indefensible: john gruber

Has he always been so mean-spirited? I don't remember him being so spiteful just a few years ago.

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2011/06/17/come-on-gruber-youre-better-than-this

url a bit generous but otherwise, oh snap

Gruber seems to be right about things a lot of the time, though that's easy when the people he disagrees with are prone to willfully ignoring the fact that Apple is making hundreds of millions of dollars doing what it's doing and is preposterously unlikely to make any sudden changes in strategy. Also less of a raging, belligerent asshole than you might expect.

Also wrt the "buy whole cell phone industry" post that is sort of following up on an earlier link about how Apple could easily have enough cash in a few years to take itself private. That is, in an industry where firms are frequently assessed by their market cap or their VC funding or what have you, Apple actually has HUMONGOUS FAT STACKS OF CASH.

agreed that this guy is a bit of a dick, he has unsavory triumphalist tendencies, and thinks various middlebrow stuff is the height of human achievement - however as to his core competency, i do believe hes one of the best writers on design out there today

Chock full of SEO crap: My comment on Marco Arment's comment on John Gruber's comment on David Pogue's comment on Google's Chromebook.

Has anyone read the marco aren't Phish post?

Damn autocorrect: Arment

however as to his core competency, i do believe hes one of the best writers on design out there today

he doesn't really do this any more though?

Got sick of his blog a while ago - but I have to admit his comment on the Chromebook is kinda on point, why does it deserve a "good try!" sentiment?

Gruber's predictions that don't come true are still reasonable and make sense when you evaluate the facts available at the time. He can't rely on his mysterious inside sources all the time, you see.

You don't have to believe me, just ask Gruber. He's always Gruber. I mean, right.

he doesn't really do this any more though?

― caek, Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:18 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah its not most of his posts, but when he does write a long piece i feel like he really gets where design is at re todays technologies

also hes a v good clear writer

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*stabs twitter in the face*

thought it was really out of line when this guy shot mr takagi

i really like gruber

which mac writers do you guys really like? i could use some more feeds in my google reader

Jean-Louis Gassee

totally forgot abt him, thanking u

feel like this post embodies many of his less good qualities

http://grab.by/cBWF

how long till some shill links him this thread and ilx gets ~fireballed~

one can dream

You are trying to view American McCarver on a shitty browser. Won't work.

Note that the UI screenshots are even set in Helvetica, not Arial. Some of the best evidence of good taste at Google I can ever recall.

duly noted.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/28/google-plus-videos

guh arial and helvetica are like exactly the same shit stfu already

A friend shared this blog post on Google Reader: http://stu.mp/2011/06/dear-yahoo-hire-me-as-your-next-ceo.html

I’d buy the NYT (for a mere $1.5bn!) and recruit John Gruber to be Editor in Chief of the “Yahoo! News” division.

I cried a little.

Oh god, until I read that blog post in full I thought that was a joke, like forcing him to cover stories about Microsoft.

Cringely's been half-nuts for years. Now I think he's full-nuts.

well, he's got a point

I guess it's not as bad as how he keeps referring to Paul Thurrott as a 'dick' purely because he writes about Microsoft.

cringelys nutsness is the best part of his shtick, guy is not afraid to think big

I don't think Cringely's being nuts there! Even if Jobs is showing pictures of full server rooms, it's not like he's shown pictures of the entire interior of the facility, and it's completely possible that it's not that densely populated.

yeah but thats not some weird conspiracy designed to intimidate rivals, its just building out future capacity

p sure this dood killed caylee http://horace.dediu.usesthis.com

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/05/11/cameron

asshole

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/07/08/murdoch

"congratulations to the tories"

wish someone would put this asshole in a room w/paul thurrott and then they can mutually annihilate each other

You are trying to view American McCarver on a shitty browser. Won't work.

maybe i've just been developing for legacy browsers too long at this point, but this kills me. laziest shit ever - you run a SPORTS BLOG ffs

actually i think i hate sub-gruber wannabe sycophant ux doods even worse than gruber proper - so much hot air about making software "empathetic," so much whining about not getting paid to be a thought leader, so much referring to "marco" by the mononym...

http://i.imgur.com/e7obs.png

Read a blog post about grids. Saw a movie about Helvetica. Short. Terse. Sentences.

