the new Go?
32. 1 AugSaturday picdump for Saturday, August 1

July 2026

1. 31 JulTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, August 3 – Sunday, August 9)
2. 27 JulYou can’t spell “airport” without “AI”
3. 26 JulTampa Bay Tech Week presents 727 Tech Day!
4. 25 JulSaturday picdump for Saturday, July 25
5. 24 JulTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, July 27 – Sunday, August 2)
6. 22 JulHow to “make the rounds” at DevRelCon NYC 2026
7. 18 JulSaturday picdump for Saturday, July 18
8. 17 JulTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, July 20 – Sunday, July 26)
9. 13 JulI might have been in cybersecurity and DevRel a little TOO long…
10. 13 JulMy talk next week at DevRelCon NYC 2026: “The Market is Trying to Tell You Something”
11. 11 JulSaturday picdump for Saturday, July 11
12. 10 JulTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, July 13 – Sunday, July 19)
13. 7 JulHappy last “free” day of Claude Fable 5, everybody! [UPDATED]
14. 6 JulI’m speaking at DevRelCon NYC 2026 (July 22 – 23 in Brooklyn)!
15. 4 JulSaturday picdump for Saturday, July 4
16. 3 JulTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, July 6 – Sunday, July 12)

June 2026

1. 27 JunSaturday picdump for Saturday, June 27
2. 26 JunTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, June 29 – Sunday, July 5)
3. 20 JunSaturday picdump for Saturday, June 20
4. 19 JunTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, June 22 – Sunday, June 28)
5. 13 JunSaturday picdump for Saturday, June 13
6. 12 JunLLMs should refer to themselves as “this unit”
7. 12 JunTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, June 15 – Sunday, June 21)
8. 6 JunSaturday picdump for Saturday, June 6
9. 5 JunTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, June 8 – Sunday, June 14)
10. 3 JunI’m on “This Week in Tech” this Sunday, June 7!
11. 1 JunSome LITERAL back-of-the-envelope diagrams in r/NetFoundry worth checking out

May 2026

1. 30 MaySaturday picdump for Saturday, May 30
2. 29 MayTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, June 1 – Sunday, June 7)
3. 27 MayThis is my new developer relations meme and mantra
4. 23 MaySaturday picdump for Saturday, May 23
5. 22 MayTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, May 25 – Sunday, May 31)
6. 21 MayNotes from BSides Tampa 13: “Dealing with Shadows” or “A day in the life of a threat actor negotiator”
7. 19 MaypoweredUp Tampa Bay Tech Festival 2026
8. 16 MaySaturday picdump for Saturday, May 16
9. 15 MayGo to BSides Tampa, because 80% of success is showing up
10. 15 MayTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, May 18 – Sunday, May 24)
11. 10 May“AI Is Stealing Your Job”: An online panel happening this Tuesday, May 12 at 8 p.m.
12. 9 MaySaturday picdump for Saturday, May 9
13. 7 MayTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, May 11 – Sunday, May 17)
14. 6 MayNotes from Philip Griffith’s talk: Why Traditional Networking Fails Agentic AI
15. 4 MayElon threatens to make OpenAI leaders “most hated men in America,” a topic where he’s a subject matter expert
16. 4 MayStuff that arrived over the weekend
17. 3 MayIt’s gonna be May in Tampa Bay!
18. 2 MaySaturday picdump for Saturday, May 2
19. 1 MayTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, May 4 – Sunday, May 10)

April 2026

1. 30 AprScenes from “Tech in Full Effect” (Saturday, April 18, 2026)
2. 27 AprSeems legit
3. 27 AprZiti TV: Explaining OpenZiti to the new guy (and that’s me!)
4. 25 AprSaturday picdump for Saturday, April 25
5. 24 AprTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, April 27 – Sunday, May 3)
6. 22 AprToo much machine for me? [Updated, with the fates of my old machines]
7. 21 AprA new meaning for “lgtm”
8. 21 AprBaruch Sadogursky and Leonid Igolnik’s Arc of AI presentation: “Back to the Future of Software: How to Survive the AI Apocalypse with Tests, Prompts, and Specs”
9. 20 AprDay 1 as NetFoundry’s Senior Developer Advocate
10. 18 AprSaturday picdump for Saturday, April 18
11. 17 AprTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, April 20 – Sunday, April 26)
12. 16 AprMike Amundsen’s Arc of AI afternoon keynote: “Thinking with Machines”
13. 15 AprVenkat Subramaniam’s Arc of AI afternoon keynote: “Influencing the Irrational AI-Clouded Minds”
14. 14 AprNotes from Schutta and Vega’s Arc of AI Workshop, part 4: Own your career, learn how to learn, and don’t become a dependent
15. 14 AprNotes from Schutta and Vega’s Arc of AI Workshop, part 3: Clean code, influence skills, and why your legacy code pays the bills
16. 14 AprNotes from Schutta and Vega’s Arc of AI Workshop, part 2: Reading code is a superpower, and we were never taught it
17. 14 AprNotes from Schutta and Vega’s Arc of AI Workshop, part 1: The fundamentals still matter!
18. 11 AprSaturday picdump for Saturday, April 11
19. 10 AprTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, April 13 – Sunday, April 19)
20. 6 AprYou’ve got 41 days before chip prices skyrocket
21. 4 AprSaturday picdump for Saturday, April 4
22. 3 AprThe war in Iran is about to make your next computer a lot more expensive. Buy now if you can.
23. 3 AprTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, April 6 – Sunday, April 12)
24. 1 AprI’m the opening musical act at the Arc of AI conference!

March 2026

1. 30 MarThe ultimate guide for making the rounds at Tampa Bay Tech Week (April 7–12)
2. 28 MarSaturday picdump for Saturday, March 28
3. 27 MarTampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Monday, March 30 – Sunday, April 5)
4. 26 MarMeet Madtech.AI: Notes from Bill Lederer’s presentation at AI Salon: St. Pete/Tampa Bay

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