LockerGnome: Weird TechDaily tech news worth retelling: the drama, the hackery, the odd builds and the people behind them.https://lockergnome.com/Regex 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 GMTWeird TechprogrammingwebThe Duck Pond synthesizes every quack live, and you can throw the ducks peashttps://lockergnome.com/duck-pond-synthesized-quacks/https://lockergnome.com/duck-pond-synthesized-quacks/A developer who goes by celphase built The Duck Pond, a web page with a small flock of mallards on it: three hens, two drakes and two broods of ducklings.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:12:00 GMTWeird TechaudiowebFour Gemini agents beat Minecraft on their own, and died 605 times doing ithttps://lockergnome.com/gemini-agents-beat-minecraft/https://lockergnome.com/gemini-agents-beat-minecraft/Four AI agents just beat Minecraft with nobody steering.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:11:00 GMTWeird TechaigooglegamingSomebody built a programming language whose whole job is to break AI modelshttps://lockergnome.com/language-built-to-break-ai-models/https://lockergnome.com/language-built-to-break-ai-models/Dominik Picheta built a programming language that coding AIs aren't supposed to be able to use, and he named it KillSwitch.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:10:00 GMTWeird TechaiprogrammingThe UK wants a name for its space junk collector, and you get two wordshttps://lockergnome.com/uk-space-junk-collector-name/https://lockergnome.com/uk-space-junk-collector-name/The UK Space Agency is inviting UK residents to name its Active Debris Removal Mission.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:02:00 GMTWeird TechspaceukSomeone 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 GMTWeird TechaiTiny 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 GMTWeird TechwebNebraska's first hot dog cannon couldn't outthrow the vendorhttps://lockergnome.com/nebraska-hot-dog-cannon/https://lockergnome.com/nebraska-hot-dog-cannon/Nebraska had a vendor who could throw hot dogs farther than its first hot dog launcher could shoot them.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMTWeird TechsportsMoby-Dick takes over 19 hours to scroll through this tiny GIFhttps://lockergnome.com/moby-dick-88x31-gif/https://lockergnome.com/moby-dick-88x31-gif/Kamil Sosnierz put Moby-Dick into an animated GIF measuring 88 by 31 pixels.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMTWeird TechretrowebSomebody ported the original Doom to SQLhttps://lockergnome.com/doom-ported-to-sql/https://lockergnome.com/doom-ported-to-sql/Lukas Vogel at CedarDB ported the original 1993 Doom to SQL, the language most of us use for pulling rows out of databases.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:31:00 GMTWeird Techretrogamingdatabases