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Sean Newell

@sean.thenewells.us
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Married 💍 to @nickinewell.art Father of two wee bairns. 2 cats & 1 dog. Principal Engineer @ Mews. Texan living & working in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. he/him. Blogging over on sean.thenewells.us

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Pooya Parsa @pi0.io · 28/09/2026
Just published github.com/unjs/oxbox 🐂 🛠️ A tiny, portable JS library for parsing and transforming JS/TS/JSX, powered by oxc. ⚡ Optimized wasm build in a single JS chunk 🪞 Same API as oxc-parser + oxc-transform 🤝 Works in browsers and Node.js 💾 Fits on a floppy disk
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 23/09/2026
tawk. 🗣️
Rudy mozilla wildposting
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And the notion of "intelligence" as something that can be quantified and tested is one that comes out of eugenics. So it's not a surprise to see the AI bros go all in on eugenics too - it's built into the ideas they're committed to. A good book on the history of how we think about the brain:
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The Idea of the Brain
A powerful examination of what we think we know about the brain and why — despite technological advances — the workings of our most essential organ remain a mystery.
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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 19/09/2026
It keeps confusing me that the main call to action in these cards (the button) does NOT go to the article but to the main website Is it just me that finds this weird...? The main visual CTA for a card about an article should go to that article no...?
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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
can we please all collectively stop saying that "ai is just a tool" it is a meaningless & oft-repeated phrase that justifies nothing & helps no one ai is an industry led by psychos, ai is chatbots, ai is agents, ai is data centers, ai is shitty features in software that doesn't need it
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 21/09/2026
brettcodes.com/ai-is-not-ju...
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AI is not “just a tool”
Why it is irresponsible to continue to frame the use of AI-powered software as “just a tool.”
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 18/09/2026
Halal is good, actually.
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 18/09/2026
poop is on the menu?
BBC Article :: Hyrox athlete apologises for continuing race after soiling herself
Gardian Article :: There's a history of athletes pooing themselves mid-race - why, and how can you avoid it?
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 18/09/2026
Absolute amazing work by DH here. #minecraft #mod As much as mc yt love to gush over voxy, DH is still what you're probably gonna be playing with for a neo mod pack c: And it's better than ever! youtu.be/tlqsD3VrMIQ?...
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Distant Horizons - Full Release - 3.3
YouTube video by Distant Horizons
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 15/09/2026
inb4 someone wraps local first tiny join db with atmosphere backed CMS data a la airspace
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 15/09/2026
I promise you, there is something in this video you did not know about. youtu.be/fRQRs-Fw9u4?...
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Small Dark Moments in Zelda
YouTube video by Zeltik
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 13/09/2026
I have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-ope…
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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
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aly @aly.codes · 09/09/2026
Apparently Digital Ocean canceled their $50/month sponsorship of GNOME and FlatHub the month before giving Omarchy 3 million dollars. social.treehouse.systems/@barthalion/...
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Bart Piotrowski (@barthalion@treehouse.systems)
Meanwhile DigitalOcean couldn’t afford $50 a month for GNOME and Flathub VMs and cancelled their sponsorship last month.
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Jovi 🐨 @jovidecroock.com · 10/09/2026
Introducing mcp-tada: typed MCP tool calls for TypeScript. Snapshot a server's tools/list and every call gets a narrowed tool name, args inferred from inputSchema, and structuredContent typed from outputSchema. github.com/JoviDeCroock...
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GitHub - JoviDeCroock/mcp-tada: Compile-time typed MCP tool calls for TypeScript
Compile-time typed MCP tool calls for TypeScript. Contribute to JoviDeCroock/mcp-tada development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 08/09/2026
So no, I'm not particularly excited about Fable 5.1 or Astra or anything else - what would I use it for?? The fact that Astra demos are all about recreating old games in web browsers suggests to me people also have no idea what to use these new models for save for copying existing software tbh
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 08/09/2026
"There is no limit on how long you can stay in the UK." SETTLED. SORTED. STAYING. Now i just gotta work on the family and voting in better people 👀👀👀🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧
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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
PSA: you can find out which of your likes caused For You to show any given post at foryou.club/explain Just enter the post URL and hit "Explain":
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Your intellectual fly is open bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/y...
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Your intellectual fly is open | The Observation Deck
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see a dragon sitting on a pile of treasure. A speech bubble pointing off panel reads, “Dragon, why do you have all this treasure?”
In the second panel we zoom in on the dragons face. He simply says “shiny”.
In the third panel we pan to the left and see that there is a crow standing next to the dragon on the treasure.
In the fourth panel we zoom in on the crows face. He says “hell yeah”.
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 05/09/2026
THIS IS THE BOMB DOT COM
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 05/09/2026
Vulkan on neoforge exists! TIL! modrinth.com/mod/vulkanmo... The vulkanizing will continue until the ecosystem becomes fast 🏃‍♀️
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VulkanModNeoForge - Minecraft Mod
The Vulkan Renderer for Minecraft NeoForge.Replaced the OpenGL renderer to the Vulkan renderer.
