368: ‘Tweeter and the Monkey Man’, With Dan Moren
The Talk Show With John Gruber
01/31/23
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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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- 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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367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry
January 19, 2023
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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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Links:
- 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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369: ‘18-Hour Bombing Mission’, With Marco Arment
February 28, 2023
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Marco Arment returns to the show to discuss some genuinely startling revelations regarding iPhone and Apple ID security; the new HomePod 2; and our favorite electric vehicle maker. Also: coffee.
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Links:
- Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen for the WSJ: “A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life”.
- Yours truly, back in 2020, missing the obvious: “Can Thieves Crack 6-Digit iPhone Passcodes?”.
- Advanced Data Protection for iCloud — encrypts more stuff, but won’t protect you from someone with your iPhone and your passcode.
- Marco’s review of the HomePod 2 on ATP.
- Macworld: “This Photo of Lebron’s Record Should Be Apple’s Next ‘Shot on iPhone’ Ad”.
- Marco’s broken (and my own current) coffee grinder: the Baratza Virtuosa, which, alas, has been discontinued.
- Marco’s new coffee grinder: the Ode Brew Grinder Gen 2.
- Kanye West revealing that his iPhone passcode is “000000” on camera, while in the Oval Office talking nonsense with then-President Trump.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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