indefensible: john gruber

I checked to see if it’s still on the App Store, and it is — but the last update was Apple auto-bumping their certificate for them so it’d still be a signed app. Officially mothballed for five years

I forgot the name of their company to develop the app was “Q Branch”

jesus christ

A lot of folks were damaged when Steve Jobs called developers "artists." Some are worse off than others.

“Chairman Pooh”

thought it was really out of line when this guy shot mr takagi

― little dieter wants to FUCK (Princess TamTam), Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:50 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think about this joke and laugh every time I see this thread revived

loaded it up today for the first time in a while and the latest post was some asinine shit about how much Arial makes his eyes bleed. this guy is probably a terf

hes really mad that apple has ads now but he can’t say that so he quotes everyone else saying and then trails off poignantly rip apple

that's pretty rich for someone whose CSS specifies Verdana first:

body {
    font-family: Verdana, system-ui, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

going to hack his blog and change the default font to webdings

“congratulations to the tories”

Does he ever claim chowder himself?

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/10/27/musk-twitter-open-letter

Apparently I’m a very slow learner on the “Elon Musk is an absolute shithead” front

congrats to the tories

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/02/02/twitter-killing-bots

Congrats to lagoon

cant believe im still only 15 feels like ive been posting to this site that long

I’m more optimistic about Twitter’s future than I have been in years.

Amen brother!

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/twitter-bot-api-changes-killing-fun

cant believe i made it to daring fireball its a dream

"Fuck Elon, I never liked that guy" - in awe of this

"They say there are no atheists in a foxhole, but there are more of them than there are libertarians in a bank run."

okay it's very clunky but full credit here

https://mastodon.social/@gruber/110667962169426329

We gonna need Threads/Mastodon embeds now i guess?

congratulation etc

classic john "gatekeeper is my favorite feature of mountain lion" gruber

I’m more optimistic about Twitter’s future than I have been in years. Don’t get me wrong, I think there’s a very real chance that under Musk’s leadership, Twitter might break apart and fade into irrelevance. But Musk himself notes the same thing! Keeping Twitter open to a wide range of content, but making it easy to control what content you see, as user, is a worthy ideal. Pulling it off, that’s the trick. But as a privately-held company Musk is free to make changes that move Twitter away from being optimized for engagement and towards being optimized for enjoyment.

October 2022.

He’s now on a tear about the evil EU daring to try and regulate the best product of the year, Threads

It’s interesting that Threads has entirely leapfrogged the “cool place to chat with chums” phase of its social network existence and gone straight into the “bad office party” phase

everyones there brands influencers blue checks linkdin guys

kinda funny how blue check in facebook world still means verified

i’m no longer complaining about twitter’s “for you” tab after seeing threads so they’ve accomplished that

“Twitter with the TikTok algorithm” is a good description of threads I saw somewhere.

i said that in the twitter thread, but in a more artful way

He’s still got it

TikTok has far fewer brands and celebrities.

Low-hanging fruit, but this review of a $100 box cutter is a masterpiece of the form.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/05/studio-neat-keen