Jamie McHale
@jamiemchale.com
Runner and reader, freelance coder. Building a community @scottishtechnology.club Organise @edinburghjs.org and @glasgowjs.org 📍Edinburgh / Scotland 🌍 jamiemchale.com
Really good that the Voi e-bike scheme is expanding in Edinburgh. More availability and more parking spots will hopefully mean even more usage - network effects! www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...
Voi electric hire bike schemes approach major milestones in Edinburgh and Glasgow
Pilot Edinburgh operation about to be expanded further
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One thing I don't understand about the ChatGPT redesigns is that my projects or scheduled tasks on the web don't seem to appear in the new desktop app. Is there a split, or something wrong in my setup?
Some weird AI implementations out there - RightMove has added a "Summarise Property Details" AI button, and a few more for questions like "is there public transport nearby" - all things which are already in the property listing, and can be pre-computed once. Why bother feeding it to AI?
Shout out to @kelsiesmurphy.com for starting MakeStuff.club in Glasgow- event next week!
makestuff.club
makestuff.club is a relaxed coworking and creative monthly group in Glasgow for people who want to make real progress on something - side projects, art, writing, code - alongside other friendly humans...
makestuff.club
🔗 Friendship Suffices, L. M. Sacasas theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/friendship... “if there is something like a political life to be, to remain for us, in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship.”
, “it is hospitality.” In the same context, he also claimed that “if there is something like a political life to be, to remain for us, in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship.” “Therefore my task,” he explained, “is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships. Mutual friendships always. I and you, and I hope a third one, out of which perhaps community can grow. Because perhaps here we can find what the good is.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4pnyauyasdlgunp2yimrdgu/bafkreid4abl547ndpsuvz5iqwavfe74666o2umk6soayt7fj6cymxpbtgi)
Last day at Bouzigues and Etang de Thau. Lovely family stay, just pottering around, swimming and relaxing. Off down the coast to a campsite tomorrow.
Had great fun hosting this - it was a busy evening! I'm looking forward to our June meetup!
Edinburgh JavaScript Meetup@edinburghjs.org · 3mo agoThank you to our speakers last night! It was great to hear from Dennis, Andrew and Joshua on different aspects of AI and coding. Thanks also to Joshua and Ying for volunteering, Allan for the livestream and Perk for sponsoring.
Livestream here 👇 www.youtube.com/live/sXW77zP...
The Zombie Service Worker - Yevhen Husak - GlasgowJS - May 2026
Welcome to the Glasgow JavaScript Meetup livestream. We will be streaming from 19:00 on Tuesday 12th May from the University of Strathclyde. https://www.glasgowjs.org/meetups/2026-05-12 Our talk thi...
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"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...
The Sovereign Reader
Building your "personal culture" in America, one book at a time.
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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
OCaml Thicket
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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
Edinburgh JavaScript Meetup@edinburghjs.org · 5mo agoThanks 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
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 👋
Edinburgh JavaScript Meetup@edinburghjs.org · 5mo agoChange of speaker for tonight's event: Sara's talk has been moved to our June meetup and instead we will have a series of lightning talks. Same venue, same time! See you tonight 👇 luma.com/edinburghjs-...
"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.
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...
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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
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After a four year break I decided to start doing monthvlogs again to go alongside my month notes: www.jamiemchale.com/month-notes/...
January 2026
Personal website of Jamie McHale - freelance web developer, host of Scottish JavaScript meetups, keen runner, reader and photographer
jamiemchale.com
🔗 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...
Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…
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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!)
