Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #99
Tony's Pick I'll put on my radical urbanist hat for a second and link to this cool Bike Lane Sweeper. The average bike lane in my midsized midwestern city is...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #98
Tony's Pick I recently learned about ternary computers, which are based on ternary logic and use 3-state trits instead of 2-state bits - commonly -1, 0, or...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #97
Tony's Pick Ivan Miranda is back with a new design for a marble clock, this time with the goal of sub-second latency. Bonkers! I think I like this design...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #96
Tony's Pick You've probably heard about how quantum computers will trivially destroy modern cryptography and thus, like, the whole internet. Well,...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #95
Tony's Pick I'm not super into Disney lore, but Cabel's enthusiasm makes this post a really fun read (and listen)! (You may also like this other auction-and-...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #94
Tony's Pick Here's a fun development in the world of AI: Nightshade invisibly modifies images in ways that "poisons" image generation models if used for...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #93
Tony's Pick How much does a Big Mac cost? It turns out somewhere between $3.49 and $8.09 in the US, at least according to McCheapest. I absolutely would have...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #92
Tony's Pick A few issues ago I linked to a Brian Eno record. Well Gary Hustwit (of Rams and Helvetica fame) has a new film about Brian Eno that's just...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #91
Tony's Pick Beau Miles has a great YouTube channel. He's a rough-and-tumble Aussie who's always running, usually attempting profundity and often (nearly)...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #90
Tony's Pick Apparently Pitchfork is doing reviews of old albums now? That's not my pick though - Brian Eno's Music For Airports is my pick. I was previously...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #89
Tony's Pick Piet is a weird little programming language that uses colors in an image instead of characters in a text file. The examples aren't all beautiful,...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #88
Tony's Pick 2024 is a big year for the public domain. Lots of stuff becomes fair game, most notably Mickey Mouse (more or less). Something tells me this...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #87
Tony's Pick Who knows how real this is, or whether Big Tooth will let this stand, but apparently there's a cure for cavities? Kyle's Pick This is basically a...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #86
Tony's Pick I'm not seeing as many long threads on the Fediverse as I did on Twitter in recent years. Probably just a function of who I follow? Anyway,...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #85
Tony's Pick I've been enjoying the Serious Trouble Podcast recently. It's with the internet-famous Popehat (Ken White) and sits at the intersection of the...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #84
Tony's Pick I recently got a hankering for old school real-time strategy, and went looking for ways to play the Command & Conquer of my youth. Turns out some...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #83
Tony's Pick GUBBINS by Studio Folly is a delightful and creative word game with a great personality. It's absolutely in our area of the games universe over...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #82
Tony's Pick It's time* for a classic Tony pick. Ivan Miranda is building a clock where the time is displayed in an 8-segment-ish display made of marbles....
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #81
Tony's Pick Matt Levine's aforelinked Money Stuff has had some good writing on the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried recently, but Elizabeth Lopatto's coverage at...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #80
Tony's Pick These type specimens from the late 18th and early 19th centuries look decidedly modern to me. In some cases more like lettering done today that's...
