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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 15h

Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” bit where Colin Jost interviewed “Kevin O’Leary” (played by James Austin Johnson) was not only funny, but funny because it’s true. Watch the video and read my transcript (with relevant links!) here: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/10/11/s...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY! Here’s this week’s “opinion” picdump on the “Accordion Guy” blog. There are 330+ pics in this one, and these four are merely a taste... www.joeydevilla.com/2026/10/11/s...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Saturday, Saturday, SATURDAY! It’s time for Global Nerdy’s “work- and tech-related” picdump, and there are 150+ images in this one. These four are just a sample; the rest are here: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/10/10/s...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are we still doing “Phrasing!!!”? Because this cries out for “Phrasing!!!”

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don’t think a lot of people know that the videos from DevRelCon NYC 2026, which happened back in July, are online. And one of the videos in that playlist is mine! ✅ DevRelCon 2026 playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... ✅ My video/writeup: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/10/07/m...

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My DevRelCon NYC 2026 talk: “The Market is Trying to Tell You Something” : Global Nerdy

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...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

An evening out with Anitra is always a good one! And “Buena Vista Social Club” was a great blend of musical and live music concert.

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If affordable equipment is the only thing holding you back from starting Tampa Bay’s next big erotic bakery, have I got news for you! Here’s Tampa Bay’s deal of the day: www.joeydevilla.com/2026/10/06/t...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My classifier was 84% sure "nobody here wants you around" was fine. Now, when unsure, it asks an LLM, and LLM Gateway picks which: local or Claude. Write-up and try-at-home repo: www.reddit.com/r/openziti/c...

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From the openziti community on Reddit: Ziti TV Oct 2 2026 - LLM Gateway meets the OpenZiti Appetizer!

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Currently 30°C (86°F). Going for my daily 10k bike ride now.

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ah, what the hell: one more late addendum to the picdump... www.joeydevilla.com/2026/10/04/s...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Last-minute add to the picdump, complete with link to the story from a Financial Times site. The headline below doesn’t say it, but FT subhead reads “The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide”. www.joeydevilla.com/2026/10/04/s...

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You may think you're cool, but you'll never be as cool as Lithuanian folk art St Francis doing stigmata kung fu (via limis.lt)

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My current “listen” on my daily bike ride is Gil Duran’s “The Nerd Reich”, which is about tech’s current (or was it always?) turn to fascism. Unsurprisingly, technofascism has some fans here in Florida, and I intend on remaining a thorn in their side. Get the book or audiobook! thenerdreich.com

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The Nerd Reich | Silicon Valley Tech Extremism

Silicon Valley tech billionaire politics: authoritarianism, fascism, plutocracy, weirdness

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

750 images, videos, memes, photos, and comics — that’s what’s in this week’s giant-size picdump! As usual, here’s a sample. You’ll have to click here to see the full 750: www.joeydevilla.com/2026/10/04/s...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Early announcement: the Sunday picdump is up, and this one’s a super-big one with 750 videos, images, memes, and comics that I found interesting, amusing, or relevant this week! There’s a sample below; the other 749 are here: www.joeydevilla.com/2026/10/04/s...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some late additions to the “work- and tech-related” picdump on Global Nerdy! See them here: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/10/03/s...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s Saturday, which means it’s time for another “work- and tech-related” picdump on Global Nerdy. These 4 are just a sample; click the link to see the full set! www.globalnerdy.com/2026/10/03/s...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sooner or later in cybersecurity, you need to make a James Bond reference, and I do it in my quick summary of the latest “Reachability Watch”, NetFoundry’s weekly roundup of the biggest CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) written by our CMSO, Mark Jaffe.

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From the NetFoundry community on Reddit: Reachability Watch 2026-10-02: A lesson from “Goldfinger”, or the vulnerability is the quickstart

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is it just Florida, or do campaign ads for Governor in other states feel like sketches from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! or I Think You Should Leave? www.joeydevilla.com/2026/10/02/f...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ain’t livestreaming grand? We had a few rough-around-the-edges moments in today’s episode of Ziti TV (I worked on the demo a *little* too late last night), but the important thing is: THE DEMO WORKED. 📺 Watch it here:

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From the openziti community on Reddit: Ziti TV Oct 2 2026 - LLM Gateway meets the OpenZiti Appetizer!

