404: ‘Curiously Short Episodes’, With John Moltz
The Talk Show With John Gruber
06/30/24
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John Moltz returns to the show for a holiday-week look at the best of recent prestige streaming content, particularly Apple TV+. And, yes, a bit on the latest Apple/EU/DMA drama.
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- Godzilla Minus One
- “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters”
- “Counterpart” — The best show you’ve maybe never heard of
- “Dark Matter”
- “Severance”
- “Foundation”
- “Presumed Innocent”
- “Palm Royale”
- “Masters of the Air”
- “Sugar”
- “For All Mankind”
- “Silo”
- “Shrinking”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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403: ‘150 Million Calculator Apps’, With Quinn Nelson
June 26, 2024
•154m
Quinn Nelson, esteemed host of Snazzy Labs, returns to the show to recap the highlights of WWDC: Apple Intelligence, platform updates, and the latest salvos from the EC regarding Apple’s compliance with the DMA.
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- Quinn tries to open a second window from the same app with Stage Manager on iPadOS.
- Federico Viticci: “If Stage Manager for iPad exists, what’s the point of leaving it in this state for two years?”
- Quinn’s take on the WWDC 2024 keynote.
- Quinn’s review of the new M4 iPad Pros.
- Quinn’s “animoji karaoke” viral iPhone X video from 2017.
- My M4 iPad Pro review from last month.
- DaVinci Resolve for iPad.
- 2013 acquisition news: Dropbox acquired Mailbox.
- The late Larry Tesler, rightfully credited as the inventor of cut-copy-paste, and who was so opposed to modal UIs that both his license plate and domain name were “NOMODES”.
- The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2024.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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405: ‘Chutes and Ladders’, With Hunter Hillegas
July 28, 2024
•116m
Special guest Hunter Hillegas, author of the excellent Vegas Mate app, joins the show to discuss euphemistic emoji, the CrowdStrike fiasco, and the closing of the iconic Mirage resort in Las Vegas.
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- Vegas Mate.
- Hunter Hillegas on Mastodon.
- Benedict Evans: “The Best Is the Last”
- Leonard Rosenthol.
- OSA Menu.
- Unsanity Haxies.
- Marco Arment talking about Overcast’s big new version on ATP.
- 2009 “60 Minutes” profile of Steve Wynn.
- 1991 in-room video for Mirage guests, narrated by Steve Wynn.
- Steve Wynn’s daughter’s kidnapping in 1993. Would make for a great movie.
- How the kidnapper was caught, trying to buy a Ferrari with cash.
- “The Conjuring of The Mirage” — terrific feature for Vegas Seven by David G. Schwartz marking the 25th anniversary of The Mirage in 2014.
- Inside The Villas at The Mirage.
- The renovated Linai at The Mirage.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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