indefensible: john gruber

Gruber's work serves as a lone wolf, a standard bearer, for my own:

Writers like John Gruber and podcasters like Dan Benjamin have gone from being lone wolfs to standard bearers.

John Gruber, Dan Benjamin, Marco Arment, Horace Dediu, all of these people are setting a very high standard for this community, and it’s not just in the level of professionalism they show in their work: it’s also how much they care about what they do and take pride in it. If you read Daring Fireball, listen to Dan’s shows on 5by5, or use Instapaper, there’s no doubt they really love to do what they’re doing.

wolfs?

Sit & Browse vs Stand & Purchase.

In one you have the clean minimalist designs that Apple is long famous for. Whites walls, blonde wood tables all designed to accompany and highlight the brushed aluminum iDevices for sale within.

i'm sitting in a chair rite now

markers, are the walls whites

one of the terrible things about these gruber accolytes is how it takes them 2000 words to say something that deserves, at most, two tweets.

xpost yes!

maybe microsoft just wants you to be comfortable and apple wants you to buy stuff and gtfo

maybe i'll bring my own chair to the apple store next time i go

All my trendo programmer friends are changing to standing desks, perhaps Apple is just anticipating this trend

Why by the laptop when you can have the surfing for free?

^ readability

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A review from the Prog & Rock Network.

Progressive rock rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s as a way of elevating rock music to a new level of artistic merit.

http://whowritesforyou.com/category/writing/writingassignment/

Writing assignment: read all the fucking time you fucking fuck.

I’ve been following the recent articles and reports on Apple and manufacturing in China. I’ve heard some ugly terms thrown about, including “slavery.” If true, it’s shocking and disappointing. But I fear that it is a mix of hyperbole, cultural differences, and yes, some worker abuses. Apple appears to be doing the right things to [...]

lot of these dudes have real sticks up their asses about being "professional writers" eh

its funny because they just have blogs

http://vimeo.com/36051004

``standing here at my standing desk''

Do workers in Foxconn factories who build products for Apple, Dell, HP, and others, work long hours at tedious tasks? Yes they do. Do they work for a fraction of what a worker in the US, Japan, or even Korea would? Yes they do?

Are they being enslaved? Clearly, they are not.

welp, glad we cleared that up!

its not slavery guys, keep downloading!

Since a grandmother at home dealt with child rearing and the household management, the workers didn’t seem stressed by the work requirements or complain.

keep downloading those iphones guys!

u need to read&trust bro

it is only by completing writing assignments that you can become a beacon, a yardstick

http://twitter.com/#!/Digeratii/status/165324320179109888/photo/1/large

"disappointing" is the professional's choice of words to describe slavery

what is this thread even about any more

reading&trusting

bullshit

beacons&yardsticks

kubrick&stones

steve&jobs

fugees&funyons

braces&suspenders

helvetica

colophons!

Marco & Path: not entirely sure what the difference is, except that we all read & trust @marco.

this is actually real talk:
http://www.marco.org/2012/02/04/fixing-previous-track

still have a lot of time for marco and his quietly unassuming proggy nerdiness

My favorite iPhone Twitter client is now available for the iPad too. I’ve been using for a few weeks and it’s just terrific. I love it.

every single time there's a big new ios app release, he makes sure to let everyone know that he's already been using it for weeks

hey guys did you know that I run a popular apple-centric blog, and that application developers find me to be a good target for promotional beta releases? now you do!

I remember being young and thinking that it'd be cool to be in a position where people would send me unreleased products to review. Then I got old and realized that beta testing other people's shit is horrible.

I love Tweetbot and iOs for the simplicity and beautifulness of the triple-tap gesture.

I wonder if Gruber is beta testing the version with quadruple-taps.

lol

I have two twitter apps on iPhone and I've been swapping between them with no clear fave. tweetbot 2.0 is kinda nice, though

i caved and got tweetbot when it went on sale and i like it so much more than any other one i've used, it's just like... enjoyable