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The Talk Show With John Gruber

Daring Fireball / John Gruberdaringfireball.net
The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
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Episodes

367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.

Jan 20, 20232 hr 51 min

366: ‘Measure Seven Times, Cut Once’, With Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman returns to the show to talk about reported setbacks in Apple's silicon division, the LastPass vault leak and password management, and the frontiers of social networking. Also, the joys of modern air travel during the holidays.

Dec 31, 20222 hr 33 min

365: ‘Permanent September’, With Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie returns to the show to talk about recent news (Twitter, Freeform, iCloud Advanced Data Protection, the EU’s new Digital Markets Act) and Apple’s 2022 year in review.

Dec 22, 20222 hr 45 min

364: ‘Spooky Hole’, With John Moltz

Friend of the show John Moltz returns to talk about Elon Musk steering Twitter into a multi-issue spat with Apple, Mastodon, and some streaming TV recommendations.

Dec 01, 20222 hr 22 min

355: ‘The Creaturest of Habits’, With Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut returns to the show. Topics include a serious discussion about CSAM detection at major cloud storage providers and messaging services. Also, a deep dive regarding the new iOS-UI-style rewrite of System Settings on the still-in-beta MacOS 13 Ventura, and thoughts on SwiftUI in general.

Aug 26, 20222 hr 30 min

353: ‘Shop Different’, With Michael Steeber

Special guest Michael Steeber joins the show to discuss his new project, The Apple Store Time Machine — an intricately-detailed explorable walkthrough of four of Apple’s original retail stores.

Aug 01, 20222 hr 4 min

350: ‘Your Sack of Meat With Teeth’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the biggest threads from WWDC 2022 — in particular, Stage Manager and the M2 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook “Pro”. No sports talk (unless you count soccer).

Jun 28, 20222 hr 34 min

345: ‘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.

May 01, 20221 hr 47 min

344: ‘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”.

Apr 26, 20221 hr 41 min
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