Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #119
Tony's Pick A note: I take full responsibility for the delay on this issue, and beg your forgiveness. I never read Kyle’s pick (who has the time?), so I...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #118
Tony's Pick ismy.blue is a fun little single purpose website to test your color perception and categorization. I landed at a boring median 174. You? Probably...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #117
Tony's Pick A few weeks ago I linked to One Million Checkboxes. It got really big, was featured in NYT and had 650 million checks before it was turned off....
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #116
Tony's Pick I got excited about generative art right before it was entirely subsumed by the crypto world via the NFT craze (that excitement is why...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #115
Tony's Pick Gisnep a fun little daily word game by Ironic Sans. The backstory is interesting: the code was written with ChatGPT and Claude over months of...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #114
Tony's Pick I have a few consistent themes in my picks, and exposing public domain works is certainly one of them. Enter public.work: Public Work is a search...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #113
Tony's Pick Molly White (creator of Web3 is Going Great) recently launched Follow The Crypto to keep track of crypto PAC spending on this year’s US...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #112
Tony's Pick Did you know that those sounds made by moving EVs and hybrids are entirely composed and come out speakers? None of it results from the activity...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #111
Tony's Pick Tony modeling peak male lake fashion Kyle's Pick This week I stumbled on the Lumatone keyboard, a microtonal keyboard with hexagonal keys....
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #110
Tony's Pick I’m not sure I would have predicted this, but we’re really enjoying House Of The Dragon. I’m sure we’ll get burned (ha) by a bad ending or...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #109
Tony's Pick One Million Checkboxes has great old school internet vibes. What’s your inclination, to check or uncheck? I’m a checker, I think Kyle might be an...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #108
Tony's Pick I’ve been digging the Volts podcast for the last few weeks. It follows a technical-deep-dive-interview format, focused on “leaving fossil fuels...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #107
Tony's Pick Many of you probably signed up for this newsletter because we here at Mostly Bits tend to make games. It turns out that most of my picks aren’t...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #106
Tony's Pick A team at Ghost is building ActivityPub support, and they are doing incredible technical communication about the project. I don’t often quote...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #105
Tony's Pick This Computerphile video interprets a new paper to make the case that modern generative AI has a ceiling and we might be close or already there....
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #104
Tony's Pick I previously linked to Matt Levine’s Money Stuff newsletter at Bloomberg, which continues to be one of my favorite things to read every week. But...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #103
Tony's Pick This ATK video is, in some ways, peak foodtube for me. It’s a simple and easy thing that will improve some meals, provides a plausible and...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #102
Tony's Pick My High School German teacher worked hard to expose us to contemporary German culture, and one highlight was screening Run Lola Run in class (in...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #101
Tony's Pick I've been listening to the new podcast The Recipe recently. Kenji and Deb (Smitten Kitchen) are top tier internet food people, but with very...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #100
Tony's Pick For our 100th email, I've got some cool space shit. Check out this 1.3 gigapixel (!) image of the Vela supernova remnant taken by the clearly-...