A GTA roleplay server only works if other people are online, and at two in the morning on a Tuesday they are mostly not. Humalike drops AI characters into those servers who recognize players, keep a separate relationship with each one, and notice what is going on around them, right down to clothing, masks, weapons and gunfire. Michał Stradczuk ran his own roleplay server years ago, so he has watched an empty world kill the fun from the inside. It has been running on Strefa RP, the biggest server in Poland, for three weeks and about 20,000 conversations, and the two examples they lead with are an EMS patient who calls for help and a witness who later talks to the police.

Clicks Communicator is a small Android phone built around a physical keyboard, which is a sentence I did not expect to be writing in 2026. The keys are touch-sensitive, a Signal LED on the front tells you who is trying to reach you before you pick it up, and a Message Hub puts every conversation in one place so you stop opening four apps to answer three people. It runs full Android 17 with 5G, so it can be your only phone if you want it to be. It is $499, and they raised it to 12GB of RAM and a 4,350mAh battery before shipping without touching the price.

KiwiDesk arranges your Mac windows for you. Open an app and it drops straight into place in one of seven layouts, one of which is an infinite scrolling desktop where everything sits on a ribbon that glides along as you move between them. Tiling window managers have mostly been a thing you had to be a programmer to even want, since setting one up means editing a config file in a terminal and the strongest of them asks you to switch off System Integrity Protection first. Maikel, a solo developer in Germany, wanted one he could recommend to friends who don't code, so it's sliders and pickers in a normal settings window, the Accessibility permission and nothing else, no account, and free for personal use.