indefensible: john gruber

http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/25100349521/melange

i can name six of eight

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Great Cthulhu, I can name four.

I only spotted Groobs, o well

what kind of things would i have had to be interested in to know who these people are?

yardsticks

oh, they're famous yardstick moguls

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/2009/09/surrogates-willis-10shot-670.jpg

you guys always forget the beacons

hay guys YARDSTICKS and MUSTACHES and BEACONS right hahahahahahahah

notoumas but I still don't get who these ppl are

people who write blogs about products mostly I assume

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/06/16/whats-that-sound

get em, john!

lol

haha. those apple-community-supporting assholes!

man this ipad memo stuff is wearing thin. Even that link he posted, the guy finished the book on a Mac. Yes you can do bits of creation of the iPad. But Macs are way better at most of it. And that should be OK. iBooks: on iPad. iBooks Author: on Mac.

i guess you didnt get the memo

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/06/20/ellison-island or like feed the hungry idk

there's a reason that fucking tightarse is the sixth richest person in the world

fucking tumblr, no i don't want this guy's wisdom on my dashboard

Ben Brooks puts up a paywall LOL

damn howm i gonna get my ben brooks fix now

Man that was a lot of words to get across "I think I am worth literally twice as much per year than even John Gruber ever thought he was worth for his RSS feed"

NB Gruber now easily makes six figures across his various channels, seems to have no qualms about it.

would be weird if he had qualms about it

I’ve long suspected that Mayer preferred the iPhone to Android as a user. She was into Instagram while it was iPhone-only. She’s sent multiple tweets — September 2011, June of this year — using Twitter for iPhone. And her husband just tweeted that he’s switching to the iPhone from BlackBerry.I’ve long suspected that Mayer preferred the iPhone to Android as a user. She was into Instagram while it was iPhone-only. She’s sent multiple tweets — September 2011, June of this year — using Twitter for iPhone. And her husband just tweeted that he’s switching to the iPhone from BlackBerry.

kinda crepey level of detail here

lol pasted twice apparently!

grubby's review of mountain lion doesn't even mention gatekeeper (his favorite feature)

did people really wait in line to buy precious releases of os x cause

lol precious releases

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/08/happy-10th-birthday-daring-fireball/261061/

It's a blog not just about Apple, but about excellence.

His voice can be muscular and rigorous.

But he maybe best understands excellence as it relates to blogging.

he can still better articulate what's fun and compelling about link-sharing (which he's been doing since before we deemed it curation) than anyone

Apple, Gruber's Beatrice, is engorged as a company

He hasn't written, for a long time, an engaging description of a laptop or an account of an anthropomorphized interface element.

It is a testament, still, to the power and potential of writing on the web, to the blogger as auteur

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Muscular beacons and rigorous yardsticks

anyone who calls it curation is a fucking idiot

Daring Fireball: reblogging Jason Kottke since 2002

But now this. The 15-inch MacBook Pro With Retina display. This is a boom. A revolution in resolution.

Muscular beacons and rigorous yardsticks

― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, August 13, 2012 1:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That guy in the atlantic twice describes it as gray-green. Are all my monitors fucked? I see no green!

he compares john gruber to dante. i think we can safely say it's him, not you.

lol

https://twitter.com/joshuatopolsky/status/245199223715409920

Gruber is just the most middlebrow piece of shit.

i wrote him a "not angry just disappointed" email about how utterly useless he's become, but he didn't reply.

really? lol. can we see?

according to that bloomberg piece, he's making $500,000 a year off daring fireball now. shit.

kudos tbf

yeah, it's impressive how he's managed to turn journalism's economics on its head - do nyt columnist even earn that much? - although it's pretty obvious he's a one-off for all sorts of reasons that don't have much to do with his writing.

I hope you'll accept this unsolicited criticism in the spirit that it's intended:

Linking to Gizmodo comments is like pointing at someone taking a shit on the sidewalk.[*]

It's your site, and you certainly owe me, an Adblock-running reader, nothing. But you used to do better than this.

[*] zing i think i may have started to overuse, and have certainly used before on ilx