John Gruber

I write Daring Fireball, host The Talk Show, and created Markdown.

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2024-07-04 21:01:55

Five minutes into episode 1 of “The Acolyte”: it looks like a show shot with a $50 high school play budget. What a disgrace to both Star Wars and Disney.

2024-06-23 21:51:55

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@npub1xxt…f2tp “Fuck it I’m going to Lowe’s this time.”

2024-06-13 23:14:51

Write your own caption, wrong answers only. (Photo from David Paul Morris/Bloomberg.)
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2024-06-03 02:15:51

My son got some fancy keycaps for one of his keyboards, and while I like the feel overall, I realized only after trying to use it myself that this compact layout lacks a backtick/tilde key, making it impossible to do a code span in Markdown.
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2024-04-12 22:29:21

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Putting aside the thirstiness of asking for an app to remain running in the background, despite it consuming 1.8 GB of RAM in idle state, "Close" does not mean “Quit" in Mac parlance, and the Cancel button should be on the left.

2024-04-12 22:27:53

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I have been using the Mac for a long time and I can't recall ever seeing a prompt like this when I ⌘Q an app:
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2024-04-12 22:15:26

Electron.
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2024-01-07 04:30:40

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@npub19ce…25zl @npub17pe…vcm6 You’re making excuses for a platform that has baby computer limits. It’s a 14-year-old platform and you still can’t make iPad apps on an iPad.

2023-12-20 22:00:49

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@npub1e4m…lcdh I've seen not a single refutation of the reporting from earlier this year that Sony only has the capacity to make 900K–1M of the displays, which would cap production at about 500K units. I keep telling people, they're probably going to be backordered by weeks, perhaps by months, for all or most of 2024. (I'm wondering if Sony can ramp up production by end of next year for holiday sales.)

2023-09-17 18:29:22

One thing I forget, attending post-2020 Apple keynote events in person, is that everyone watching at home (or watching after the fact) has no idea what garnered applause and what did not. The USB-C announcement got raucous applause from the media section.

2023-08-30 21:15:17

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@npub1g6m…t8kh @npub1hvd…9sq9 It’s been a long time for me, but I remember that you could print “black” with something like a 75% screen. But looked gray off the laserprinter.

2023-08-30 18:31:56

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 That sounds about right. I think we might’ve even settled at 60 LPI screens.

2023-08-30 15:16:10

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Wow, good prices indeed. And that 0.3m length might be perfect for the backpack.

2023-08-30 14:20:12

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@npub1hvd…9sq9 Not that much faster.

2023-08-15 17:12:20

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@npub15t7…v9k3 @npub1utv…87lr Apple’s style (which I agree with and follow) is to use hyphens when spelling out or abbreviating modifier key names, rather than using glyphs. So:
Command-Option-V
Cmd-Opt-V
⌘⌥V

2023-08-12 00:05:37

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@npub1wky…6c6c Don’t give them any ideas.

2023-08-12 00:00:49

Always a question when publishing a screenplay as a book: typeset with Courier, per the actual working drafts used in the industry, or with a proper text face like a novel? Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is set in Sabon (my favorite text typeface):
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2023-08-11 23:09:57

Someone tell the people at Google Drive that you don't include punctuation characters like “+” or “-" when showing keyboard shortcuts. Just ⌘V, not ⌘+V. You know, like every menu in every Mac or Windows apps for the last 39 years.
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2023-08-05 16:13:23

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@npub1vw2…ntgu @npub12h0…e7sz Really fun, right?

2023-08-05 16:12:17

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@npub19qr…js8v No need, but thanks. My curiosity and desire to support a quixotic project alone are worth $50. Maybe $100 for the lifetime thing.

2023-08-05 16:01:46

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@npub18fa…c4us @npub17pe…vcm6 I have never heard of this “Wicker” show from the UK, but they have me hooked from the opening credits alone. Dude is getting a 4-course meal with champagne on a flight? Hell yeah.

2023-08-04 14:55:33

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@npub19qr…js8v I’m curious enough that I might buy it. So the tab sidebar is organized like an outliner?

2023-08-04 02:27:43

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@npub19qr…js8v Never heard of it before! Fascinating. And you have to buy it for $50 before even trying it? Is it your main browser?