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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, July 20
• Tuesday, July 21
• Wednesday, July 22
• Thursday, July 23
• Friday, July 24
• Saturday, July 25
• Sunday, July 26

Monday, July 20

Tuesday, July 21

Wednesday, July 22

Thursday, July 23

Friday, July 24

Saturday, July 25

Sunday, July 26

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:

• • 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

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1. Ewww! What is wrong with people?!
2. Cool! Mint, brah!

But my first thoughts were:

• Networking/cybersecurity: Now that there are menthol wipes to do “for the other end” what breath mints do for the mouth, there’s now end-to-end mintiness.
• Developer relations/marketing: That’s clever; why compete in someone else’s category when you can create your own?

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What is DevRelCon?

DevRelCon is the long-running conference series for people who do developer relations/developer advocacy, which once upon a time also went by “developer evangelism”. This line of work involves helping software developers discover, understand, and actually stick with a product, whether that’s through a combination documentation, demos, community, and developer experience.

DevRelCon was created by the developer relations agency Hoopy and began in London in 2015. It’s since grown into an international series of conferences with editions in London, Prague, San Francisco, Tokyo, China, Latin America, and online. I’m speaking at the New York 2026 edition, which is organized by Mike Swift and Major League Hacking, the global community for early-career developers and software creators.

DevRelCon is positioned as the premier conference for anyone working to grow developer adoption, spanning developer relations, developer experience, product marketing, platform product management, and everyone’s favorite three-letter acronym, GTM. In other words, it’s a room full of exactly the people my talk is about, which is either the best or the most terrifying possible audience for a talk on what the DevRel job market is really telling us. (Probably both.)

DevRelCon NYC 2026 will take place July 22 – 23 at Industry City, Brooklyn, New York. It is the first conference I’m speaking at as an official representative of NetFoundry.

What’s The Market is Trying to Tell You Something all about?

The talk is based on my experiences in 2025, when I did something I don’t recommend as a hobby but made for a great natural experiment: I let the DevRel job market interview me a couple dozen times. That’s my dressed-up way of saying “I was looking for a job”.

I went through recruiter screens, faced hiring panels, did take-home demos (one on Christmas Eve, based on the urging of a recruiter), and went through final rounds — across AI-native startups, enterprise infrastructure shops, and everything in between.

Somewhere around the tenth interview, I stopped just trying to get hired and started noticing a pattern:

• Job descriptions had quietly rewritten themselves.
• Interviews are testing for things the job description never mentions.
• And “DevRel ROI”, which used to be a phrase that was thrown in with an accompanying hand-wave, now means something specific that it didn’t mean in the zero-interest 2010s or the Great Resignation hiring frenzy of a couple years ago.

My talk is my attempt to decode those signals: what the market is actually screening for, how what it says and what it wants are often different, and what any of us (whether you’re job-hunting, hiring, or just trying to make sure your role survives its next budget review) should do about it. It’s eight minutes. There will be an accordion. That’s all I’ll say for now.

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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, July 13
• Tuesday, July 14
• Wednesday, July 15
• Thursday, July 16
• Friday, July 17
• Saturday, July 18
• Sunday, July 19

Monday, July 13

Tuesday, July 14

Wednesday, July 15

Thursday, July 16

Friday, July 17

Saturday, July 18

Sunday, July 19

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:

• • 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

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It’s been announced on the Claude support site: access to Fable 5 has been extended to July 12!

Original article

Tuesday, July 7th, 2026: If you’re on Claude Pro (the $20/month plan), Claude Max (the $100/month plan), or Claude Team ($25/user/month for Standard, $150/user/month for Premium), it’s your last day to use Claude Fable 5 bundled within your existing subscription limits. Starting tomorrow, you’ll need metered usage credits to get your paws on that sweet super-inference.

I suspect a lot of power users are going to be mainlining Fable 5 today; I myself will be availing myself of it via NetFoundry’s team plan (hey, if a company offers a perk, you use it!).

