indefensible: john gruber

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/27491871
https://twitter.com/gruber/status/5913161
https://twitter.com/gruber/status/3821543

via @jwherrman

of course his twitter background would be 6-month gray ;_;

he linked to The Oatmeal today, pretty indefensible imo

― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:32 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha

The app I found that works best is Icon Slate, by Kodian. It costs $5 in the Mac App Store and is worth every penny.

or use free software:

$ convert icon-16.png icon-32.png favicon.ico

lol is he talking abt software for making favicons

Hundreds ★
Clever new iOS puzzle game from the makers of Canabalt. I very much like the visual aesthetic.

lol the visual aesthetic of this game is terrible and the game is terrible, but on the other hand it is helvetica and not free so...

it's actually an intriguing game tho, gotta admit I paid for it, I will take a $3 flyer on anything

diamonddave85 otm tho

it is a bad game imo, and way overpriced for the App Store. Seriously think you could sell Gruber a bit of dog dirt as long as you set it in helvetica and charged 49$ for it.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/01/08/tradeshow-tailgating

good grief this guy has appalling taste in writing

i should stop reading him

Tech journalist as a half-empty jar of mayonnaise seems somewhat on the nose, although not how the writer intended.

tech journalist as deathdr0ne's cigar box

credit due this is a good piece http://daringfireball.net/2013/01/the_trend_against_skeuomorphism

I know some iOS apps are definitely this way but claiming iOS is the leading edge for "flatness" is straight-up bullshit when Windows 8 exists

things do look real crisp on nice displays, though

not that i think its a particularly important point but the retina display way predates windows 8

not sure what we're supposed to do if we eliminate all skeumorphism, besides just everything looking like flat squares, who actually wants that

Most UIs aren't that skeumorphic! There aren't really that many real life items with drop-down menus and shit.

Windows 8 probably a mediocre reference point here, but I feel like saying creative iOS developers own "flatness" is kind of wrong-headed.

Windows 8 prerelease 1 did come out a month before iPhone 4S, though.

ya I mean 'flat design' has been around forever really and its kinda an imprecise distinction, the thing I found intersting abt the piece is the observation that hi def screens allow for more sophisticated design

also iirc the iPhone 4 was the 1st one w retina

Oh, yeah

His argument is basically "we can have games with helvetica that look like they're printed paper"

if u can make software that looks like its printed thats a huge difference!

^^^ the point abt "you don't see high-gloss reflection w/drop shadows and textures in print" is a good one.

gotta say tho I have decided that Ikea's corporate identity switch to Verdana was an inspired move. Futura was too far on the "aspirational" end of the scale. Verdana may be an odd choice but it's a pretty good one when you're at the store seeing it in context.

wank wank remove bookmark from thread u grubers

this is his worst post

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/02/15/posterous

ever

p.s. jh0 otm that skeuomorphism piece was good, although it reminded me of this: indefensible: john gruber

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kihlbom/8483283129/in/set-72157632789034693/

the first sentence of this interview of marco on the brooks report reads like it was written by a 12 year old:

One thing that has really been on my mind lately is how publishing is changing.

In conclusion, publishing is in a time of great change.

Ever since the beginning of time, man has wondered about how publishing is changing.

Another thing I thought was interesting about publishing was how it is changing.

ha. sentence 2:

Many think it is a bit crazy that I went with a paywall, but even more crazy is that I was thinking of shutting down the site as it is and doing a periodical on the iPad instead (cooler heads prevailed).

i think it's crazy you expect people to pay for sentences written like this, yes.

http://www.muleradio.net/newdisruptors/14/

what

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kihlbom/8483283129/in/set-72157632789034693

love that pic

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/04/02/finding-dory

congratulations to the tories

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/319162801564307456

TS: "congratulations to the tories" vs. "is that like fanboy but also gay?"

god

can we try to do something so ben brooks talks about us again

haha

i love it when that deep vein of conservatism that runs through everything he writes bubbles up

ya like when he goes off on how america doesnt need unions anymore smh

what is the deep vien of conservatism, that he likes the incredibles

i'm down with the kind of conservatism that avoids sequels but that means no iphone 5s, 6 etc...