Tech Events at Perk, Edinburgh

EdinburghJS's November meetup pairs developer wellbeing with open-source maintenance: two talks and the usual pizza-and-questions second half. It starts at 18:30 at Perk, 3rd Floor, Nova House, 3 Ponton Street, and it's free. The group is Edinburgh's longest-running JavaScript community and draws engineers from across the city's product teams, not just front-end specialists. Why go: the easiest way to meet working JavaScript engineers in Edinburgh, with talks on topics most conference lineups skip. Best for developers who want peers, not a sales pitch.

EdinburghJS meets at Perk in Fountainbridge for its October session, with two talks: building sites that clients can edit themselves, and the internal tooling teams end up writing whether or not they planned to. It is Edinburgh's main JavaScript community meetup, free and open to anyone who writes for the web, with doors from 18:30. The group runs monthly through the year and keeps the format simple — two talks, questions, then the room stays to talk. Perk is a working café space, so the atmosphere is closer to a conversation than a conference. Why go: both topics are the unglamorous work that eats real engineering time, and this is the Edinburgh room where front-end and full-stack developers compare notes on it without a vendor in the mix. Best for web developers, agency teams and anyone maintaining a CMS someone else has to use.

EdinburghJS on what AI-assisted development does to software security — new failure modes, and what review has to catch now.

with Sara Vieira (Developer & Speaker, Independent)

Edinburgh JS brings Sara Vieira to Perk for a deep technical session on writing a JavaScript emulator — specific, hands-on, and genuinely interesting for engineers who like to understand how things work at a low level. Sara is one of the most compelling technical speakers in the JavaScript community.