Someone rebuilt the classic arcade game Lemmings to run on modern macOS. (There was a previous version that didn't pass the Gatekeeper test on macOS, this one works.)
"I’m not saying every rude and entitled young man in tech grows up to be a fascist, but politeness or lack of it is a signifier, and maybe if you take an instant dislike to someone who acts like a jerk, you should trust that instinct."
Balatro developer LocalThunk turns up on Discord to talk about the 1.1 update and life after burnout: 'I truly am having the best time making the game now'
Are people around you leaving the Online? I don't aspire to this myself (yet?) but I do applaud people able to make that leap for whom the Online has been a major room in their life.
I will always be someone who sits down at this desk every Thursday and cranks out four pages (yes, I still count things in pages) of words to send to you. And look, I can’t promise you that they’ll be good. But I can promise you that I wrote every single one. From the head, to the heart, to the fingers, to the page. Do I still struggle? Absolutely. Every week I struggle. Every week I think this is the week I can’t do it.
I will always be someone who sits down at this desk every Thursday and cranks out four pages (yes, I still count things in pages) of words to send to you. And look, I can’t promise you that they’ll be good. But I can promise you that I wrote every single one. From the head, to the heart, to the fingers, to the page. Do I still struggle? Absolutely. Every week I struggle. Every week I think this is the week I can’t do it.
Writing in 2026, Walking Europe — Roden newsletter issue 118
My best response to the "horde of agents colonizing our brains" is: Be as weird as possible.
One way to do this: take the Venn diagram of your lived experiences and what’s been talked about in the world. Now focus on the part of your life that doesn’t overlap. Out pops: pizza toast.