damn howm i gonna get my ben brooks fix now
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Thursday, 12 July 2012 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
NB Gruber now easily makes six figures across his various channels, seems to have no qualms about it.
― where can i get a mcdonalds quesadilla tho (silby), Thursday, 12 July 2012 03:37 (eleven years ago) link
would be weird if he had qualms about it
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 12 July 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
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
― diamonddave85, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
lol pasted twice apparently!
grubby's review of mountain lion doesn't even mention gatekeeper (his favorite feature)
― diamonddave85, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
did people really wait in line to buy precious releases of os x cause
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
lol precious releases
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
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
...
― joe, Monday, 13 August 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
Muscular beacons and rigorous yardsticks
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, 13 August 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
anyone who calls it curation is a fucking idiot
― caek, Monday, 13 August 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Daring Fireball: reblogging Jason Kottke since 2002
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, 13 August 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
But now this. The 15-inch MacBook Pro With Retina display. This is a boom. A revolution in resolution.
― hot slag (lukas), Tuesday, 14 August 2012 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, August 13, 2012 1:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
That guy in the atlantic twice describes it as gray-green. Are all my monitors fucked? I see no green!
― sktsh, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
he compares john gruber to dante. i think we can safely say it's him, not you.
― joe, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― sktsh, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/joshuatopolsky/status/245199223715409920
― stet, Monday, 10 September 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
Gruber is just the most middlebrow piece of shit.
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, 10 September 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
i wrote him a "not angry just disappointed" email about how utterly useless he's become, but he didn't reply.
― caek, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
really? lol. can we see?
― stet, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
according to that bloomberg piece, he's making $500,000 a year off daring fireball now. shit.
― joe, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
kudos tbf
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― joe, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
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
― caek, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
Dear Caek,
Thank you for your thoughtful letter. I unfortunately was unable to read it due to my eyes being all clogged up with tons of money.
Yours,Gruber
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
Sent from my iPhone
― stet, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
― caek, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
anyone who doesn't delete that stupid default signature moments after getting a new device is a disgusting savage
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
i changed my ipad's signature to all caps
SENT FROM MY IPAD.
― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
iphone 5 review from john 'my hands are at least somewhat larger than average' gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2012/09/iphone_5
― diamonddave85, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
hah that jumped out at me too, at least, so coy come on tell us just how larger than average your hands are john
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
All his reviews lately have a paragraph like "I didn't like this change at first, but right now I don't really mind, I'm sure the old way will seem weird in a few weeks" which just seems sadly appropriate.
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:34 (eleven years ago) link
Yours Truly on Charlie Rose Tonight ★With David Pogue. No idea what we’re going to talk about.
ew
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 September 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
going to start ending pronouncements with ★
― * The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 21 September 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/24/postpositive-adjectives
This is more elegant, but it sounds pretentious to my ears. ★
― caek, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
so elegant
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
stunning
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
★
― barthes simpson, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
passersby with their iphones 5
― barthes simpson, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
enjoying their macbooks pro
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
"I miss William Safire."
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
good luck to the tories
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/british-prime-minister-david-cameron-letterman-373870
― caek, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds like a pile of horseshit from Instagram, considering that the whole reason they gave for replacing their original not-live but aesthetically superior filters with the current crop was that live filters were an important feature. If they bring back the old filters, I’ll say hip-hip-hooray. If they stick with the current meh filters and remove live previewing, I say boo-hiss.
Remember the Gotham filter?
i know being a tech pundit means you have to care a lot abt a lot of inconsequential things but Remember the Gotham filter? is killing me
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/hughgr/pouring_beer_out.png
― schwantz, Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
Another typographic boner: the Kindle still lacks hyphenation but yet insists upon full-justified text.
indefensible
― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
he's right about the buttons
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
And the hyphenation
― stet, Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
and the but-tons
― lag∞n, Thursday, 11 October 2012 00:26 (eleven years ago) link