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gruber

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

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daringfireball, to random
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Sam Alito Flew Seditionist Flag Outside His House in 2021
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/17/alito-sedition

gruber,
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@nickclements Alito is the most dangerous right winger of the bunch, but he doesn't take bribes like Clarence Thomas does, so he lives on the modest SCOTUS salary.

gruber,
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@swingerofbirch I disagree vehemently with all the Republicans on the Court, but Thomas and Alito are in worlds of their own. Thomas for his abject corruption, Alito for being the de facto leader of the bunch and a rightwing fascist sociopath.

gruber,
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@ramsey @tchambers It's just an insane explanation. Who is even supposed to buy that?

matt, to random
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It was supposed to be a quick link post 🫨

gruber,
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@matt The story of my career.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Angus and Malcolm Young hit guitar strings so fucking hard.

AC/DC - "Whole Lotta Rosie" (Live, 1977)

https://youtu.be/CHo2EqDpK7g?si=rHOF31f9oxZ5lJBP&t=20

gruber,
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@hotdogsladies Is there anything in the world that sounds more like 1977 than that? (Spoiler: no.)

gruber,
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@Gte @hotdogsladies All joking aside. Star Wars is more iconic, for something that happened to come out in 1977. But nothing about Star Wars screams "1977” to me. The music in particularly is timeless. Whereas that AC/DC performance just screams "1977” to me.

dmoren, to random
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Sugar, on Apple TV+, is one of the weirdest shows I have watched in a while. I think I really enjoyed it? I have no idea who to recommend it to, but if you like stuff that's kind of different, check it out.

gruber,
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@dmoren Agreed. It’s like you took the words out of my mouth. And the less anyone knows before watching it the better.

Also: I really like the 35-minute-ish episode length. “Servant” did the same. It made me realize how rigidly the TV industry has treated dramas and sitcoms since the dawn of TV. Drama = 60 minutes; sitcom = 30 minutes.

Why not 30-minute-ish drama episodes? It’s good!

gruber,
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@dmoren Such an interesting show. My favorite little sequence was the series of scenes between Sugar and the homeless guy with the dog. Could've been so corny, but felt so genuine and poignant.

ironicsans, to random
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Watch this classic SNL skit to the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPPDyBJWFdw

gruber,
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@monkeyclaw @ironicsans Coincidentally, my wife and I just saw Kevin Nealon doing standup a week ago. He's still got it -- great show.

Cdespinosa, to random
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Thank you, @cabel, for the hundreds of new followers. Just a heads-up to all the new people. You’re not going to get much Tech True Crime on my feed. I post a lot of retrocomputing stuff, but you’re also going to get leftist politics, ridiculing cryptocurrency and generative AI, San Francisco Giants baseball, and atrocious puns. Also geezer reminiscing about Good Music. Be warned,

gruber,
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@Cdespinosa @cabel But mostly Giants baseball.

macrumors, to random
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iPhone 17 Lineup Rumored to Feature All-New Slim Model Above Pro Max With 'Major Redesign' https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/17/slimmer-iphone-17-major-redesign-rumor/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

gruber,
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@kraigschmidt @macrumors @Moltz I wish like hell Apple still made Mini-size iPhones too, but, clearly, they just didn't sell.

shazow, to random
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@gruber Hiya, random question if you don't mind: Your original Markdown post had a suggested $50 fee for commercial use, did you ever get any payouts from that?

One of the earliest examples of trying to monetize open source! Curious how successful it was in that era.

gruber,
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@shazow Couple hundred bucks total. Maybe $1000 after a year or two? It didn’t work. Everything was easier just giving up on monetizing it all and setting it free with a BSD style license.

gruber,
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@shazow But when I say it didn’t work, I should also add that I didn’t push hard with new ways to try to get donations for it. Daring Fireball itself started taking off financially around 2006 and that was good enough for me. I consider Markdown part of my work at DF, and I’m proud not to have a paywall for my writing or for Markdown.

ddribin, to random
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@gruber If you haven’t seen this, yet, you might be interested in Summoning Salt’s “The History of Tetris World Records” (all of Salt’s videos are great, BTW):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOJlg8g8_yw

gruber,
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@ddribin (a) Thanks, this is right up my alley and I hadn’t seen it. (b) 2 hours!

luckie_reubs, to random
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@daringfireball @gruber I noticed this a moment ago using Reeder in iOS. Any idea what causes this difference in appearance?

gruber,
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@luckie_reubs Nope. No idea. Just checked here and I see the same thing. Also with the “Sam Altman Puts the Kibosh on…” post from a week ago. If you can figure it out, I’d love to know the explanation. But I have always found Reeder a bit inscrutable (and I’ve never been comfortable with its branding, to be honest).

If you subscribe to DF’s JSON feed, the entries are all treated correctly.

josh, to random
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What the devil is going on here, @gruber? These are loading from the same feed. What’s with the different capitalization and favicons?

gruber,
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@josh I haven’t changed anything, so unless someone can prove otherwise, I blame Reeder. (If you switch from DF’s RSS feed to JSON feed, the problem goes away.)

daringfireball, to random
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Netflix Strikes Three-Year Deal to Broadcast NFL Games on Christmas Day
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/16/netflix-nfl-xmas

gruber,
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@weldon I'd pay a zillion dollars to watch that broadcast. My god we'd need a Gilliam-cutout Don Meredith and Frank Gifford too though.

daringfireball, to random
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Samsung Pepsis Its Pants Again
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/16/samsung-uncrush

gruber,
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@benny No question about it. That's what makes them Pepsi. The whole company is based around the idea of being a #2 that copies whoever is #1. When BlackBerry was #1 Samsung sold ripoffs named BlackJacks, copying everything right down to the CamelCase “Black___" name.

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/samsung-blackjack-sgh-i607-at-t-review/

limi, to random
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@gruber The hydraulic press is implied.

gruber,
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@amigalove @limi Worked out really well for Commodore.

gruber,
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@amigalove @limi Don’t get me wrong. I will admit I never used a Commodore 128, but I had friends with the C64 in the 80s and it was great. And Amiga, of course, was a full decade ahead of its time in some ways. Video Toaster!

But I’m saying that an ad campaign like this betrays a mindset at a company that is destined to lose.

gruber,
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@amigalove @limi When was Apple at its nadir, in genuine danger of disappearing? When they ran ads like this:

daringfireball, to random
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★ Follow-Up on Apple No Longer Including In-Box Stickers With New Products
https://daringfireball.net/2024/05/no_more_stickers_follow-up

gruber,
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@raoufdool I only change my mind when I'm wrong.

clarko, to random
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To the designer behind this vocal shortcuts icon: bravo 👏

Love it

gruber,
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@BrendanThompson @clarko Hopefully out of beta soon?

cdevroe, to random
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@gruber You'll appreciate this, or, you'll wish I hadn't sent this to you. In the HIG, Apple clearly states that primary buttons should be “on the trailing side”. Under Components > Menus and actions > Buttons, they include this image…

Do they do this just to confuse us? Or, am I misreading the HIG?

gruber,
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@cdevroe Seems like a mistake to me. I can't see how it couldn't be. Although the advice to order the primary button "on the trailing side" isn't on that page, it's on the Presentation → Alerts page, so maybe someone there thinks this example is not alert-like enough for that to apply?

But I agree with you. It just rubs my eye for UI idioms wrong to see this.

royalicing, to random
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@gruber You mentioned iPadOS being separate from iOS by marketing brand only on a recent podcast.

The clearest sign of this is in Xcode. There’s no distinct iPadOS, only iOS:

gruber,
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@royalicing Agreed, that sort of says it all.

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