If you’re having trouble coming up with ideas for what to do with Fable 5 on this last day, I have suggestions:

• Top (and obvious) priority: Use it to bring whatever Claude 5-based work to a state where you can hand if off to another model or human.
• Treat it like the member of the group project who did all the work and is now moving far away. Have it walk you through any code that you asked it to generate that you don’t understand.
  
• Devote a day a week to sharpening a skill that you’ve been outsourcing to Fable 5. Not “donkey work,” but an actual skill that you don’t have (yet).
• Run the same hard task on Fable 5 and Opus 4.8 side by side. You’ll have a much better idea whether $10/$50-per-million-token price tag is justified for your workloads.

In the spirit of “meta”, I also asked Fable 5 what one should do on the last “free” day of Fable 5. Its answers:

• Feed it the scariest codebase you have access to. The multi-repo, “the guy who wrote this left in 2019” kind. Fable 5’s benchmark edge is agentic coding and security audits, so this is the one day you can get a frontier-tier code review without doing token math in your head.
• Run one genuinely long agentic task end to end. Not “write me a function” — more like “plan, scaffold, build, and test this MVP.” Long-horizon work is the whole point of the Mythos tier; short tasks reportedly come out nearly identical to Opus 4.8, which is like renting a Ferrari to drive to the mailbox.
• Do the research brief for a decision you’ve been avoiding. Tech stack choice, framework migration, “should we self-host this” — anything with high decision value, lots of context, and many moving parts. That’s where the extra capability actually shows up.
• Audit your docs the way an AI reads them. Hand it your entire documentation set and ask what an LLM would get wrong, miss, or hallucinate about your product.
• Throw a big, ugly dataset at it. The CSV graveyard you’ve been meaning to analyze since Q1. Dense, messy, multi-step data work is squarely in its wheelhouse.

I also asked for some of the answers to be impractical and humorous. Its answers:

• Ask it to explain the month it just had. Launched June 9, hit with a US export-control directive on June 12, suspended globally within 90 minutes, cleared and restored July 1. Few software products have a redemption arc; fewer can narrate their own.
• Use the most expensive generally available AI model in history to write your grocery list. Pure decadence. The token cost of “eggs, milk, jalapeños” has never been higher, and it never will be again. Probably.
• Have it arrange “Master of Puppets” for solo accordion. Is this a good use of Mythos-class reasoning? No. Will I do it convincingly? Also possibly no. But it’s free until midnight. [This one seems to have been aimed directly at me.]
• Ask Fable 5 itself when it’s coming back to subscriptions, then screenshot its diplomatic non-answer for posterity. (Anthropic’s actual answer: “when sufficient capacity allows.” My answer would be roughly the same, but with more charm.)

Happy Fable 5 Day!

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Here’s a quick writeup of my talk, as it appears on the schedule:

The Market is Trying to Tell You Something

The DevRel job market has been sending signals for two years. Most of us have been too busy surviving it to read them. After 15+ years in Developer Relations and a recent job search that took me across a couple dozen companies, I came away with both a new role and something just as valuable: a pattern.

Job descriptions have quietly shifted. Hiring panels are asking different questions. “DevRel ROI” means something specific now that it didn’t mean in the zero-interest 2010s or the Great Resignation era of a couple of years ago. The skills companies say they want versus the skills that actually get you hired don’t look like they come from the same list.

This talk is an honest, experience-based, practitioner-level read of what the market is telling us about where DevRel is headed. It doesn’t have any LinkedIn takes or recycled frameworks; just patterns from the front lines, with implications for how you position yourself, make the case for your team, and think about the next few years of your career.

In addition to giving a talk, I’ll be there to learn as well as represent NetFoundry.

DevRelCon typically brings in about 300 attendees, mostly professionals from developer relations, developer experience, and developer community-building roles to discuss industry trends, methodology, and as of late, AI integration, as well as to do some networking (a key part of DevRel).

DevRelCon was created by the developer relations agency Hoopy and began in London in 2015. DevRelCon NYC is organized by Mike Swift and Major League Hacking, a global community for early-career developers and software creators, of which Mike is co-founder.

