Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #119
Tony's Pick A note: I take full responsibility for the delay on this issue, and beg your forgiveness. I never read Kyle’s pick (who has the time?), so I...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #118
Tony's Pick ismy.blue is a fun little single purpose website to test your color perception and categorization. I landed at a boring median 174. You? Probably...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #117
Tony's Pick A few weeks ago I linked to One Million Checkboxes. It got really big, was featured in NYT and had 650 million checks before it was turned off....
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #116
Tony's Pick I got excited about generative art right before it was entirely subsumed by the crypto world via the NFT craze (that excitement is why...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #115
Tony's Pick Gisnep a fun little daily word game by Ironic Sans. The backstory is interesting: the code was written with ChatGPT and Claude over months of...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #114
Tony's Pick I have a few consistent themes in my picks, and exposing public domain works is certainly one of them. Enter public.work: Public Work is a search...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #113
Tony's Pick Molly White (creator of Web3 is Going Great) recently launched Follow The Crypto to keep track of crypto PAC spending on this year’s US...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #112
Tony's Pick Did you know that those sounds made by moving EVs and hybrids are entirely composed and come out speakers? None of it results from the activity...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #111
Tony's Pick Tony modeling peak male lake fashion Kyle's Pick This week I stumbled on the Lumatone keyboard, a microtonal keyboard with hexagonal keys....
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #110
Tony's Pick I’m not sure I would have predicted this, but we’re really enjoying House Of The Dragon. I’m sure we’ll get burned (ha) by a bad ending or...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #109
Tony's Pick One Million Checkboxes has great old school internet vibes. What’s your inclination, to check or uncheck? I’m a checker, I think Kyle might be an...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #108
Tony's Pick I’ve been digging the Volts podcast for the last few weeks. It follows a technical-deep-dive-interview format, focused on “leaving fossil fuels...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #107
Tony's Pick Many of you probably signed up for this newsletter because we here at Mostly Bits tend to make games. It turns out that most of my picks aren’t...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #106
Tony's Pick A team at Ghost is building ActivityPub support, and they are doing incredible technical communication about the project. I don’t often quote...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #105
Tony's Pick This Computerphile video interprets a new paper to make the case that modern generative AI has a ceiling and we might be close or already there....
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #104
Tony's Pick I previously linked to Matt Levine’s Money Stuff newsletter at Bloomberg, which continues to be one of my favorite things to read every week. But...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #103
Tony's Pick This ATK video is, in some ways, peak foodtube for me. It’s a simple and easy thing that will improve some meals, provides a plausible and...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #102
Tony's Pick My High School German teacher worked hard to expose us to contemporary German culture, and one highlight was screening Run Lola Run in class (in...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #101
Tony's Pick I've been listening to the new podcast The Recipe recently. Kenji and Deb (Smitten Kitchen) are top tier internet food people, but with very...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #100
Tony's Pick For our 100th email, I've got some cool space shit. Check out this 1.3 gigapixel (!) image of the Vela supernova remnant taken by the clearly-...
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...
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...