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 can just do the right things
February 6, 2026 at 4:58 AM
we can just do the right things
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I really applaud the work on @npmx.dev, but I just tried the page, and I find it to be extremely overstimulating.
It's a *lot* of information on the page at once, and there's no clear distinction between what is "npmx" and "package readme".
Hidden buttons and functionality are everywhere.
It's a *lot* of information on the page at once, and there's no clear distinction between what is "npmx" and "package readme".
Hidden buttons and functionality are everywhere.
February 4, 2026 at 1:59 PM
I really applaud the work on @npmx.dev, but I just tried the page, and I find it to be extremely overstimulating.
It's a *lot* of information on the page at once, and there's no clear distinction between what is "npmx" and "package readme".
Hidden buttons and functionality are everywhere.
It's a *lot* of information on the page at once, and there's no clear distinction between what is "npmx" and "package readme".
Hidden buttons and functionality are everywhere.
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@danabra.mov implies the existence of @danabra.mp4
February 4, 2026 at 8:08 AM
@danabra.mov implies the existence of @danabra.mp4
February 4, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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My contract is ending at the end of February and so I’d like to find a new role ASAP.
I am a senior-level design systems developer / design technologist / front-of-the-frontend developer that specializes in web accessibility.
I work remotely from my home in Winnipeg, Canada. 🇨🇦
Shares appreciated!
I am a senior-level design systems developer / design technologist / front-of-the-frontend developer that specializes in web accessibility.
I work remotely from my home in Winnipeg, Canada. 🇨🇦
Shares appreciated!
February 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
My contract is ending at the end of February and so I’d like to find a new role ASAP.
I am a senior-level design systems developer / design technologist / front-of-the-frontend developer that specializes in web accessibility.
I work remotely from my home in Winnipeg, Canada. 🇨🇦
Shares appreciated!
I am a senior-level design systems developer / design technologist / front-of-the-frontend developer that specializes in web accessibility.
I work remotely from my home in Winnipeg, Canada. 🇨🇦
Shares appreciated!
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Wrote a blog post about the work I've been doing at @igalia.com to implement the Temporal proposal in JavaScriptCore:
blogs.igalia.com/compilers/20...
blogs.igalia.com/compilers/20...
Implementing the Temporal proposal in JavaScriptCore
Implementing the Temporal proposal for date and time handling in JavaScript in JavaScriptCore, the JavaScript engine in WebKit
blogs.igalia.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Wrote a blog post about the work I've been doing at @igalia.com to implement the Temporal proposal in JavaScriptCore:
blogs.igalia.com/compilers/20...
blogs.igalia.com/compilers/20...
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I wish people actually read books before making commentary on them because this book is not anti-family at all, just anti-abuse.
It documents her struggle between being devastated by the loss of her mother while feeling guilty that she feels relieved of her mother’s abuse.
It documents her struggle between being devastated by the loss of her mother while feeling guilty that she feels relieved of her mother’s abuse.
January 29, 2026 at 4:40 PM
I wish people actually read books before making commentary on them because this book is not anti-family at all, just anti-abuse.
It documents her struggle between being devastated by the loss of her mother while feeling guilty that she feels relieved of her mother’s abuse.
It documents her struggle between being devastated by the loss of her mother while feeling guilty that she feels relieved of her mother’s abuse.
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I genuinely think that @npmx.dev is a great thing for junior developers, with our job market becoming harder and harder for junior roles having OSS contributions is a great way to stand out and allows you to point at results
February 2, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I genuinely think that @npmx.dev is a great thing for junior developers, with our job market becoming harder and harder for junior roles having OSS contributions is a great way to stand out and allows you to point at results
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Do you use npm, and know Hindi (हिंदी) language?
Help me translate @npmx.dev to Hindi by reviewing or commenting on the pull request!
github.com/npmx-dev/npm...
Help me translate @npmx.dev to Hindi by reviewing or commenting on the pull request!
github.com/npmx-dev/npm...
feat: hindi i18n by trivikr · Pull Request #704 · npmx-dev/npmx.dev
These translations were created by Copilot agent in trivikr#1
Do a first pass to review the translations
Request review from other Hindi speakers
github.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Do you use npm, and know Hindi (हिंदी) language?
