Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #39
Tony’s Pick This article about the Atari game Pitfall is interesting on 2 levels: first is the technical feat in the original game, second is that someone...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #38
Tony's Pick As the year comes to a close, I'm cleaning out various inboxes, feeds, and lists. In doing so I realized I've never linked to Bits About Money,...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #37
This newsletter issue might look a bit different. We’ve (hastily) changed newsletter providers this week. Revue, our previous provider, is the latest victim...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #36
Tony's Pick Fusion has been in the news recently. Here’s a not-super-technical assessment of the practicalities of various methods of generation electricity...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #35
Our Pick We started a Mastodon server over at nofun.social. However Twitter turns out, many interesting people that we follow have decided to migrate...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #34
Tony's Pick Asterisk Magazine is a new online publication worth a gander. Is Wine Fake? was my entry point (despite the dumb title, a smart analysis), but...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #33
Our Pick We launched our first Playdate game on Itch.io yesterday, called Doink! It’s a mini-roguelike paddle game that changes as you play. According to our...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #32
Tony's Pick Floor796 is a fun and weird internet art project. Give it 5 minutes of exploration! Tag yourself Kyle's Pick Currently categorized as “frivolous...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #31
Tony's Pick I am generally against the development of pervasive surveillance in modern society, doubly so when it’s controlled by giant tech companies with a...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #30
Tony's Pick I’m back with another tiny, independent publisher. KroneckerWellis offers esoterica like a book of Nikola Tesla’s patents and a reprint of the...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #29
Between moving and traveling, we missed last week’s newsletter. We at Mostly Bits have set an extremely high standard for ourselves and we failed to live up...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #28
Tony's Pick Teenage Engineering makes really beautiful hardware. (They made Playdate with Panic, icymi). The recently released PO-80 record factory is a...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #27
Tony's Pick Continuing a trend with a previous pick, Oro is another small publisher with tons of beautiful books, mostly focused on architecture and urban...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #26
Tony's Pick I’ve long supported the Long Now foundation’s clock project and the Rosetta Project. I deeply appreciate the focus on communicating millennia...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #25
Tony's Pick A lot of the datavis content that gets attention on the internet is more about looking cool than about improving understand of the data. This one...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #24
Tony's Pick This demo is a real banger because it combines several newish technologies to create a valuable product that otherwise could not exist. Bonus:...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #23
Tony's Pick Check out the Public Domain Review. It’s a contemporary web publication that plumbs the depths of content in the public domain. They cleverly...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #22
Tony's Pick More space stuff from me this week. You may have heard that the Artemis I mission is set to launch this week as a trial run for the systems that...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #21
Tony's Pick You’ve probably heard of the “observable universe”, or all places in the universe we can currently observe, which is essentially defined by the...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #20
Tony's Pick I’m a sucker for a minimal-nonsense deep dive into technical topics unrelated to my areas of expertise - especially infrastructure. Austin Vernon...
