i've been working on moving some improvements from other branches to the main branch (because these other branches are so massive in their feature updates that some improvements depend on me self-hosting the site, which i'd like to do at some point, but i don't want that to be the thing that keeps any of my other site improvements from shipping).

apparently i broke the rss feeds, which spammed y'all's rss feeds with duplicate dead links, which i never noticed even though i follow my own feeds for exactly this reason 😭😭😭

anyways this is fixed now and rss feeds should be normal again. as i continue moving over improvements, i'll keep a closer eye on rss. thanks so much for AminurAlan for reporting the issue. i was able to fix this before i even started coffee.

also, and really feeling this because i guess enough people follow the site that some of them will even report issues, thanks again to everyone who follows the site. i really appreciate all of you. if there's any other issues ya…

i would be willing to bet money that the most wholesome community, like, period, no competition, is the sudoku community on youtube. i watch cracking the cryptic videos to fall asleep and as far as i can tell there's literally not a spot of negativity or toxicity. people are just talking about sudoku.

you ever think about the fact that there are people today who have lived their whole lives never knowing anything besides star fox 64 remakes

It's finally out! This watch face is my first time developing for the Pebble (or any embedded system for that matter), and went from concept to product in 12 days for the Pebble Spring 2026 Developer Contest. It's written entirely in the Zig programming language, which was a joy to work with except when the Pebble SDK gave me trouble. It features no AI code. All the bad code came straight from my own brain.

https://apps.repebble.com/ae80da4fd2d54efc9e907b11

I would appreciate it if y'all gave it a like on the Pebble app store! I don't actually own a Pebble Time 2, which is the watch I'm developing for, so every like increases the odds that I win a free watch. Then I'll have something to actually test on, which would be nice!

i've been working on a pebble watch face for a bit and i wanted to share it cos i'm proud of it! i'm at the hardest part now, time zones, but once i finish that i'm kinda home free.

any thoughts? there's a lot of parts i want to change once it's finished and i can give myself permission to increase scope.

I don't know what sort of feeling this thumbnail is giving me, but I really need to unsubscribe from Scott the Woz

I wish I had a better process for doing these link roundups. I usually have to scrounge for my links in the moment instead of slowly building this throughout the week, and I don't leave my thoughts as I'm reading them, so I end up needing to reread the articles to share them. I don't know what I should do about this. My hotly anticipated^{[citation needed]} reblog feature might mean that the move is to share interesting posts as I find them, but I'll have to experiment.

For now, here's some links.

Thom Holwerda: Dark patterns killed my wife's Windows 11 installation

I'm seething with rage towards Microsoft and its utter incompetence and maliciousness. Let me, for once, not mince words here: Windows 11 is a travesty, a loose collection of dark patterns and incompetence, run by people who have zero interest in lovingly crafting an operating system they can be proud of. Windows has become a vessel for subscriptions and ads, and cannot reasonably be considered anything other than a massive pile of user-hostile dark patterns designed to extract data, ad time,…

Obsidian is good normal software, and it's wild to celebrate my 5 year anniversary with it. It has yet to get worse over time. I joined before there was a mobile app, sync, or anything like that, and I've since bought every single service they've offered when it came out. I'm still on the classic $5/month 50gb sync plan. It's pretty good! One day I'll write about how I use it but it's not really anything crazy.

Weyland Operation: Transaction – Liability

Play cost: 7 – Influence cost: 2

Gain 14 credits and take 1 bad publicity.

“The boss likes to swoop in at just the last second. You should consider yourself lucky.”

4 stars

I don't think there's much to say actually. I think this card wants be run as a 1 or 2-of in a decent number of non-bad publicity focused decks, and that means it's a pretty good card. Lots of money y'all. If you want more opinions on bad publicity, please read Veronica's piece on this card and Editorial Division.