indefensible: john gruber

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'

youre a doric

i think ur a doric

'flow' is the best, welcome this new age future of web design

serendipity is more my speed man

so sad to see one of our own get left behind in the slipstream of now-future web design RIP :(

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

past, present, and future rite there imo

indefensible: #4a525aholes

"Outlook", an email program from Microsoft.
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/04/google-email-preview

Six words and one set of scare quotes, all douchey. Would he say '"Word", a word processing program'? Outlook is one of the most used apps in the world. It's even out for Mac, ffs.

And why "program"? Is his house style now to ape newspapers from 1985? It's either a client or an app, though I suspect the style guide has had a douching to ensure "app" only means something that runs on iOS devices.

that one made sense to me - infantilising to highlight how un-revolutionary the new gmail feature is.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/22/gawker

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/08/31/vintagezen

Pretty sure the only reason Apple may be getting out of the 100 million unit a year music player market is the fact it's not as profitable as making phones, not this guff about a "simpler product lineup".

"I concur with this logic."