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Jamie McHale
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Runner and reader, freelance coder.

Building a community @scottishtechnology.club
Organise @edinburghjs.org and @glasgowjs.org

📍Edinburgh / Scotland
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A wee cycle loop around Cramond, Granton and Newhaven with the boy. Lunch at The Pitt. A good weekend of cycling!
November 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Cycled out with the boy to Down the Hatch at Port Edgar Marina today. Almost all on cycle paths from central Edinburgh. Great day for it!
November 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Good morning from Strathtay
Sunrise through a small window with a fish decoration in front
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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Pretty much perfect day - walked through the autumn leaves at the Birks of Aberfeldy, read the Burns poem out loud, over to Loch Tay to enjoy the afternoon sunshine and lob rocks into the water.
A view over loch Tay to the hills fading in the distance&10;
October 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Drove up for a wander around Dunkeld this afternoon. Walked around the cathedral, threw stones in the river, found a playpark.
A yellow house in Dunkeld against autumn leaves
October 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Edinburgh sunset 📸
October 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Barclay Viewforth Church in the autumn light 📸
October 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Evening reading: 1177 BC, Eric H. Cline
Book cover for 1177BC on eink tablet
October 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Wee wander with the family up at Midmar Paddock to enjoy the afternoon sun 📸
Midmar Paddock allotments in the afternoon sunshine
October 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Went to the Lothian Bus Depot Doors Open Day yesterday. Lots of family fun!
Top of two old Lothian Buses
September 28, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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But I wonder if a "private LLM" allows for a different type of thinking, akin to thinking out loud?

psyche.co/ideas/talkin...
"Speaking out loud to yourself also increases the dialogical quality of our own speech. Although we have no visible addressee, speaking to ourselves encourages us to actively construct an image of an addressee and activate one’s ‘theory of mind’ – the ability to understand other people’s mental states, and to speak and act according to their imagined expectations. Mute inner speech can appear as an inner dialogue as well, but its truncated form encourages us to create a ‘secret’ abbreviated language and deploy mental shortcuts. By forcing us to articulate ourselves more fully, self-talk summons up the image of an imagined listener or interrogator more vividly. In this way, it allows us to question ourselves more critically by adopting an external perspective on our ideas, and so to consider shortcomings in our arguments – all while using our own speech." (Psyche, Talking Out Loud to Yourself Is a Technology for Thinking)
September 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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First visit to the bike park at the Crags Centre with the boy - will hopefully graduate from a balance bike soon 📸
Me running along next to Jack on his wee balance bike
September 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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That was good ⚡🤘⚡
Angus Young playing guitar at Murrayfield
August 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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It’s been a hot day in Kirkcudbright ☀️
A kite (bird!) in the cloudless sky
July 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Some garden colours 📸

Fresh blueberries and strawberries.
Purple flowers Ripening blueberries on the bush Bright red strawberries in a punnet
July 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Wee visit to see the Capybara at the zoo this morning
A Capybara searching for food
July 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Backdated all the livestream links for @edinburghjs.org and @glasgowjs.org to the @scottishtechnology.club website. Incredible effort over the years by @livetoair.uk to capture all our talks. What an archive!

www.scottishtechnology.club/topics/javas...
Long list of JavaScript meetups
July 5, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Lunar landscape as we went up and over!
June 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Went for a walk in the Dales yesterday near Reeth, up past the Old Gang Smelting Mine. It got pretty misty at the top!
Aileen on an old bridge The river running down a small valley Aileen ahead of me on a track, looking out over the valley Reading a map
June 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Spent the afternoon at Parliament talking to MSPs about the Scottish technology scene, @scottishtechnology.club and what I thought could be done to improve the ecosystem. Thanks to @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com for organising!
Group photo of tech community organisers and org representatives Me, speaking to the Minister for Business
June 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Solstice segement run with Interval Running up Arthur’s Seat. Gordon and I put in one segment each. Incredible effort from some other folks doing loads more!
Me and Gordon at the top View from Arthur's Seat with Gordon Me, Luke and Gordon at Interval Running
June 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Morning 7km run in Regents Park 📸
Runner in a yellow top crosses a treelined path
June 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Morning at the Hunterian Museum
Bust of John Hunter surrounded by animal skulls and specimens
May 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Good to catch up with so many familiar faces at Tectonic Night Summit yesterday.
A group of people around an outdoor table with pizza and drinks
May 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Reading the Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze. Nazis invaded Soviet Union with a lot of horses - not like the popular conception of a fast mechanised force we see in films
"The German army in 1941 invaded the Soviet Union with somewhere between 600,000 and 750,000 horses. The horses were not for riding. They were for moving guns, ammunition and supplies. Weeks prior to the invasion, 15,000 Panje carts were issued to the infantry units that would trail behind the fast-moving Panzers. The vast majority of Germany’s soldiers marched into Russia, as they had into France, on foot." (Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction)
May 18, 2025 at 6:49 AM