spring flowers 📸

Enjoyed this post: “Use your potions and scrolls”.

Resources, whether in games or in life, are meant to be utilized. Hoarding them out of fear of depletion prevents us from discovering new opportunities and connections. That’s a scarcity mindset that we don’t need to employ. Life thrives not on conservation but on strategic and bold usage of what we do have.

A wee bookshop treat for the boy who knows how to yell “Shark!” when he sees a Shark in the Park book.

Ran up Blackford Hill this morning, beautiful in the early light

11km to ParkRun and back. Ran into Joe for the first time in at least five years!

Just posted a

for both GlasgowJS and EdinburghJS Community Showcase nights in May.

First time trying a slope like this

Evening at The Climbing Hanger with Daniel.

Castello on Bruntsfield Links is now Margot. Looks like a good selection of cakes and bites to go with the coffee.

Morning 11km to ParkRun and back with the boy.

The boy just loves a doorway

Over in Glasgow this evening for a meal out with pals at Lobo on the southside

Really happy with how EdinburghJS went last night. Two great talks and lots of chatting to other JavaScript Devs. We will be announcing the April event soon!

Spring flowers 📸

Ran around Arthur’s Seat with Jack in the buggy. Stopped to watch pigeons, swans, ducks, magpies, crows and a pheasant.

Celebrated national book day by attaching feathers to the boy

zoo day

We took a wee wander in South Queensferry today. Called in at the community bookshop (no prices, just a donation) and the bakery. Jack saw his first train (irl) which was very exciting. A little bit of drama when another one didn’t immediately appear!

Yesterday I made the mistake of saying “the wee guy seems to be sleeping well recently”

Back to work after a relaxing weekend. Lunch at The Black Ivy on Saturday, and a walk along the Hermitage of Braid with the boy in a backpack yesterday.

I hosted the EdinburghJS JavaScript meetup last night. Put a few photos up on my dev page at www.jamiemchale.com/dev/edinb…

I’ve added a few notes to my website about the GlasgowJS JavaScript meetup I hosted yesterday. Interesting links on Accessibility and Non-Gregorian calendars from our two speakers

www.jamiemchale.com/dev/glasg…

We went up to the National Portrait Gallery today, saw some portraits and photographs of Gladstone and other Victorians.

It’s great how I can be reading a words and pictures book with our boy - “can you see the mouse?” - and then I can pull up videos on YouTube of mice for him. The whole world instantly to see. A long way from the encyclopedia we had as kids!

Just pushed up a trailer for the next EdinburghJS JavaScript meetup on Tues 20th. Should be a fun event!