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Happy Saturday, everyone!

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, October 19 through Sunday, October 25!

NetFoundry’s VP Product Marketing Jack Poller has been writing a series of posts on the NetFoundry blog about microsegementation, and I’ve been doing supplementary “back of the envelope” to illustrate what he’s talking about.

Not even the tobacco companies said “this will kill you.”

On this Saturday’s Saturday Night Live, the most relevant bit was on the Weekend Update segment where Colin Jost interviewed “Kevin O’Leary” (played by James Austin Johnson) about his plans to build his Stratos data center in Utah and the resistance to his

Happy Saturday, everyone!

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, October 12 through Sunday, October 18!

Here’s the video of a lightning talk at I gave at DevRelCon NYC on Thursday, July 24, 2026 at Industry City in Brooklyn: The talk gets its material from my 12-month developer relations job search that took place in 2025.

Happy Saturday, everyone!

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, October 5 through Sunday, October 11!

Ain’t livestreaming grand?

Pictured above: Another one of my totally organic, AI-free, hand-drawn “back of a literal envelope” diagrams showing the “limit the blast radius” benefits of network segmentation and microsegmentation.

Yup, that’s an actual Tweet from the official White House account.

If there’s one thing that Donald Trump and his sycophants love to do, it’s name or rebrand things to name them after hinself, make them sound more “extra”, or both.

Last Friday, NetFoundry’s CEO Galeal Zino appeared on the weekly live YouTube show Super Cyber Friday, hosted by tech journalist David Spark.

I was working on one of my “back of the envelope” diagrams for a post on microsegmentation and decided to draw the one pictured above as a warm-up exercise.

If you’ve spent time with the OpenZiti Appetizer, you may have noticed this response: you sent a message, but it can’t be qualified at this time for offensiveness There’s a hate-speech classifier on the path every message takes, and it’s been waiting for a

Read my previous article, DHH’s opening keynote at Rails World 2026: “The most confusing funeral I’ve ever experienced” If David Heinemeier Hansson’s opening keynote at Rails World 2026 felt like “the most confusing funeral I’ve ever experienced,” Aaron P…

The best one-line summary of David Heinemeier Hansson’s (DHH) keynote at Rails World 2026 was Stefan Lindbohm’s comment on its YouTube video: “This is the most confusing funeral I’ve ever experienced” This was the flagship keynote for the framework’s prem…

Happy Saturday, everyone!

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, September 28 through Sunday, October 4!

There’s a six-part series on the NetFoundry blog with a title that’s becoming only more apparent as we move further into the Age of AI: You Will Never Patch Fast Enough.

Build your systems, workflows, and user interfaces with the mindset that people will walk up to this place and ask “What kind of food do you have?”

I’m a few days late on this one, but the content holds up: last week’s Reachability Watch, written by our Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer Mark Jaffe, covering September 11–17, is here: https://netfoundry.io/ai/reachability-watch-cve-kev-tracker-2026-…

We recently got a great set of questions from someone evaluating hosted zrok for a web-based e-commerce content tool.

Click to read my post promoting the event where the AI panel took place.

Happy Saturday, everyone!

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, September 21 through Sunday, September 27!

Yes, it’s short notice, but if I can do a talk on short notice, perhaps your schedule might allow you to show up TONIGHT (Thursday, September 17) to attend the first Machine Learning / AI / Technology / Risk + Happy Hour event, taking place from 4 – 9 p.m.

On Monday, September 14, Pratik Patel gave his talk, Building a Mini-Software Factory using Pi.dev and Local LLMs, to a full room at the Entrepreneur Collaborative Center in Tampa’s Ybor City neighborhood.

The latest edition of NetFoundry’s regular Reachability Watch articles, covering September 4 – 10, 2026 and written by Mark Jaffe, our Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, is up: https://netfoundry.io/ai/reachability-watch-cve-kev-tracker-2026-09-11/ And…

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, September 14 through Sunday, September 20!

Happy Saturday, everyone!

Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC) is happening this week!

Tampa’s tech team supreme (that’s Anitra and me, in case you’re wondering) are flying to Kansas City today to speak at KCDC, also known as Kansas City Developer Conference!

Happy Saturday, everyone!

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, September 7 through Sunday, September 13!

For the curious, here are my notes for an upcoming Ziti TV episode where we’ll be talking about what’s in the OpenZiti Quickstart.

My Chrome extension, Retake the Lake is now in the Chrome Web Store, which means it’s easier than ever to put it in your Chrome desktop browser!

In his latest post on the NetFoundry blog, Hugging Face Breach: When Tailscale VPN Is the Blast Radius, CEO Galeal Zino (my boss’ boss) writes about why the Hugging Face breach was a VPN architecture problem rather than a Tailscale misconfiguration, and w…

I’ve just submitted my Chrome extension, Retake the Lake, to the Chrome Web Store for approval.

We’ve had full houses at tech meetups at KForce heaquarters before, but never this full!

I opened Google Maps on Sunday and scrolled northward to the old hometown of Toronto to see if the news reports were actually true.

Here are some of the AI articles and videos I’ve been looking at this week: HTMX: No AI Fridays.

Happy Saturday, everyone!

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, August 31 through Sunday, September 6!

Here’s the latest short on the Global Nerdy YouTube channel: Debugging with Claude Code.

This week’s AI linkdump is a whole lot of videos (and okay, maybe a few links, too).

Happy Saturday, everyone!

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, August 24 through Sunday, August 30!