Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #79
Tony's Pick Here's a video that shows a chasen (tranditional bamboo Japanese matcha whisk) being made by hand. Pretty incredible level of craftsmanship! (The...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #78
Tony's Pick This mashup of Kendrick and Radiohead is very good, I'd love a whole album of it. Kyle's Pick I've been listening to The Data Detective by Tim...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #77
Tony's Pick I have previously recommended Bits about Money by patio11. In a similar vein, if you have any interest in the finance or, like, money, you should...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #76
Tony's Pick This article succinctly describes the problems with editing text on mobile. I'm not entirely sure I like the proposed solution, but I definitely...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #75
Tony's Pick I recently read through The Far Reaches. As a set of short stories on Kindle, it's a perfect fit for my life right now. It's also quite good!...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #74
Tony's Pick Velja is a free macOS browser picker. You might think you don't need that, but let me tell you the killer feature: never again see or interact...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #73
Joint Pick Our first Playdate game, Doink!, was released on the official Playdate Catalog this week! We are really digging the vibe of the community and are...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #72
Tony's Pick While on leave, I'm slowly working through a very long list of things to read (and watch). Here's something I've been sitting on for a while: Can...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #71
Tony's Pick If you aren't familiar with the Barkley Marathons, this documentary on the 2023 race is a great intro - and there are many more similar docs on...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #70
Tony's Pick I'm back, baby! With a baby! It's awesome, she's perfect, and also, I forget, what's sleep? Anyway, here's a fun animation I came across at some...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #69
Tony's Pick Kyle's Pick I enjoyed this interview with Scott Dikkers, founder of The Onion, about writing comedy. Some of his advice is common — separate...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #68
Tony's Pick Kyle's Pick This week I finished Peter Attia's new book, Outlive. I was a little skeptical going in, thinking that a book about longevity from a...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #67
Tony's Pick Tony is at the hospital waiting for a baby to be born, so there is no pick from him this week. Instead, here is a picture of what looks to be a...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #66
Tony's Pick This video showcases 20 games made in a weekend all on the theme "Roles Reversed." Play as the shopkeeper in an RPG, the bricks in a brick...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #65
Tony's Pick The internet now includes a full neuron-by-neuron map of a fruit fly brain, plus a tool to interact with that map. Here's a video overview of the...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #64
Tony's Pick For those of you that like weird t-shirts, here's a PSA: you can buy official McDonald's swag without any credentials at all. Listen, I...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #63
Tony's Pick 24 hours of Earth's rotation is a video by Bartosz Wojczyński that fixes the camera on the sky instead of the horizon. All the commentary I come...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #62
Tony's Pick Here's a cool project: Highrises by Chris Hypha (and team). They take a bunch of high res photos of art deco highrises with a drone, then stitch...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #61
Tony's Pick Here's a fun use of stable diffusion: making QR codes that look like art. Kyle's Pick Been reading a decent amount about Apple's Vision Pro...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #60
Tony's Pick Slide to Unlock by Craig Kaplan is a fun little game focused on dexterity spatial reasoning. Definitely worth a few minutes of your time! Note:...
