LockerGnome: SoftwareDaily tech news worth retelling: the drama, the hackery, the odd builds and the people behind them.https://lockergnome.com/Google's Playground lets anyone make a game, one token at a timehttps://lockergnome.com/google-playground-make-a-game/https://lockergnome.com/google-playground-make-a-game/Google opened Playground on October 7, an experimental site where you describe a game and its AI builds it.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:21:00 GMTSoftwaregoogleaigamingRegex Marble Run turns your regular expression into a 3D marble runhttps://lockergnome.com/regex-marble-run/https://lockergnome.com/regex-marble-run/Regex Marble Run is a free web page that builds your regular expression as a 3D machine.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:14:00 GMTSoftwareprogrammingwebSomebody got Android apps running on a Mac with no emulator, and they show up in the Dockhttps://lockergnome.com/android-apps-on-mac-no-emulator/https://lockergnome.com/android-apps-on-mac-no-emulator/A developer who goes by kksimp put a project on GitHub, Mac dot apk, that runs Android apps on Apple Silicon Macs with no emulator and no virtual machine.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:09:00 GMTSoftwareandroidapplemacSomeone trained a tiny AI to pretend it is a terminalhttps://lockergnome.com/worldtui-tiny-ai-terminal/https://lockergnome.com/worldtui-tiny-ai-terminal/Simon Edwardsson built a terminal with nothing behind it.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTSoftwareaiTiny Little Office puts the document inside its own linkhttps://lockergnome.com/tiny-little-office-document-in-link/https://lockergnome.com/tiny-little-office-document-in-link/Paul Ford's company Aboard just put out Tiny Little Office, ten free office apps where the web address is the file.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTSoftwarewebPenmentor puts AI math hints beside your handwritinghttps://lockergnome.com/penmentor-ai-math-hints-handwriting/https://lockergnome.com/penmentor-ai-math-hints-handwriting/Penmentor describes an AI math helper that marks handwritten work in Xournal++ with colored pens.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMTSoftwareaieducationA developer got Google's Googlebook OS running on an Apple Silicon Machttps://lockergnome.com/googlebook-os-on-apple-silicon-mac/https://lockergnome.com/googlebook-os-on-apple-silicon-mac/Googlebook OS now runs on a Mac, unofficially, in a virtual machine with GPU acceleration and Chrome working.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:07:00 GMTSoftwaregoogleapplelinuxA Valve engineer made decade-old Radeon cards up to 30% faster on Linuxhttps://lockergnome.com/valve-old-radeon-cards-faster-linux/https://lockergnome.com/valve-old-radeon-cards-faster-linux/Timur Kristóf, of Valve's Linux graphics driver team, moved old AMD graphics cards from the legacy Radeon driver to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, and he presented that work in Toronto at XDC 2026.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:40:00 GMTSoftwarelinuxgpugaming