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Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #101
April 11, 2024
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
April 4, 2024
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
March 20, 2024
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
March 7, 2024
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
February 29, 2024
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
February 22, 2024
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
February 16, 2024
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
February 8, 2024
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
February 1, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
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
January 17, 2024
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
January 10, 2024
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
January 4, 2024
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
December 21, 2023
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
December 14, 2023
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
December 7, 2023
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
November 29, 2023
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
November 22, 2023
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
November 15, 2023
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
November 9, 2023
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
November 1, 2023
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
October 27, 2023
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
October 18, 2023
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
October 11, 2023
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
October 4, 2023
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
September 28, 2023
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
September 20, 2023
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
September 14, 2023
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
September 6, 2023
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
August 31, 2023
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
August 23, 2023
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
August 16, 2023
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
August 10, 2023
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
August 2, 2023
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
July 26, 2023
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
July 19, 2023
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
July 12, 2023
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
June 28, 2023
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
June 21, 2023
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
June 14, 2023
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
June 7, 2023
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
May 31, 2023
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:...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #59
May 24, 2023
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
May 18, 2023
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
May 10, 2023
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
May 3, 2023
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
April 26, 2023
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
April 19, 2023
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
April 12, 2023
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
April 5, 2023
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...
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