2020
Well, this is not great. I hope this does not survive the beta into release: Apple News+ in iOS 14 Opens Article Web Links in Apple News, Intercepting Traffic From Websites
Chris Eccleston returning to Doctor Who in a series of full cast audio adventures.
What fantastic news.
Absolutely absorbing read from Ed Yong at The Atlantic about the complexities of the immune system, why they confuse even other biologists and what that means for COVID-19.
Currently reading: Ring The Hill by Tom Cox 📚
Pandemic pleasures: being at home enough to keep your Hotbin composter at a steady temperature of nearly 60C. 🌱
Poirot after Christie
I’m currently reading and enjoying The Mystery Of Three Quarters: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery by Sophie Hannah 📚. While I was sceptical about the idea of Poirot novels not authored by Agatha Christie, they work because they aren’t Christie pastiche.
They’re books featuring a completely recognisable Poirot, and set in the same sort of era, but are very much told in the author’s own voice.
Good, escapist, murderous fun.
Here’s one reason every journalist should write a newsletter for a while: nothing teaches you more directly the relationship between what you write and subscriber churn.
I am embarrassed it has taken me until my late 40s to understand the difference between a good quality, long-lasting t-shirt, and a cheapo one.
The pandemic lockdowns seem to have kicked the tablet market back into growth.
Apple has 38% of the market with the iPad, Samsung is next with 18.7%.
Well, this makes sense: Social media is addictive if you like embarrassing people
Schools, Covid-19 and the risk of unintentional misunderstandings.
Sometimes they way we write something can do more harm than good.
This is an adorable version of something that every parent who has been working from home the last few months has experienced. Except, the parent is Alanis Morissette.
This sums up pretty nicely why I, as a teenager in the 1980s, completely fell in love with this series: Moonlighting: How Pre-Dramedy Era Dramedy Made Words Cool Again
