We had a great GlasgowJS meetup last week at Barclays Eagle Labs, the last one of the year. If you are running a new venture check out the Eagle Labs Academy their learning platform for founders to start or scale their business. It’s the last EdinburghJS of the year on Tuesday. It’s sold out with a waiting list, but you can tune in on the Scottish Technology Club YouTube channel. TravelPerk are sponsoring the event, and are currently hiring in Edinburgh.

There are lots of other events this week too - today (Monday) is the launch of Gordon Guthrie’s report Foundations of the Digital State. It will be livestreamed by LiveToAir, who you can follow on Bluesky for more technology livestreams. GlasgowPHP are relaunching on Tuesday, and Glasgow Remote Workers are launching on Thursday (organised by Jamie Furlong, who hosted GlasgowJS last week).

Looking further ahead, Glasgow folks might be interested in Open Source Glasgow’s night on running your own services on 25th November, the inFORM meetup on 28th, and the Glasgow Tech Christmas Night Out on December 5th. Edinburgh folks have the ProductTank end of year celebration on December 3rd and Transform Meetup on AI on 4th to look forward to.

Special shout out to DevFest Scotland 2024 on 30th November. I know a few folks who have previously spoken at the JS meets have secured speaking slots, so it’ll be a great chance to connect with the community.

This week in writing and videos: Kelsie Murphy added an RSS feed to his blog, so I won’t miss any posts like his favourite dev tools of 2024, posted a couple of weeks ago. I’d be keen to see more of these from other folks in the community, so send me your links! Ljupche posted a video on How SQLite is becoming so popular. He’ll also be hosting EdinburghJS this week! The Data Lab hosted a webinar on careers in Data Science and AI. The Scottish Tech Army did a lunch and learn on their transforming dressCode project. Sarah wrote a blog post on using Github Copilot to generate Terraform configurations.

If you are one of the many people joining Bluesky this week, give us a follow on @scottishtechnology.club.