Web Wanderings (June 2026)

A few sites and articles of interest I came across this month. Maybe blogging is falling out of favour because Gen Z think it’s too “cringe”? The Bank of England is asking people to vote on which animals should be ont the next series of bank notes. Poor frog Bot traffic has officially passed human traffic on the Internet. Great. Spotify founder Daniel Ek is now running Neko Health, full body health checks for £299. To reclaim our personal tastes (and cultural standards) we must abandon algorithm-driven platforms. AI company Midjourney have developed a full-body scanner to rival MRI machines at a fraction of the cost and complexity. Inside Anthropic. Lettera is a new, standalone Markdown editing app for macOS. It's an extraction from the Bear Notes app. Interesting to see Taylor Lorenz now writing in The Guardian. I hope someone in the government is listening when she says The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech. Miguel Carranza (RevenueCat) writes a…