XCIX: ‘The Smoker Channels’ With Merlin Mann
The Talk Show With John Gruber
11/07/14
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Very special guest Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about Comcast customer service, cable-cutting, Marlins Man (no relation) and his showboating-spectator predecessors, and the state of podcasting today. Also: daylight saving time and Roman numerals.
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98: ‘Far Less Eloquent as You’ With John Siracusa
October 25, 2014
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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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- Casper: Premium mattresses for a fraction of the price.
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Links:
- 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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100: ‘People Are Gay All the Time’ With John Moltz
November 15, 2014
•146m
Who else but very special guest John Moltz to ring in The Talk Show’s centurial episode. Topics include iPhone display sizes (and in particular, our mutual preference for the old 5S 4-inch size over the 4.7-inch iPhone 6); the new book Moltz co-wrote, The Visual Guide to Minecraft; writing tools, including word processors and Markdown; shopping for gaming PCs as a Mac person; Microsoft Office going free on mobile platforms; Twitter’s stilted strategy statement; President Obama’s statement on Net Neutrality; and Tim Cook’s eloquent essay announcing that he’s gay.
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- Igloo: The intranet you’ll actually like.
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Links:
- The Visual Guide to Minecraft, co-written by Moltz.
- Twitter’s “strategy statement”.
- Tim Cook: “I’m proud to be gay.”
- David Sparks’s Markdown Field Guide
- Fountain — a Markdown-inspired plain text format for screenplays.
- Highland — A Fountain viewer/editor.
- Slugline — A more WYSIWYG-style Fountain editor.
- Punch-cutting double-density (800 KB) 3.5-inch floppy disks to make them work as high-density (1.4 MB) disks
- The CocoaLove conference in Philadelphia
- President Obama on Net Neutrality
- Paul Lynde
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