Last week we had EdinburghJS, with some last minute changes to the lineup. Thanks to Emmanuel and Daniel for stepping up! The JavaScript meetups will be taking a break in April, but we will be back in May.

Maurice got in touch with a reminder that JAlba (Java conference) is on again this year, 14th-16th May, so take a look at http://jalba.scot for details. This week GlasgowPHP is on, and Makers Gonna Make is happening in Edinburgh.

📝 Content from across the Scottish tech community

• Adam took a look at Scotland’s AI Strategy
• Nick built a content pipeline for his blog using Claude Code
• TechTalks posted videos from their last event: Packaging 128 programming languages with Nix - Noon van der Silk, and Integration is the hardest part: making robots usable on-site - Daniela Shchegelskaya
• Cam is almost at the end of his YouTube short series: Locking Down Pro Features! | Build an App Day 18 of 20
• EdinburghJS posted a video from the February event: Next, WordPress and Cloudflare
• Andy built a Flappy Gopher game (an ode to Flappy Bird)
• Sarah wrote about Estimate Azure Costs from Terraform with Infracost
• Chris wrote I Thought SOT666 Was a Standard - It Isn’t.
• Olly reacted to the 49mb webpage with The 49KB Webpage, and wrote about Choosing self-managed databases
• Daniel wrote about React Native Offline Data with React Query and Zustand on the AddJam blog
• Yana continued her UX newsletter with The £2 Sofa: Why Generic Gamification Destroys Retention
• Owain released two Umbraco packages: OC.PowerSort Package and OC.UFMFallbacks Package
• Jimmy posted his talk from SCaLE 23x and CloudNativePG: Robust, Self-Healing PostgreSQL on Kubernetes (Jimmy runs the Edinburgh Postgres meetup)
• James blogged about Ideas for managing post volume in web readers
• Sandor saw How Far AI Gets You in 24 Hours with a PWA Case Study