DevRelCon NYC takes place on Wednesday, July 22 and Thursday, July 23 at Industry City in Brooklyn, New York. I’m arriving early in the afternoon of Tuesday, July 21 and will be attending some of the pre-DevRelCon festivities.

Last year’s DevRelCon NYC talks

Here’s the set of DevRelCon NYC 2025 talks that have been posted to YouTube. I’m using these as a guide for my own talk (as well as for ideas for my own developer relations work at NetFoundry), and you might find these helpful for your own work, or to help you decide if DevRelCon NYC 2026 is for you!

• Steering established ecosystems to new heights (Ricky Robinett, VP Developer Relations and Community @ Cloudflare)
• DevRel’s biggest stage yet (Angie Jones, Global VP of Developer Relations @ Block)
• Creating educational videos developers actually want to watch (Anthony Giuliano, Senior Developer Relations Engineer @ Block)
• The engaged developer funnel (Stephen Chin, VP of Developer Relations @ Neo4j)
• DevRel as a growth engine: creating leverage while staying authentic (Anna Filippova, Director, Developer Growth Marketing @ Snowflake)
• How to understand user feedback even when all a user says is ‘not good’ (Emily Ryan, Developer Relations Specialist @ MapBox)
• GitHub Campus Experts: Learning with Students (PJ Metz, Program Manager of Student Communities @ GitHub)
• All Bling, No Basics: How to prioritize impact in DX (Dominic Nguyen, Co-founder @ Chromatic)
• DX for Humans and Machines: Redefining Developer Experience in the Age of Vibe Coding (Thor Schaeff, Developer Experience Engineer @ ElevenLabs)
• Better Bug Reports – Faster Fixes (Eric Koleda, Lead Developer Relations @ Grammarly)
• Panel: A 360 View of AI Developer Relations
• Individual Contributor’s Guide to DevRel Crisis Management (Jessica Garson, Senior Developer Advocate @ Elastic)
• The Email is Dead. Long Live the Email! (Ariel Jolo, Nerdearla)
• Untangling DevRel: Using network graphs to tell a story (Kourtney Meiss, Senior Developer Advocate @ Amazon)
• Big Dreams, Small Budget: Successful DevRel Strategy on a Shoestring (Colleen Lavin, Dev Rel Consultant back then — she’s now at GitLab)
• Doing DevRel In the era of GenAI (Uttam Tripathi. VP DevRel + Product Management @ Qualcomm)
• Building Communities: Lessons Learned from Google to a Startup (Erica Hanson, Head of Developer Relations @ FlutterFlow)
• The DevRel Blind Spot: How to Make Your Work Impossible to Ignore (Jeff Bull, Developer Community Manager @ Orkes)
• Docs, LLMs, agents – using AI to create a content feedback loop (Justin Chavez, Head of Ops @ Inkeep)
• Piggybacking for Popularity: Crafting Demos That Ride the Hype Wave (Lizzie Siegle, Developer Advocate @ Cloudflare)
• YouTube-based DevRel (Greg Baugues, Vibe coding YouTuber)
• Beyond badges: How gamification can supercharge developer engagement (Lauren Lee, Head of Developer Relations @ Midnight)
• DevRel without the developer (Amit Jotwani, Developer Educator @ Digital Ocean)
• Building a custom sticker vending machine (Nick Hehr, Senior Developer Advocate @ Viam)
• Building a Video-First PLG Strategy That Outperforms (Kevin Blanco, Senior AI DevRel Advocate @ Appsmith)
• Activating the DevRel Flywheel to Create Lasting Results (Jen Lopez, DevRel + Community Consultant)
• Community in the Age of AI (SJ Morris, Senior Manager, Developer Community @ Hubspot)
• Interactive Live Streaming for In-Person Events (Eliza Mulcahy, Developer Engagement Manager @ OutSystems)

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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, July 6
• Tuesday, July 7
• Wednesday, July 8
• Thursday, July 9
• Friday, July 10
• Saturday, July 11
• Sunday, July 12

Monday, July 6

Tuesday, July 7

Wednesday, July 8

Thursday, July 9

Friday, July 10

Saturday, July 11

Sunday, July 12

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:

• • 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

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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

Check out the map!

