indefensible: john gruber

the pizza in new york is so much better which is why they dont even call it pizza there they call it a different name like how always they change the name for the best stuff cause its better different

was kinda sad that th olde timey boston names of grinder and tonic for sub and soda didnt even make a blip on those maps rip

If you pretend to yourself that Arment hates those dudes' guts, his post about Vesper still makes sense

so has anyone actually tried it?

and pay five bucks for a notes app that doesn't sync with anything? no

but but it's so elegant

balls

i think marco actually did this better by taking a shit on a tshirt and selling it for $15

The original iPhone was designed for a world where smartphones were horrid little button- and scroll-wheel-driven devices, and where proper humane computer interfaces were driven by mouse and trackpad cursors. The iPhone blended the two — the size and cellular networking of the smartphone, the humaneness of Mac-style UI design — and did so by introducing something new. The touchscreen.

The design of the iPhone software was entirely informed by the fact that this was a new experience, it was nothing like using an existing smartphone, nor anything like using a Mac or Windows PC. It needed training wheels, to get people up to speed. Thus, to name one small example, why iOS buttons have tended to look so very button-y. To inform the user, as clearly as possible, that this is a button that can be tapped.

is he capable of writing anything without sounding like a total choad? "humaneness," christ

tbf "humane" is a term of art in industrial/interface design and typography

i'm aware of that, but it doesn't make it sound any less ridiculous

not to come off sounding glib - as somebody who does ux for a living i guess i just reserve a lot of ire for people who overuse "humane" and "empathetic" etc

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7360/9024040494_c2c209f6d0_b.jpg

aw it's his wife

shirt/tie and jeans

jesus christ

Yeugh

https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/345723357943197696

SMH

Got away with an expired transfer on Metro Bus, listening to homeless guys argue, reading a free weekly paper. This is me.

you should all spend the next hour and a half or whatever listening to the episode of the talk show that that picture comes from

apparently he met forstall after the iphone 4 announcement back in 2010

asked him if he really used a loupe (he did)

also the episode has a bunch of random people on it like merlin mann, scott simpson, his wife, blah blah

I actually tried to listen to to it yesterday. I got to the 'comedian' and had to shut it off. Surprised I made it that far.

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/07/09/maximum-viable-products

he sure does admire expensive stuff for being expensive

i feel like there's this submeme of 'don't price your products too cheaply' going around among entrepreneuer types

i absolutely get that line of thinking, at least from the point of view developer.

but gruber is not a dev. he's a consumer/critic and he seems to be actively critical of inexpensive stuff simply because it's inexpensive.

i suppose that's fine when you are a cryptoconservative pulling in six figures.

dude he wants to pimp the meme of "it's okay to set your prices high" because he IS in the fucking development game. He doesn't want to lose money. And BTW his fucking app is overpriced and wouldn't make a dent in the world if it wasn't him pimping it. It's a classic solution looking for a problem, window dressing looking for a fucking window.

I don't find him conservative at all, at least judging from his overtly political posts.

"maximal apps" are nothing more than vanity projects or, as the fucking moron David Morin says, "bespoke" apps where devs jerk off into code, self-promote it as "disruptive", and then bask in the glory of the five other devs who want to pay $5.99 for five seconds of geek validation.

I would love to see a list of Gruber's paid consulting gigs related to typography.

putting this in here

http://www.marco.org/bugshot

that icon is gross

eh i don't think it's too bad

charging for it is gross

icon looks like two chairs doin it

to the sound of phish, no doubt

maximals, roll out!

blasting some Phish and coding real hard here

marco and gruber are repping hard for this stratechery guy.
is he also tainted by their reps, or is he solid dude?

jesus

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/07/23/dubai-case

hey I found this one account that contradicts every other account in mainstream news and casts doubt on a woman's story of sexual assault

oh wait, this single article is basically a press release by the government that oppressed her? my bad.

congratulations to the tories

i was just listening to the talk show

https://twitter.com/gruber/status/360905880075636736

pvmic

Washington doesn’t want to see Apple fail; they want Apple to continue making massive profits. They just want a bigger slice of those juicy profits kicked back.

Translation: I am as high as a kite.

that seems ... totally inarguable?

actually forget it

http://i.imgur.com/yV6VYNP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RMQmn2I.jpg

there hasn't been a talk show in too long but i guess he was/is on vacation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/textlad/7983484366/