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Sean M. Tracey

@seanmtracey

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) https://smt.codes

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Maybe in the old days, but that sort of project doesn't spark joy in me these days ๐Ÿ˜…

06.03.2026 08:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Would be quite funny if someone used Qwen voice cloning on a Neo to put Ive on there ๐Ÿ˜‚

05.03.2026 21:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Hello, MacBook Neo
Hello, MacBook Neo YouTube video by Apple

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...

04.03.2026 21:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you are not prepared for the soundtrack

03.03.2026 12:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 1315 ๐Ÿ” 263 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54 ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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Chee Aun ๐Ÿค” (@cheeaun@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image Was surprised to see haptics work here https://haptics.lochie.me/ (https://github.com/lochie/web-haptics) on Safari iOS because Safari doesn't support `navigator.vibrate`. An older...

Oh wow, haptics in iOS Safari via a hidden switch input getting toggled mastodon.social/@cheeaun/116...

03.03.2026 11:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Lmao

27.02.2026 14:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 3814 ๐Ÿ” 1031 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 65 ๐Ÿ“Œ 179

I switched from Chrome to Vivaldi this morning as part of a wider decision to use less US-based technology.

I expected some friction switching browsers for the first time in ~15 years, but I've already forgotten that I'm not using Chrome.

Marvellous ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ

27.02.2026 17:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You can throw away innerHTML and replace it with the new setHTML(), which has a built-in sanitizer. Here's how it works:

25.02.2026 12:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 155 ๐Ÿ” 25 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

I believe in the web, I believe in craft, and I believe in the things we can build by supporting each other โ€” never has that spirit felt more threatened by the _industry_.

If you feel the same way: support independent publishers.

Keep building, keep improving, and keep sharing, in your own voice.

24.02.2026 16:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Does Anyone Want Any Toast? | Red Dwarf | BBC
Does Anyone Want Any Toast? | Red Dwarf | BBC YouTube video by BBC Studios

We've had LLMs for 3+ years, and *still* nobody has built a Talkie Toaster? ๐Ÿž

Shame on us all, why do we even bother? ๐Ÿ˜ž

youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec?...

22.02.2026 15:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is a jacket a coat or a cardigan? ๐Ÿค”

16.02.2026 17:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'm sick of Doom Scrolling and I'm sick of shadowy algorithms trying to hijack my mood for ad dollars ๐Ÿ‘Ž

So, I've built UpBeat to try and tackle all of that, and give people back the control over what they want to see. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Check it out! โœจ

upbeat.mitchelltechnologies.co.uk

11.11.2025 13:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Sausage.

29.01.2026 22:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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#Enshittification

24.01.2026 00:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
07.01.2026 05:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 22372 ๐Ÿ” 7730 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 124 ๐Ÿ“Œ 83
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a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him Alt: The Futurama meme of Fry thrusting forward a handful of cash and forcefully saying "Shut up and take my money!"
11.01.2026 13:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Discovered a little while ago that Postman has a built-in MQTT client. It's pretty neat, definitely beats debugging connection issues/topic pub/subs on the CLI!

11.01.2026 13:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Is #UKSnow a thing on Bluesky? If so, #LU4 โ„๏ธ

06.01.2026 11:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cal Richards - Professional Fucker
Cal Richards - Professional Fucker YouTube video by AvalanchesAbove

He's fantastic in Rev, but Hollander's at his best when he's at his chaotic evil ๐Ÿ˜‚

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXh4...

02.01.2026 01:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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hstacks || An Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platform for Hetzner Cloud. With hstacks, you can define, deploy and manage infrastructure in your Hetzner Cloud account using standardised, shareable, and customisable templates - enabling you to deploy your infrastructure how ...

Wonderful little thing about having built your own IaC service?

If you're missing a feature, you can just build that feature ๐Ÿ˜Ž

(btw, you should check out hstacks.dev โœจ)

30.12.2025 10:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How is git commit sha1 formed How is git commit sha1 formed. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Some light boxing day reading I've enjoyed:

gist.github.com/masak/2415865

26.12.2025 20:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man with a long white beard and glasses is wearing a blue shirt with a hawaiian print . ALT: a man with a long white beard and glasses is wearing a blue shirt with a hawaiian print .
24.12.2025 21:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When (if ever) do you stop being a developer of X and instead become a developer of Y?

I've been writing Javascript for over 15 years now, but most of the projects I've worked on the last 5 years have been predominantly Go.

So, am I a Go developer, or a JavaScript developer? ๐Ÿค”

10.12.2025 23:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do I know anyone in #Sydney?
Fancy a drink tomorrow? We are on a flying visit to 'Straya and like meeting new Internet friends.

06.12.2025 07:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man and a woman are standing in a room with bunk beds and the number a122863 on the wall ALT: a man and a woman are standing in a room with bunk beds and the number a122863 on the wall

I've been rewatching Star Trek: Lower Decks in my downtime over the last few weeks - such joyful television. Us Trekkies are incredibly lucky to have it ๐Ÿ––

01.12.2025 19:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ChatGPT isn't pulling the punches when it's come to look at one of my side-projects ๐Ÿ˜‚

01.12.2025 17:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, whoโ€™s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. โค๏ธ ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท

26.11.2025 13:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 56182 ๐Ÿ” 14906 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 823 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1965

What's the point in a "Deep Research" mode if the LLM just shits out an answer without actually looking anything up?

I swear Claude Desktop is getting more convoluted/less useful by the DAY ๐Ÿ™ƒ

26.11.2025 02:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is Claude getting a touch unusable for anyone else? All these UI changes seem to have destroyed it's ability to create artefacts that it can actually display after it's finished generating them ๐Ÿ™ƒ

24.11.2025 17:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Stargate Announcement | SGC REACTION !
Stargate Announcement | SGC REACTION ! YouTube video by IBREC

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRGR...

23.11.2025 22:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0