Happy March to you! This month I’m organising talks at GlasgowJS (The Big Red Diff, Tues 10th) and EdinburghJS (Writing an emulator in JavaScript?, Tues 17th). We’re still trying to raise sponsorship for GlasgowJS, so if you think you or your company wants to support the community then please do get in touch. Perk already sponsor our EdinburghJS meetup, and are hiring in Edinburgh. This week I’m hoping to drop by Pete’s High Signal Meetup on Wednesday evening to chat founding, tech and indie hacking.

📝 Content from the community

• Donna issued a Call for Mentors & Advisers for a place-based community network in Dundee
• Gavin attended the Gleam conference and wrote about it on the Perk Builders blog
• Daniel thinks you’re going to make it, on AI and software development careers
• Cam is Building Liftie in React Native in 20 days, and recording videos showing progress (you can watch from day 1)
• Chris bought Even more AliExpress gadgets
• Sarah explains What is .terraform.lock.hcl?, Terraform Lock File Explained
• Andy gives us an Accessibility sneak peek for Fyne
• Kenny provides some links and comments on AI and business in The weekly download: No 32
• Yana blogged about The Jira Translation Gap: Why human psychology gets lost in the backlog.
• Owain posted on How I used Umbraco.AI for free
• Nicola built some Interactive beeswarm charts in R
• Daniel posted about Optimising React Native App Performance in 2026
• Olly blogged about What it actually costs to run Pagecord (March 2026)
• James discussed Dopplr colours for web design, and Preserving calm in software over time
• Duncan posted on Words and pictures in the history of user experience and the future of artificial intelligence
• Rory published a CLI for reading Tuta Email

💼 Jobs

• Senior Software Engineer at Perk
• Software Engineer at Perk
• Full Stack Engineer at Ascent Platform

I also added an “expired” flag to jobs that have been filled (and posted a video about the change). Thanks to Jonathan for the suggestion. Please do let me know if we are still listing a job that is no longer available!