Added a wee "expired" flag to the @scottishtechnology.club Jobs board today: www.scottishtechnology.club/jobs

🔗 Agentic Swarms Are an Org-Chart Delusion, JA Westenberg "The boundaries between “marketer” and “developer” and “analyst” dissolve, because those boundaries were never real boundaries in the work itself. They were boundari... https://micro.jamiemchale.com/2026/02/24/agentic-swarms-are-an-orgchart/

Same element in different states, displays with an emoji when closed on iOS mobile. Standard Unicode character on desktop in both states. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Pleased to announce that @nikkitaftw.bsky.social will be speaking at our March event 🙌 Register now on Luma: luma.com/6fuox64i

After a four year break I decided to start doing monthvlogs again to go alongside my month notes: www.jamiemchale.com/month-notes/...

Good morning, Yvette Young 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTEB...

🔗 Tacit Knowledge and the SaaSpocalypse, Chris Walker "The difference is one of proportion: when AI handles the commodity work, tacit-knowledge-intensive problems go from being 20 percent of someone’s day to being 80 percent of it."

New blog post: Nobody knows how the whole system works surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/n...

Just finished The Running Ground by Nick Thompson, a memoir and reflection on aging, relationships and endurance. Inspirational! 📚

I went to the AI Demo Night in Edinburgh last night. Interesting evening! A couple of thoughts: First, the barrier to creating software has got much lower. Some folks had no idea about code, and yet had produced viable app prototypes (with customers!)

Just added a helpful Luma registration link to luma events on the @scottishtechnology.club homepage

Niteworks at the Quiraing 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJC_...

Lots of folks from the Geomob meetup joining the @scottishtechnology.club Discord server today - good to be able to offer a space for a range of communities to connect - discord.com/invite/bgHpB...

Enjoying the new Luli Lee EP “Brave New World” 🎶

I've just tagged v1.0.0 of Cargo! 📦🚀 Cargo is a comprehensive e-commerce addon for Statamic. It behaves like a first-class citizen - you model your content how you want, and Cargo fits in around it.

I do worry about how junior devs will pick up the skills needed to advance. I think the floor has lowered for people to feel they can try building software, but you need to make a real effort not to be lazy!

Anthropic suggests how AI coding impacts developer learning. Takeaway: use AI to learn as you go; favour inquiry over generation. Exercise your brain!

Interesting technique from Vercel on providing context via a compress docs index in Agents.md vs providing a skill to look up the same.

Love to see it

🔗 Why Talking to LLMs Has Improved My Thinking, Philip O’Toole "the model is not improving my thinking directly. It is improving the interface between my thinking and language. Since reasoning depends heavily on what one can... https://micro.jamiemchale.com/2026/01/23/why-talking-to-llms-has/

🔗 The Human in the Loop, Adventures in Nodeland "When I ship code, my name is on it. When there’s a security vulnerability […], it’s my responsibility. I can use AI to help me move faster, but I cannot outsource my judgment. I canno... https://micro.jamiemchale.com/2026/01/22/the-human-in-the-loop/

Thanks to Colin for blogging about the event last night 🙌 pointinthecloud.com/2026-01-21-1...

Had fun at @edinburghjs.org last night 😀 Nice to meet some other devs/vibe coders in Edinburgh

How are folks managing and version controlling their user-level Claude agents and skills?

Thinking about automation - I think some processes should remain manual. Every Monday I sit down and do my timesheets and invoicing. I could easily set this up to be automatic, but it’s useful for me to type out my working hours to get a sense of effort, time spent and distraction.

Organised this event to kick off the new year. Last week in Glasgow was fun - come along to Edinburgh this Tuesday to hang out and code up your personal website

Had a fun time hosting the GlasgowJS Code Jam last night - I think the format worked well. Might run some more of these this year!

Please note the change of venue for the Personal Websites Code Jam tonight - now meeting at Teaching and Learning Building 329 at the University of Strathclyde

Tue 13th 📆 Personal Websites Code Jam - Ship your site with GlasgowJS, Glasgow

Peaceful icy Porty this morning ❄️📸

Just finished On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle 📚

Just aded a “Previous Bulletins” section to the Scottish Technology Club homepage, plus a link to the archive.

First read of 2026 - Human Acts, Han Kang 📚

🔗 Why Self-Improvement Starts With Maintenance, Tim Harford "Maintenance is meditative — one of Brand’s heroes, the great French philosopher/round-the-world-sailor Bernard Moitessier, told him “My rule is, a ne... https://micro.jamiemchale.com/2026/01/04/why-selfimprovement-starts-with-maintenance/

It’s half seven in the morning and we are already on our second listen-through of The Highway Rat

Started reading: Human Acts by Kang Han 📚

Wallington House and Gardens for a festive walk with friends and the kids 📸

Currently reading: English Pastoral by James Rebanks 📚

🔗 The Hidden Risk of AI Compute, Dave Friedman "Once you view compute as risk, the strategic map changes. The service-first instinct is: “We’ll abstract this away for users, eat the risk ourselves, and charge a margin.” So you get G... https://micro.jamiemchale.com/2025/12/27/the-hidden-risk-of-ai/

Bamburgh Castle 📸

Menorahsaurus at a lovely Chanukah dinner last night 🦖🕯️

Anyone want to help us out?

I am looking for a speaker that can give a quick talk related to Machine Learning in the JavaScript ecosystem for @edinburghjs.org . Anyone ?

Remember, it’s the @scottishtechnology.club drinks tonight at the Newsroom in Edinburgh from 7pm. Details on Luma or @edinburghjs.org meetup group luma.com/dzoxm1ee

🔗 You’re Overspending Because You Lack Values, Sherry Ning "Standing in front of all my stuff, it hit me that all of it used to be money, and all of that used to be time. I was standing in front of the metabolic ... https://micro.jamiemchale.com/2025/12/16/youre-overspending-because-you-lack/

Vibe coding small tools - I’ve made a couple of quick plugins for Obsidian to help me manage my workflow. Really great that it can be quickly extended and customised. I’ve made a “task forwarder” that integrates with Obsidian Tasks and a “Copy as a formatted quote” for Readwise to Micro blog.

The 1st keynote for June's UX Scotland conference has been announced - Sara Wachter-Boettcher, author of Content Everywhere, Design for Real Life (with Eric Meyer), and Technically Wrong will join us in Edinburgh. Visit uxscotland.net for ticket and sponsorship info. / @uxscotland.bsky.social

"⁠They offer you pacification disguised as a beautiful illusion of creation, and worst of all, in concert with recommendation algorithms, can directly optimize on your engagement to keep you trapped." Armistice on AI video model apps

The relative calm before Storm Bram tonight on Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh #Edinburgh #StormBram #Weather

New Postgres meetup launching in Edinburgh this week 👇