Most of the articles incorporated the source code of a small to medium-sized utility, application program, or game (each written specifically for the magazine) and a detailed description of how it worked.

Originally published eight times per year, by 1984 the magazine had attained a popularity that allowed it to become a monthly publication.

A technical highlight of Nibble was a regular column called Disassembly Lines, in which Dr. Sanford Mossberg presented assembly listings he had reverse-engineered from interesting parts of Applesoft BASIC and the Apple DOS to illustrate how they worked.

Omnibus editions of the best articles from each year's issues, dubbed Nibble Express, were published annually.

(Trivia: the company changed its name after Sun Microsystems bought the name MicroSPARC for a new line of processors.)