All's well here at The Dispatch. The snails have started playing a game where they take each others' shells when they're sleeping and swap them out with different objects to see how long it takes for them to notice. So some of the snails have been sliding around with pistachio shells or thimbles on their backs where their shells should be. And they honestly pretty upset when they realize that they've been had. We weren't aware that their shells were removable, and we're still not sure if it's safe for them to be taking them off. So we're going to make them stop or at least try to distract them with a different game.

Game Boy 👾

• Alan Wake II
  • Fun but stressful
• Magic Arena

Links 🔗

• State of Vue and Vite 2023
  • Did a retrospective on migration from Vue 2 to 3
  • ecosystem-ci
  • vue adapted to changing user-base that was more focused on full scale applications rather than quick and easy integration solutions
  • investing in DX was a success
  • https://ui-libs.vercel.app
• Code is run more than read
  • extrapolating on the common expression that "code is read more than written"
• Valve Half Life Documentary
  • interesting retelling of the history of the development of the first Half Life game
  • made me a little anxious watching it and thinking about the crunch and stress of working with people
  • seemed like there was a darker side to the culture in the team that was briefly alluded to but not dwelled on (the one woman saying it was difficult to work with all guys, the guy saying it was hard with kids, etc.)

Albums 🎧

• "Isn't It Now" by Animal Collective
• "Random Access Memories" by Daft Punk
  • Hadn't listened to this in a while, and it was much more gripping than I remembered
  • The production obviously is the highlight, but there's also a spirit I wasn't really picking up on when I had first listened
• "Javelin" by Sufjan Stevens
  • listened to it twice this week
• "Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You" by Big Thief
• "Summerteeth" by Wilco
  • waking up music
• "House of Sugar" by Alex G
• "Trick" by Alex G
• "Race" by Alex G
• "God Save the Animals" by Alex G

Podcasts 🎙️

• Not Another D&D Podcast
  • Patreon content is still my default listening when I want to zone out or do chores or try to fall asleep