indefensible: john gruber

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.

I give it a C-. Not up to the high standards of open source assholery established by the likes of Linus Torvalds. Canonical example http://lwn.net/Articles/249460/

Yes, in August, Apple is going to start selling Lion on USB sticks. But I think most of us really will be able to get by without them. That’s why the USB stick installers are going to cost $69, a $40 markup over the App Store download. Apple wants us to go download-only.

Rather than try to one-up their selections I’m going to one-down them. Herewith, then, are the Top Ten Worst Westerns. Observations inside.

You can tell he’s right on most of these, from the posters alone.

god what a bore.

dude is like a demigod of suburban consumerism, yelling so loudly about inane bullshit from atop a mountain of 'slightly used' apple products. good links sometimes tho.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/07/20/scrollvetica

Scrollvetica.

SCROLLVETICA

not to mention scroll reverser has been around since day 1 of the lion betas

does it set yr scrollbars in helvetica

Marco Arment is way worse; he's like distilled Gruber shit.

lol i like both of them

It's a beautiful, simple and clean way of moving your fat fingers along the edge of the touchpad.

"Elegant" is the term I hate most from the doucherati.

helvetigant

One of my friends followed Marco on Ping for some reason. Marco's musical tastes are something to behold.

Lotta Phish, I guess.

john gruber, newspaper pundit:

Just look at how uncluttered the print edition of The Times is, and how it’s designed to emphasize what is important.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/07/27/news-site-design

http://www.nytimes.com/images/2011/07/27/nytfrontpage/scan.jpg

so uncluttered.

It would be much more simpler and eleganter if they made an app to display one story at a time and enabled users to three-finger swipe between pages, and they should hand over all their ad revenue to Apple for enabling such simpleness and eleganticity.

I am trying to find a way to explain how the print version isn't really cluttered, but it's really the textbook definition of clutter

When you get paid to say things, it's hard to stop saying things.

typeset nytimes in helvetica

the essence of good taste

I dig the nytimes chrome app

the one thing that the chrome app and the ipad app do that the website does not is give me a one or two sentence blurb on what the article is about. no need to decipher what an article called 'Skin Deep: Someone Just Like Me Said, ‘Buy It’' is about

found it p janky when i tried it a while ago

maybe they dejanked it

ok yeah its def p diff than before, but w/e not enough linx per page, needs more clutter

thats cool all the diff views it gives you tho

lol @ their names

i prefer 'doric'

I generally think apple makes decent shit but being an Apple fanboy in 2025 feels like being super into Microsoft in 2005 - 2010

Gruber having his fainting couch ready at the idea of Apple having an ad where someone is texting in all lowercase, or god forbid, with bad punctuation, kills me

one last one: it's funny that Gruber is like "this is so CYNICAL" when it's an analysis of what kind of sentiments, and the form those sentiments take, in marketing for a particular company. if analyzing why every ad has friends talking about "fun trips" and asking for pictures is cynical, why has Gruber spent decades at this point pontificating about aesthetics and then pretending to know things about supply chains? he's a web app creator who pivoted to punditry with no background in any of that. max at least is speaking from within his wheelhouse

max is treating the texts as if theyre real, gruber responds like uh ever heard of marketing, the funny part is that he thinks theyre good when theyre obviously stilted and odd, even sticking to their chosen form they could easily be done a lot better

what if Gruber just talks like that irl

tbf, all the android phone commercials that have pictures/texts that attempt to approximate how people actually communicate also seem pretty artificial and fake, but from the opposite direction. the pictures are still the best you'll get out of the phone camera, people are doing things that are supposed to be wholesome fun, but occasionally someone is texting "lol whatever"

what we really need is someone stumbling around, hungover at someone's house they crashed at attempting to use "find my" to locate their watch from their phone or vice versa, happy that their phone is semi-waterproof after they find it in a puddle of beer

But the Gawker attitude was that no subject was worthy of anything but withering scorn. I never could abide that, and there’s something like it undergirding this otherwise splendid piece from Read. It’s like an otherwise delightful cocktail with one distinctive unpleasant ingredient, which ingredient was added, deliberately, to imbue the libation with an aftertaste of spite.

I say! steady on old chap!

What if it was, in fact, the deliberate omission of an ingredient: Apple liqueur, a libation that sweetens your perceptions?