This week I’ll be hosting the EdinburghJS Personal Websites Code Jam at the Perk office. We ran this in Glasgow last week, and it was fun to hang out with folks and write some code. Bring your laptop and ship your personal website!

Keith Harrison has launched TDD Glasgow: “It’s to learn and share software development best practices through hands-on labs”. The first meetup is this Wednesday at The Gamer Club.

Jobs:

I’ve posted a few more job finds to the new jobs board:

• Data Platform Tech Lead @ Freeagent, Edinburgh
• Analytics Engineer @ Freeagent, Edinburgh
• User Experience Design Lead @ JP Morgan, Glasgow

Content from the community:

• Daniel wrote about AI as a “force multiplier, augmenting our own agency” in The Golden Thread
• Steve blogged about How to product engineer properly in the Perk Builders Blog. (Perk are sponsoring EdinburghJS on Tues!)
• Daniel provided his word of the year alongside some thoughts on The AI Trolley Problem
• Andy posted a video about FyshOS
• Daniel livestreamed chatting about databases
• The Data Lab ran a session on Deep Agents Demystified: Turning LLMs Into Multi-Step Problem Solvers
• Sarah posted a video on tfvars files in Terraform
• James gave his first impressions of Claude Cowork
• Michael at AddJam blogged about From Vibe Code to Production: When Your Prototype Needs Real Engineering
• Gavin posted on his site discussing image and visibility in performance reviews
• Kenny asks questions and derives lessons on AI