Happy New Year folks! I hope you had a restful holiday. Welcome to everyone who subscribed to the bulletin over the holiday period, including those that have signed up from the January Personal Website events registration form.

I’m excited to see what community events will be run this year - Scotland has so much potential to connect people working in technology. The first event of the year that I can find is Tech Meetup Glasgow this Thursday. The rest of this week is quite quiet, but things start to get busier over the next few weeks.

I’ll be running two events in January at GlasgowJS and EdinburghJS. Both of these are a “Personal Website Code Jam”. Turn up with your laptop and get cracking on coding your personal site or portfolio with peer support from other attendees. This will be a good chance to build something new for the new year - perhaps you’ve set a new years resolution to start writing online, or to promote your work a bit more? Check the new Scottish Technology Club Luma calendar for details. We can now offer “supporter” tickets via these links, so you can contribute to the running costs of the group and this bulletin when you sign up.

If you need some inspiration for your site, for writing online or speaking at events: over the holiday period a lot of folks published blogs and videos, here are a selection:

• UX Edinburgh streamed their Festive Meetup with talks from Yana (Building a UX Career Across Countries) and Jean-Luc (lessons learned from being the new team at 4 game studios) and Sandor wrote up his notes from the meetup
• Sarah reflected on 52 blog posts in 2025 (what a great effort!)
• Ross wrote about Processing device data in AWS using IoT Rules
• Andy posted about Creating an app user interface just from a sketch with Apptrix.ai
• Kevin recorded a video on how he is reworking his Mac SSD & Storage Setup
• Jack posted on LinkedIn about his 2025 projects including Dundee Founders Collective
• Jon blogged on 2025: The Last Year Most Knowledge Workers will be Human
• Alan wrote about the last year for Borders Tech Connect
• Emmanuel published an article on Generating a Type-Safe TypeScript SDK with Orval
• Owain wrote about what to do when GitKraken runs slow
• Nicola blogged about her 2025 in Data Visulisation
• James wrote about the Indie Web in 2030 and how to turn a list into a web feed
• Chris reviewed his 2025 hardware projects (we’ve linked to a lot of posts and videos from this bulletin)
• Craig asks how we ensure junior engineers still develop real engineering judgement in an AI-driven world?
• James re-launched Open Tech Calendar, listing virtual tech events that include community participation
• Scott released Gitflow Automator on Github (and posted about it in our Discord community)

I’ll start sharing technology jobs in Scotland both here in the bulletin and on a new jobs board from next week. If you are recruiting then please fill out our jobs submission form. This board is available both for direct recruitment and for recruiters. The only thing that we ask is that the role is connected to Scotland, or available remotely for folks based in Scotland.