Jamie McHale
Runner and reader, freelance coder.
Building a community @scottishtechnology.club
Organise @edinburghjs.org and @glasgowjs.org
📍Edinburgh / Scotland
🌐 jamiemchale.com
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- I thought it was something like scam call centers dial out lots of numbers, and if you answer you get connected with a scammer, but like regular call centers someone is not always there to take the call immediately
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- Sometimes I signed up for a newsletter and then later figure out I'll get the same info from their RSS or socials so I unsubscribe.
- Glorious morning run around Liberton and the Braids ☀️
- He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither....
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View full threadFor cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world
- For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
- He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
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- Like a digital church?
- Is there any difference between Claude Code and Claude Sonnet 3.7 in GitHub Copilot?
- Edinburgh Trams now has "tap on", integrating with the buses. But you also have to "tap off" or you are charged the airport rate. Why not make people just tap off at the airport instead? edinburghtrams.com/news/tap-tap...
- So people regularly using the tram are at risk of being massively overcharged rather than putting in barriers at the airport tram stop? Seems like a bad trade off!
- 11km around Parkrun and back with the boy in the buggy, so a wee treat from the new Toscano sandwich place in Bruntsfield for lunch. Recommended!
- After adding a jobs channel to the community Discord and featuring some in the newsletter, I'm going to start posting them on the ScottishTechnology.club BlueSky account. So if you are hiring for tech roles in Scotland (or remote) then give me a shout.
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- I don't live down that way anymore, but the decision to remove what seemed to be a fairly successful scheme and replace it with something worse was terrible! Imho the main missing ingredient is political leadership!
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- Thanks for the reply! Are the council gummed up with trying to resolve too many projects so none get done? Is there a dedicated team or are the folks who do this shared working on other things?
- What are the reasons for the delays? What action does the council need to take to get things moving?
- There was a turtle at the loch!
- TIL the difference between turtles and terrapins. This apparently is a terrapin, and has lived in the loch for a few years according to Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/Edinburgh/...
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- Dunsapie, up around the back of Arthurs Seat!
- After a lovely April break, we are back with another block of JS meetups (May, June and July in both Glasgow and Edinburgh). Keen to speak to potential speakers! Next event is 6th May in Glasgow 📅
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- One of the main things I noticed after becoming a dad was the vastly increased number of interactions I'd have with strangers when I had our boy with me. Strong "safe to talk to" signal.
- I think AI can have some uses here - I have used it to give me a rough summary of different areas so I can figure out what I might like to investigate; it can also iterate through different itineraries to spark some ideas or scenarios. A creative aid, not an end-to-end planner.
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- Yeah, I wouldn't do that! But...travel agencies and planners and package holidays are a big thing! Maybe people actually don't want to think!
- No idea how it appeared in my Spotify library - but the playlist “And the Roots of Rhythm Remain” is fun. Seems to accompany a book 🎶 open.spotify.com/playlist/…
- It’s my birthday, so celebrated in my favourite way. 🥪
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- Coded in JS? Potential future talk for @edinburghjs.org ?!
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- A test: is there a person that NYT would verify that bsky would not?
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- Yeah, I agree. I run a couple of JS meetups and a tech community here in Scotland. I'd love to be able to "verify" speakers, hosts, organisers or even attendees - provide a link between irl and Bluesky.
- Lunch at The Beach House and a wander on the sand 📸
- And another Scottish org for technologists and innovators 👇
- Another Scottish tech meetup for folks to follow on here 👇 (always keen to find more!)
- Just reading “What it’s like to interview a software engineer preparing with AI” where candidates basically used AI to fake or puff up their experience. Seems to me like meetups/in-person connections will become more important to validate what people really know and what they are really like.
- This is me hyping my own meetups. @glasgowjs.org @edinburghjs.org - companies should sponsor us, attend and recruit 🙏
- Key take away from “What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers” - the process matters for creativity: "“I have no idea how he ended up as an art director when he can’t visualise what he wants in his h... micro.jamiemchale.com/2025/04/08/key-take…
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- I'm general pro-AI, I think there will be risks, but I also think it can be a useful tool. We need to figure out how and where to apply it! A sense of taste and an understanding of value is necessary.
- I do not understand how in 2025 the leader of Scottish Labour can be doing a callback to a MAGA slogan.
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View full threadSo often in politics people choose a framing of being a deal-maker/pragmatic/hard truth to appear tough or clear minded, which then slips into an embrace of people or ideas that they (should) know to be wrong. Why does this happen?
- It's perfectly OK to write an article about SNP economic failures; the need for business investment in our economy; how Americans have great connections with Scotland, without "regardless of what people think of his politics"-ing.
- Got a reply from Sarwar that said he didn't write the headline and suggesting that I read the article (I did). There is simply no need to run with a framing of doing deals with Trump to promote our economy
- I have a question for ecosystem builders: what has more impact on community health - regular monthly technical meetups, or annual larger conferences?
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- As far as I am aware there isn't anything like that - despite all the "tech startup" activity and the millions sloshing around!
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- Yeah, that was my thought. If you have a good base of repeat attendees then you have a better chance of making a larger event work!
- The reason I ask is Glasgow City Council provide 1k support for regular meetups but 10k for large "high impact" events (that are not just for "business building". Unsure how I feel about this balance!
- 10k would fund GlasgowJS and EdinburghJS for a whole year. My intuition is that this would be more impactful for community health than a one off big event?
- 8.5km morning run down the Hermitage of Braid. Lovely to get some morning sunshine
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- On Trump Tariffs, Mckinley, and Closing Society, DigressionsImpressions "“Mercantilism is never just about the balance of trade. It’s always and everywhere an attempt to direct state violence against those who wish to... micro.jamiemchale.com/2025/04/07/on-trump…
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