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 ;-;

It would be an understatement to say that I am mildly interested in syntax highlighting.[^2] While I have yet to write a full-fledged parser myself, my blog's[^9] syntax highlighting plugin is custom-built. Under the hood it uses the Lezer[^1] parsing and highlighting system, which is inspired by the gold standard of syntax highlighting used in all modern code editors except Visual Studio Code: tree-sitter. I think Lezer is a great tool and it's especially great in the use case of syntax highlighting on the web,[^3] but I've still kept my eye out for the chance to use tree-sitter instead.

Last weekend while scrolling through some quieter feeds in my RSS reader, I came across an article which might be the something better I was looking for.

fasterthanli.me Dec 13, 2025

Introducing arborium, a tree-sitter distribution

About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this: When we could be looking at this: And of course, as always, there are reasons why thi...

Arborium is a high-performance syntax highlighting tool powered by tree-sitter created by Amos Wenger. Amos (also known as fasterthanlime) is a long-time open source developer who I greatly respected. I learned Rust from his Advent of Code article series, and I appreciate his commitment to correctness and speed. I was especially excited to learn about Arborium because it was designed to work on the web using Javascript. I could use this!

damn season 3 of dungeons and daddies was really good. i have issues with it that i'll get into later but damn what a finale (2 months late but still)

To give a way to automate adding a section to a personal website which links to the websites of your friends and allies, and which does so via the medium of 83x11 badges. Ideally you'd have a list of websites in whatever tooling you use to generate your site, and when you push the button it goes off and finds the buttons and downloads them, and then it puts them in a nice little display, each pointing to the canonical url for that site with the proper alt text.

v buckenham The 88x31 button spec

good news! the well-known/button spec already exists, just in a different form. you can find it here: https://codeberg.org/LunarEclipse/well-known-button. i know about this because beeps uses it, and because it's currently (partially) implemented on the 3.0-ish¹ branch of my site.

there is a practical difference between v's spec and the well known spec, which is the well known spec uses json while v's spec uses meta tags. i have no idea if that makes a real difference though, lol.

Footnotes

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