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Sean Newell
@sean.thenewells.us
430 followers 610 following 780 posts
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
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What character permanently altered your brain chemistry?
Sailor Mars from the animated series Sailor Moon
September 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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; }
August 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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feels like a lot of perms?
Permissions asked by anisota.net: Manage your profile, posts, likes and follows as well as read your private preferences; Upload files; Create, update, and delete any public record; Perform authenticated actions towards any service on your behalf.
August 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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maybe pay libraries as creators, sub to unlock unlimited typings. ppl be thirsty for types, nameen?
TypeFan fake mark and logo.
August 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Screeshot of Sai's bluesky bio where he repeats typescript a little too much
May 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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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.")
April 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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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
April 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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lfgo folks
Currency Exchange rate of GBP to USD with GBP looking stronger. Currency exchange rate of EUR to USD with EUR being stronger.
March 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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That's right! BURRRN #trumpcession
Windows 10 widget of all its 5 stock indices dropping fast.
March 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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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!
February 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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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.
January 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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This is what progress looks like
A picture of the new deprecation notice in the readme of the create-react-app github repository.
January 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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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.
January 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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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.
January 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Porque no?
A snippet of "EsJS" - an ECMAScript language with its keywords all in Spanish.
January 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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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.
January 1, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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IT WORKS (with minor adjustments, on 1.91.2!!!)

That's amazing.
Immersive Aether Portal (from aether to overworld) Immersive Portals from overworld to both Aether and the Nether
December 27, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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And @nanami.codes the cats occasionally even T O U C H 😍🥰😍
Our two cats cuddling with one another on our bed.
December 27, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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Wow he looks just like me fr
Google recommended a BBC article titled "Uncovering the men who hid a note in a Scottish lighthouse 132 years ago" - with the picture of a man holding the bottle. Is the man 132 years old? He looks so young 🤡.
December 14, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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This makes me anxious
MacOS Settings showing me there are available updates for Command Line Tools for XCode
November 28, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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god damnit i don't want credit @danielroe.dev you must direct your praise to @dillonis.online

I'm just the guy who is in the right place at the right time, connecting the dots, trying to remove more LOC than he adds.
November 27, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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the vibes aren't good tho. 🙃

i unblocked the pipeline, but at what cost.
GitHub user adds label "bad" to his pull request
November 21, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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TIL there's a setting in GitHub to control whether the contributions heatmap includes private activity or not.
The Contribution Settings dropdown on your GitHub profile can show data from anonymized private repositories.
November 20, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Auto update is good for apps.
Showing the auto update checkbox in the android playstore for the Bluesky app.
November 14, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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Seems official. The federal legislative, executive, and judiciary branches have a united majority.

🙃💀🙃
Republicans have a majority in the United States House of Representatives, after also winning in the Senate. This aligns all three federal branches to a single party's majority.
November 12, 2024 at 10:30 AM