The Talk Show With John Gruber

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The Talk Show With John Gruber episodes

May 09, 2022346: ‘Like Neo Dodging Bullets’, With Zach Gage
Zach Gage joins the show to talk about game design and creativity, including his new game Knotwords.
Transcript.
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Links
Knotwords.
Zach Gage’s portfolio website, with a full list of games.
Really Bad Chess, which is actually, of course, really good.
SynthPod, Zach’s first iPhone app.
HyperStudio — a classic developer tool like HyperCard, but with color support.
Apple’s original “Cocoa” — Stagecast Creator/KidSim.
Zach Lieberman’s OpenFrameworks project from 2010.
Lights Off — the first native iPhone game, nearly a year before the App Store. (I mistakenly called it “Lights Out” during the show.)
CandyBar — Mac utility for customizing icons, including, back in the day, the icons for the system itself.
Threes, a great puzzle game of iOS from 2014. (App Store link.)
2048, a free Threes knockoff.
Texas Instruments TI-83 Graphing Calculator, and games written for it.
PICO-8 fantasy console.
Playdate Pulp, and Bitsy, Pulp’s inspiration.
Sol LeWitt, conceptual artist.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 29 min
April 30, 2022345: ‘A Fake Crank on the Web’, With Michael Simmons
Michael Simmons returns to the show to talk about the Studio Display’s camera (and this week’s beta firmware update to tweak its quality), how things have gone two years into Flexibits’ move to subscription pricing for Fantastical and Cardhop, and Panic’s now-shipping Playdate.
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Flexibits:
Fantastical.
Cardhop.
Daring Fireball: “Fantastical Adds Web-Based Scheduling Features”.
Jason Snell: “Fantastical Update Adds Cloud-Based Scheduling Features”.
Playdate:
Playdate Pulp — fun and surprisingly powerful web-based game IDE.
Playdate C and Lua SDKs.
Pinball Construction Set.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
1 hr 48 min
April 26, 2022344: ‘Devastation, Pessimism, and Rage’, With Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about Elon Musk's impending acquisition of Twitter, Apple's credibility problem when arguing against being required to allow sideloading on iOS, and Glenn's new (and much-needed) book, Take Control of Untangling Connections.
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“Take Control of Untangling Connections” — Glenn’s new $10 book that explains everything there is to know about USB-C connectors and ports and adapters.
Glenn’s personal website, with a fun new URL.
Elon Musk is probably going to buy Twitter and take it private.
Matt Levine’s excellent Money Stuff column/newsletter for Bloomberg.
Ryan Broderick’s Garbage Day, another outstanding email newsletter/column.
Apple Newsroom: “Apple TV+ Partners With Idris Elba on New Thriller ‘Hijack’”.
My quip.
Tim Cook’s speech stating Apple’s opposition to mandatory sideloading.
Sam Biddle (of The Intercept)’s response.
Matt Stoller’s response, which is even more deeply cynical than Biddle’s.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
1 hr 42 min
April 15, 2022343: ‘Fussy Typography Improvements’, With Paul Kafasis
Paul Kafasis returns to the show to talk about Friday Night Baseball, Rogue Amoeba’s new Audio Hijack 4 release, and a bit of speculation on WWDC.
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Audio Hijack 4.
Audio Hijack 4 Scripting Center — documentation, how-tos, and examples.
Jason Snell’s first impressions of “Friday Night Baseball”.
“Friday Night Baseball” commentator Chris Young’s Wikipedia page, with details on the sign-stealing-via-Apple-Watch scheme he devised while playing for the Yankees and Red Sox.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 46 min
March 31, 2022342: ‘Doggy Lake’, With Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show to talk about Apple's new Mac Studio and Studio Display.
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Panzarino’s interview with Apple execs Tom Boger, Shelly Goldberg, and Xander Soren, on the thinking behind the Mac Studio and Studio Display.
TechMeme roundup of Studio Display and Mac Studio Reviews.
Vin Diesel’s masterpiece, “xXx”.
“I want all that, in here.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 4 min
March 26, 2022341: ‘A Cold Glass in Hell’, With Casey Liss
Special guest Casey Liss joins the show to talk about Apple's new Studio Display and what makes a good martini.
