without clicking I'm going to infer he's chiming in for some godawful reason on the Basecamp kerfuffle
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
lol gotta be
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:08 (three years ago) link
he was also right about this: "Saw he ended a post about some anti-mask agitators in Utah with the judgment that they’re all “stupid” which is just phenomenal on his part, not eugenicist at all"
― akm, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:14 (three years ago) link
oh but he's wrong about basecamp if in fact he's indicating support for them
― akm, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
Yeah it’s Basecamp. And he then got the mildest amount of stick on Twitter and is now on about how Twitter is a hate machine.
― stet, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link
zzzzzzz how predictable
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 15:57 (three years ago) link
he is _such_ an arsehole https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/27/ride-out-the-storm🕸
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 1 May 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
the man is an expert in everything
― lag∞n, Saturday, 1 May 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
chrrrrist
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/06/04/apple-remote-work
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 June 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
lmao what a fucking loser
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
real "I pay you so you have to do anything I say" vibes there
― stet, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
so much for his "I'm going to read and learn from having my ass handed to me about Basecamp"
― stet, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
where did he say that?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 June 2021 17:34 (three years ago) link
― stet, Monday, June 7, 2021 1:29 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
hes so transparently ignorant with this companies are not democracies shit, meanwhile at actual apple theyre dealing with the simple truth that keeping employees happy is important to their business
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
On Basecamp, I’ve made a few assumptions that have been right, but more that have been wrong. So I feel I’m better off — for now — listening, reading, and learning, not talking, writing, or preaching.— John Gruber (@gruber) May 5, 2021
― stet, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
lmao
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 7 June 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
well a month’s enough of that surely
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 June 2021 22:16 (three years ago) link
Wait til he hears about trade unions. The gall of these people
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 12:42 (three years ago) link
would be fun to go to work at apple and be the only person there, riding an electric scooter around the giant loop blasting whitney houston from a bluetooth speaker
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 12:54 (three years ago) link
silviojustwhenithoughtiwasout dot gif
Maybe that’s why Chrome is so memory and energy efficient. https://t.co/eVaZvffAkP— John Gruber (@gruber) August 16, 2021
― sktsh, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
John eat a dick
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 19:43 (two years ago) link
I mean Chrome also sucks but yknow
some people are just born assholes
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
He’s perfecting it atm though. (also IE 3 was utter shite despite the marriage-destroying crunch so his point is doubly stupid)
― stet, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
i wonder if there's a gene for 'will definitely be a douchebag'
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 20:42 (two years ago) link
A post where Gruber whines that his coffee maker got snubbed for being too expensive
― DJI, Sunday, 5 September 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
He'd be horrified to find out you can buy a $100 Bonavita and a $40 Chemex and have a less cool-looking Ratio Eight.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 5 September 2021 19:02 (two years ago) link
Christ this guy. Say what you will about Wirecutter but they’ve never ever had a focus on the highest end of anything! The whole premise is “how to spend just enough money to make you happy if you want something good but don’t care about spectacular”
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Sunday, 5 September 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
You don’t need a high end Wirecutter just look at what they suggest and find something that costs 2 to 10 times as much
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Sunday, 5 September 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
Increasingly difficult to remember a time when this guy’s point of view was useful or interesting, maybe it never existed
ding ding ding ding
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 September 2021 09:10 (two years ago) link
is he getting divorced or something? his posting recently reminds me of men I know struggling either with mid-life or with breakups.
