313: ‘The Sour Grapes Commission’, With Glenn Fleishman
The Talk Show With John Gruber
04/30/21
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Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about last week’s “Spring Loaded” product announcements from Apple: subscription podcasts, AirTags, Apple TV, colorful Apple Silicon iMacs, and the M1 iPad Pros.
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Links:
- My roundup of the “Spring Loaded” Apple event.
- Podswap: independent repair shop that offers to swap out AirPods for refurbished buds with fresh batteries for $60.
- Jeff Carlson on Podswap for TidBITS.
- Battery Monitor: Battery diagnostic utility for the Mac. $5, cheap!
- Joe Steel on the Siri Remote: “This remote was an abomination that should have never made it out of the design lab it was drafted in.”
- MacOS User Guide: Content Caching on MacOS and the list of supported content types.
- Apple Platform Security Guide.
- Glenn’s “Take Control of Your M-Series Mac” book.
- “Take Control of Securing Your Mac”, also by Glenn.
- Tiny Type Museum — only a few remaining!
- Howard Oakley’s excellent The Eclectic Light Company — a copiously detailed resource for Mac and iOS platform troubleshooting.
- “Some Cafe Owners Pull the Plug on Lingering Wi-Fi Users” — Glenn’s June 2005 story for The New York Times, which he believes to be the first story of its kind.
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312: ‘Not to Get Zealotrous’, With Craig Mod
April 11, 2021
•156m
Craig Mod joins the show to talk about writing, designing, filmmaking, what makes for good software, and building a successful membership program to support independent art. And: pizza toast.
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- Craig’s annual essays about running a subscription:
- “ Kissa by Kissa” — Craig’s book documenting, in words and photos, “walking 1,000+km of the countryside of Japan along the ancient Nakasendō highway, the culture of toast (toast!), and mid-twentieth century Japanese cafés called kissaten.”
- “ Pizza Toast & Coffee” — Craig’s new short film.
- Craigstarter — Craig’s open source project to host your own Kickstarter-like projects.
- Craig’s recent essay for Wired on the pleasure of programming, or as he calls it, “coding”.
- “ Fast Software, the Best Software” — Craig’s 2019 essay on the feel of software tools.
- Kevin Kelly’s seminal “1,000 True Fans” essay.
- Author Karl Ove Knausgård, who calls his editors each day to read that day’s work to them.
- Software tools mentioned:
- Ulyssses.
- Final Cut Pro, which no longer has an “X”.
- Lightroom Classic, the “Classic” part of which feels ominous.
- Robin Sloan’s tweet deleting script.
- Plausible Analytics.
- Fathom Analytics.
- fzf — Command-line fuzzy finder search tool.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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314: ‘Obviously Tier One’, With Marco Arment
May 25, 2021
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Marco Arment returns to the show to talk about the new Apple TV remote control. (Also, the new M1 iMacs and iPad Pros.)
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Links:
- Accidental Tech Podcast.
- Casey Liss, who really does do a good job as de facto host of ATP, and to whom I probably owe a beer now.
- Overcast — the app you’re probably using to listen to this show.
- My reviews of the new 24-inch M1 iMac, M1 iPad Pro, and Apple TV remote and the hardware set-top box it optionally comes with.
- Marco’s Ratio coffee maker.
- “Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire” — excellent 1996 video game for Nintendo 64.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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