TS: john gruber vs lieutenant gruber from 'allo 'allo

Note that the UI screenshots are even set in Helvetica, not Arial. Some of the best evidence of good taste at Google I can ever recall.

RAGE!

oops already posted X:

it cannot be mocked too often. the star was a nice touch.

I listened to some of his most recent podcasts during the week and was astounded by his and Dan Benjamin's claim that it gets 800,000 downloads an episode.

Err, what? Maybe it was some kind of belated rip on The Daily's iPad app but I think they were being serious. There's no way it's true, though.

i think it's more like 400,000, but i could be wrong

800,000 was either the WWDC or post-WWDC download count iirc, but again, i could be wrong

It's like his amazing high trafficked and revolutionary new sports website, which is actually a fucking tumble blog about baseball where you click on the notes to find less than half a dozen people 'liked' each post and fuck-all anybody reblogged anything, because why the fuck would you.

I'd rather read David Beckham's views on fonts an touch interfaces.

are you kidding i'd TOTALLY read david beckham's views on fonts and touch interfaces

Dean Martin’s recipe for hamburgers. Sounds perfect. ★

nice commentary.

Sounds like... salted meat and a glass of bourbon

http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2008-March/001163.html

-J.G.

the big selling points were that it had a nice font and was named after the drink/lady from the james bond movie

I checked to see if it’s still on the App Store, and it is — but the last update was Apple auto-bumping their certificate for them so it’d still be a signed app. Officially mothballed for five years

I forgot the name of their company to develop the app was “Q Branch”

jesus christ

A lot of folks were damaged when Steve Jobs called developers "artists." Some are worse off than others.

“Chairman Pooh”

thought it was really out of line when this guy shot mr takagi

― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:50 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think about this joke and laugh every time I see this thread revived

loaded it up today for the first time in a while and the latest post was some asinine shit about how much Arial makes his eyes bleed. this guy is probably a terf

hes really mad that apple has ads now but he can’t say that so he quotes everyone else saying and then trails off poignantly rip apple

that's pretty rich for someone whose CSS specifies Verdana first:

body {
    font-family: Verdana, system-ui, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

going to hack his blog and change the default font to webdings

“congratulations to the tories”

Does he ever claim chowder himself?

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/10/27/musk-twitter-open-letter

Apparently I’m a very slow learner on the “Elon Musk is an absolute shithead” front

congrats to the tories

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/02/02/twitter-killing-bots

Congrats to lagoon

cant believe im still only 15 feels like ive been posting to this site that long

I’m more optimistic about Twitter’s future than I have been in years.

Amen brother!

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/twitter-bot-api-changes-killing-fun

cant believe i made it to daring fireball its a dream

"Fuck Elon, I never liked that guy" - in awe of this

"They say there are no atheists in a foxhole, but there are more of them than there are libertarians in a bank run."

okay it's very clunky but full credit here

https://mastodon.social/@gruber/110667962169426329

We gonna need Threads/Mastodon embeds now i guess?

congratulation etc

classic john "gatekeeper is my favorite feature of mountain lion" gruber

I’m more optimistic about Twitter’s future than I have been in years. Don’t get me wrong, I think there’s a very real chance that under Musk’s leadership, Twitter might break apart and fade into irrelevance. But Musk himself notes the same thing! Keeping Twitter open to a wide range of content, but making it easy to control what content you see, as user, is a worthy ideal. Pulling it off, that’s the trick. But as a privately-held company Musk is free to make changes that move Twitter away from being optimized for engagement and towards being optimized for enjoyment.

October 2022.

He’s now on a tear about the evil EU daring to try and regulate the best product of the year, Threads

It’s interesting that Threads has entirely leapfrogged the “cool place to chat with chums” phase of its social network existence and gone straight into the “bad office party” phase

everyones there brands influencers blue checks linkdin guys

kinda funny how blue check in facebook world still means verified

i’m no longer complaining about twitter’s “for you” tab after seeing threads so they’ve accomplished that

“Twitter with the TikTok algorithm” is a good description of threads I saw somewhere.

i said that in the twitter thread, but in a more artful way

He’s still got it

TikTok has far fewer brands and celebrities.

Low-hanging fruit, but this review of a $100 box cutter is a masterpiece of the form.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/05/studio-neat-keen