It’s lovely to see the vegetation sprouting again on the beach — a sure sign that summer is on its way.


Dear Substack writers,
It is not compulsory to have an opinion on the Basecamp mess.
Yours,
Adam
(Who has just deleted several lukewarm takes on the subject from you all…)
Looks like there are security updates for Apple things out — urgent ones, too.
Looks like I’ll be updating all the family devices while I work this morning.
This is an absolute shocker: last night someone cut down an osprey nest at Llyn Brenig in Wales, where a young pair were incubating their first egg.
Ospreys are a schedule 1 species, and any disturbance of them during breeding season is a crime.
Just replaced the Cat 5 on the wired elements of our home network with Cat 7 cables.
Boy, I know how to have fun on a Friday night.
This is genius: Paddington in Film
Why Substack stealing the big name columnists won’t kill newspapers — and why it might actually be a good thing…
The masked FaceID unlock works great on my iPhone running iOS 14.5. A nice little quality-of-life improvements for Apple Watch users.
I know everyone’s talking about the “paid podcasts” bit of yesterday’s Apple Event, but I do wonder if the sheer multimedia creation power of the new iPad Pro is the bigger story for digital journalists…