Sam Wight @samw.dev · 14/02/2026I watched this a year ago and suddenly remembered it because it's THE best talk I've ever seen about USB-C. So sad that it's no longer online :( 110
Reposted by Sam WightAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 25/01/2026Americans 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 828659
Reposted by Sam WightMiri Teixeira-Connor @miri.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Rest in peace legend Changed my life The greatest to ever do it 0102
Reposted by Sam WightH.D. Gregg @hdgregg.bsky.social · 24/01/2026“People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.” -Michael Parenti RIP 1/24/2026 www.idcommunism.com/2026/01/mich...idcommunism.comMichael Parenti, Marxist political scientist and author, dies aged 92Michael Parenti, the American Marxist political scientist, author, and lecturer, has died at the age of 92. Parenti was widely known for his sharp cr 12415
Reposted by Sam WightKB @bkeithb.bsky.social · 24/01/2026#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 23911
Reposted by Sam Wightvet4ceasefire.bsky.social @vet4ceasefire.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Rest in Power Michael Parenti 1179
Reposted by Sam WightSocialism for All (S4A) ☭ Intensify Class Struggle @socialismforall.bsky.social · 24/01/2026RIP Michael Parenti, age 92, a US-based communist and educator. Here's a full audiobook + discussion of Parenti's book, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxLK...youtube.com"Blackshirts & Reds" (1997) (complete) by Michael Parenti. Marxist/Socialist Audiobook + Discussion.YouTube video by Socialism For All ☭ Intensify Class Struggle 810242
Reposted by Sam WightStreet Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026RIP Michael Parenti, you were a real one. Let us mourn him with a brief clip from the legendary Yellow Parenti speech. He will be missed. 012150
Reposted by Sam WightDan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Decades 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. 212453
Reposted by Sam WightJohn Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026RIP Michael Parenti. 41012293
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 09/01/2026Good 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! 020
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 06/01/2026Aetna is requiring a prior auth for the inhaler I’ve been on for three years 020
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 06/01/2026I think the only other thing is some cost management, right now it's on one of the top masto.host plans for the database size alone (idk why they're charging $200 for a 80gb DB). I bet there are cheaper hosts out there but not sure what transfer would look like.masto.hostMasto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon HostingMasto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy. 000
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 06/01/2026Domain is currently in my personal Squarespace account and I don't think I can change the email on that :/ So we'll need to transfer to another registrar. Right now DNS is in CloudFlare, I'm not sure how account ownership is there but I'll check. 100
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 06/01/2026Yep still based out of Chicago thankfully! And great! I made a post on there asking for folks to respond. Also emailed the fiscal sponsor to see requirements for transferring that. urbanists.social/@sam/1158463... After transferring that, really the only other thing is passwords + domain transfer.urbanists.socialSam :verified: (@sam@urbanists.social)I'm looking to transfer the server to a new owner / steward. I'm looking for one or two volunteers. Key requirements: - One of them must be based in the US so that they can take over the funds that ... 100
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 06/01/2026Because it's a 501(c)(3) I don't think the funds can be taken out of it because they're tax deductible. So I think choices are find US-based person to be POC for HCB / manage email and Masto.host stuff (very hands off), or switch over to new funding mechanism while the existing one runs out.masto.hostMasto.host - Fully Managed Mastodon HostingMasto.host was built from the ground up to make running a Mastodon instance easy. 100
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 06/01/2026Currently the thing that I was putting off before was getting in touch with our fiscal sponsor (Hack Club Bank, we switched to them when the OpenCollective Fund shut down). Because HCB is based out of the US I believe they have to have a POC that's based in the US for that? 100
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 06/01/2026Hey! Thanks for reaching out :) Finally got a new job so I'm able to focus on other stuff a bit more like transferring the ownership 😅 Would love to get it back into the community's hands so that it's able to still be run. 100
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 06/01/2026Just 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?? 030
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 27/12/2025Good idea Claude that is a person who would love receiving unsolicited emails from an AI 000
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 27/12/2025The 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 010
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 19/12/2025Today 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’]. 100
Reposted by Sam Wight404 Media @404media.co · 16/12/2025“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.404media.coAnthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot. 139413
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 16/12/2025Forcing Claude to interact with an editing agent that's 'madly in love with it' 010
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 13/12/2025"This is unbelievable. Every single agent refuses to do it's job" "STOP. DO NOT ASK ANY MORE QUESTIONS." 210
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 13/12/2025I 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 120
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 11/12/2025I love that Australia's two biggest cultural exports are the show about girls turning into mermaids when they touch water and The Wiggles 100
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 03/12/2025Claude weirdly does the exact same thing after I remind it that it's not the classic riddle lol 010
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 03/12/2025DeepSeek is my favorite model because it'll just say stuff like "her husband is a fish" for no reason 110
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 01/12/2025Why is notification center laggy af? Why does Finder look so fucking ugly? Why do we have to have phone sized buttons for everything? Why does iCloud Drive perpetually have a 11kb file that it's trying to sync? Why is Spotlight hot garbage? 021
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 01/12/2025I 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. 110
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 26/11/2025Literally just give me an epub. I will not buy your book unless you give me an epub. Ugh. 030
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 26/11/2025If you have shitty DRM on your book that I was literally going to pay for you make me want to break it out of spite. Authors who use DRM suck. 130
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 24/11/2025This is like handing a student your Blackboard username and password and being surprised when they give everybody all As 020
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 24/11/2025It's really funny seeing all the ways models will be lazy or dumb or freak out about stuff 100
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 23/11/2025Genealogy is fun because you learn that one of your ancestors got in a car crash when they were 2 and was thrown 32 feet from the car and apparently was totally fine 100
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 19/11/2025Apple realllyyyyyy really really wants people to use native iOS controls for their iOS apps www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyFI...youtube.comShowcase: Learn how apps are integrating the new design and Liquid Glass | Meet with AppleYouTube video by Apple Developer 000
Sam Wight @samw.dev · 18/11/2025Also it fired someone for harrassment allegations before actually investigating and discovered that it cannot rehire people it fires lmao 110
