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The Thread of Fate
A winding path through code, cask ale, community, and the occasional encounter with the unknowable. Filter by domain or scroll through the years.
Bent & Bongs Beer Bash
Festival #31. The streak continues into the new year — volunteering, pouring, and connecting the community over cask ale.
GBG Selection & AGM Season
Chairing the Good Beer Guide selection meeting for Central Manchester. Preparing nominations for Pub of the Year and Cider Pub of the Year.
Personal Website Redesign via Vibe Coding
Rebuilt seanomahoney.com as an interactive experience — dual-theme, Norse/arcane flourishes, canvas particle fields, and AI-assisted front-end development.
GBBF, Dark & Wild, and Six More Festivals
A bumper year for festival volunteering: GBBF Winter, Wigan, Hop City, Stockport, Chorlton, Great British Beer Festival, and Northern Monk's Dark & Wild.
Stables Tavern Campaign
Supported the community campaign to protect one of Manchester's most historic pubs. Published a long-form piece on pub preservation and ACVs.
"Vibe Coding" Published
Wrote about the rise of AI-assisted front-end development and its security implications. The piece resonated across dev and security communities.
CAMRA Belfast & Nottingham
Extended festival volunteering beyond the North West — Belfast Beer & Cider Festival and Nottingham Beer & Cider Festival added to the logbook.
CAMRA Welcome Week Manchester
Ran the first dedicated CAMRA university welcome week in Manchester, bringing real ale to freshers and expanding young members outreach.
CAMRA Peterborough Beer & Cider Festival
One of CAMRA's flagship events. Volunteered behind the bar and made connections across the national cider and perry community.
Great British Beer Festival (GBBF)
First time volunteering at CAMRA's crown jewel. Olympia, London — the biggest celebration of cask ale in the world.
GM AI Foundry Wraps
The £3M ERDF-funded Greater Manchester AI Foundry completed its programme. Dozens of SMEs onboarded to AI, with lasting partnerships formed.
CAMRA Central Manchester Chair
Elected Chair of the Central Manchester branch. Took on responsibility for meetings, campaigns, festival planning, and representing the branch regionally.
Central Manchester Beer & Cider Festival
Helped organise and run the branch's own festival — a milestone for Central Manchester CAMRA and its growing volunteer base.
IMBC & Summer Beer Thing
Volunteered at the Independent Manchester Beer Convention and Summer Beer Thing — two of Manchester's most celebrated craft beer events.
MCBF & Beer Central
Manchester Craft Beer Festival and Beer Central — the festival circuit begins in earnest as events return post-lockdown.
First Beer Festivals
Volunteered at CAMRA's Manchester Beer & Cider Festival and Cloudwater Friends & Family — the beginning of a long festival career.
GCHQ Accelerator Programme
INEVITABLE selected for GCHQ's first-ever Accelerator Programme. A deep dive into government-grade security, intelligence systems, and national-scale AI.
Exchange Accelerator Partner
Became the AI & Scalable Technology Partner for Enterprise City's Exchange Accelerator Programme (Allied London), mentoring cohorts of startups.
First-Class Honours — Computer Science
Graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with first-class honours. Ran the Computing Society and Photography Society during studies.
INEVITABLE Founded
Co-founded INEVITABLE — an AI start-up focused on making artificial intelligence accessible to businesses. Based in the Bonded Warehouse, Manchester.
CompiledMCR Launched
Created CompiledMCR — an open-source tool for the Manchester tech community. Designed to aggregate events, opportunities, and connections across the ecosystem.
Manchester Tech Community
Deep into the Manchester tech scene: CodeWith, CodeUp, Silicon DrinkAbouts, Manchester Web Meetup, hackathons, and building connections that would shape everything to come.