Help me translate @npmx.dev to Hindi by reviewing or commenting on the pull request!
github.com/npmx-dev/npm...
Help me translate @npmx.dev to Hindi by reviewing or commenting on the pull request!
github.com/npmx-dev/npm...
Coworker shared this in slack, it's pretty good! Make postgres go brr, and not eat up too much disk, while enforcing more data integrity. me likey. I've done all the 'just slap a B-Tree on it' things, so it's good to see some more efficient options.
hakibenita.com/postgresql-u...
hakibenita.com/postgresql-u...
Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
Creative ideas for speeding up queries in PostgreSQL
hakibenita.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Coworker shared this in slack, it's pretty good! Make postgres go brr, and not eat up too much disk, while enforcing more data integrity. me likey. I've done all the 'just slap a B-Tree on it' things, so it's good to see some more efficient options.
hakibenita.com/postgresql-u...
hakibenita.com/postgresql-u...
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The better LLMs get, the more data scientists are going to find out the truth.
February 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The better LLMs get, the more data scientists are going to find out the truth.
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TypeScript excitement 😉
Congrats to @jakebailey.dev on updating upstream tsc to default to an unpinned *latest* yearly edition of ES20xx. Heading for TS 6.0 🎉
This mean less transpilation of new JS features & more use of native language features provided by JS engines 👍
github.com/microsoft/Ty...
Congrats to @jakebailey.dev on updating upstream tsc to default to an unpinned *latest* yearly edition of ES20xx. Heading for TS 6.0 🎉
This mean less transpilation of new JS features & more use of native language features provided by JS engines 👍
github.com/microsoft/Ty...
January 31, 2026 at 10:37 AM
TypeScript excitement 😉
Congrats to @jakebailey.dev on updating upstream tsc to default to an unpinned *latest* yearly edition of ES20xx. Heading for TS 6.0 🎉
This mean less transpilation of new JS features & more use of native language features provided by JS engines 👍
github.com/microsoft/Ty...
Congrats to @jakebailey.dev on updating upstream tsc to default to an unpinned *latest* yearly edition of ES20xx. Heading for TS 6.0 🎉
This mean less transpilation of new JS features & more use of native language features provided by JS engines 👍
github.com/microsoft/Ty...
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OH WE BOUT TO BATTLE!!!!
GitHub.com/musicjunkieg/astro-standard-site
(In the best way, because competition and products that meet similar needs in different ways are ARE AMAZING!!!!
GitHub.com/musicjunkieg/astro-standard-site
(In the best way, because competition and products that meet similar needs in different ways are ARE AMAZING!!!!
GitHub - musicjunkieg/astro-standard-site
Contribute to musicjunkieg/astro-standard-site development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:57 PM
OH WE BOUT TO BATTLE!!!!
GitHub.com/musicjunkieg/astro-standard-site
(In the best way, because competition and products that meet similar needs in different ways are ARE AMAZING!!!!
GitHub.com/musicjunkieg/astro-standard-site
(In the best way, because competition and products that meet similar needs in different ways are ARE AMAZING!!!!
Absolute cinema
The better npm site got warnings on packages that should be avoided yesterday.
Big thanks to the @e18e.dev community for making that easy!
Big thanks to the @e18e.dev community for making that easy!
January 30, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Absolute cinema
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Welcome aboard! 👏 We are now up over $3M ARR from Pledge members to OSS maintainers. 💪💃
January 29, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Welcome aboard! 👏 We are now up over $3M ARR from Pledge members to OSS maintainers. 💪💃
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presented without comment
January 29, 2026 at 7:04 AM
presented without comment
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Twitter eventually turned into a 24 hour steam of angertainment. It's no longer social media. It's social destruction.
January 26, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Twitter eventually turned into a 24 hour steam of angertainment. It's no longer social media. It's social destruction.
Do yourself a favour and reclaim some space. prune that docker system - every single bit.
> Total reclaimed space: 22.27GB
> Total reclaimed space: 22.27GB
January 27, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Do yourself a favour and reclaim some space. prune that docker system - every single bit.
> Total reclaimed space: 22.27GB
> Total reclaimed space: 22.27GB
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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Hey, we're Bombshell 👋
We're the maintainers behind projects like Astro, e18e, StudioCMS, and pkg.pr.new.
