All's well here at The Dispatch. The snails are scattered all over the place. There isn't a single one that has all of its things together and they are each looking for something. I can't nail any of them down for long enough for them to tell me what specifically they've lost, but it seems like it's mostly these tiny little button-like chips that they were using for a bingo game.

Game Boy 👾

• Magic The Gathering: Arena
• Hades
  • Started replaying this on the Switch
  • Hadn't played the Switch in a long time, but I forgot how quickly my wrist hurts holding it
  • Hades is fun and easy to grind, I'm skipping dialogue this time and its progressing way faster

Coding Corner 👨🏻‍💻

• I want to talk about WebGPU
  • Cool article mostly detailing the history of rendering graphics on the web and how different technologies and APIs developed
  • Seems hopeful that rendering 3D interactive graphics on the web is being finally standardized in WebGPU
• Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
  • Leaked memo from someone at Google arguing that the genie is out of the bottle for AI and the technology is going to be iterated on by the open-source community faster than companies will be able to keep up with

Albums 🎧

• "U.F.O.F." by Big Thief
  • Caroline; "to my UFO friend, goodbye goodbye"; the album cover situates it in a place for me
• "Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You" by Big Thief
  • Country music, feels wide and sprawling; John Prine influences
• "Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle" by Bill Callahan
  • Melodic and sing-songy; the sound of things are the focus; poetry
• "Big Time" by Angel Olsen
  • Power vocals; character
• "Repave" by Volcano Choir
  • One of the multiple facets of Justin Vernon's sound; polished band sound
• "Burn Your Fire For No Witness" by Angel Olsen
  • Sketch book of gems
• "Erotic Probiotic 2" by Nourished by Time
  • Low fi funky soul

Podcasts 🎙️

• Hello From The Magic Tavern
  • Started listening to this from the beginning again
  • The whole world-building improv aspect felt a lot more exploratory and I'm weirdly nostalgic for these early episodes