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 04/09/2026
fine grained access control as implemented by big tech is a mistake. limit of 50 scopes? what are you talking about you have scopes for individual widget types!!! AARURAHGAHG
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NullVoxPopuli @nullvoxpopuli.com · 03/09/2026
I'm declaring TypeScript 7 for Ember: ready At work, on the 3 million line monolithic package, I'm seeing ~ 4m40s -> 12s a ✨ 23x ✨ speed boost
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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 03/09/2026
CSS attr() now works on all properties in Firefox 155. Here's how it works, and how to get the most out of it:
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 03/09/2026
baseline error rate. not errors were identified and resolved. we're just back at baseline. ... what? I need y'all to be better. you can be better. you can literally _choose_ to be better now - it's a matter of priorities and token spend now. be. better.
claude code status page. "The rest of the models have recovered to baseline error rate."
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 02/09/2026
y'all seen this? I really really like this. youtu.be/DSRooHo_HSI?...
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ASCII City Update 2: Traffic & Detail Update
YouTube video by Grow Now! Games
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 02/09/2026
god we used to write about really cool shit didn't we
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pronouns.blue @pronouns.blue · 02/09/2026
pronouns.blue is now running on Cloudflare. All operations are finally working, which means you can log in again and set up your unique pronouns page backed by ATproto.
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 02/09/2026
what would an atmospheric chao garden be like? (IE chao garden from SA2 / SA - but with AT Protocol) Would each PDS be its own garden? Could you trade chao? Would we need a ledger of chao custody? Can you do async races / karate battles?
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 02/09/2026
is having a token be valid forever a bad idea, if it solely exists so that i can forget about it? (used in LE automation in a traefik container) asking for a friend. a very close, personal friend...
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 02/09/2026
I want to retire and write @gleam.run for fun and ~profit~ fun; just fun actually.
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 02/09/2026
I think I need to start blogging, vlogging, and flogging. World needs more sanity. idk what I'd flog tho; can I flog failing pipelines? Asking for a friend.
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 31/08/2026
BOOMERANG BLADE nestflix.fun/lonely-blade... I love nestflix lol. great job @lynnandtonic.com
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Lonely Blade IV — Nestflix
Lonely Blade continues to fight alone, hoping to finally discover who is responsible for killing his brother.
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 31/08/2026
feeling very uuuuuuggggghhhhh atm on multiple fronts
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 30/08/2026
There's a tendency to treat pain inflicted by accessibility APIs as virtuous. Pain for a good cause! My heresy is that I think *doing the right thing should not hurt* in the first place. Improving the DX of web accessibility would benefit everyone, both devs and assistive tech users.
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 30/08/2026
You know the saying "this meeting could have been an email"? Allow me to paraphrase: "This component could have been a CSS class" If making it accessible required less faff, of course… How many components in YOUR design system could have been a CSS class?
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 30/08/2026
SPEAK 👏 OUR 👏 TRUTH
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Lea Verou, PhD @lea.verou.me · 30/08/2026
Call me naïve, but I think the Web should be making it *easier* to create accessible UIs than inaccessible ones. Instead, once you go beyond the basic primitives, the platform is a minefield: the obvious thing to do is rarely accessible, and devs must jump through hoops to make it so.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The title reads, "Suddenly Finding A New Obsession".
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, in front of her computer. She has a bored expression on her face.
In the second panel we zoom in on her face. She looks suddenly alert.
In the third panel we zoom in even closer on her face. Her eyes and mouth are wide open in intrigue.
In the fourth panel we zoom out and see Sarah in front of her computer again, but this time she is dressed in a frog costume, surrounded by frog toys, and has an "I heart frogs" poster behind her.
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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/08/2026
the social contract that allows the web to exist at all is literally collapsing in real time people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/cree…
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Creepy crawlies
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 27/08/2026
A great colleague at work is raising funds for a personal family friend to recover from an earthquake that hit recently, every little bit helps! gofund.me/15e285318
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Donate to Let's give the rural coffee makers in Colombia a new home, organized by Tamara Spir
My name is Tamara Spir. I was born and raised in Colombia, and… Tamara Spir needs your support for Let's give the rural coffee makers in Colombia a new home
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22/08/2026
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune
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Kenney @kenney.nl · 22/08/2026
My @godotengine.org kits are now available on the Godot Asset Store, completely free. Use these templates as a starter for your next game, or to learn from! 🎁 store.godotengine.org/publisher/ke...
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 21/08/2026
Braaaaains Backs up my compute != Cognition intuition. But also makes me feel scared like what if we make brain waves blasters eep. www.news-medical.net/news/2026082...
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New brain wave theory explains cognition and consciousness
A new theory, published in The Journal of Neuroscience by three scientists in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, offers an explanation of how the brain produces cognition and consci...
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Jiahan Chen @chenjiahan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The TypeScript content mappers PR just merged and is likely to land in 7.1 🎉 This could open a new chapter for everything built on and around TypeScript github.com/microsoft/ty...
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Content mappers by andrewbranch · Pull Request #4712 · microsoft/typescript-go
Implements microsoft/TypeScript#63800 (comment) Overview Content mappers are external integrations that allow TypeScript to include otherwise unsupported file types in a program. They transform a f...
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Sean Newell @sean.thenewells.us · 19/08/2026
damn. I guess swe still isn't solved.
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Tangled @tangled.org · 17/08/2026
Run your own CI, it's worth it. blog.tangled.org/selfhost-ci/
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Run your own CI
It is worth it
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Andrew Branch @andrewbran.ch · 15/08/2026
If you’re not stalking TypeScript PRs, you might be surprised how much you can do with the API in nightlies (and even in 7.0 stable), so here’s a tiny demo that I think hits some of the highlights. 🧵
A package.json in VS Code after npm installing typescript@next
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