Sean Newell
@sean.thenewells.us
Married 💍
Father of two wee bairns.
2 cats & 1 dog.
Principal Engineer @ Mews. Texan living & working in Edinburgh 🏴. he/him.
Blogging over on https://sean.thenewells.us
Father of two wee bairns.
2 cats & 1 dog.
Principal Engineer @ Mews. Texan living & working in Edinburgh 🏴. he/him.
Blogging over on https://sean.thenewells.us
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We're excited to announce we're opening applications for our Product/UX team, the Alchemist Circle! If you're excited about becoming a core influence on a FOSS project working to reshape what it means to sell as an indie creative in our world, apply here!👉
Alchemist Circle Application (UX/Product)
Conjured Ink is seeking out Product and UX volunteers to be a part of our Alchemist's Circle. We’re looking for creative people who want to make a difference in online art communities and fight censorship through open-source software. Professional experience isn’t needed, but a willingness to learn and grow with the organization is.
forms.gle
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
We're excited to announce we're opening applications for our Product/UX team, the Alchemist Circle! If you're excited about becoming a core influence on a FOSS project working to reshape what it means to sell as an indie creative in our world, apply here!👉
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Visual Types, a humble collection of semi-interactive TypeScript lessons, is ready to be clicked upon.
types.kitlangton.com ← 👀
types.kitlangton.com ← 👀
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Visual Types, a humble collection of semi-interactive TypeScript lessons, is ready to be clicked upon.
types.kitlangton.com ← 👀
types.kitlangton.com ← 👀
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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From @sjvn.bsky.social:
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
From @sjvn.bsky.social:
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-go...
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Thank you for helping us reach a funding goal! To show we put creators first, we're doing a 5 emote comm for our Discord for $100!
To apply, reply to this post with by Nov 20:
1️⃣ Your emote portfolio
2️⃣ A bit about your art background
We'll pick by the 24th!
!NO AI!🚫🤖
To apply, reply to this post with by Nov 20:
1️⃣ Your emote portfolio
2️⃣ A bit about your art background
We'll pick by the 24th!
!NO AI!🚫🤖
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Thank you for helping us reach a funding goal! To show we put creators first, we're doing a 5 emote comm for our Discord for $100!
To apply, reply to this post with by Nov 20:
1️⃣ Your emote portfolio
2️⃣ A bit about your art background
We'll pick by the 24th!
!NO AI!🚫🤖
To apply, reply to this post with by Nov 20:
1️⃣ Your emote portfolio
2️⃣ A bit about your art background
We'll pick by the 24th!
!NO AI!🚫🤖
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
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You should literally go to jail if you do this
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
You should literally go to jail if you do this
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Short Answer: Fuck no.
Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.
Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Short Answer: Fuck no.
Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.
Long Answer: If a company tries AI phrenology in their hiring process, they're guaranteed to do worse things once you work there. Don't.
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"Instead of paternity leave, they ended my contract"
What's next?
1) pipestack.dev
2) Contract work to feed the family and keep our house
Over 20 years of experience, @svelte.dev since 2019, full-stack & CLIs with Typesript or Rust.
If I can help you, let me know.
mootoday.com/blog/instead...
What's next?
1) pipestack.dev
2) Contract work to feed the family and keep our house
Over 20 years of experience, @svelte.dev since 2019, full-stack & CLIs with Typesript or Rust.
If I can help you, let me know.
mootoday.com/blog/instead...
Instead of paternity leave, they ended my contract - mootoday.com
When life gives you lemons, build your own lemon stand.
mootoday.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"Instead of paternity leave, they ended my contract"
What's next?
1) pipestack.dev
2) Contract work to feed the family and keep our house
Over 20 years of experience, @svelte.dev since 2019, full-stack & CLIs with Typesript or Rust.
If I can help you, let me know.
mootoday.com/blog/instead...
What's next?
1) pipestack.dev
2) Contract work to feed the family and keep our house
Over 20 years of experience, @svelte.dev since 2019, full-stack & CLIs with Typesript or Rust.
If I can help you, let me know.
mootoday.com/blog/instead...
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I don’t believe we can outengineer paypro censorship
But I DO believe in @conjured.ink. What they are building is akin to a decentralized itchio, retailers as individual self-hosted shops instead of all hosted via one big platform
Support them, they need your aid
youtu.be/X8LY8yclttE?...
But I DO believe in @conjured.ink. What they are building is akin to a decentralized itchio, retailers as individual self-hosted shops instead of all hosted via one big platform
Support them, they need your aid
youtu.be/X8LY8yclttE?...
Conjured Ink: A Solution to Paypro Censorship?!
YouTube video by Ana Valens Highlights
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I don’t believe we can outengineer paypro censorship
But I DO believe in @conjured.ink. What they are building is akin to a decentralized itchio, retailers as individual self-hosted shops instead of all hosted via one big platform
Support them, they need your aid
youtu.be/X8LY8yclttE?...
But I DO believe in @conjured.ink. What they are building is akin to a decentralized itchio, retailers as individual self-hosted shops instead of all hosted via one big platform
Support them, they need your aid
youtu.be/X8LY8yclttE?...
