last month i saw an ad for Away on the train touting their lifetime warranty and scoffed to my friend, "yeah a lifetime warranty from a company that isn't going to exist in 1 year sounds great." and here were are
― diamonddave85โโ (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 December 2019 04:38 (four years ago) link
No spoilers:I loved โThe Rise of Skywalkerโ like no Star Wars movie since the original trilogy.That palpable sense of camaraderie was there, and it just hit so many great notes. JJ Abrams nailed it.— John Gruber (@gruber) December 20, 2019
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 20 December 2019 12:34 (four years ago) link
that palpatinable sense of cameraderie
― i chop up the orange and chomp on the inside of it (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 December 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
Congratulations to the Sith
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 December 2019 12:46 (four years ago) link
somehow that's the most ominous review I've read so far
groobs likes it, something has gotta be fucked up
― mh, Friday, 20 December 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
He only likes bland slurries
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Friday, 20 December 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
definitely a peer to the early 2000s bloggers who were into "good design" and "cinema" but really only got off on posting stills from Kubrick movies and some Dieter Rams object of design on their desk
then James Bond got rebooted and Gruber partners with someone to create an artisanal, authentic note-taking iPhone app called "vesper" because it's really cool
― mh, Friday, 20 December 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
Someone being Brent Simmons, who confuses me by being good not bad for making NetNewsWire and Frontier but also bad not good for working with Winer and i suspect making enormous mountains out of molehills when coding.
― stet, Friday, 20 December 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
that space was kind of a loose-knit blogosphere with an affinity for apple projects and Simmons collaborating on that app was kind of the tail end of it, imo
I guess Simmons works at Omni now, which makes complete sense, and is coordinating a new NetNewsWire open source release which... idk, I wish it was useful to do RSS aggregation in 2019
― mh, Friday, 20 December 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
lmao vesper
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 20 December 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
Why would you need sync?
― stet, Friday, 20 December 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
I canโt remember, didnโt they do sync but priced out the best options pre-icloud apis and had a sweetheart deal with Microsoft, followed by a bunch of favorable MS content on the blog?
― mh, Saturday, 21 December 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
someone let the thread know when gruber's posted a new take on the luggage lady ceo situation
no impulse to read it myself, just want to ponder the possibility of a man touching a hot stove then repeatedly doing back to touch the burner
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:27 (four years ago) link
goddamnit claim fucking chowder god in heaven just kill me
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 2 March 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
In broad strokes, you can probably file me as a Jonathan Chait Democrat. I agree with Chait far more often than not, and when I disagree with him, I almost always think, โWell, he does make some good points.โ
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Monday, 2 March 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
oh boy
― mh, Monday, 2 March 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
perfect
― lagโn, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 02:09 (four years ago) link
Being an Apple blogger in 2020 seems like a hard gig.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link
You've got to be one of those psychos on Youtube who orders a $40k Mac Pro to showcase how good it is at editing videos about reviewing $40k Mac Pros.
finally their prosumer niche has to actually be pro and a sumer
― mh, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:13 (four years ago) link
โSINCERELY LOUIS C.K.โ โ
The funniest stand-up special Iโve seen in years. Religion, sexual misconductโโโyou know, good clean family fun. And, yes, he talks about the whole you-know-what.
― sean gramophone, Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
best part? That "and, yes" bit was an edit, maybe added after publishing? My RSS reader shows updates.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
โ $8 direct purchase gets you a no-DRM download and streaming (AirPlay supported).โ
Important detail.
― sofatruck, Saturday, 18 April 2020 13:49 (four years ago) link
the. whole. you-know-what.
― stet, Saturday, 18 April 2020 14:12 (four years ago) link
*waggles eyebrows* jerking off in front of his coworkers
― lagโn, Saturday, 18 April 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
jesus christ
― mh, Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
Came here hoping the grubes thread would have an update. Was not disappointed.
― Millsner, Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
found a new new gruber-like guy to read. has elaborate stories about his ipad docking setup. casually mentions his $2k sony headphones
― mh, Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
twitter.com/on3ness?
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Saturday, 18 April 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
indefensible
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
Huh heโs deleted it
― stet, Saturday, 18 April 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/17/sincerely-louis-ck- he added an โupdateโ
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
โ ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Saturday, April 18, 2020 2:57 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
wow ok
― lagโn, Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:11 (four years ago) link
what did the update say? It's still 404 here
― stet, Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
here (trailing hyphen missed by the hyperlink regex)
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Saturday, 18 April 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
Originally he posted it without acknowledging it at all, no you know what phrase.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 19 April 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link
One sentence too long
― silby, Sunday, 19 April 2020 00:51 (four years ago) link
Thread title otm
― stet, Sunday, 19 April 2020 01:24 (four years ago) link
Without question, in my mind, Banksy is the most important painter of our time.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 8 May 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link
lmfbo
― silby, Friday, 8 May 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
Itโs funny bc thereโs actually been zero important painters for something like four decades
latest post indicates he's earning about $25k/month from his new 15-minute daily podcast
― sean gramophone, Friday, 15 May 2020 13:47 (three years ago) link
im banky
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Friday, 15 May 2020 13:50 (three years ago) link
banky!!!!! Hello
― silby, Friday, 15 May 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
Ok I checked the numbers they are basically correct.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 15 May 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
(Sorry that first sentence is from a draft post on another thread lol zing)
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 15 May 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
xp a deep love of the work of Stanley Kubrick
― mh, Friday, 15 May 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
Opinions about fonts
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Friday, 15 May 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
cocktail recipes
― silby, Friday, 15 May 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link
looked at the podcast post and it's amazing how he managed to make a bulleted list of changes into a series of short essays
the podcast is likely no less concise, eh?
― mh, Friday, 15 May 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link