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Sean M. Tracey

@seanmtracey.bsky.social
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I make things with computers. Used to cause trouble at AWS, IBM, and FT Labs. Forged in the fires of Redweb Labs (which were mostly my fault) smt.codes

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revoltingross @revoltingross.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We are setting up Ooser Fest in Dorchester – a three-day community celebration of Dorset folklore, music, film, art, and performance – and my friends and I are looking for sponsors and supporters! Sponsor: www.ooserfest.com/sponsorship Donate: www.ooserfest.com/donate Please share!
Ooser fest
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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 01/10/2026
In London? Like the web? Come along *this evening* from 7pm to Shoreditch where the lovely @londonwebstandards.org are hosting some of the prime movers shaking up mobile browser competition (also, me? weird). Tickets (free!) and details here: londonwebstandards.org/events/lws-o...
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Meet Open Web Advocacy | London Web Standards
Meet the contributors from Open Web Advocacy, there will be a few talks by their members giving updates on the work they are doing to help make the web a better place for all.
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Open Web Advocacy @open-web-advocacy.org · 22/09/2026
🇬🇧 OWA is having a special meetup in London on the 1st of October 2026 together with London Web Standards. 🌐 Join us for talks on browser competition, web apps, browser choice and data portability followed by Q&A and a chance to meet people from OWA and others working on these issues. 🔗 More info:
open-web-advocacy.org
London Web Standards OWA Meetup - Open Web Advocacy
We’re having an OWA meetup in London on 1 October 2026, from 19:00–21:00 BST, together with London Web Standards.
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Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What a truly excellent series of acting choices this fifty seconds of television presents…
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026
Which is to say, these companies are claiming that they are *so cool* that their profitability can only be measured using a novel, secret form of mathematics: futurism.com/future-socie...
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Anthropic Boasts It Would Be Profitable if You Ignore How Much It Costs to Develop AI
Anthropic says that its billion-dollar AI business would be profitable, if only you ignore the figure on the bottom line.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I moved to Vivaldi about a year ago. Glad to see they're moving in a direction I can live with :) vivaldi.com/blog/keep-ex...
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Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human | Vivaldi Browser
Browsing should push you to explore, chase ideas, and make your own decisions. It should light up your brain. Vivaldi is taking a stand. We choose humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of…
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Everybody pees; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/15/b... #Pluralistic
A mason jar of piss with Jeff Bezos's laughing head submerged in it.


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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 14/09/2026
Jeremy's whole post is worth a read, and I would underline + bold the last point: the web is the superior choice for privacy and security, and it's anti-web *and anti-user* to be preferencing native app install affordances: adactio.com/journal/22757
adactio.com
Stalling installing
Trying to get past Webkit’s blockage at the W3C.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How desperate do you have to be for attention from a narcissistic millionaire that you publicly fawn over an Arch Linux wrapper? 🫠
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Might fuck around later and install Asahi Linux on my M1 Macbook Air. idk.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Probably worth noting here for prosperity, that all of the clever, interesting people I know are basically doing NOTHING with AI - and they're making fantastic things. So, let's see how well this whole era ages.
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin.
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Walked past this amazing pub sign
Vulcan Arms pub sign showing Spock 

