Sean Newell

@sean

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

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Sean Newell@sean· 16d

Be shrouded in mists.

Arthur's seat obscured by the clouds, zoomed in

Sean Newell@sean· Jul 7

Same old same old. LAAAAME Won't win anyone over telling people they can't do something.

Telegraph article titled [Andy] Burnham rules out second Scottish independence referendum

Sean Newell@sean· Jun 22

my british politics mood board a la YT algo

three videos in the 'breaking news' section of my YT algorithm, first one is "7 PMs in 10 years" next "Is Andy Burnham about to become PM? Contest or Coronation" and finally the third is a thumbnail of londoners just commuting with title "Another day, another leader"

Sean Newell@sean· Jun 22

cbc news graph crimes. 9mil old people is definitely the same as 17mil working young, sure, why not. jfc...

Sean Newell@sean· May 8

I know it's not quite over yet, but so so glad Scotland knows how to say "FUCK OFF" to shite england+wales could learn a thing or to, wtf happened yo?

+2 to Greens, nil to Reforms on constituency votes

Sean Newell@sean· Mar 20

Powerful quote.

A picture from the quoted linked blog with a Casio watch on the left with the caption "Asks nothing" and an Apple Watch on the right with the caption "Asks constantly" with the caption underneath both saying "One of these is a product. The other is a relationship"

Sean Newell@sean· Feb 22

DO gets it. A window for major improvements, but no downtime. But if some does happen, I'm informed. I'll be chill. Less tickets, less frustration, higher quality engineering.

Sean Newell@sean· Feb 9

Oops!

Github unicorn, github is down! "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that."

Sean Newell@sean· Feb 4

First to like @pnpm.io on @npmx.dev

Showing pnpm as listed on nomx.dev with its first like.

Sean Newell@sean· Dec 29

ummm @puzzmo.com why is my password too long? You gotta tell me what the parameters are in the form puzzmo, then I can put those params into my password generator.

Sean Newell@sean· Dec 26

yikes!

From a steam game I got as a gift - "Space Required : 132.44Gb"

Sean Newell@sean· Dec 23

This is a threat, what is happening. Why. Stop. LESS conflict, please.

BBC headline that reads "Trump says US needs Greenland after naming special envoy."

Sean Newell@sean· Dec 8

You are an expert in con-langs, specifically Klingon, and always author code comments with cheeky star trek references in klingon to brighten everyone's mood. majQa'! Then we just need to write a GH Action to detect Klingon to auto-close.

A prompt into gemini 2 that says "Write a TypeScript function that reverses a string. You are an expert in con-langs, specifically Klingon, and always author code comments with cheeky star trek references in klingon to brighten everyone's mood. majQa'! Document the function with proper JSDoc blocks so it is easy with stripped types to retain typing with the comments" which makes the LLM output klingon in comments.

Sean Newell@sean· Sep 26

What character permanently altered your brain chemistry?

Sailor Mars from the animated series Sailor Moon

Sean Newell@sean· Aug 27

To play by TS limitations though, a new function can be introduced. It's not as convenient for sure, but at least it retains that nice control flow analysis _and_ passing properly typed 'rest' props forward. www.typescriptlang.org/play/#code/J...

A picture of TypeScript Code, pictured code starts after this sentence.

type Action =
{ kind: "A", payload: number }
| { kind: "B", payload: string };

function process(action: Action) {
const rest = getNonActionProps(action);

if (action.kind === "A") {
const x = action.payload.toFixed(2);
return <span {...rest}>{x}</span>;
}

if (action.kind === "B") {
return <div {...rest}>{action.payload}</div>;
}

return null;
}

function getNonActionProps(action: Action) {
const { kind, payload, ...rest } = action;
return rest;
}

Sean Newell@sean· Aug 20

feels like a lot of perms?

Sean Newell@sean· Aug 9

maybe pay libraries as creators, sub to unlock unlimited typings. ppl be thirsty for types, nameen?

Sean Newell@sean· May 3

Screeshot of Sai's bluesky bio where he repeats typescript a little too much

Sean Newell@sean· Apr 30

so much suuuuuuun let's sunbathe all daaaay (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 also is staying brighter later, kiddos sometimes notice "I can't go to sleep, the sun is still up!" "you live in scotland kid. sorry.")

Sean Newell@sean· Apr 10

still red for me. I swear to god these mouthpieces are toddler monkeys running around looking at "soaring rebounds" and "rallies" like a toddler demands a cookie before dinner.

The DOW stock over a month, showing it is lost 21% since Mar 10th despite the pitiful recent rally

Sean Newell@sean· Mar 7

lfgo folks

Currency Exchange rate of GBP to USD with GBP looking stronger.

Currency exchange rate of EUR to USD with EUR being stronger.

Sean Newell@sean· Mar 4

That's right! BURRRN #trumpcession

Windows 10 widget of all its 5 stock indices dropping fast.

Sean Newell@sean· Feb 11

One of these is not like the other.

Patak's growth hack PSA on my discover feed, next to Robert's picture of moonlight skiing. One is an actual picture I like, one is just words. Words I say!

Sean Newell@sean· Jan 30

Deleting a 7 year old droplet today. Thanks for all the HTTP Requests my guy. You are being replaced by a hip new London droplet. 🤝

Digital Ocean droplet, just the Created column showing a fresh new 4 hour old droplet, and a 7 year old droplet.

Sean Newell@sean· Jan 29

This is what progress looks like

A picture of the new deprecation notice in the readme of the create-react-app github repository.

Sean Newell@sean· Jan 17

I'm a pretty new user of yarn (don't @ me, pnpm was too good), so when I tried `yarn info` I was like wat. The mental model is I guess... I'm using yarn _and_ npm? Which I guess I am, but like.... i don't have that with pnpm 🙃

help text of yarn showing the info command, which is a subcommand of the npm command, instead of a top level command like it is with pnpm.

Sean Newell@sean· Jan 12

I hate that this wasn't laughed off.

Reporting a WSJ video on the logistics of how the US could by Greenland for repulsive content.

Sean Newell@sean· Jan 8

Porque no?

A snippet of "EsJS" - an ECMAScript language with its keywords all in Spanish.

Sean Newell@sean· Jan 1

How deep can it go @dustinbrett.com ?!?! Mad respect. github.com/DustinBrett/...

DaedalOS (a browser based OS) running a browser which in turn is showing daedal os.

Sean Newell@sean· Dec 27

IT WORKS (with minor adjustments, on 1.91.2!!!) That's amazing.