Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, May 23rd, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the play date is a Game Boy for the 21st Century.

GitHub launches a Patreon for open source developers.

Amazon is working on a health app that can monitor emotions.

DoorDash is emerging as the leader in the Food Delivery Wars and Rotten Tomatoes brings the hammer down on review stuffing.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

The entire internet has been all a flutter today over Play Date and I think rightfully so.

But let me back up for a second first. You know panic? Panic is that high-end Mac software developer.

They've been around forever,

going back to the days when they developed

one of the first ever MP3 players for the Mac

before even the iTunes store.

More recently, they moved successfully into game publishing and

they were responsible for that hit indie game Firewatch as well as the upcoming

Untitled Goose game. Well guess what? Today panic is getting

into the hardware business. You heard me correctly. The hardware is called as I said the play date. It's a little The 2020. When you get the device and you first turn it on it will have only one game on it.

But over the course of a year, what they are calling a season, panic will deliver 11 more titles pushed to the device, won each month, each

specifically designed and curated for the play date.

If that sounds fun, I haven't even gotten to the best part yet.

Listen to the description of this hardware, and remember,

this thing is tiny, cute, and bright yellow.

And it's got a crank on the side quoting the verge the device is incredibly

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