
100: ‘People Are Gay All the Time’ With John Moltz
The Talk Show With John Gruber
11/15/14
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Who else but very special guest John Moltz to ring in The Talk Show’s centurial episode. Topics include iPhone display sizes (and in particular, our mutual preference for the old 5S 4-inch size over the 4.7-inch iPhone 6); the new book Moltz co-wrote, The Visual Guide to Minecraft; writing tools, including word processors and Markdown; shopping for gaming PCs as a Mac person; Microsoft Office going free on mobile platforms; Twitter’s stilted strategy statement; President Obama’s statement on Net Neutrality; and Tim Cook’s eloquent essay announcing that he’s gay.
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Links:
- The Visual Guide to Minecraft, co-written by Moltz.
- Twitter’s “strategy statement”.
- Tim Cook: “I’m proud to be gay.”
- David Sparks’s Markdown Field Guide
- Fountain — a Markdown-inspired plain text format for screenplays.
- Highland — A Fountain viewer/editor.
- Slugline — A more WYSIWYG-style Fountain editor.
- Punch-cutting double-density (800 KB) 3.5-inch floppy disks to make them work as high-density (1.4 MB) disks
- The CocoaLove conference in Philadelphia
- President Obama on Net Neutrality
- Paul Lynde
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•89m
Special guest Christa Mrgan joins the show to talk about Yosemite UI design, Apple TV’s aesthetics (and its shitty IR remote control), Apple Watch speculation (including using it as an Apple TV remote), the Watch’s new San Francisco font, bling in icon design, and more. It’s a Thanksgiving week design-focused spectacular.
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