The Delta variant is a cause for concern UCSF Dept. of Medicine Chair Bob Wachter has a thread about the Delta variant of COVID-19 and how it seems to have as much an increase in infectiousness over Alpha as Alpha did over the original. He stresses the importance of getting vaxxed now.

Virtually all hospitalized Covid patients are unvaccinated Granted, this article about how nearly all hospitalized COVID-19 patients are unvaccinated contains no stats, the anecdotes they give are from hospital administrators who saw what things looked like at the worst and are now seeing the improvement. So you want …

Backlinks 2021-06-13 Ed2592 Press has a mini-book online So You Want to Write a Book that covers their Publishing process. It’s nice that they provide this sort of documentation for their authors. My Publishing For Tech book touches a bit on the difference between working with a traditional publisher and being …

The pretend code at developer.bbc.com is user-editable Via Hacker News, Andrew Taylor tweeted about something silly he did that still makes him laugh. He made the code on the BBC Developer Portal user-editable and it’s a really cool effect. Feels like you’re editing the stock photo.

Dealing with flat Earthers I find it hard to believe that people who believe the Earth is flat really exist in substantial numbers today, and yet here is someone who deals with them on a near-daily basis as they meet up at their mobile planetarium. Their thread on how they deal with them is great and likely applicable …

Backlinks 2021-06-09 I find it hard to believe that people who believe the Earth is flat really exist in substantial numbers today, and yet here is someone who deals with them on a near-daily basis as they meet up at their mobile planetarium. Their thread on how they deal with them is great and likely applicable to …

The Game Crafter: POD games In Publishing info, The Game Crafter is a print-on-demand service for games. I’m sure a POD game is way more expensive than mass produced, with a much bigger difference than POD books, but this is still amazing. Found via Steve Troughton-Smith who used them to create a one-off box for …

Texas AG: Trump would have lost if he hadn’t blocked mail-in ballot applications In my opinion, the biggest thing going on in Politics today is the Republican party doing everything it can to stay in power, despite having increasingly unpopular policy positions. Newsweek has an article about Texas Attorney …

Technology “addiction” Jason Feifer’s Build for Tomorrow podcast has an episode saying that we’re not “addicted” to technology. I really enjoyed this episode and thought that it made a compelling case that “addiction” is the wrong word. I do think that advertising-based …

Book cover design recommendation: Keylin Rivers I’ve just had a book cover designed for a project I haven’t yet said anything about publicly, but I’m definitely indie Publishing. I ordered a cover for the project on Tuesday, and Keylin Rivers delivered an almost perfect cover on Saturday with all of …