See you, open rates. It was good while it lasted.

Apple closes down open rate tracking


Missed the live WWDC keynote stream, so here’s the plan:

  1. Read the previews on Apple.com
  2. Scan the hashtag #WWDC21 on Twitter
  3. Pour a beer
  4. Watch the keynote when the replay is available
  5. Try to ignore my wife’s mocking commentary.

An engaged newsletter audience is better than a big one.

(And I managed to write it without making a “size isn’t everything" joke. Apart from that one, obviously.)


Friendly wee chap in the churchyard this morning.

A squirrel in the churchyard of St Mary de Haura.

First library visit since the first lockdown! 📚

Two girls and a pile of library books.

Nostalgia.


Walking.


Genomics and pandemics and the avoidable crisis

Zeynep Tufecki:

The latest news from the United Kingdom, which has better genomic surveillance than almost any other country and thus can allow us to disentangle causes of outbreaks better, is not good.

Immensely proud of the fact that my wife, as a medicial genomics lecturer, has played a part in making the central sub-clause of that quote true.

However, the rest of Tufecki’s newsletter is well worth reading, as it challenges those of us in countries with successful and extensive vaccination schemes to start thinking what we can do to aid the rest of the world, before we see a worsening humanitarian catastrophe.