We're building focused, composable open source libraries for CLIs and TUIs.
Excited to show you what we've been up to.
bomb.sh/blog/introdu...
We're the maintainers behind projects like Astro, e18e, StudioCMS, and pkg.pr.new.
We're building focused, composable open source libraries for CLIs and TUIs.
Excited to show you what we've been up to.
bomb.sh/blog/introdu...
Introducing Bombshell
Bombshell is a growing collection of open source tools for building modern terminal interfaces in JavaScript.
bomb.sh
January 26, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Hey, we're Bombshell 👋
We're the maintainers behind projects like Astro, e18e, StudioCMS, and pkg.pr.new.
We're building focused, composable open source libraries for CLIs and TUIs.
Excited to show you what we've been up to.
bomb.sh/blog/introdu...
We're the maintainers behind projects like Astro, e18e, StudioCMS, and pkg.pr.new.
We're building focused, composable open source libraries for CLIs and TUIs.
Excited to show you what we've been up to.
bomb.sh/blog/introdu...
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🆕 The URL Pattern API is Newly Available!
Use it to match and extract parts of URLs, no need to reinvent routing logic. Supports literals, wildcards, named groups, and even regex constraints.
Learn how it works 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...
Use it to match and extract parts of URLs, no need to reinvent routing logic. Supports literals, wildcards, named groups, and even regex constraints.
Learn how it works 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...
January 26, 2026 at 11:00 AM
🆕 The URL Pattern API is Newly Available!
Use it to match and extract parts of URLs, no need to reinvent routing logic. Supports literals, wildcards, named groups, and even regex constraints.
Learn how it works 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...
Use it to match and extract parts of URLs, no need to reinvent routing logic. Supports literals, wildcards, named groups, and even regex constraints.
Learn how it works 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...
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“After less than a day, we removed our ad from ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor and Indeed, and relied on our own outreach to get applicants. Following this, the flood of probable inauthenticity slowed to a trickle.”
Job posting sites are all bad.
Job posting sites are all bad.
What happened when I tried to hire a remote engineer - me, for @themarkup.org themarkup.org/hello-world/...
Hiring in an era of fake candidates, real scams and AI slop – The Markup
AI-written applications, an impersonator and a recruiter scam followed just one remote job posting.
themarkup.org
January 25, 2026 at 5:13 PM
“After less than a day, we removed our ad from ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor and Indeed, and relied on our own outreach to get applicants. Following this, the flood of probable inauthenticity slowed to a trickle.”
Job posting sites are all bad.
Job posting sites are all bad.
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13/ If an American opposes what ICE is doing but not enough to vote in the primaries or general against a candidate who cheerleads for it then whether it's fair to say "this is not who we are" it's definitely fair to point out that "this is who we are willing to be".
January 25, 2026 at 11:05 AM
13/ If an American opposes what ICE is doing but not enough to vote in the primaries or general against a candidate who cheerleads for it then whether it's fair to say "this is not who we are" it's definitely fair to point out that "this is who we are willing to be".
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Uh, this is way more interesting than I expected. If you'd like to get involved and help us build a better browser for npm packages, raise your hand. It should be quite a enjoyable project to participate in.
I'm asking because I'm building an alternative to npmjs.com, including the admin ui piece
I have a working mvp, although of course it's very 🚧
if this is something you'd like to contribute to, and you've experienced any of these pain points, let me know - always more fun to build together! 🙏
I have a working mvp, although of course it's very 🚧
if this is something you'd like to contribute to, and you've experienced any of these pain points, let me know - always more fun to build together! 🙏
🙋♂️ so ... for reasons:
I would love to know people's frustrations with:
- the current npmjs.com
- admin user flows on npm web ui (and cli, locally)
🙏
I would love to know people's frustrations with:
- the current npmjs.com
- admin user flows on npm web ui (and cli, locally)
🙏
January 25, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Uh, this is way more interesting than I expected. If you'd like to get involved and help us build a better browser for npm packages, raise your hand. It should be quite a enjoyable project to participate in.
big brain idea - we are still on the sixth day in Genesis, the seventh day of rest can only begin after Third Impact.
January 25, 2026 at 11:41 AM
big brain idea - we are still on the sixth day in Genesis, the seventh day of rest can only begin after Third Impact.