98: ‘Far Less Eloquent as You’ With John Siracusa
The Talk Show With John Gruber
10/25/14
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Special guest John Siracusa returns to the show to discuss last week’s Apple event (introducing the iPad Air 2), and OS X Yosemite (and his review thereof).
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- Siracusa’s Yosemite review.
- Meta post about his Yosemite review.
- ATP
- Application Enhancer.
- Quora thread on garbage collected systems (like Android) needing more RAM than non-GC systems (like iOS).
- Daniel Jalkut on creating status bar icons that work with Yosemite’s dark menu bar.
- FTL: WebKit’s LLVM based JIT.
- Secrets: A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X.
- Crystal Quest for Xbox.
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