indefensible: john gruber

can't wait for Marco's high-end speaker review detailing how awesome Phish sound on a $50k rig.

lol he is so awful

would you guys rank them: gruber, then marco, then siracusa from worst to best? are there any writers who aren't part of their immediate circle that you would rank higher?

I don't really consider Siracusa part of that armchair typographer crowd tbh.

from worst to best? the opposite tbh. siracusa, marco, grub. when gruber is on he's on imo.

haha armchair typographer

Siracusa >>>>>> (apart from shit Steve Jobs book review) >>> Grubes >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Marco >>>>> Trust & verify >>>>> Brooks

stet otm

when gruber is on he's on imo.

i agree with this, but he rarely is any more. he hasn't written two articles in a row that weren't embarrassingly bad or worse for like 6 years.

marco is basically valueless as a writer though, so year, stet otm.

in this post he compares tumblr dude to steve jobs... twice http://www.marco.org/2013/05/20/one-person-product nice way to simultaneously pat yrself on the back for being involved w something so important and backhandedly call yr boss a sociopath - tumblr is a nice website and all but its not exactly an iphone

i didn't get those same sinister messagings from that article, but i did from the one about phish.

Marco's writing is worthless, and so is The Magazine. The true believers in Tumblr are the same breed who jizzed on and on about MySpace until that platform got blown out of the water. I'm sure that soon, we'll be hearing about The Next Wordpress...oh wait, isn't that supposed to be SVBTLE or something?

Stet massively OTM.

http://www.marco.org/2013/05/30/coffee-storage

A reader asked via email:

How do you store your coffee?

I get this question a lot.

oh jesus

Yeah, the true horror comes when these guys link to something that has open comments, and then you see what their comments would be like if only they enabled them.

It's the one awesome think about their schticks that means we're spared page after page of "awesome post, you really hit the nail on the head with your writing as usual, Marco".

Yeah, the true horror comes when these guys link to something that has open comments, and then you see what their comments would be like if only they enabled them.

ha otm

do you guys like jeanlouis gasees blog?

i don't read it too often tbh

maybe i should

maybe that would BE a good thing

maybe i should write myself a NOTE for MONDAY to do so

does he have RSS feed? If not, he doesn't exist

He's made an app! http://www.macworld.com/article/2040883/meet-vesper-a-notes-app-with-an-all-star-development-team.html#tk.twt_jsnell

Making iOS software that doesn't sync is ... it's like making a phone where you can only call people in the same room. Or something.

hmmmm just saw this

"Q Branch"
"Vesper"
"mediocrely"

lol @ The Incomparable in screenshiot

Am I horrible in hoping some ill befalls this?

No, because apps die a silent death and rarely get an obit.

There's nothing worse than people who think that we can design our way out of every user problem.

"yeah there are already a million apps out there who solve the note taking non-problem on apps, but there's not a UI good enough for our immaculate taste, so we had to design one ourselves. It's by us for us unless you all are willing to raise your standards."

his obsession with james bond might be the dorkiest thing about him

who's bought it?

who would?

the greatest thing about next week would be if Apple would grant a trial-basis for app downloads

most apps do not see engagement beyond 2 weeks. This would clean up the app store a lot.

i haven't bought it yet but i would and might

not that i'd necessarily use it regularly

should be a 99c app

should be a free evaluation and if it is a solution for me, I would buy it.

this idea that we have to spend a dollar to evaluate everything is stupid

i would have grubes on my app team cause now people will buy it

lol definitely

wait until he links to it

the one guy designs it i code it and grubes he links

ppl let him beta test all kinds of helvetica-heavy shit that he links to

Gruber: Bond’s gadgets have always been at the intersection of utility and elegance. Serve a necessary purpose, reliably, and look good doing it. That’s as good a motto for a software company as any.

fucking james bond

hoping it gets a feature that lets you wedgie gruber's underpants over his head

I don't understand the hate for this dude but likewise don't understand how he can be the number one apple blogger.
What do you guys think about kottke.org? He seems like he's in a similar group of commenter dudes who also make fonts on the side.

Gruber is sanctimonious. Kottke just likes linking to neat things and keeps the rest to himself, IME.

marco has posted about this, and now i am really not sure who i hate more

http://www.marco.org/2013/06/06/vesper

in which he goes on and on about balls

fucking srs

wow that is just an unbelievable blog post right there

Loool at getting linked to by Marco as "resentful" for saying sync is critical when he, eh, says sync is critical. Balls.