All's well here at The Dispatch. The snails are getting ready for the New Year. They apparently have a tradition of gathering together all wearing masks and then, one by one, committing to a resolution for the next year. After they swear their commitment to change, the other snails shout, "let it be so!", and then rush towards the one snail and pile on top of them. It seems all pretty ad hoc and we hadn't ever noticed them actually keeping any resolutions this past year, so we're thinking this is mostly just for fun.

Game Boy 👾

• Magic
• Baldur's Gate 3
  • Picked right back up after the holidays
• Calico
  • Board game I've had a while but never played, broke it out to play with the family

Links 🔗

• 2023: The Year of AI
  • Summary of all the AI news and releases for the year
• Game Boy / Color Architecture
  • Very in-depth analysis of the game boy
  • The music examples were the coolest part
• 10 Things Software Developers Should Learn about Learning
  • Some things are better taught a certain way (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc.) no matter what a person's preferred method is
  • There's no predictor of who will be a good programmer
  • Not all experts are good teachers
• CSS is fun again
  • Exciting
• Quartz Build Docs
  • thinking about using this Quartz project to publish a digital knowledge garden
• game-icons.net
  • seems cool to have for later
• Things are about to get a lot worse for Generative AI
  • Generative AI systems almost have to have been trained on copyrighted material and there's not a good way back

Albums 🎧

• None (weird)
• A lot of Christmas music, I guess

Podcasts 🎙️

• Not Another D&D Podcast
  • Patreon stuff
• The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling
  • Finished this when we were on the road
  • Super bingeable and really interesting perspectives from all side, made me reconsider my thoughts multiple times back and forth throughout

TV Shows & Movies🍿

• Cheesy Christmas movies on Netflix and Hallmark