The Talk Show With John Gruber

367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry

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Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.

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    • Black Girls Code — recipients of $100 for each utterance of you-know-who’s name during this episode.
    • From the Daring Fireball archive (2009): “Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground”.
    • Craig, this week: “The Shit Show”.
    • My take this week: “Twitterrific: End of an Era”.
    • The Iconfactory’s other apps:
      • Wallaroo — delightful iOS wallpapers
    • Tot — text scratchpad for Mac and iOS
    • xScope — screen inspector for Mac designers
    • Linea — excellent drawing app for iPad
    • Frenzic — fun game in Apple Arcade
    • Edovia’s Screens — amazing VNC app to use your Mac from iOS devices.
    • Lights Off — the first-ever game for iPhone, still available in the App Store.
    • EDGE “2G” cellular data networking.
    • Blaine Cook, early Twitter engineer and champion of third-party client APIs, now all-in on Mastodon.

      • This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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