371: ‘The Skin of Your Pants’, With Daniel Jalkut
The Talk Show With John Gruber
03/31/23
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Daniel Jalkut returns to the show to talk about AI chat, new emoji, and Apple Music Classical.
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Links:
- Regarding my oblique reference to Philadelphia’s water quality scare.
- WWDC 2023.
- Petey — AI chat on Apple Watch, and, soon, iOS.
- Bill Gates: “The Age of AI Has Begun”.
- Red Sweater Software.
- Core Intuition podcast.
- Bing AI’s thought process is formatted in Markdown.
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
•192m
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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372: ‘$8 Billion in Late Fees’, With Rene Ritchie
April 21, 2023
•98m
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to discuss generative AI (and what Apple might soon do with it), iPhone passcodes and iCloud device security, HBO Max turning into just plain Max, and Make Something Wonderful — one more thing from Steve Jobs.
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Links:
- Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen’s “chapter 2” report on the problem of iPhone thieves obtaining your device passcode.
- “Make Something Wonderful”.
- Yours truly on Warner Bros. Discovery’s renamed “Max” streaming service.
- PushPopPress’s “Our Choice”.
- Dr. Seuss’s Star-Belly Sneetches.
- Rene’s YouTube channel.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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