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here’s another one of my totally organic, AI-free, hand-drawn “back of a literal envelope” diagrams for NetFoundry, illustrating the “limit the blast radius” benefits of network segmentation and microsegmentation. If you like technical stuff, I have a tl;dr writeup of the article it goes with here:

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99% of orgs are PLANNING microsegmentation, but only 9% have followed through : Global Nerdy

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...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That’s an actual Tweet from the official White House account. Another data point for the “Everyone is 12 now” theory. If you’re trying to promote AI as a beneficial thing, maybe the whole Terminator 2 motif is something you might want to avoid. More here: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/09/30/h...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TONIGHT! Tampa Bay AWS User Group presents AWS Transform with David Ernst! Join us at the Tampa Bay AWS Meetup to see how AWS Transform can modernize those applications and turn legacy systems into a foundation your business can actually build on. Entrepreneur Collaborative Center tonight at 6.

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AWS Transform, Wed, Sep 30, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Cloud migration is no longer the finish line. Today's organizations are under pressure to reduce technical debt, modernize legacy applications, lower licensing costs, and p

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any dumber, there’s the new executive order rebranding Artificial Intelligence as Super Intelligence or SI. Read my article, which ends with a video showing which dumb sycophant was the first to use the new term: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/09/30/t...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another one of my “back of the envelope” hand-drawn diagrams, which I’m drawing to provide an alternative to AI-generated ones. This one’s about “north-south” and “east-west” network traffic. - On Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/NetFoundry... - On Global Nerdy: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/09/29/n...

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From the NetFoundry community on Reddit: North/south vs. east/west (or: Where the security budget goes vs. where the attacker *actually* moves)

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THIS photo of a grunge legend is the one that made me accept that I’m old. (@scriban.bsky.social, we used to watch videos of this guy playing all the time...) Want to know who this person is? Read on: www.joeydevilla.com/2026/09/29/t...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A last-minute addition to tonight’s agenda: www.joeydevilla.com/2026/09/28/a...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These are the House Rules. www.joeydevilla.com/2026/09/28/h...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If DHH’s opening keynote at Rails World 2026 felt like “the most confusing funeral I’ve ever experienced,” Aaron Patterson’s closing keynote was the raucous Irish wake that brought the corpse back to life, handed it a pint, and told everyone to get back to their laptops once they’ve sobered up.

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Aaron Patterson’s closing keynote (and antidote to the DHH funeral) at Rails World 2026: “Get in loser, we’re going programming” : Global Nerdy

If David Heinemeier Hansson’s opening keynote at Rails World 2026 felt like “the most confusing funeral I’ve ever experienced,” Aaron Patterson’s closing keynote was the raucous Irish wake that brough...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It would appear that Reddit noticed my article... www.reddit.com/r/rails/comm...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here’s the Sunday picdump on the “Accordion Guy” blog. These 4 are just a sample; click the link for the full 430+ set! www.joeydevilla.com/2026/09/27/s...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you’re a Ruby on Rails developer and want to retain any enthusiasm about the framework, maybe DON’T watch the Rails World 2026 keynote: www.globalnerdy.com/2026/09/27/d...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Busy day, part 2: I’m at The Honu in Dunedin, playing with Tom Hood and the Tropical Sons. Here’s the stage…

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Saturday! It’s time for the Global Nerdy “picdump”, a collection of the images, photos, memes, and comics related to work and tech that I found amusing or interesting this week. These four are just a sample; you can get the whole set at www.globalnerdy.com/2026/09/26/s...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Busy Saturday, part one: Anitra’s final duty at her tenure in the board of the Glazer Children’s Museum is to take part in the Museum’s birthday bash at Curtis Hixon Park. My role: accordion backup for “Happy Birthday”.

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In my latest post, I tell the story of Joan and Daisy to inspire you if you’re facing a task that you think is too difficult. If they can do what they did, you can overcome your obstacle. It’s amusing, educational, and only a little tawdry. Read it here: www.joeydevilla.com/2026/09/25/r...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here’s my latest “back of the envelope” doodle, which accompanies my latest post on r/OpenZiti (NetFoundry’s developer-focused subreddit): www.reddit.com/r/openziti/c...

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From the openziti community on Reddit: The math behind patches, and the value of no inbound listening ports

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Going in Sunday’s picdump. I can practically hear the answer.

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How did I NOT know this instrument existed until today? It has a keyboard, it’s a wind instrument like a melodica, and it sounds like a flute/recorder/pan pipes. I COULD TOTALLY RULE AN IRISH PUB (OR RENAISSANCE FAIRE) WITH ONE OF THESE. Read more: www.joeydevilla.com/2026/09/24/h...

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How did I not know that an instrument like the Suzuki Andes 25F existed? - The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

How did I not know about the existence of the Suzuki Andes 25F, an instrument that looks like a melodica… …but sounds like a recorder or flute? Here’s Suzuki’s official product video for the Andes 25F...

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Joey de Villa (AccordionGuy) @accordionguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A LOT GOING ON IN TAMPA BAY TONIGHT! Find out more here, on the Tampa Bay tech events list! www.globalnerdy.com/2026/09/18/t...

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