Frank’s Towers of Babble demo pitches a very clever word-game-meets-tower-defense mashup where English words become towers, modifiers, and even 121,677 community-cleared levels.
Krista finds Keep Driving an easy recommendation: a laid-back early-2000s road-trip adventure with hitchhikers, multiple endings, and a soundtrack full of local indie bands.
Luna rounds up a packed September, reflects on burnout and mood, and kicks off a Spooktober backlog with Doki Doki Literature Club and Bloomtown.
Mailvaltar says Dune: Awakening’s custom settings finally make Landsraad endgame missions fun, letting the level design shine instead of the grind.
Wilhelm runs through EVE Online’s Crimson Harvest return, with faction picks, Pochven Blood Raiders, big loot-drop bonuses, and some skepticism about how newbie-friendly it is.
Aneesh posts a quick webmention test, basically a tiny hello to blyg and a check that the plumbing works.
Brennan dives into the Tildeverse, tracing how the humble tilde came to signal personal homepages, small-web culture, and “here is a person.”
Juhis is joining the latest Djangonaut Space cohort, focusing on the Django Girls+ website and planning to blog the whole open-source mentorship journey.
Mike gets keyboard scanning working for a Forth interpreter on the Sega SG-1000, turning a long-postponed hardware chore into real RetroChallenge progress.
Bruce Schneier highlights Apple’s new Reference Image system, which verifies iPhone photos as authentic while aiming to preserve photographer anonymity and image privacy.
Dave Winer dunks on Chrome, celebrates new WebSocket support in Atlantis, and pitches a stripped-down new web built from plain Markdown and RSS.
Joar gets candid about novel-writing headaches: distinct character voices, scenes that feel good but go nowhere, and resisting every cooler plot detour.