Here’s the latest short on the Global Nerdy YouTube channel: Debugging with Claude Code. Enjoy!
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AI linkdump for Sunday, August 23
This week’s AI linkdump is a whole lot of videos (and okay, maybe a few links, too). Enjoy!
Loop engineering
Graph engineering
DeepSeek Harness
The downside
- CNBC: Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say
- @argofowl on Twitter: Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
- The Economist: AI boosted homework scores and lowered exam scores
Miscellaneous
- adnanakil on GitHub: Claudette makes Claude not create output that sounds like a Buzzfeed article
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Saturday picdump for Saturday, August 22
Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump”: the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting pictures, comics, and memes I found over the past week. Share and enjoy!
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!
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
This week’s events
- Monday, August 24
- Tuesday, August 25
- Wednesday, August 26
- Thursday, August 27
- Friday, August 28
- Saturday, August 29
- Sunday, August 30
Monday, August 24
Tuesday, August 25
Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Hidden Springs Ale Works (Tampa): It’s time for another TampaTech Taps & Taco Tuesday! It’s a friendly, casual get-together of Tampa Bay’s tech scene for conversations, great drinks, and (of course) free tacos!
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday, August 26
Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at KForce (Tampa): It’s “Power and Perils of AI Aided Coding”, organized by Tampa Java User Group, with Tampa Bay AI Meetup! Dr. Venkat Subramaniam returns to Tampa to give another one of his amzing, engaging, and amusing talks on becoming better developers.
Find out more and register here.
Thursday, August 27
Thursday at 6:00 at Florida Avenue Brewing (Seminole Heights, Tampa): The Tampa Bay New-in-Tech meetup is hosting a “meet and greet”! Whether you’re brand new to Tampa, transitioning into tech, an experienced professional, entrepreneur, or simply curious about the local tech scene — come say hello!
Find out more and register here.
Thursday at 6:30 at Wild Rover Brewery (Seminole Heights, Tampa): It’s time for another Lean Beer for All Things Agile!
This long-standing Meetup group is all about promoting knowledge sharing and networking among professionals with a passion for Agile Product Development. Whether you’re a Scrum enthusiast or just curious about Agile practices, this is the perfect platform to exchange experiences, network, vent, and foster your Agile knowledge. All this while drinking beer together!
Find out more and register here.
Friday, August 28
Saturday, August 29
Saturday morning at 10:30 at Luna Lux (St. Pete): When you’re often the only one in the room, being your authentic self takes deliberate work. A sustainable personal brand starts with knowing who you are, how you want to be perceived, what you’re working toward, and how to communicate your value. Navigating a tech career takes its own kind of blueprint, whether you’re a junior engineer, a seasoned VP, or a founder.
This brunch is for Black women in tech across the Tampa Bay area. We’re gathering to build a collaborative, high-trust circle where you can speak honestly, feel heard, and walk away with strategy.
Find out more and register here.
Sunday, August 30
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:
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- 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
Here’s my latest “back of the envelope” drawing, which I drew as a companion for a new NetFoundry series called Reachability Watch.
Published fortnightly, Reachability Watch covers the volume of new network-exploitable CVEs, the handful that clear a CVSS 8.6 bar, whatever KEV actually caused damage that period, and a running tally so the trend line becomes visible over time.
The drawing features this edition’s highlighted KEV. More formally known as CVE-2026-72898, it’s what I call “BYOK: bring Your Own Key,” because that’s essentially what the exploit does. You hand Metabase’s password-reset endpoint an extra user-id key it never asked for, nobody strips it, and it rides all the way into the SQL query.
Read it here:
https://netfoundry.io/reachability-watch/reachability-watch-cve-kev-tracker-2026-08-14/
Murphy’s Law strikes: Just before I’m about to leave for the weekly Tuesday happy hour for beer with the neighbors, the synth I ordered arrives. And a day early, too (this is beginning to sound like one of those “My steak is too juicy and my lobster too buttery” kind of complaints)!
The synth in question is pictured above: an FM-1 desktop synth made by a company called M-VAVE. For a mere US$79, it emulates the Yamaha DX7, the most 1980s of all the 1980s synths…
…but now in a package that’s slightly smaller than a VHS cassette.
I’ll post a review later, but since I have to run, I’ll post this guy’s review instead:
At this moment in time, I can’t think of a better way to promote an energy drink and a beer than by what Liquid Death and Garage Beer did: harnessing the pop culture power of worries about AI data centers’ water usage (with an inspired solution), ’80s ballads, and Jason Kelce.
I love how the ad brings all sorts of people together; even Juggalos (who along with the furries, will show us the way to a better future)!