All's well here at The Dispatch. The snails have had a heartbreak. Apparently the summer crush that they had developed at camp was with one of the camp counselors. The counselor turned them down, thankfully and obviously, because they are a group of snails. But the snails are now not coming out of their cabin. The head counselor is asking us if there's anything that we can do to try and cheer them up so we're advising to let them go to town on a family bag of Cool Ranch Doritos and that should hopefully get them out of their funk.

Game Boy 👾

• Magic Arena
• Exponential Idle
  • Started playing this idle game to check when I didn't have internet

Coding Corner 👨🏻‍💻

• Names should be as short as possible while still being clear
  • Variable/function names can be contextual and not as long while still being descriptive
• AI and the automation of work
  • Good explanation of what people mean when they say that AI doesn't really know anything and that it's just matching a pattern
• How to Learn Better in the Digital Age
  • "learning must be effortful"
  • "When I create I learn. When I consume I just relax."
• Why Ed-tech Startups Don't Scale
  • Interesting post by the same person as above that details the specific and unique challenges of scaling up ed-tech software
• ArchiveBox
  • Self-hosted internet archiving
• Standard Ebooks
  • public domain ebooks

Albums 🎧

• "Two Saviors" by Buck Meek
  • Becoming a staple when coding
• "Forget" by Twin Shadow
  • Like something out of time
• "Carrie & Lowell Live" by Sufjan Stevens
  • Great example of live album
• "Purple Mountains" by Purple Mountains
  • Sad and maybe voyeuristic but also maybe just haunted
• "Crushing" by Julia Jacklin
  • "Just my body"
• "Blonde" by Frank Ocean
  • "looked just like me"
• "Black Messiah" by D'Angelo
  • "I just want to go back, back to the way it was"

Quotes 🗣️

• Stavros, who drove us around
  • "Nothing is more permanent than the temporary"
  • "The job reveals itself to the worker"