"The truth is the more unique and personalized the books you read, the more original a thinker you will become." My new piece: The Sovereign Reader american-innocence.com/p/the-sovere...

is there an html microformat way of signaling that a particular part of a page has been LLM-generated? I've got some sites like thicket.dev that are summary sites and want to signal explicitly that they're not of human provenance

If you have any questions about @playwright.dev , I'd be happy to help :) I can also give a talk in your company if you are planning to use this technology

Thanks to everyone who came along to our meetup last night - thanks to all our speakers: @emmanueldemey.dev , Paddy and @danielroe.dev and to our hosts and sponsors Perk! Hosted by @jamiemchale.com with @livetoair.uk streaming We're on a break in April - back in May and June with more talks

Terrific meetup last night. Nice to meet @danielroe.dev in person too 👋

"Every layer of approval makes a process 10x slower I know what you're thinking. Come on, 10x? That’s a lot. It’s unfathomable. Surely we’re exaggerating" QA reduces quality. @apenwarr.ca shows a way forward (of course mentions Toyota Production System) through modularity and, ultimately, trust.

I’m hosting this tonight 👇

Wee zoo trip 📸

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?