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Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #51
March 29, 2023
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
March 23, 2023
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
March 15, 2023
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
March 8, 2023
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
March 1, 2023
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
February 22, 2023
(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
February 15, 2023
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
February 8, 2023
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
February 2, 2023
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
January 25, 2023
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
January 19, 2023
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
January 11, 2023
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...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #39
January 4, 2023
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
December 28, 2022
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
December 21, 2022
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
December 14, 2022
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
December 7, 2022
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
November 30, 2022
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
November 23, 2022
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
November 16, 2022
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
November 9, 2022
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
November 2, 2022
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
October 27, 2022
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
October 12, 2022
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
October 6, 2022
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
September 28, 2022
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
September 21, 2022
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
September 14, 2022
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
September 7, 2022
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
August 31, 2022
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
August 25, 2022
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
August 17, 2022
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...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #19
August 10, 2022
Tony's Pick This tweet introduced me to the Flipper Zero. It’s described as a “Multi-tool Device for Geeks” but it’s much cooler than that. I have no need...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #18
August 3, 2022
Tony's Pick Things are picking up steam in the CCS (carbon capture and store) space. I just learned about Noya, which is based on a clever premise. If you...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #17
July 28, 2022
Tony's Pick Turns out people haven’t wanted to work for a long time. Will someone please think of the editor? Kyle's Pick I am borrowing an air quality...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #16
July 20, 2022
Tony's Pick This Slate article makes the case for the return of the residential hotel in the face of, and as a solution to, our growing affordable housing...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #15
July 13, 2022
Tony's Pick I was recently introduced the STAR Voting system. It’s an interesting alternative voting mechanism that combines score-based voting with runoffs....
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #14
July 7, 2022
Tony's Pick As many of my past picks probably indicate, I’m very into the details of our built environment. One of my favorite cul-de-sacs in that...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #13
June 29, 2022
Tony's Pick I’ve recently developed a small passion for ultramarathons, or foot races longer than a marathon. If you didn’t know, ultras have aid stations at...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #12
June 22, 2022
Tony's Pick You may or may not be familiar with the source material from this article (I wasn’t!), but it’s still fascinating to learn what was possible with...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #11
June 15, 2022
Tony's Pick This week I’ve got another Apple TV+ show that’s past it’s cultural moment. For All Mankind is good! In case you didn’t know: it’s an alt-history...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #10
June 10, 2022
Sorry for the late send this week - it was all Kyle’s fault. Tony's Pick More content for the “neat hardware hacks” file. Charlie Gerard used inaudible...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #9
June 1, 2022
Tony's Pick We finally watched Severance. I’d avoided it because the previews made me think there was an overt horror component. I was wrong about that and...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #8
May 25, 2022
Tony's Pick Bionic Reading showed up a few times in my Twitter feed, but I’ve actually been using it for awhile in my mobile RSS reader (Reeder, and yes I...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #7
May 18, 2022
Tony's Pick I recently stumbled across Victionary, a Hong Kong-based publisher of art, design and illustration books. Mostly they make very specific...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #6
May 11, 2022
Tony's Pick I’m back on crazy hardware hacks this week. Check out this insane Volumetric Display using an Acoustically Trapped Particle. It uses ultrasonic...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #5
May 4, 2022
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...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #4
April 27, 2022
Tony's Pick Last Friday was Earth Day, and my inbox was full of (dubious) marketing messages on that theme. It reminded me: most carbon offsets are...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #3
April 20, 2022
Tony's Pick Similar to last week’s pick, John Calhoun’s recent e-ink project is a fun hack on esoteric hardware with an artful result. Consider me inspired!...
Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #2
April 13, 2022
Tony's Pick I have a real soft spot for projects that hack esoteric hardware for some low utility fun. Andrew Schmelyun’s GitHub Issue receipt printer lands...
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