All's well here at The Dispatch. The snails have found and old apple core that apparently rolled under the fridge and dried up. They spent a full day working the shriveled up core out and then spent the rest of the evening searching further for more "historic artifacts". They eventually found a dime, a bread tie, a guitar pick and a bottle cap. They kept saying the artifacts "belong in a museum", so now some of them are working on a way to display what they've found.

Game Boy 👾

• Magic: The Gathering
  • Played some commander this weekend. With all the standard format I've been playing on Arena I had forgotten the differences in strategy
  • Trying to also build some other standard decks using some common and uncommon cards
• shapez.io
  • A simpler, more zen Factorio in the browser
  • Bought on steam because it was being pushed but it was cheap and I had played a lot before, so I figured it was worth it
  • Easy to play and listen to podcasts
• Ori and the Will of the Wisps
  • A game on Xbox Game Pass that is a sequel to a game I had played on Stadia before
  • It's really gorgeous with some high detail and high quality assets/graphics
  • It plays very well, very intuitive movement and fluid movement
  • Feels like Hollow Knight, but more forgiving

Coding Corner 👨🏻‍💻

• J. B. Crawford's takeaways from recent Docker news
  • Apparently, Docker as a company has been stirring up the dev community with some changes to policies for free tier support and for how they're handling monetization of their open-source software in general
  • Basically the main takeaway is to be skeptical of free services: even though the open-source software is free, the services might not always be free, or might depend on something that won't always be free
  • But a good quote: "There's an old maxim that if you're not paying, you're the product. But Docker Hub reminds us that in [...] Silicon Valley there is a potent second possibility: if you're not paying, there may be no product at all." Meaning that with these companies being venture funded with crazy amounts of runway capital, it can appear that a free service is sustainable because it's been around for a couple years, but that might not be the case.

Albums 🎧

• "Capacity" by Big Thief
  • Listened twice this week; some songs got stuck in my head from last week and I wanted to revisit
• "God Save the Animals" by Alex G
  • I honestly don't really remember listening to it, but I was probably trying to get myself into a good mood
• "The Creek Drank the Cradle" by Iron & Wine
  • Work music for singing along to
• "Woman King" by Iron & Wine
  • More work music, but not as ingrained
• "Modern Vampires of the City" by Vampire Weekend
  • Feels like cool nights in the city; remember listening to this when it came out and I was riding the metro a lot
• "Lateness of Dancers" by Hiss Golden Messenger
  • Definitely comfort/soothing music
• "10,000 gecs" by 100 gecs
  • Short and goofy; I liked the punk sort of put in whatever seems fun or sounds cool and don't care about expectations; but it was also annoying at points, couldn't connect; will probably listen again at some point just because it's so short and has gotten such good reviews
• "Sun Giant" by Fleet Foxes
  • Mykonos is maybe another perfect song
• "Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd" by Lana Del Ray
  • Father John Misty is featured in one song and I realized that is the parallel artist I'd been trying to pin Lana Del Rey down with; seemed like a lot going on and there were some standout songs, but I'll need to listen again; nothing really hooked me and some parts were lost as I was doing other things