indefensible: john gruber

xp a deep love of the work of Stanley Kubrick

Opinions about fonts

cocktail recipes

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?

He’s just fucking with us as this point

“Among his many memorable roles, a favorite of mine was Shelby Forthright, the CEO of Buy-N-Large in WALL-E.”

A head-scratcher

Saw he ended a post about some anti-mask agitators in Utah with the judgment that they’re all “stupid” which is just phenomenal on his part, not eugenicist at all

They’re all stupid sorry

If I have one article of faith it’s that “people are stupid” and “these people are stupid” are poor explanations for anything

i hear you, i've been thinking a lot about it lately. i want to not believe in the concept of stupidity but i find it pretty difficult. like i think it's obviously meant to be belittling so that part of it is .. stupid lol .. and not really insightful if the goal is to understand someone's behavior. in the case of john gruber it says more about him than the subject. on the other hand i think that people definitely get some sort of validation from performing stupidity. my experience with this group of utah valley mormons is that there is a certain faction that functions and bonds together through performances of stupidity.. i.e. ignoring and rejecting behaviors that are outside the bounds of their magical thinking belief systems. it reinforces group identity and the local hierarchy. even if these people are smart in other ways - they obviously possess some kind of native intelligence and range of cognitive skills if they're existing day to day - they are being stupid here: performing stupidity. i'm sorry but that's absolutely what they're doing and ultimately i think it's disingenuous and condescending not to be forthright about what their behavior is. it's being stupid. they love it and get off on it, it performs a function for them.

“Acting stupid” vs “being stupid” is a useful distinction here that I hadn’t really considered, thanks.

sure

That kind of distinction comes up a lot in parenting. Even for compliments.

yeah lot to chew on there re: acting stupid. been thinking bout this stuff too

its all how you act, averaged out

Very OTM in this rant:

Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it. They talk in circles but their argument boils down to entitlement: they think our privacy is theirs for the taking because they’ve been getting away with taking it without our knowledge, and it is valuable. No action Apple can take against the tracking industry is too strong.

Wow

if Apple added some new api for delivering ads he’d be like “well I don’t like ads, but Apple is ensuring quality ads”

he’s otm in this post, though!

saw a post a couple weeks ago where he said working at facebook was like working for nazis or something, credit where credits due grubers on a roll

maybe the world finally broke grubes

I love my HomePods, but clearly the market deemed them too expensive. I think part of the problem is that the real HomePod experience is having two of them paired — they sound more than twice as good as a single HomePod. So to get the real HomePod experience, it’s $600 (and used to be $700).

You mean like having regular stereo speakers?

No, this is different.

why not go quadraphonic HomePod

homequad

he is such an arsehole
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/27/ride-out-the-storm

without clicking I'm going to infer he's chiming in for some godawful reason on the Basecamp kerfuffle

lol gotta be

he was also right about this: "Saw he ended a post about some anti-mask agitators in Utah with the judgment that they’re all “stupid” which is just phenomenal on his part, not eugenicist at all"

oh but he's wrong about basecamp if in fact he's indicating support for them

Yeah it’s Basecamp. And he then got the mildest amount of stick on Twitter and is now on about how Twitter is a hate machine.

zzzzzzz how predictable

he is _such_ an arsehole
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/27/ride-out-the-storm🕸

the man is an expert in everything

chrrrrist

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/06/04/apple-remote-work

lmao what a fucking loser

real "I pay you so you have to do anything I say" vibes there

so much for his "I'm going to read and learn from having my ass handed to me about Basecamp"

where did he say that?

real "I pay you so you have to do anything I say" vibes there

― stet, Monday, June 7, 2021 1:29 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

hes so transparently ignorant with this companies are not democracies shit, meanwhile at actual apple theyre dealing with the simple truth that keeping employees happy is important to their business

On Basecamp, I’ve made a few assumptions that have been right, but more that have been wrong. So I feel I’m better off — for now — listening, reading, and learning, not talking, writing, or preaching.

— John Gruber (@gruber) May 5, 2021

lmao

well a month’s enough of that surely

Wait til he hears about trade unions. The gall of these people

would be fun to go to work at apple and be the only person there, riding an electric scooter around the giant loop blasting whitney houston from a bluetooth speaker

silviojustwhenithoughtiwasout dot gif

Maybe that’s why Chrome is so memory and energy efficient. https://t.co/eVaZvffAkP

— John Gruber (@gruber) August 16, 2021

John eat a dick

I mean Chrome also sucks but yknow

some people are just born assholes

He’s perfecting it atm though. (also IE 3 was utter shite despite the marriage-destroying crunch so his point is doubly stupid)