284: ‘30 Years of TidBITS’ With Adam Engst
The Talk Show With John Gruber
05/08/20
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Special guest Adam Engst joins the show to celebrate 30 years of TidBITS -- the only publication going strong today that started as a weekly HyperCard stack.
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Links:
- Adam Engst: “TidBITS Marks Its 30th Anniversary in a Time of Pandemic”.
- “Info-Mac is a discussion forum for Apple users as well as an archive of online content dating back to 1984.”
- The Mac compression wars: Raymond Lau’s StuffIt vs. Bill Goodman’s Compact Pro. I was a Compact Pro man, myself.
- The official Compact Pro website is, amazingly, still up.
- TidBITS issue 42, 11 February 1991: “Compression Wars”. That’s right, 1991.
- TidBITS’s coverage of MacHack over the years.
- My 1994 letter to Andy Ihnatko’s Help Desk column in MacUser magazine.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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283: ‘Some Kind of Sandwich’ With Dieter Bohn
April 30, 2020
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Dieter Bohn joins the show to talk about the iPad Magic Keyboard, the new iPhone SE, and the state of Android flagship phones.
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Links:
- Dieter’s review of the iPad Magic Keyboard.
- My review of the iPad Magic Keyboard.
- Dieter’s review of the iPhone SE.
- My review of the new iPhone SE.
- Dieter’s review of the OnePlus 8 Pro.
- Samsung Galaxy S20 and S20 Ultra reviews.
- Federico Vittici’s Shortcuts shortcut for jumping to the Hardware Keyboard section of Settings.
- Dr. Drang’s pre-shipping estimates of the iPad Magic Keyboard weights.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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285: ‘Fahrenheit Truthers’ With Ben Thompson
May 22, 2020
•144m
Ben Thompson returns to the show and there’s no sports talk because there’s no sports. Instead: temperature scales, Joe Rogan and Spotify, and Dithering.
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Links:
- Dithering.
- Ben at Stratechery: “Dithering and Open Versus Free.”
- Me at DF: “Dithering” and “More on Dithering”.
- Me at Macworld back in 2010: “It’s the heaviness of the Mac that allows iOS to remain light.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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