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The Bit Bet
Welcome!
The Bit Bet is a newsletter that every week send FIVE -only FIVE- links (and perhaps a few bonuses) that are really cool. Eveybody has "that" friend who send cool stuff every now and then, and this newsletter aims to do the same, more or less.
Main topics? Mostly technology, but internet is so wide and wild that every week is different.
I also publish short interactive novels on itch.io.
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In italian (#sorrynotsorry).
Here the links for the Ultimatum story:
Il Caso SE is an experimental horror/thriller:
And here the links for the first two parts of the Robur tale:
By the way, I also created a playlist with some of the suggested music tracks. Not really happy about it, most of material is not there, still, a lot of '80s and experimental music below.
FUQ
The "Frequently Asked Questions", have proudly become "Frequently User Questions". Why? Because it sounds fun in italian.
Yep, that's it.
Sounds fun.
Oh, come on, it's literally THE HOMEPAGE! A couple of lines! Ok, ok, we are in the FUQ, so I deserve it. The Bit Bet is a newsletter that every week send FIVE -only FIVE- links (and perhaps a few bonuses) that are really cool. The website is an experiment, a kind of digital notepad with ideas, sketches and funny little things.
If you want, you can subscribe here or read some posts. The Bit Bet is currently in italian, but the links are mostly in english, so you might still be able to enjoy it.
That prototype website needs a lot of rework and in the meanwhile, I found lots of good points for a more readable and efficient internet. In the end, I decide to apply them and this is the result.
An introduction to these topics can be found here.
Ok then, take ALL of them
Internet is the final frontier for cool stuff. Every day hundreds of interesting projects are born, like the ones you can find in the Tool part. CMS follows the same logic, there are a ton of them and each one allows for different or quickier effects.
Yet...
Do I need them? Nope
Can I achieve the same results with simpler and environmentally-friendlier tools? Of course
Mastering a CMS is a useful skill? Yes indeed, at least until it is used, but I still prefer to roll up my sleeves and start with the foundations, rather than the roof.
Also, messing around with javascript reminds me that there are less fortunate people in the world (they must use it for work! Can you believe it?).
They contain small projects and interesting little things, a kind of online notepad that collects information and gimmicks.
Maybe you will find something useful too.
Well, well, well, my esteemed Professor...
I know.
If you have suggestions on how to improve or fix some mistakes, please send me an email or message in the Contact section, I will check.
This website was, is and always will be a prototype. Deal with it.
Thanks for the question, here are some honest reviews about the author:
"Such a nice boy, always leave the plate clean" - my gramma
"David always offered dinner, really nice. 4/5" - former fiancée
"Truly, best owner in the world" - my dog
"Amazing belly scratches" - my dog, again
"Who are you? What do you want? Don't hurt me." - A guy I asked in the street
Try a tongue twister: Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons — balancing them badly.
I don't know, sorry.
Random
Do you remember Stumbleupon? It randomly took you to a bizarre corner of the internet: sometimes brilliant, useless, fascinating... or just a complete waste of time. I miss that pioneering internet, so I decided to reproduce it. Using the button below, you will randomly visit to one of the links that have been recommended in the newsletter.
Here's the button. Use it at your own risk.
Tools
A collection of tools /projects / things. As we like it here: the crazier, the better!
I wanted to make a good fractal simulator, but it's more complicated than expected, so have fun with this for now. My thanks to Lautaro and let me know if it gives you problems within the browser.
Recursion can have unexpected effects.
Recursion can have unexpected effects.
Recursion can have unexpected effects.
Recursion can have unexpected effects.
Recursion can have unexpected effects.
Recursion can have unexpected effects.
Recursion can have unexpected effects.
Recursion can have unexpected effects.
Recursion can have unexpected effects.
Next step will be a Julia set and a Mandelbrot set simulators.
It will take some time, but hopefully you will be able to fiddle with it.
Cripto
It is a pain in the back to put it here, they are just some funny graphs.
Would you kindly go in the italian version?
Data Visualization
Data visualization is an hobby of mine.
I plan to put here some examples; in the meantime the links shows some cool results.
Cripto
Exactly as stated before for the Cripto section, it's an interactive timeline, and it takes so long to translate.
Would you kindly go in the italian version?
Consensus
Ok, you should know the drill by now: this is a stub, a complex matter and I don't have much time to complete and translate it.
Would you kindly go in the italian version?
Cripto whitepapers
There is a word that today means crypto: whitepaper. It is often a useful tool to decribe the cripto inner logic, but is also used to validate a scam coin without any value.
I decided to collect some of them; hopefully in the future I will create a full repository with lots of nasty, naughty whitepapers.
When available, I linked the original version of the document; which may have been revised over the years.
A friendly reminder: use your own mind while reading, this is a collection that contains the whole spectrum of documents, from the golden original bitcoin paper to some meme token without any value.
To suggest new papers, highlight mistakes, errors or anything else, just send a message.
This section is basically "a rant with bullet points and workflows", so it will not be translated for now.
Would you kindly go in the italian version?
Definitions
Yes, yes, same old story, sooner or later will translate this part too.
Would you kindly go in the italian version?
Security
I'd like to let you try a little bit of "cryptography", for fun and delight.
Let's start with Caesar's cipher, older school ever, absolutely useless nowadays but fun to play with friends.
Svetonio says that Caesar used it in confidential communications; it's a simple single-letter shift, easy to do even with pen and paper if you're bored.
Nowadays is only used as ROT-13, for simple and playful purposes.
The version below (which has no guarantee at all, it might not work properly or not work at all) ignores spaces and special characters.
As you may have guessed, the protection afforded by a mono-alphabetic substitution cipher is extremely poor.
Even a simple scital allow more "security".
Things start to get a little more interesting with polyalphabetic ciphers (quick leap forward a few centuries), as a generalization of the Caesar cipher.
People always quote the famous Vigenère cipher, but instead I want to focus on Tritemius' Tabula Recta dwhich precedes it by at least thirty years.
(...will continue someday...)
Twine Tutorial
Italian only. Life is short, I am just waiting until automatic translations are good enough.
Contact me
If you have doubts, questions, suggestions or else, use the box below! The message will be anonymous.
You can also send an email to:
thebitbet {[put the at symbol here]} substack.com
I know, I know, a copy and paste link would have been better, but I need a basic anti-spam function.
Thanks and bye!