This list is also one of the data sources for HyLo’s Tampa Bay Innovation Map, which provides a graphical view of the goings-on in Tampa Bay and its tech scene. Check it out!

This week’s events

• Monday, June 29
• Tuesday, June 30
• Wednesday, July 1
• Thursday, July 2
• Friday, July 3
• Saturday, July 4
• Sunday, July 5

Monday, June 29

Tuesday, June 30

Wednesday, July 1

Thursday, July 2

Friday, July 3

Event name and location	Group	Time
Osceola Toastmasters Club Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA)	Toastmasters Division E	7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT
Computer Repair Clinic 2079 Range Rd	Tampa Bay Technology Center	8:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
Age of Sigmar: Escalation League Battlebrush Games	Battlebrush Games: Paint Minis & Play Warhammer/Warmachine	5:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Friday Board Game Night Bridge Club	Tampa Gaming Guild	5:30 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
MTG: Commander FNM Critical Hit Games	Critical Hit Games	6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
“How to Think Like Socrates” – Donald Robertson, Third Meeting The Skills Center	Tampa Stoics	6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Taps & Drafts | EDH/MtG Night 1Up Entertainment, Tampa	Nerdbrew Events	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Modern FNM Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!	Sunshine Games	7:00 PM to 10:30 PM EDT
The Practicing Stoic: A 13-Week Online Discussion Series Online event	Orlando Stoics	7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
FRIDAY NIGHT-July 3rd IHOP	New Port Richey Game Night	7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
Friday Pokemon Tournament Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!	Sunshine Games	7:30 PM to 11:30 PM EDT
Leveling Up: Game Development Talks Jul 3/9.30 PM EST Online event	Orlando Unity Developers Group	9:30 PM to 11:30 PM EDT
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Saturday, July 4

Sunday, July 5

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:

• • 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

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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

Check out the map!

This list is also one of the data sources for HyLo’s Tampa Bay Innovation Map, which provides a graphical view of the goings-on in Tampa Bay and its tech scene. Check it out!

This week’s events

• Monday, June 22
• Tuesday, June 23
• Wednesday, June 24
• Thursday, June 25
• Friday, June 26
• Saturday, June 27
• Sunday, June 28

Monday, June 22

Tuesday, June 23

Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Hidden Springs Ale Works (Tampa): It’s time for another TampaTech Taps & Taco Tuesday! Join Tampa Bay’s tech people for an evening of networking, socializing, and all-round good fun, enhanced with free tacos and a free raffle!

Find out more and register here.

Wednesday, June 24

Wednesday at 12:30 (online): Heart of Agile is holding an Coffee Corner that brings people together from around the world via Zoom in a casual setting to share and discuss ways we Collaborate, Deliver, Reflect, and Improve.

They explore the kinds of topics people ask for: real-world stories of Agile in practice, small high-leverage changes in how we work together, and the intersections between Heart of Agile and emerging areas like AI, shaped by who’s in the room and what you bring.

Find out more and register here.

Thursday, June 25

Thursday at 6 p.m. at Yeungling Draft Haus (Tampa): Tampa Bay New-In-Tech is holding a gathering, and here’s their description:

Unwind after work and connect with professionals from across industries in casual, welcoming settings.
Whether you’re hoping to grow your network, exchange ideas, or simply take a break from the week, this is a great opportunity to meet like-minded people in one of Tampa’s most vibrant spots.

Find out more and register here.

Thursday at 6:30 at M.Bird in Armature Works (Tampa): Launch Your Career in Tech Night is an exclusive CodeBoxx event designed for recent high school graduates, parents, and future tech professionals interested in exploring careers in AI and software development.

​Hosted at M.Bird Rooftop in Tampa, this immersive evening will introduce attendees to the CodeBoxx program, the future of AI-driven careers, and real pathways into the tech industry without following the traditional college route.

​Guests will hear directly from students and alumni…and me! I’ll be speaking there, talking about the current state of the industry.

​Space is limited. RSVP required. Complimentary food will be provided.

Find out more and register here.