172: ‘Holiday Party’ With Merlin Mann
The Talk Show With John Gruber
11/09/16
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171: ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma Multitasking’ With John Moltz
October 26, 2016
•126m
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include what we expect from this week’s Apple Event for new Mac hardware, and my impressions of the Google Pixel phone after a week using one.
This week’s show introduces labeled chapter marks for subject matter. If you use a podcast player that supports them, such as Overcast, let me know what you think.
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Links:
- Ars Technica on the Mirai botnet that uses insecure Internet of Things devices.
- Brian Krebs on the Internet of Things botnet.
- Images of the new MacBook Pro Magic Toolbar that leaked from Apple itself as resources in MacOS 10.12.1.
- Darth on the Magic Toolbar and Esc-less hardware keyboard.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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173: ‘Fork the Universe’ With Jason Snell
November 18, 2016
•161m
Jason Snell returns to the show to talk about the new MacBook Pros and the Touch Bar, and Apple’s new book chronicling the last 20 years of their industrial design, Designed by Apple in California.
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Links:
- Jason’s review of the new MacBook Pros with Touch Bar.
- My review of the same.
- The Glif iPhone tripod mount.
- BBEdit.
- PCalc.
- James Thompson’s Easter egg idea for PCalc’s Touch Bar support.
- Jeffrey Friedl’s Mastering Regular Expressions, the greatest book that ever was or will be written on regular expressions.
- Sal Soghoian’s automation site for AppleScript, Automator, and more.
- My Title Case Script.
- Control Strip from classic Mac OS.
- Bartender utility for today’s MacOS.
- Horace Dediu: “Wherefore art thou Macintosh?”
- Yours truly on Microsoft and the word “compromise” back in 2013.
- Iconic, Jonathan Zufi’s excellent 2013 book on Apple’s design work.
- Designed by Apple in California.
- Taschen, coffee table book publisher extraordinaire.
- Jony Ive’s interview with Wallpaper on Designed by Apple in California.
- “I said, ‘Get it away!’ and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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