Jamie McHale

I've been making improvements to StandingWire recently - public register data for Scotland, England and Wales, and then a "pro" account for land agents to quickly assess sites for potential woodland creation. Will make some videos and show this off soon!

Via my /ping page: “Do you have a colophon page? how is this ping made? can you answer to this? I really like your website.” Astro action ➡️ Pushover

Hosting the Glasgow JavaScript meetup this evening. Video will appear later this week!

@mccune.org.uk your RSS feed link fields (and IDs) are prefixed with your Github, leading to 404s. e.g. raesene.github.io/https://raes...

And now Vidhya talking about CSS logical properties.

Hosting this tonight - glad to be back from the summer break. Thanks to Waracle for supporting our next season of talks!

Went through to Tectonic night summit in Glasgow yesterday. Really nice to see lots of folks I know. Catching up about work, projects and telling folks about my research into opportunities with @standingwire.com

I’ll be heading through to this tonight - if you are going then give me a shout!

Thanks to Michael and the RookieOven community for the @scottishtechnology.club shout out in their recent post 👇 rookieoven.com/2026-09-01/r...

Just about a year ago H was pacing the car park of the maternity unit listening to the Waterboys, waiting for Rory to arrive. Yesterday eve we went out to see them live in Glasgow. Been a bit of a year, but lovely to bookend it with this! Looking forward to celebrating the wee guy today!

Just had to use the new ScotRail app for the first time. It doesn’t have the functionality or the usability of the old one. Why did they release this?!?

Posted a few photos and the route of a cycle-camping trip from Edinburgh to Pillars of Hercules campsite in Fife. Went out on our new cargo e-bike, first camping trip for our eldest. It was fun and tiring! www.jamiemchale.com/journal/pill...

Me too 👋

The view on Blackford Hill this evening for the eclipse

I've been working on the @scottishtechnology.club Jobs board. Importing from some local employers automatically now. Approved a bunch of (backdated) jobs this morning: www.scottishtechnology.club/jobs

Harvest in the garden 📸

One thing I don't understand about the ChatGPT redesigns is that my projects or scheduled tasks on the web don't seem to appear in the new desktop app. Is there a split, or something wrong in my setup?

🔗 Friendship Suffices, L. M. Sacasas theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/friendship... “if there is something like a political life to be, to remain for us, in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship.”

Hosting this now!

Our meetup is tonight with @nikkitaftw.bsky.social - come along! luma.com/edinburghjs-...

Had great fun hosting this - it was a busy evening! I'm looking forward to our June meetup!

Live-streaming with @edinburghjs.org this evening www.youtube.com/live/oH7PoFg...

Livestream here 👇 www.youtube.com/live/sXW77zP...

"The truth is the more unique and personalized the books you read, the more original a thinker you will become." My new piece: The Sovereign Reader american-innocence.com/p/the-sovere...

is there an html microformat way of signaling that a particular part of a page has been LLM-generated? I've got some sites like thicket.dev that are summary sites and want to signal explicitly that they're not of human provenance

If you have any questions about @playwright.dev , I'd be happy to help :) I can also give a talk in your company if you are planning to use this technology

Thanks to everyone who came along to our meetup last night - thanks to all our speakers: @emmanueldemey.dev , Paddy and @danielroe.dev and to our hosts and sponsors Perk! Hosted by @jamiemchale.com with @livetoair.uk streaming We're on a break in April - back in May and June with more talks

Terrific meetup last night. Nice to meet @danielroe.dev in person too 👋

"Every layer of approval makes a process 10x slower I know what you're thinking. Come on, 10x? That’s a lot. It’s unfathomable. Surely we’re exaggerating" QA reduces quality. @apenwarr.ca shows a way forward (of course mentions Toyota Production System) through modularity and, ultimately, trust.

I’m hosting this tonight 👇

Wee zoo trip 📸

Added a wee "expired" flag to the @scottishtechnology.club Jobs board today: www.scottishtechnology.club/jobs

🔗 Agentic Swarms Are an Org-Chart Delusion, JA Westenberg "The boundaries between “marketer” and “developer” and “analyst” dissolve, because those boundaries were never real boundaries in the work itself. They were boundari... https://micro.jamiemchale.com/2026/02/24/agentic-swarms-are-an-orgchart/

Same element in different states, displays with an emoji when closed on iOS mobile. Standard Unicode character on desktop in both states. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

Pleased to announce that @nikkitaftw.bsky.social will be speaking at our March event 🙌 Register now on Luma: luma.com/6fuox64i