369: ‘18-Hour Bombing Mission’, With Marco Arment
The Talk Show With John Gruber
02/28/23
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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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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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370: ‘Fine Hypertext Products’, With Jason Kottke
March 11, 2023
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Jason Kottke returns to the show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kottke.org.
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Links:
- 0sil8.
- Kottke.org’s 10th anniversary, with a retrospective of site designs.
- Stellar:
- Jason’s introduction.
- Miriam Krule’s profile for The Atlantic.
- Archive.org’s archive of the home page.
- Jason’s farewell post, upon shutting it down in 2016. (“I’m not good at quitting things.”)
- The Suck.com origin story.
- Jason’s “Ask Me Anything” solicitation for questions.
- Neolithic weblogs:
- Jorn Barger’s Robot Wisdom. He coined the term “weblog” and hosted a good FAQ.
- Justin Hall’s Justin’s Links.
- Dave Winer’s Davenet, which started in 1994.
- Dean Allen:
- Cardigan Industries (“At the corner of art and commerce.”)
- Textism, perhaps the best written, best designed weblog ever. (“Make haste slowly.”)
- Dean’s bio, one of my favorite pieces of writing ever.
- Favrd.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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