― stet, Monday, 6 September 2021 14:00 (two years ago) link
he’s been divorced from reality for a while now!the pivot from that era of mid-00s blogging where you could post cool shots from kubrick movies, mumble some stuff about the best way to do web design, fetishize typography, and then talk about the best way to use your apple devices to the modern era completely broke this dude
― mh, Monday, 6 September 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
there’s a different apple-oriented site I go to when I want to giggle at absurdity (macstories) because they really crank it up a bunch of notches. like, an entire series of posts on how to buy thousands of dollars of accessories so you can use your iPad as a primary computergruber’s just a weird cranky old neoliberal who thinks he’s a wonk when he has absolutely zero technical knowledge
― mh, Monday, 6 September 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
i probably keep making that post, don’t i
― mh, Monday, 6 September 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
lol mh that is such a brutally accurate dunk of so much manblogging. the sheer volume of this stuff. people who would reverentially re-explain edward tufte and call it a career.what is “the modern era” that has broken his brain though? feels harder to nail
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 September 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
Yeah great point that I hadn’t noticed until you said. Feels to me similar to the loss of gatekeeping authority the old-school print columnists went through. Like happened with the political correspondents: when their subjects all got themselves on social media, the hacks lost their exclusive access and people could see for themselves what politicians were like, so that just left them with their analysis. Then Twitter and other places filled up with much better analysis. There is little left for the hacks to do but become client journalists. Same deal with the Grubers and the Mossbergs. You can read more tweets than you can bear directly from every developer out there, you don’t need to hang around at WWDC to get access. Typographers aren’t these remote artists only read about in design journals printed on 300gsm stock, they’re on TikTok. You can get esoteric French movie stills without being a magazine deep-pocketed enough to pay Mary Evans. There are better and more immediate product reviewers on YouTube who don’t have to try and explain the minute differences between iPhone versions in sub-DFW prose but can just … show them to you. So what’s left for Gruber but a combination of Apple’s brand of client journalism (see recent defence of the CSAM backdown), challops and “little birdies”? If Apple staff were allowed tweet he’d be done for.
― stet, Monday, 6 September 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
Also fuck markdown
otm lol
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Monday, 6 September 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
stet nails a lot of it
what is “the modern era” that has broken his brain though? feels harder to nailsignposts for me:
tl;dr every middle manager is gruber now
― mh, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
explain the minute differences between iPhone versions in sub-DFW prose
unexpectedly chortled so hard I got a brain aneurysm reading this one
― mh, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:07 (two years ago) link
the film still thing is such a funny signpost of the blog times
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/ava-duvernay-one-perfect-shot-docuseries-hbo-max-1234728822/
the number of copycat attempts on twitter that seem to get the goal but none of the substance of that “perfect shot” aesthetic is amazing, just screenshots of any time the camera pauses on a wide shot in a superhero movie. but there’s still an intellectual curiosity there and opportunity for dialogue than just posting the same still from 2001 that’s likely been printed in a dozen Taschen volumes
― mh, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
a big idea of his was software could be usable by being well designed, which is these days much less of a novel idea due in no small part to apple/iphone, he kind of won but now what kingdom is left to conquer, makes you think
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
did anyone ever use the iOS notes app he “designed”
it was uh, not good. although he did learn a little bit about the minutiae of file syncing
iirc this was just pre-iCloud document storage and his fan base was large enough they cut some deal to use microsoft’s file storage stuff, and then he blogged glowingly about it while anyone who had actually done software development rolled their eyes
― mh, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
the big selling points were that it had a nice font and was named after the drink/lady from the james bond movie
good work if you can get it (not as good as podcasting tho)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
he weird clique of blogging inspired by the “getting things done” cult and all of the software tools involved in that seem, in retrospect, to be kind of a reaction to what was going on in software development at the time. i’m sure there are column inches to be written about organizational strategies, but it’s over. half of all cubicle-based industries use some ridiculous task system now and no one is going to seem cool or interesting blogging about that. they’re going to seem like a management consultant or one of those perverts who posts on linkedin
― mh, Wednesday, September 8, 2021 10:04 AM (three hours ago)
lol
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
it's like the fucked up "wealthy freelancer" fantasy, that you have a lot to do, all of it at your own direction
(Disclosure: I use GTD-inspired todo app Things to keep track of job stuff since putting everything in Jira would be insane)
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
― stet, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link