indefensible: john gruber

did people really wait in line to buy precious releases of os x cause

lol precious releases

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/08/happy-10th-birthday-daring-fireball/261061/

It's a blog not just about Apple, but about excellence.

His voice can be muscular and rigorous.

But he maybe best understands excellence as it relates to blogging.

he can still better articulate what's fun and compelling about link-sharing (which he's been doing since before we deemed it curation) than anyone

Apple, Gruber's Beatrice, is engorged as a company

He hasn't written, for a long time, an engaging description of a laptop or an account of an anthropomorphized interface element.

It is a testament, still, to the power and potential of writing on the web, to the blogger as auteur

...

Muscular beacons and rigorous yardsticks

anyone who calls it curation is a fucking idiot

Daring Fireball: reblogging Jason Kottke since 2002

But now this. The 15-inch MacBook Pro With Retina display. This is a boom. A revolution in resolution.

Muscular beacons and rigorous yardsticks

― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, August 13, 2012 1:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That guy in the atlantic twice describes it as gray-green. Are all my monitors fucked? I see no green!

he compares john gruber to dante. i think we can safely say it's him, not you.

lol

https://twitter.com/joshuatopolsky/status/245199223715409920

Gruber is just the most middlebrow piece of shit.

i wrote him a "not angry just disappointed" email about how utterly useless he's become, but he didn't reply.

really? lol. can we see?

according to that bloomberg piece, he's making $500,000 a year off daring fireball now. shit.

kudos tbf

yeah, it's impressive how he's managed to turn journalism's economics on its head - do nyt columnist even earn that much? - although it's pretty obvious he's a one-off for all sorts of reasons that don't have much to do with his writing.

I hope you'll accept this unsolicited criticism in the spirit that it's intended:

Linking to Gizmodo comments is like pointing at someone taking a shit on the sidewalk.[*]

It's your site, and you certainly owe me, an Adblock-running reader, nothing. But you used to do better than this.

[*] zing i think i may have started to overuse, and have certainly used before on ilx

Dear Caek,

Thank you for your thoughtful letter. I unfortunately was unable to read it due to my eyes being all clogged up with tons of money.

Yours,
Gruber

Sent from my iPhone

lol

anyone who doesn't delete that stupid default signature moments after getting a new device is a disgusting savage

i changed my ipad's signature to all caps

SENT FROM MY IPAD.

iphone 5 review from john 'my hands are at least somewhat larger than average' gruber: http://daringfireball.net/2012/09/iphone_5

hah that jumped out at me too, at least, so coy come on tell us just how larger than average your hands are john

All his reviews lately have a paragraph like "I didn't like this change at first, but right now I don't really mind, I'm sure the old way will seem weird in a few weeks" which just seems sadly appropriate.

Yours Truly on Charlie Rose Tonight ★
With David Pogue. No idea what we’re going to talk about.

ew

going to start ending pronouncements with ★

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/09/24/postpositive-adjectives

This is more elegant, but it sounds pretentious to my ears. ★

so elegant

stunning

★

passersby with their iphones 5

enjoying their macbooks pro

"I miss William Safire."

good luck to the tories

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/british-prime-minister-david-cameron-letterman-373870

Sounds like a pile of horseshit from Instagram, considering that the whole reason they gave for replacing their original not-live but aesthetically superior filters with the current crop was that live filters were an important feature. If they bring back the old filters, I’ll say hip-hip-hooray. If they stick with the current meh filters and remove live previewing, I say boo-hiss.

Remember the Gotham filter?

i know being a tech pundit means you have to care a lot abt a lot of inconsequential things but Remember the Gotham filter? is killing me

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/hughgr/pouring_beer_out.png

Another typographic boner: the Kindle still lacks hyphenation but yet insists upon full-justified text.

indefensible

he's right about the buttons

And the hyphenation

and the but-
tons

and the
differe-
nt feel
of rea-
ding o-
n Kind-
le

 justify my boner

Oh I mean of course any e-reader would be drastically improved by the TeX line-breaking algorithm, but on the other hand, where the fuck does "but yet" come from?

I guess it does seem strange to force justification without hyphenation. They could have made that an option, right?

I wonder why they haven't nabbed TeX's H&Js, like you say. InDesign 1 was doing that in real-time on a 500mhz G3; there's surely enough power and time to do it during a page refresh on kindle. I must be missing something.

just dont justify, so uptight, be easy kindle

people who prefer full justification are disgusting savages fyi

tbf p much every book in the world is justified