Really Specific Stories

John Siracusa

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John covers his extensive history as a Mac enthusiast, web developer, writer, podcaster and lover of music and art. He also explains his transition to a fully independent career on the Internet and how he has juggled various personas, roles and fandoms over the years.

Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (producer)

Find John at hypercritical.co.

Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text.

Links and Show Notes
I Was Primed 00:00:00
  • Mur Lafferty
  • Geek Fu Action Grip (now in the Internet Archive)
  • I Should Be Writing
  • iPod
  • iTunes
  • NPR
  • Apple Inc.
  • YouTuber
  • Dan Benjamin
  • RSS
  • Hypercritical (podcast)
  • Gabe Newell
  • Valve Corporation
  • Half-Life (series)
  • Portal (series)
  • Ars Technica
  • Book review: Infinite Loop — John’s first article for Ars Technica
  • Ivory tower
  • Hypercritical (the mentioned article from John’s Ars Technica blog, now linked on his website)
  • Steve Jobs
    • I Had the Cultural Context 00:08:22
    • Home computer (redirected from ‘personal computer revolution’)
    • Commodore VIC-20
    • Macintosh 128K
    • Graphical user interface (GUI)
    • Pictionary
    • Usenet
    • U2
    • Ken Fisher
    • Mac (computer)
    • Mac OS X
    • NeXT
    • Macintosh clone
    • OS X Reviewed (a blog post that links to all of John’s reviews)
    • Engadget
    • ebook
    • Amazon (company)
    • Unix
    • MacUser
    • Macworld
    • MacWEEK
      • Multiple ‘Me’s 00:20:13
      • Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP)
      • A text file online that preserves information from John’s U2 Lyrics Archive
      • Perl
      • CPAN
      • 5by5
      • Jason Snell
      • The Incomparable
      • Robot or Not?
      • Merlin Mann
      • Back to Work
      • Marco Arment
      • Build and Analyze was a weekly news and discussion show about technology by Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin, which can now be found in the Internet Archive.
      • Casey Liss
      • Hypercritical (website)
      • Independence Day (blog post about John’s career transition)
      • Open source
        • A Childhood Dream 00:33:42
        • BASIC
        • HyperCard
        • Computer programming
        • Web developer
        • Below are blog posts about John’s two Mac apps:
          • Front and Center; and
          • SwitchGlass, along with the more recent SwitchGlass 2.0.
          • Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)
          • API
          • iOS
          • CodeWarrior
          • App Store (iOS/iPadOS)
          • Mac App Store
            • Apple Tech-nerd World 00:42:18
            • AnandTech
            • Tom’s Hardware
            • Microsoft Windows
            • Windows 95
            • Celeron
            • Context collapse
            • Fandom
            • Anti-fan
            • Some references to terminals include:
              • computer terminal;
              • terminal emulator; and
              • Terminal (macOS).
              • ‘Seeing the matrix’ means seeing the true nature of reality (or any particular situation) and is a phrase from The Matrix franchise.
              • Marvel Comics
              • DC Comics
              • Ford Mustang
              • Chevrolet Camaro
              • Tom Cruise
              • New York City
              • The Incomparable Mothership
              • Twitter
              • Mastodon (social network)
                • Repotting Myself 00:59:13
                • John’s use of the initialism ‘m.o.’ refers to the Latin term ‘modus operandi’, which is translated approximately as ‘mode (or manner) of operating’.
                • ARM architecture family (John’s reference to ‘ARM Macs’, running Apple Silicon)
                • John Gruber
                • BMX bike
                • Remote-control car
                  • Credits

                  Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio

                  Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion

                  Contact
                  • Website: rsspod.net
                  • Email: [email protected]
                  • Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
                  • Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld
                    • A Special Note

                    Martin is a paid subscriber of John Siracusa’s shared membership program for Accidental Tech Podcast; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on John as a participant of this academic podcasting project.

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