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Runner and reader, freelance coder, occasional photographer. I organise @edinburghjs.org and @glasgowjs.org JavaScript meetups, and write @scottishtechnology.club events+content bulletin. 📍Edinburgh / Scotland 🌐 jamiemchale.com
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So the feature to download your Amazon kindle books to a file is broken ~3 days before they decided to turn it off 🤔

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Edinburgh’s Royal Mile as seen in 1796, was painted by Barker. sourced from the New York Public Library Digital Collections. #Edinburgh #RoyalMile #History #HistoricScotland #OldEdinburgh

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AI workflow: A Figma file full of components, not all well named. I said out loud what I saw (Superwhisper), took the transcription and generated CamelCase names (ChatGPT), then wrote a prompt to generate a placeholder component and Storybook for each one (Copilot). Lots of time saved!

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My purpose in posting about this article on Outcome Orientation as a Cure for Information Overload is to give it a place in my public feed so that I can come back to it later, and to attract the attention of others who also think seriously about these sort of things.

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Fun to see Jack play with the Duplo that I played with 40 years ago

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I wondered why as a kid I never had tenderstem broccoli, but rather the fat stuff. TIL, it was only invented in the 90s, as a new hybrid, and is a registered trademark

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Dominic Cummings wants you to seize the memes of production. "SW1 is always super-mimetic when crises come so work on building things that seed the memes." dominiccummings.substack.com/p/tsp-5-what...

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Come hang out next week 👇

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Reading: Jasmine Sun on oral vs literate culture, LLMs and politics. Does oral culture lend itself to authoritarianism? jasmi.news/p/the-post-l...

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Handed hosting duties over to another Jamie this evening - means I can relax and be a bit more social!

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you can just do things

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"The council has resisted Howells’ attempts to allow him to search, insisting that the hard drive had become its property when it entered the landfill site" ...so why isn't the Council searching for the hard drive? Do a deal! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Just posted the latest bulletin - featuring DundeeScript, @glasgowjs.org , Event Driven Software and Rust and Friends. Find details of all the events and content from the community at: www.scottishtechnology.club/week/2025-w7

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Frupidity: "But frugality has a dark twin – a reckless, shortsighted impostor that mistakes cost-cutting for efficiency and penny-pinching for wisdom. Enter frupidity, or stupid frugality – the obsessive drive to save money ... https://micro.jamiemchale.com/2025/02/10/frupidity-but-frugality-has-a/

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This is me trying to get better at recording and editing promo videos 👇 We will be in Glasgow on Tues, livestream on the website and YouTube, then Edinburgh the following week.

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Old College and other Edinburgh Old Town roofs - check out Golden Boy balanced on top bearing the Torch of Knowledge #Edinburgh #scotland

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Just @petecodes.bsky.social checking to see if I read his newsletter.

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Finished The Bell Jar last night, started on Bettering Humanomics over breakfast. 📚

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It was thanks to inspiration from @olil.bsky.social that I finally automated posting of daily events through to Bluesky, so go check out his meetup!

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Bluesky seems to be rejecting posts with thumbnail uploads for me, and posting from Buffer has failed too. Status page says everything is green. Anyone else having problems?

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