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Studio Display:
Casey’s summary of the state of external retina displays in December 2021.
My Review of the Apple Studio Display.
Matthew Panzarino: “Apple Execs on Developing Mac Studio and Studio Display for the Other Pros”.
TechMeme roundup of Studio Display and Mac Studio Reviews.
Apple’s $40 0.8m Thunderbolt 3 cable and $160 3m Thunderbolt 4 cable.
MaskerAid:
Announcing MaskerAid.
MaskerAid Follow-Up.
MaskerAid on the App Store.
The Martini FAQ, by Brad Gadberry.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 24 min
March 09, 2022340: ‘Billionaires Have Beefs’, With Tom Watson and Daniel Agee
Special guests Tom Watson and Daniel Agee join the show to talk about Glass, their upstart photo sharing app and community.
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Glass on the web.
Glass on the App Store: “No ads, no algorithms.”
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Tweet thread between Marques Brownlee and Adam Mosseri on the lack of an iPad app for Instagram.
Image viewing comparison between Glass and Instagram.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr
February 28, 2022339: ‘2006: Hard Work’, With Ken Kocienda
Special guest Ken Kocienda, author of Creative Selection, joins the show to talk about his years at Apple and the creation of the original iPhone.
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Up Spell — Ken’s iOS word game.
“Wallaby” iPhone prototype hardware.
Steve Jobs’s quote on the wall outside Town Hall at Infinite Loop: “If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on for it too long. Just figure out what’s next.”
Kim Scott’s books: Radical Candor and Just Work.
DF’s 15-year anniversary post, with word counts.
Stephen King’s On Writing.
Andy Hertzfeld’s history of the original Mac:
Folklore.org
Revolution in the Valley
Humane — The totally secret startup where Ken is now working.
Job openings at Humane.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 24 min
February 25, 2022338: ‘That’ll Pivot His Tables’, With Rene Ritchie
Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about unwanted AirTag tracking, and what we expect from Apple’s rumored March product event.
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Apple Support: “Set up home theater audio with HomePod mini or HomePod and Apple TV 4K”.
AirTags and Stalking:
Kashmir Hill’s NYT story on tracker accuracy, based on using three brands of trackers to follow her husband.
Apple Newsroom: “An Update on AirTag and Unwanted Tracking”.
My take.
Rene’s take.
2016 Cult of Mac story on stalking via location embedded in Instagram photos.
Apple leaks “realityOS” name, again.
MacRumors: “Reliable Leaker Known as ‘Kang’ Hit With Warning From Apple”.
Mark Gurman’s February 20 “Power On” column on Apple’s purported March 8 event.
Rene on M2 MacBook rumors.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 3 min
February 14, 2022337: ‘See Me After Class’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to dissect the Six Colors 2021 Apple Report Card. Also: the care and feeding of mechanical keyboards.
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Apple in 2021: The Six Colors Report Card.
Breaking down the results with charts and graphs, thanks to Kieran Healy.
“Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction” — Healy’s outstanding introduction to the R programming language and ggplot visualization library.
Healy’s also-excellent website.
My personal 2021 Apple report card.
Keychron Q2 mechanical USB keyboard. My son bought this and swapped out the switches for a set of Zealio V2 62g switches.
Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource and Audio Hijack — two great Mac utilities that can’t exist on iPadOS.
Clipboard managers (which also can’t exist on iPadOS):
Pastebot.
Keyboard Maestro.
LaunchBar.
Jason Snell: “Why Does the Apple TV Still Exist?”
Upgrade: One of Jason’s plethora of podcasts, this one co-hosted with Myke Hurley.
Last week’s Upgrade, discussing the 2021 Report Card.
Floppy Emu: “a floppy and hard disk emulator for classic Apple II, Macintosh, and Lisa computers. It uses an SD memory card and custom hardware to mimic an Apple floppy disk and drive, or an Apple hard drive.” Amazing work from Steve Chamberlin.
Moltz’s “The Terminator” t-shirt design. (It will not be back.)
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
2 hr 47 min