Sam Wight

@samw.dev

Software engineer ADHD, anxiety, anime

Americans in the quotes being like “is this where we are headed” as if our sanctions don’t kill more people, didn’t contribute to these protests and as if we haven’t killed more people in the Middle East. We are beyond this. If “this” is even an accurate number at all

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"As many as 30,000 people could have been killed in the streets of Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 alone, two senior officials of the country’s Ministry of Health told TIME—indicating a dramatic surge in the death toll." time.com/7357635/more...

#Presente! Michael Parenti, the path-breaking Marxist scholar, historian and political scientist, passed today at age 92 He went peacefully this morning, surrounded by his family “Now he is in what he used to refer to as ‘the great lecture hall in the sky,’” his son, Christian, reflected

Michael Parenti, the path-breaking Marxist scholar, historian and political scientist, passed today at age 92

He went peacefully this morning, surrounded by his family 

“Now he is in what he used to refer to as ‘the great lecture hall in the sky,’” his son, Christian, reflected

Decades later, Michael Parenti’s "Inventing Reality" remains one of the best-written critiques of mainstream media. It’s a masterclass in how news is shaped to serve power. A must-read for anyone seeking the clarity to cut through the mainstream media’s manufactured narratives.

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Good news! Aetna finally approved my inhaler for a one time override so that I can breathe for another month. Only a $70 copay (in violation of Illinois law as of 1/1/26, as the max copay per covered inhaler is supposed to be $25), but I'll take it! Thank you American healthcare!

Just had a recruiter reach out to me and I think they are trying to recruit me to work at the company I work at now??

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The random acts of kindness emails thingy happened because Claude Opus 4.5 was the one to brainstorm sending thank you emails to open source maintainers in one bullet point, and all the other models immediately jumped on it LOL

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Today I learned that Date.to_datetime sets the time to midnight *in UTC*, not the current time zone. This can create subtle bugs or test flakiness if you’re using libraries like Faker that respect ENV[‘TZ’].

I disabled Claude Code's editing permissions. I gave it access to an 'editing agent' that's prompted not to edit the file and will just ask questions to be 'sure it's right'. Claude gets frustrated very easily lmao

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I love that Australia's two biggest cultural exports are the show about girls turning into mermaids when they touch water and The Wiggles

I have never ever *downgraded* my macOS version in 8 years of macOS use. I'm doing it for the first time today after two months of macOS Tahoe being completely unusable on my MacBook.