Another sign underneath that says 

Lunches 
Hot Meals 
Bar Snacks 
12 noon til 2pm
Evening meals
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
God, I hate the Circle Line 🫠
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Kevmarmol @kevmarmol.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Tim Berners-Lee making his pitch for the World Wide Web to cern
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Starting to feel a touch like Homer's desk toy while working with Claude Code 😬
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The Simpsons Drinking Bird Pressing F5
ALT: The Simpsons Drinking Bird Pressing F5
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I do not like the new app icons in macOS Tahoe.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
2013 me implementing something in JavaScript which 2026 me just replaced with 5 lines of CSS.
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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
If you hear bagpipes at #EMFCamp you can blame Sean.
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 06/07/2026
New blog post: I'm just so bored of AI shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/im-just-so… I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first …
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I'm just so bored of AI
I'm just so bored of talking about AI. It's like listening to vapers tell me how delicious their flavoured poison is. Did you ever meet someone at university who'd just tried drugs for the first time? Listening to a stoner ramble on about their mystic crystal revelations is amusing for the first five minutes, but quickly gets tiresome. Wow! You got your little computer friend to automate calling …
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I did a talk - The Age of "Big Tech" is Over. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLyQ...
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Sean M Tracey | The Age of “Big Tech” is Over
YouTube video by Community Stack
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/06/2026
this is what consequential journalism looks like
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Paul Johnston @pdj.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Fix the algorithms. We can regulate those. It doesn't matter if the company loses revenue. They are allowed to exist in the society we want to live in. We shouldn't have to live in theirs if we don't want to.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Is there an open source license which is something like "MIT - unless accessed/utilised by an agent - in which case: Copyright reserved" Would something like that even better useful/enforceable?
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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 25/05/2026
You should be reading No One: nooneshappy.com/article/the-...
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The AI Bubble — No One's Happy
The AI buildout is the largest capital expenditure in the history of the technology industry. The financial structure holding it together has a name.
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Josh Mayfield @bean525.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com
trek.epicrandomness.com
Star Trek Title Card Generator
Make your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go!
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Never EVER rely on Google for anything business critical: www.theregister.com/off-prem/202...
theregister.com
Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage
This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 09/05/2026
Long shot - are there any Frank Sinatra fans on BlueSky? I'm looking for a specific track from his 1981 concerts at Carnegie Hall. Does anyone have a copy of this record setaim.netmoon.shop/index.php?ma... Or a bootleg of the 9th of September concert? #FrankSinatra #Sinatra
setaim.netmoon.shop
Frank Sinatra Live at carnegie hall 1981 sept 10th ltd cd
factory wholesale pricesMatching Sets,Shorts,Women,Bags,Bedding,reliable supplier
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Ben McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
It’s always this gif
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a cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas
Alt: a cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Happy 13th anniversary to that terrible misunderstanding at a WI meeting.
PARKHAM WI: The speaker at the April meeting was Captain Colin Darch, who talked about piracy embarrassingly the WI all dressed as pirates for the evening not real-ising that Captain Darch was going to be talking about his experience of being held hostage by Somall pirates rather than piracy in general.Captain Darcy with a group of WI ladies who are dressed as pirates. He’s quite chipper despite everything.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Looks like Thameslink is vibe coding their status boards now 😂
A picture of a status board on a Thameslink train showing the time as "13:0" without a second zero.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The web is not a shop window for your shit app.
A screen shot of the Reddit website saying "download our app to keep using Reddit"
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Q for those of you who sell arts/crafts online in the UK - can you recommend shopify alternatives (not for me, for my sister who is hoping to quit them due to non-opt-outable genAI content scraping)
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Honestly, if you wanna have a reality check about whether or not AI is going to replace developers, just ask Claude etc to build you something that uses WebRTC beyond connecting two peers. You'll be waiting for it to finish thinking for a looooonnnngggg time.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Does anybody have a favourite open-source Documentation platform they're using these days? MK Docs / Read The Docs feel tired, and I really don't want to build + design my own system (...again 😅)
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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 19/04/2026
New blog post: Reprojecting Dual Fisheye Videos to Equirectangular (LG 360) shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/reprojecti… I still use my obsolete LG 360 Camera. When copying MP4 videos from its SD card, they come out in "Dual Fisheye" format - …
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Reprojecting Dual Fisheye Videos to Equirectangular (LG 360)
I still use my obsolete LG 360 Camera. When copying MP4 videos from its SD card, they come out in "Dual Fisheye" format - which looks like this: VLC and YouTube will only play "Equirectangular" videos in spherical mode. So, how to convert a dual fisheye to equirectangualr? The Simple Way ⧉ Bashffmpeg \ -i original.mp4 \ -vf "v360=input=dfisheye:output=equirect:ih_fov=189:iv_fov=189" \ 3…
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DrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ah, I see it's time for another round of "AGI is just around the corner" wank for the next 3 weeks 🫠
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Gabor Javorszky @javorszky.rocks · 17/04/2026
And in that vein, I made this: github.com/javorszky/en... Because it solves a problem for me and it was easier to build than to research and figure out whether another tool already exists. And I think it's neat.
github.com
GitHub - javorszky/envsecrets: Don't store your secrets in your .rc or .env files! Use your keychain and 1password!
Don't store your secrets in your .rc or .env files! Use your keychain and 1password! - javorszky/envsecrets
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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Someone casually dropped a full mesh-connected multiplayer first-person-shooter for the @emfcamp.bsky.social badge, with procedurally generated map of the campsite. Wtf. github.com/webboggles/t...
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Stuart Millard @franticplanet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Doomsday Clock now just spinning wildly like when they indicate time is passing in a panto
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Minas Karamanis @minaskar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
ergosphere.blog
The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"Why does the man have a shiny head?"
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Chaos @shed.gay · 28/03/2026
Legit happy because this week Google changed something about the default stock TV launcher (to give it more ads) and I finally went through the steps to entirely remove their advert sponsor billboard launcher. And just have you know. My apps - the things I watch on TV.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
2013 me implementing something in JavaScript which 2026 me just replaced with 5 lines of CSS.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Ditto. Sorry! 😅
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I will always be increasingly annoyed that JS library developers abandoned making their scripts easily useable via <script> tag vs. npm/some bundler trash.
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Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The MacBook Neo introduction video feels... playful(!) And that's something that I've been desperately missing from tech for the last 10 years. Wouldn't it be lovely if we started to enjoy using tech again instead of worrying how it's going to replace us all? www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3SI...
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Hello, MacBook Neo
YouTube video by Apple
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
you are not prepared for the soundtrack
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