Bulletin 2025 Week 5
Monday January 27th, 2025

Makers Gonna Make Episode 4 (via Peter Trizuliak)
There are many events across the central belt and online this week for technology enthusiasts. GeoMob Edinburgh returns on Tuesday, as does Ladies of Code Glasgow. .NET Edinburgh is on Wednesday, and inFORM Glasgow (run by Fraser Merrifield) is doing their first daytime meetup.
From Scotland-based tech bloggers, streamers and vloggers this week:
- Olly (former CTO of Freeagent) posted a video from 2024 discussing his CTO journey
- Daniel posted about using Jest Snapshots to improve React Native testing on the AddJam blog
- Chris posted a video on taking hardware silk screen to the next level with his ESP32 Rainbow recreation of the ZX Spectrum
- Daniel livestreamed tracking down performance gains in Nuxt
- Owain (organiser of the .NET meetup) resumed blogging on the dev-life balance
- Andy blogged about recent podcast and magazine appearances alongside being honoured by OpenUK
We’ve also had a fair amount of activity in our Discord server this week, with a few new channels for different programming languages. If you haven’t join yet, then you can do so via our invite link.
- Tue 28 Jan 25
- GameDevEd (+ EdJam Play Party!) Edinburgh · GameDevEd Edinburgh Game Developer Meetup
- Ladies of Code: January Meetup (In person) Glasgow · Ladies of Code (Glasgow)
- GameDevEd (+ EdJam Play Party!)
- Wed 29 Jan 25
- inFORM Glasgow Glasgow · inFORM Glasgow
- January .NET Edinburgh MeetUp Edinburgh · .NET Edinburgh
- inFORM Glasgow
- Thu 30 Jan 25
- Tech for Good Scotland - January 2025 Glasgow · Third Sector Lab
- WORKSHOP - Intro to Hoshin Kanri: Creating strategic clarity. LIMITED SPOTS! Edinburgh · ProductTank Edinburgh
- Tech for Good Scotland - January 2025
- Sat 01 Feb 25
- FOSDEM Watch Party Glasgow · Open Source Glasgow
- FOSDEM Watch Party