Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #59
Tony's Pick I recently finished Cory Doctorow's latest novel, Red Team Blues. His early writing was hugely influential for me, but most of his recent work...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #58
Tony's Pick If you're not familiar with Steve Mould's YouTube Channel is worth a few minutes of your time. I like this one about "the portal illusion", and...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #57
Tony's Pick SineRider is a free, web-based, open source game made by a group of teens. In it you modify math equations direct the path of the characters....
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #56
Tony's Pick I've only ever heard of Letters Live via YouTube's recommendation algorithm, but it seems like it might be a bigger deal in England? Anyway, many...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #55
Tony's Pick Hot new tech alert: now you can automatically turn drawings, especially kids drawings, into fun animations. Here's some background with...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #54
Tony's Pick Check out this mathematical art by Henry Sagerman. It's a "screw/screw" mechanism, the meaning of which is explained in the video. Interesting,...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #53
Tony's Pick I've recently been playing with GPT-4 via the ChatGPT interface, but it's relatively cumbersome to interact with via a web browser. While I'm...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #52
Tony's Pick Happy 1 year of Mostly Bits newsletter picks! To celebrate, here's a lazy Tony pick: If you don't have a playdate yet, you should order one in...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #51
Tony’s Pick scrapeghost is the first tool I’ve seen based on the ChatGPT API with a specific goal and standard developer ergonomics. It seems both useful and...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #50
Tony’s Pick This one’s a bit weird, so prepare yourself. Bobby Fingers is my favorite tiny YouTube channel. He meticulously creates incredibly detailed...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #49
Tony’s Pick Let’s make fetch happen: tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion aren’t AI, they’re SALAMI (“Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #48
Tony’s Pick Here’s an interesting visualization: Which Generation Controls the Senate? Kyle’s Pick I’m going with two podcasts this week, both related to my...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #47
Tony’s Pick Check out this cool clock. Kyle’s Pick A friend of mine re-introduced me to CV Dazzle, a tech/art project about evading facial detection...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #46
(You did not miss an issue - we just accidentally sent two #43s. We’re correcting the numbering here.) Tony’s Pick I’m loath to do free PR for billionaire...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #45
Tony’s Pick LLM commentary is reaching a fever pitch in my corners of the internet. You’ve probably seen the blurry jpeg article, the Tom Scott video, maybe...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #44
Tony’s Pick The tiny world of mastodon/fediverse clients on iOS is really quite rich. The official Mastodon app is good, Ivory from Tapbots is a clear...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #43
Tony’s Pick I am not particularly interested in origami as such, but I kind of love Origami Simulator. It’s a very cool use of web technology that’s...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #42
Tony’s Pick The Smithsonian has made 4 million digital items public domain with the CC0 license (no attribution required, no copyright, etc), and it’s easily...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #41
Special note for all the Tru Tilers™ out there: in these trying economic times, the team at Mostly Bits HQ has made the difficult decision to shut down the...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #40
Tony’s Pick If you have a relatively modern Mac with the latest OS, Amazing AI by Sindre Sorhus is a slick way to try AI image generation without signing up...
