https://www.globalnerdy.com/2016/08/05/unboxing-the-canakit-raspberry-pi-3-complete-starter-kit/
Jul 1, 2020 - On the most recent Amazon Prime Day — an annual trick that Amazon pulls in order to boost sales in the same vein as Cyber Monday, but in the summer — I...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/03/15/laid-off-in-2024-part-19-why-im-relying-on-connections-and-referrals/
Mar 15, 2024 - There are two main reasons why I’m relying on connections and referrals to land my next job: At the very least, they could’ve posed the question in a cool...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2020/12/09/the-undercroft-and-their-cybersecurity-course-uc-baseline/
Dec 9, 2020 - One of the silver linings of my job evaporating due to the pandemic is that I suddenly had a lot of free time to try some new things. The best of those new...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/02/05/laid-off-in-2024-part-1-the-15-worst-minutes-of-2024-followed-by-15-more/
Feb 5, 2024 - Last Thursday — February, 1, 2024 — I was laid off from my position as Senior Developer Advocate at Okta, along with around 400 others (a 7% reduction in...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/about/
Nov 19, 2024 - Joey deVilla, Global Nerd Global Nerdy is Joey deVilla’s technical blog. He also has a personal blog, The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2025/11/11/the-careers-in-tech-panel-at-techx-florida-reasons-to-be-optimistic-2025/
Nov 11, 2025 - The Careers in Tech panel On Saturday, I had the honor of speaking on the Careers in Tech panel at TechX Florida, which was organized by USF’s student...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/02/11/laid-off-in-2024-part-5-the-next-two-weeks/
Feb 11, 2024 - I can tell you how I plan to go from laid off to employed in four words: Do things, tell people. I wish that I came up with that pithy, four-word summary, but...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/02/09/laid-off-in-2024-part-3-how-are-you-doing/
Feb 9, 2024 - A recent Tweet (or X-crement, or whatever they’re calling posts on that platform) from Sesame Street’s Elmo got way more attention than it would have in...
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https://www.techmeme.com/081231/p14
The web's technology news site of record, Techmeme spotlights the hottest tech stories from all around the web on a single page.
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2025/11/08/saturday-picdump-for-saturday-november-8/
Nov 8, 2025 - Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/04/07/why-i-make-handwritten-notes-when-learning-or-working-on-an-idea/
Apr 8, 2024 - To me, it always felt that I learned better and retained more if I took notes by hand rather than typing them in, and there’s research that backs up my...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/02/12/laid-off-in-2024-part-6-the-separation-agreement-money-money-money/
Feb 12, 2024 - Last Thursday For the 400 people who got laid off from Okta on Thursday, February 1 — which includes Yours Truly — last Thursday, February 8 at 5:00 p.m....
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2025/11/01/saturday-picdump-for-saturday-november-1/
Nov 1, 2025 - Happy Saturday, everyone! Here on Global Nerdy, Saturday means that it’s time for another “picdump” — the weekly assortment of amusing or interesting...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/03/01/laid-off-in-2024-part-14-no-stigma-no-shame/
Mar 3, 2024 - There used to be an unwritten, implicitly-understood rule that you should never mention that you were laid off, but treat it like a dirty secret. That may have...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/03/04/laid-off-in-2024-part-16-signs-that-youre-about-to-be-laid-off/
Mar 4, 2024 - Here’s an image that’s been making the internet rounds for the past couple of days: It’s the most poignant scene from the 1990s mobster film Goodfellas,...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/02/19/laid-off-in-2024-part-12-lessons-from-the-martian-and-other-notes/
Feb 19, 2024 - I’m in Austin this week to deliver a talk at the Civo Navigate North America conference — so posting might be a little light this week. But here’s part...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/03/16/laid-off-in-2024-part-20-one-of-the-upsides-of-being-laid-off-electronics-and-iot/
Mar 16, 2024 - One of the upsides of being laid off is that you get a couple extra hours a day — and only a couple, because getting a new job is your new job — to pick...
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https://www.globalnerdy.com/2025/11/24/notes-on-using-gemini-3-pro-part-1-context-entropy-and-a-huge-context-window/
Nov 25, 2025 - It’s been about a week since Gemini 3 has come out, and I’ve been hearing some really good things about it. So I’m trying out Google’s “try Gemini 3...
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