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.

Online culture is now just culture: Dominic Cummings References Spider-Man-Pointing Meme To Parliament

Well, now. Amazon Makes Deal To Buy MGM For Nearly $8.5 Billion

Amen to this: If Apple is the only organisation capable of defending our privacy, it really is time to worry

I will never cease to be amazed by the speed with which my daughters can make our living room chaotic.

Watching last week’s Countryfile has me thinking about drones again. There’s some fantastic drone-driven storytelling shots, rather than the normal eye-candy.

Now, that’s better.

The 2021 Apple TV remote.

I know I should move on from being annoyed when people use “blog" when they mean “blog post”.

But I’m finding it really, really hard.

Gosh. Gee whizz. What a surprise.

This is a fascinating story of how and why aerosol spread of COVID-19 was discounted for far too long — and the decades-old misunderstanding turned dogma that caused it.

There is not enough side-eye in the world for this: Google revives RSS.

Google, some of us remember Google Reader.

And we have not forgotten. And we have not forgiven.

Dear Substack writers,

Crossheads massively enhance the readability of your precious multi-thousand word hot takes. They are fully supported by the CMS. Please use them.

Yours etc,

Adam

Birthday party in progress: pin the tail on the Gnasher…

A drawing of the Beano's Gnasher, teady for a "pin the tail" game.

This was the very first piece I wrote in my self-employed life, back in 2012: What is post digital?

In classic style, it was about 10 years too early…