367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry
The Talk Show With John Gruber
01/19/23
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Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.
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- Black Girls Code — recipients of $100 for each utterance of you-know-who’s name during this episode.
- From the Daring Fireball archive (2009): “Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground”.
- Craig, this week: “The Shit Show”.
- My take this week: “Twitterrific: End of an Era”.
- The Iconfactory’s other apps:
- Edovia’s Screens — amazing VNC app to use your Mac from iOS devices.
- Lights Off — the first-ever game for iPhone, still available in the App Store.
- EDGE “2G” cellular data networking.
- Blaine Cook, early Twitter engineer and champion of third-party client APIs, now all-in on Mastodon.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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366: ‘Measure Seven Times, Cut Once’, With Glenn Fleishman
December 31, 2022
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Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about reported setbacks in Apple's silicon division, the LastPass vault leak and password management, and the frontiers of social networking. Also, the joys of modern air travel during the holidays.
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Links:
- Apple silicon woes:
- Jeremi Gosney summarizing the situation with LastPass.
- Seat 31B: "The Great Southwest Meltdown of 2022". Terrific explainer about how Southwest is different from other airlines.
- Rubén Caballero -- formerly head of wireless technology engineering at Apple; now working for Microsoft.
- Glenn's books on security.
- Stochastic screening.
- "Shift Happens" -- the keyboards book Glenn has been working on with Marcin Wichary since 2018.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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368: ‘Tweeter and the Monkey Man’, With Dan Moren
January 31, 2023
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Special guest Dan Moren joins the show to talk about the new M2 MacBook Pros and Mac Minis, the state of Mac gaming, and the triumphant return of the full-sized HomePod.
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Links:
- New M2 Pro/Max MacBook Pros and Mac Minis
- 2nd-gen HomePod review roundup.
- Dan’s “The Galactic Cold War” series of novels and short stories.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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