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.

Neutral Agenda: Initiative

Advancement cost: 4 – Points: 2 – Influence cost: 1

When you score this agenda, you may search HQ, R&D, or Archives for 1 agenda and reveal it. (Shuffle R&D after searching it.) Add that agenda to HQ or the bottom of R&D.

While this agenda is in the Runner’s score area, it is worth 1 less agenda point.

3 stars

Before I talk about Let Them Dream, I need to talk about 5/3s. The job of the 5/3 agenda is to win you the game in 3 agendas, and decks that run 5/3s usually want to score out with any combination of two 2-pointers and one 3-pointer. But the 5/3 has one major vice: they kinda suck. They're so much harder to score out than 4/2s (or 3/2s!), and their payoff usually isn't even worth the work! This is especially true because corps vastly prefer to score out 5/3s as the game-winning agenda, so any "on score" text is irrelevant. If the corp got to choose, they would dedicate the entire power budget of a 5/3 towards hurting the Runner, and none of it on h…

HB Agenda: Expansion

Advancement cost: 5 – Points: 3

As an additional cost to steal this agenda, the runner must spend click.

When you score this agenda, gain click.

“Welcome aboard, Moonsilver Class members. Our express stops today are at New Lovell, Heinlein, and Imamura Station.”

5 stars

Scoring PD is still back baybee! Ikawah Project has been a staple card in scoring PD for about as long as I can find decks of it. (Here's examples from 2021, 2023, and 2024. I have no idea what was going on in 2022.) The only card that's as much of a staple in these decks as Ikawah Project is Global Food Initiative (which might be relevant to my next card review). This might be bringing back enough old tools for scoring PD to make it a top deck in the Vantage Point meta. I know that I'm certainly gonna be playing it.

Hey y'all. This is gonna be a short one. My post about Arborium ended up doing severals. By this I mean it was briefly the number 1 post on Lobste.rs, which is an invite-only diet orange site. Thankfully, I've only received a small amount of harassment from this. Anyways Netrunner card reviews coming soon.

btw this site does have an rss feed it's at https://ewie.online/feed/feed.xml or https://ewie.online/feed/feed.json my feed page is meant to teach people how to get into rss and i haven't got around to it yet cos it's a hobby site ;-;