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Recap: you can use “in lieu of” instead of “instead of” and “instead of” in lieu of “in lieu of”.
November 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Recap: you can use “in lieu of” instead of “instead of” and “instead of” in lieu of “in lieu of”.
This is awesome!! www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...
Removing obfuscation in Java Edition
For a long time, Java Edition has used obfuscation (hiding parts of the code) – a common practice in the gaming industry. Now we’re changing how we ship Minecraft: Java Edition to remove obfuscation completely. Find out more in this article!
www.minecraft.net
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This is awesome!! www.minecraft.net/en-us/articl...
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Exciting news, everyone! As Conjured Ink nears its first beta, we'd like to share with you our roadmap of updates for the next two quarters. These quality of life and system changes will help pave the way for what we hope to become: a home for your incredible works! Thank you!
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Exciting news, everyone! As Conjured Ink nears its first beta, we'd like to share with you our roadmap of updates for the next two quarters. These quality of life and system changes will help pave the way for what we hope to become: a home for your incredible works! Thank you!
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(we're 2/3 of the way there now, btw. Y'all are incredible. We may also have found a way to save a lot of money that would've gone towards expensive formation things)
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
(we're 2/3 of the way there now, btw. Y'all are incredible. We may also have found a way to save a lot of money that would've gone towards expensive formation things)
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There’s so much momentum in this project.
We’ve established a culture of merging quickly rather than debate.
This is also the company culture we’re fostering at @voidzerodev
- pragmatism over perfection / bias toward action, pioneered by @charliermarsh.
We’ve established a culture of merging quickly rather than debate.
This is also the company culture we’re fostering at @voidzerodev
- pragmatism over perfection / bias toward action, pioneered by @charliermarsh.
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
There’s so much momentum in this project.
We’ve established a culture of merging quickly rather than debate.
This is also the company culture we’re fostering at @voidzerodev
- pragmatism over perfection / bias toward action, pioneered by @charliermarsh.
We’ve established a culture of merging quickly rather than debate.
This is also the company culture we’re fostering at @voidzerodev
- pragmatism over perfection / bias toward action, pioneered by @charliermarsh.
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tsgo is not just faster than the original @typescriptlang.org compiler. It’s also *more correct* in a bunch of places. There might still be bugs where it’s less correct, too, but that’s not what I’m finding in general working on Vanta’s codebase! It’s just real bugs. 😂 😭
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
tsgo is not just faster than the original @typescriptlang.org compiler. It’s also *more correct* in a bunch of places. There might still be bugs where it’s less correct, too, but that’s not what I’m finding in general working on Vanta’s codebase! It’s just real bugs. 😂 😭
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UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :
Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn
Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**
Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn
Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**
Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :
Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn
Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**
Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn
Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**
Don't believe the wind power haters
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Contributing to something I believe will make the web better for creatives - consider donating or setting up a monthly contribution if you want to help artists thrive on the web, outside of the games they're forced to play on established platforms.
opencollective.com/conjured-ink
opencollective.com/conjured-ink
Conjured Ink Collective - Open Collective
We're a collective of creatives, developers, and others who are working towards creating processes, protocols, and software for indie creation.
opencollective.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Contributing to something I believe will make the web better for creatives - consider donating or setting up a monthly contribution if you want to help artists thrive on the web, outside of the games they're forced to play on established platforms.
opencollective.com/conjured-ink
opencollective.com/conjured-ink
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yeah so. Conjured is working to become an actual co-op, and that involves funding. VC and other such investment money is out of the question. That means the main option is the support of folks like you who believe in the vision and the possibility of having a real alternative system for creatives.
October 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
yeah so. Conjured is working to become an actual co-op, and that involves funding. VC and other such investment money is out of the question. That means the main option is the support of folks like you who believe in the vision and the possibility of having a real alternative system for creatives.
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Thank you everyone who's contributed! We're now over 50% to our monthly funding goal, which will allow us to be a pretty reliably sustainable volunteer-run organization that is still able to spend money on e.g. legal, hardware, hosting, etc, costs as we need in order to fulfill our mission!
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Thank you everyone who's contributed! We're now over 50% to our monthly funding goal, which will allow us to be a pretty reliably sustainable volunteer-run organization that is still able to spend money on e.g. legal, hardware, hosting, etc, costs as we need in order to fulfill our mission!
Yo @nickinewell.art , cool new handle!
October 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Yo @nickinewell.art , cool new handle!
"What happens [in a capitalistic economy] when truth isn't profitable anymore?"
youtu.be/ebi5pAmzTjE?...
youtu.be/ebi5pAmzTjE?...
brennan lee mulligan interview where he’s casually handing out priceless wisdom like candy
YouTube video by junkee
youtu.be
October 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"What happens [in a capitalistic economy] when truth isn't profitable anymore?"
youtu.be/ebi5pAmzTjE?...
youtu.be/ebi5pAmzTjE?...
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one of my favourite goofs—if there was one thing we did at campo it was Commit to the Bit
October 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
one of my favourite goofs—if there was one thing we did at campo it was Commit to the Bit
I think the winners of any era of technology are the ones who can make DSLs.
October 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I think the winners of any era of technology are the ones who can make DSLs.