451: ‘Taking Drugs to Get Fat’, With John Moltz
The Talk Show With John Gruber
06/30/26
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The great John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s hardware price hikes in response to the global RAM/SSD shortage, and some spitballing on what we like about the UI changes in the MacOS 27 Golden Gate beta.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- RAM Doubler and DiskDoubler, which came from two different developers.
- StuffIt and Compact Pro.
- “Apple in China” by Patrick McGee.
- Patrick McGee on The Talk Show last year.
- “Go Computer Now!”, Ben Zotto’s book on Sphere Computer Corporation.
- Movies:
- "Apple Faced Bipartisan Opposition When It Last Lobbied to Buy Chinese RAM in 2022".
- Gnome, Lex Friedman's clever new animated GIF search/library utility for Mac and iOS. (Also: My link to Gnome at DF.)
- Biff! -- Moltz's fun superhero TV/movie podcast cohosted with Dan Moren and Guy English.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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450: ‘Perp Walk for Selfies’, With Jason Snell
June 23
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Jason Snell returns to the show for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, his and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- “Designed in California” — Kickstarter campaign running through the end of June 2026 to fund Jason and Myke Hurley’s 50-episode Apple history podcast. If you don’t back this you’re not hooked up right.
- WebKit in Safari 27 changes and notes, from the WebKit blog.
- Helium — My favorite Chromium browser for the Mac. Fast, free, no bloat.
- Camino — An open source Mac-assed web browser based on the Mozilla engine from the 2000s. Last updated in 2012, but, blessedly, the website still works. When it was discontinued I described it as “like a glass of ice water on a hot day for Mac users who wanted a modern but Mac-like browser in the early years of Mac OS X.”.
- Photos of John Ternus and Tim Cook at Apple’s WWDC post-Keynote “Tech Talk”:
- Jason on BBEdit 16, the world’s greatest text editor.
- Jason, writing at Macworld, on the foundation of Apple’s OS 27 updates.
- Jason, writing at Macworld, on Mac OS X Snow Leopard back in 2009. (The update cost $29 — which we thought was cheap, because previous Mac OS X updates cost $129.)
- Boston College’s Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Next Episode
Quinn Nelson returns to the show to discuss OpenAI’s ChatGPT/Codex “native” app migration fiasco, Siri AI in Apple’s OS 27 betas, MacOS 27 Golden Gate, and the hottest new cell phone of the year, the Trump T1.
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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.
Links:
- Quinn’s hilarious but utterly fair review of the Trump T1.
- Quinn: “Apple Just Fixed Mac Gaming and Said Nothing”.
- John Siracusa on ATP endorsing Quinn’s idea for an Apple gaming console.
- Valve founder/CEO Gabe Newell on working with Apple.
- “Stupid-Americans are the New Irish-Americans, Trump is Their JFK”, by “tarltontarlton” on Reddit (and posted here on Daring Fireball).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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