February 2026

February flew by. The first half of the month we were eating healthy, exercising despite the lack of sleep. Rory has still not been able to consolidate sleep cycles on a regular basis! We have had a fun time with both of the boys though, including some visits to the museum to see their “Giants” exhibition.

Mid-month we went down to near Hull for Steph and Chris’s wedding. It was a lovely ceremony, and it was great to be able to celebrate with them. H was a bridesmaid, and I was on parenting duty most of the time.

After the wedding the healthy eating and exercise routine seemed to take a bit of a hit. My achilles has been playing up, so I’ve tried to take it easier. With sleep deprevation it’s also harder to summon the willpower for running.

We didn’t have a GlasgowJS in Feburary, as the venue arrangements fell through. I attended an AI Demo evening, checking out various projects and tools people have built with and for AI.

EdinburghJS this month was on WordPress, NextJS and Cloudflare. We will be back next month with a talk from Sara Vieira on building emulators.

My reading has also suffered this month. I picked through the first bits of the Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome, by Venki Ramakrishnan, The Baby Sleep Solution by Lucy Wolfe and Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

I’ll be back at the end of March with another update - hopefully a little more rested! 👋