Reposted by Sean M. Traceyrevoltingross @revoltingross.bsky.social · 03/10/2026We 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! 065
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyAlex Russell @infrequently.org · 01/10/2026In 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...londonwebstandards.orgMeet Open Web Advocacy | London Web StandardsMeet 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. 11312
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyOpen 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.orgLondon Web Standards OWA Meetup - Open Web AdvocacyWe’re having an OWA meetup in London on 1 October 2026, from 19:00–21:00 BST, together with London Web Standards. 1910
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyAngus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What a truly excellent series of acting choices this fifty seconds of television presents… 63980221
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026Which 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...futurism.comAnthropic Boasts It Would Be Profitable if You Ignore How Much It Costs to Develop AIAnthropic says that its billion-dollar AI business would be profitable, if only you ignore the figure on the bottom line. 813741
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I 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...vivaldi.comVivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human | Vivaldi BrowserBrowsing 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… 020
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Everybody pees; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/15/b... #Pluralistic 44211
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyAlex Russell @infrequently.org · 14/09/2026Jeremy'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/22757adactio.comStalling installingTrying to get past Webkit’s blockage at the W3C. 19224
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026How desperate do you have to be for attention from a narcissistic millionaire that you publicly fawn over an Arch Linux wrapper? 🫠 020
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Might fuck around later and install Asahi Linux on my M1 Macbook Air. idk. 230
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Probably 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. 110
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyChris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin. 06032953
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Walked past this amazing pub sign 21570133
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyKevmarmol @kevmarmol.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Tim Berners-Lee making his pitch for the World Wide Web to cern 031
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Starting to feel a touch like Homer's desk toy while working with Claude Code 😬static.klipy.comThe Simpsons Drinking Bird Pressing F5ALT: The Simpsons Drinking Bird Pressing F5 040
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I do not like the new app icons in macOS Tahoe. 000
Reposted by Sean M. TraceySean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 22/03/20262013 me implementing something in JavaScript which 2026 me just replaced with 5 lines of CSS. 1333
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyTerence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026If you hear bagpipes at #EMFCamp you can blame Sean. 192
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyTerence Eden @edent.tel · 06/07/2026New 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 …shkspr.mobiI'm just so bored of AII'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 … 44311
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I did a talk - The Age of "Big Tech" is Over. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLyQ...youtube.comSean M Tracey | The Age of “Big Tech” is OverYouTube video by Community Stack 000
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 09/06/2026this is what consequential journalism looks like 1546193
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyPaul Johnston @pdj.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Fix 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. 053
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Is 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? 000
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyAlex Russell @infrequently.org · 25/05/2026You should be reading No One: nooneshappy.com/article/the-...nooneshappy.comThe AI Bubble — No One's HappyThe AI buildout is the largest capital expenditure in the history of the technology industry. The financial structure holding it together has a name. 54516
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyJosh Mayfield @bean525.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I'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.comtrek.epicrandomness.comStar Trek Title Card GeneratorMake your own era-accurate Star Trek episode title cards in seconds. Boldly go! 162347961465
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Never EVER rely on Google for anything business critical: www.theregister.com/off-prem/202...theregister.comGoogle Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outageThis is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit 000
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyTerence Eden @edent.tel · 09/05/2026Long 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 #Sinatrasetaim.netmoon.shopFrank Sinatra Live at carnegie hall 1981 sept 10th ltd cdfactory wholesale pricesMatching Sets,Shorts,Women,Bags,Bedding,reliable supplier 046
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyBen McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 09/05/2026It’s always this gifmedia.tenor.coma cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideasAlt: a cartoon says we 've tried nothing and were all out of ideas 092
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Happy 13th anniversary to that terrible misunderstanding at a WI meeting. 281476432
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Looks like Thameslink is vibe coding their status boards now 😂 120
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The web is not a shop window for your shit app. 000
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Q 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) 166
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Honestly, 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. 010
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Does 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 😅) 110
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyTerence Eden @edent.tel · 19/04/2026New 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 - …shkspr.mobiReprojecting 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… 052
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyDrSinBin @drsinbin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026I'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. 116150755539
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Ah, I see it's time for another round of "AGI is just around the corner" wank for the next 3 weeks 🫠 120
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyGabor Javorszky @javorszky.rocks · 17/04/2026And 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.comGitHub - 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 011
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyJonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Someone 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... 1504
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyStuart Millard @franticplanet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Doomsday Clock now just spinning wildly like when they indicate time is passing in a panto 312827
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyMinas Karamanis @minaskar.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...ergosphere.blogThe machines are fine. I'm worried about us.On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable. 1101780530
Reposted by Sean M. TraceyChaos @shed.gay · 28/03/2026Legit 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. 162
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 22/03/20262013 me implementing something in JavaScript which 2026 me just replaced with 5 lines of CSS. 1333
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I will always be increasingly annoyed that JS library developers abandoned making their scripts easily useable via <script> tag vs. npm/some bundler trash. 031
Sean M. Tracey @seanmtracey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The 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...youtube.comHello, MacBook NeoYouTube video by Apple 130
Reposted by Sean M. TraceySharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/03/2026you are not prepared for the soundtrack 511291258