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351: ‘Here You Go, Cheapskate’, With Rene Ritchie
The Talk Show With John Gruber
06/30/22 • 122 min
Rene Ritchie returns to the show for more on Apple’s announcements from WWDC 2022, locking devices out of Face ID and Touch ID, passkeys, and more.
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Links:
- Rene’s review of the new M2 13-inch MacBook Pro.
- The M2 MacBook Pro with 256 GB SSD has slower read and write performance than any M1 Mac, but only the 256 GB config.
- Daring Fireball: “How to Temporarily Disable Face ID or Touch ID, and Require a Passcode to Unlock Your iPhone or iPad”.
- Rene’s deep dive on Passkeys.
- Glenn Fleishman’s comprehensive piece on Passkeys for TidBITS.
- Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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381: ‘Tape Deck Dongle’, With Joanna Stern
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07/11/23 • 115 min
Joanna Stern returns to the show. Topics include the launch of Threads, Apple’s Vision Pro, and iPhone/iCloud device security. Also, some accidental car talk.
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- Joanna’s Rock ’Em Sock ’Em CEOs, Zuck vs. Musk Edition.
- Joanna and Nicole Nguyen’s investigative series for the WSJ on organized thieves stealing Apple IDs after stealing iPhones and gleaning their passcodes:
- Me and Joanna trying to figure out whether Facebook should make an iPad app or web app next for Threads. (It’ll probably be the web app.)
- Hillary Clinton joins Threads with a joke, and the top replies are civil and fun.
- Paris Hilton’s collection of old — really old — phones.
- Mark Zuckerberg posting on Threads:
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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377: ‘guyenglish.zip’, With Guy English
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05/31/23 • 118 min
Guy English returns to the show to talk about the live show from WWDC, Mac Pros past and future, Marathon and Mac gaming, and Apple’s seemingly imminent XR headset. And definitely not to talk about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
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Links:
- The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2013, with special guests Guy English and Scott Simpson. (Audio only — no video back then.)
- Tickets for this year’s show at WWDC 2023.
- SectorC: A C compiler in 512 bytes.
- Wikipedia’s entry on the original Marathon.
- “How Bungie’s Marathon Connects to the Original Game”.
- Bungie’s teaser site for the new Marathon.
- Apple’s MS-DOS compatible 486 Macintosh from 1995.
- Harman Kardon SoundSticks. (In the show, we erroneously attribute them to Bose. We regret the error.)
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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214: ‘Only Wireless. Less Smart Than an Echo. Lame.’ With Paul Kafasis
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02/09/18 • 130 min
Special guest Paul Kafasis returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s new HomePod, [Farrago](https://rogueamoeba.com/farrago/) (Rogue Amoeba’s new soundboard app for the Mac), the Philadelphia Eagles’ triumph over the “New England” Patriots in Super Bowl 52, and we stir up a controversy regarding a 10-year-old cocktail devised by the boys at You Look Nice Today.
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Links:
- You Look Nice Today: “Aunt Nancy”.
- Unofficial You Look Nice Today topic index.
- Video proof, from yours today, that you can’t spear a Mento.
- The Shirley Temple of Doom.
- Rich Siegel’s excellent presentation at Cingleton 2014 on removing BBEdit from the Mac App Store.
- Is the top of the HomePod a “touchscreen”? We decide no, it is not, rendering this Claim Chowder piece from yours truly wrong.
- HomePod reviews:
- Farrago, Rogue Amoeba’s new soundboard app.
- Designing Farrago.
- Just The Tip: The Fracture Swap.
- buttholevideo.com.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry
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01/19/23 • 170 min
Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.
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- From the Daring Fireball archive (2009): “Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground”.
- Craig, this week: “The Shit Show”.
- My take this week: “Twitterrific: End of an Era”.
- The Iconfactory’s other apps:
- Edovia’s Screens — amazing VNC app to use your Mac from iOS devices.
- Lights Off — the first-ever game for iPhone, still available in the App Store.
- EDGE “2G” cellular data networking.
- Blaine Cook, early Twitter engineer and champion of third-party client APIs, now all-in on Mastodon.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
269: ‘Maximally Thin’ With Casey Johnston
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11/19/19 • 110 min
Very special guest Casey Johnston joins the show to talk about the butterfly MacBook keyboard saga and the just-released 16-inch MacBook Pro, with its all new scissor-switch keyboard design.
Links:
- Casey Johnston on Twitter.
- “Ask a Swole Woman” — Casey’s column for women on fitness and health, now at Vice.
- Marco Arment’s first-look review of the 16-inch MacBook Pro, with a nifty graph illustrating the differences in key travel and spacing of various keyboards.
- Dr. Drang’s gentle improvement of Marco’s graph.
The saga of Casey’s writing regarding MacBook keyboards:
- Oct 2017: “The New MacBook Keyboard Is Ruining My Life”.
