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May 4, 2022

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #5

Tony's Pick

If you’re not using Yoink, you should be! It dramatically improves the experience of dragging and dropping files in macOS. Protip: add it to the share menu so you can quickly share open files (like a downloaded PDF in Preview.)

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Kyle's Pick

Tony and I are big fans of Zach Gage games like Really Bad Chess, TypeShift, and Good Sudoku. So I was excited to see the release of Knotwords this week. It’s a combination of crosswords and sudoku, and it’s pretty fun! Tony and I played with the idea of combining crosswords with some other kind of puzzle about 6 months ago, and this is the kind of thing we were hoping to stumble on.

My favorite game dev tidbit so far - several release notes in a row included “reduced the app size.” Coincidentally, there is a fun little ~5-second rabbit animation every time you complete a puzzle. You can probably see where this is going:

This is why we can't have nice things
This is why we can't have nice things
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