- Apr 2018: “Don’t Buy the MacBook Pros Even on Sale, in My Opinion” — Casey sold her MacBook back to Apple.
- May 2018: “Apple Knew Its Computers Were “Defective,” Sold Them Anyway, Suit Alleges”.
- June 2018: “Apple Admits Its Computers Are Broken” — the beginning of the Keyboard Service Program.
- March 2019: Joanna Stern: “Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm”.
- April 2019: “Apple Owes Everyone an Apology and It Should Start With Me, Specifically” — Casey bought a 2018 MacBook Air.
- May 2019: third-generation butterfly design with “material” change.
- Apple’s support document on how to use compressed air to maybe hopefully fix a butterfly-switch MacBook keyboard.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
318: ‘Holes in the Blast Door’, With Matthew Panzarino
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07/22/21 • 126 min
Matthew Panzarino returns to the show. Topics include: Apple’s new MagSafe Battery Pack, the Amnesty-International-Led exposé of NSO Group’s state-sponsored phone hacking, Safari 15’s controversial new UI and Apple’s response, and a look back at year one of Apple silicon for Macs. Also: pizza.
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Links:
- Battery Packs:
- The Amnesty-International-led exposé of NSO Group’s Pegasus phone-hacking capabilities and abuse:
- Safari 15’s much-criticized new UIs and Apple’s seeming “we’re listening” reaction:
- Miscellaneous:
- Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck, a Switch-inspired handheld gaming PC
- Brian Heater on Steam Deck for TechCrunch
- Moft’s $29 MagSafe credit-card-sized foldable iPhone stand
- Ooni gas pizza ovens
- Una Pizza Napoletana — the heavenly formerly-in-San-Francisco pizza restaurant where every single pie was made by owner Anthony Mangieri
- Una Pizza is now in New Jersey and Mangieri now makes pepperoni pies that sound amazing
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
306: ‘A Total Landscaping’, With Mike Monteiro
The Talk Show With John Gruber
01/16/21 • 105 min
Mike Monteiro returns to the show to talk about the Capitol insurrection and riot, Twitter and Facebook permanently banning Donald Trump, the shutdown of Parler, the fate of liberal democracy, and Mike’s new book, The Collected Angers.
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Links:
- Jack Dorsey’s strange, rambling thread on Twitter’s decision to permanently ban Donald Trump.
- Sheryl Sandberg says Capitol riot planning didn’t happen on Facebook.
- Washington Post story on the travails of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s Secret Service trying to find a toilet.
- Sarah Kendzior’s “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America”.
- “The Collected Angers” — Mike’s new book of essays.
- Bayard — the wonderful pitch-perfect typeface on the cover of “The Collected Angers”, from Vocal Type.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
179: ‘iPhone Is the New Hitler’ With Ben Thompson
The Talk Show With John Gruber
01/26/17 • 134 min
Ben Thompson returns to the show. Topics include the state of the Mac (and our shared belief that it’s death has been greatly exaggerated), the NFL playoffs, Chris Lattner leaving Apple for Tesla (and the general problem of talent retention), ruminating on the origins of the word “podcast”, and more.
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Links:
- “America’s slow but very real decline into a fascist state as told by the Milwaukee Bucks logo.”
- Pittsburgh cab driver says John Elway is the best quarterback in history, not know that Elway was sitting in the back seat.
- Yours truly back in 2005: “Is That a Podcast in Your Pocket?”
- MPW, Apple's classic-era IDE.
- Pastebot, a great new clipboard utility from Tapbots.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
171: ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma Multitasking’ With John Moltz
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10/26/16 • 126 min
Special guest John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include what we expect from this week’s Apple Event for new Mac hardware, and my impressions of the Google Pixel phone after a week using one.
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Links:
- Ars Technica on the Mirai botnet that uses insecure Internet of Things devices.
- Brian Krebs on the Internet of Things botnet.
- Images of the new MacBook Pro Magic Toolbar that leaked from Apple itself as resources in MacOS 10.12.1.
- Darth on the Magic Toolbar and Esc-less hardware keyboard.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
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How many episodes does The Talk Show With John Gruber have?
The Talk Show With John Gruber currently has 335 episodes available.
What topics does The Talk Show With John Gruber cover?
The podcast is about Podcasts and Technology.
What is the most popular episode on The Talk Show With John Gruber?
The episode title '351: ‘Here You Go, Cheapskate’, With Rene Ritchie' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Talk Show With John Gruber?
The average episode length on The Talk Show With John Gruber is 135 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Talk Show With John Gruber released?
Episodes of The Talk Show With John Gruber are typically released every 10 days, 2 hours.
When was the first episode of The Talk Show With John Gruber?
The first episode of The Talk Show With John Gruber was released on May 22, 2014.
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