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gruber

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

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omt_conf, to random
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There are only 50 paid tickets remaining for One More Thing. If you would like priority seating, now is your chance, don't miss out. https://omt-conf.com/

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

BenRiceM, to random
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I’ve spent the last decade making award winning iOS apps, and I’d like to take what I’ve learned and help design your apps too.

If you’re interested in working together, get in touch with me at ben@obscura.studio

(and if you’re not interested, please share!)

ironicsans, to random
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My newest practical use-case for ChatGPT is using it as a plain-language bulk image editor. “Take these 20 images of varying sizes, and make them all 400 pixels tall. If any of them are wider than 16x9, crop the sides evenly so it's 16x9. Then give me one link to download them all.”

Works like a charm.

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

Love it

daringfireball, (edited ) to random
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Sam Altman Puts the Kibosh on Reuters Story Claiming OpenAI Is Launching a Search Engine Next Week
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/10/altman-openai-new-product

DonSqueak,
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@daringfireball @gruber Is it going to be a capitalisation tool?

jriga, to random
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@gruber Well, that escalated quickly.

_, to random
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Post every thought like it might be your last. An instant classic:

https://bsky.app/profile/electricalwsop.bsky.social/post/3krvwz6hvxa26

RIP, Steve Albini

bleakfuture, to random
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Nuts dot com sponsoring @gruber The Talk Show reminds me of an idea for a great ad read. Back in 2007ish CBS canceled the show Jericho after a single season - for reasons that made sense because of the show the fans response was NUTS! (A nod to Gen McAuliffe in WWII)

Nuts .com stepped up and helped us fans deliver 40,000lbs of nuts to CBS executives and they brought the show back to finish out the story. Wild times.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/FunMoney/story?id=3214156&page=1

viticci, to random
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Just your casual 2.5-hour conversation about this thing called "iPad" with @gruber and some guy from Italy: https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/04/29/ep-399

MostlyHarmless, to random
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Whoever wrote this headline is not paid enough.

steveriggins, to random
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Thanks, @gruber

heidilifeldman, to random
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Honestly, the Supreme Court justices today sounded even more deranged and clueless than I even expected. They are just too worried about hypothetical future presidents to focus on the fact that we have a former president indicted for attempting to overthrow an election who is now running for reelection on an explicitly authoritarian, anti-democracy platform. 1/

timbray, (edited ) to random
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When you have to enter a chunk of text on your mobile…

[boosts appreciated]

daringfireball, to random
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‘The Apple Jonathan: A Very 1980s Concept Computer That Never Shipped’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/22/apple-jonathan

ironicsans,
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@daringfireball In the late 90s I worked at a bookstore on the Upper West Side and Paul Kunkel used to come in occasionally to see if we had copies of AppleDesign he could sign. We would always end up chatting. He loved to talk about unreleased Apple models with almost disbelief that he got access to them. He was very enthusiastic. He told me about things like Jonathon like he was describing Big Foot. ("You wouldn't believe it, but it’s real I swear! We got photos of it!”)

christowski, to random German
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“Do you know Markdown?”
Friend who’s not in tech: “Mark who?”

_Davidsmith, to random
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While the App Store is far from perfect, seeing Delta sustain its position at the top of the App Store is a lovely reminder of its best feature.

That an indie developer can dedicate years honing their craft and then create something so compelling that it beats out apps from trillion-dollar companies, enriching the lives of millions of people along the way.

That’s beautiful. That’s inspiring. And just plain awesome.

I feel incredibly fortunate to have my career at a time when that is possible.

chockenberry, to random
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If you use a text editor to create Markdown that's destined for GitHub, let me recommend a tool that's indispensable to me: Marked 2

You point it at the file you're editing and every time you save, it previews the changes in another window. You can set different display themes, but I mainly use the built-in one for GitHub.

Saves a huge amount of time by avoiding markup errors that get committed, identified as incorrect on GitHub, fixed, and then recommitted.

https://marked2app.com

matt, to random
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I love how so many people are like “these reviewers are paid off” and this guy’s like, “nah, it’s malpractice for a reviewer to actually give a bad review.”

A historically bad tech take that should be put in a museum.

https://x.com/dvassallo/status/1779753281960722706

bert_hubert, to random
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May you one day theorize something and 48 years later be photographed with the 27 kilometer large country-spanning machine that confirmed you were right. Awesome photo of Peter Higgs courtesy of the @CMSexperiment at CERN.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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All the better to run all those ARM-based Windows ap…

…those Windows Phone ap…

…those Windows Subsystem for Android ap…

…I guess I see why they're excited about emulation performance
https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/112244317345277965

foser, to random
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the New York Times is now running op-eds insisting Joe Biden is unpopular in another country. (The only current polling the op-ed cites in support of its core premise shows Irish people prefer Biden to Trump by a 50-14 margin.)

gruber, to random
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Kubrick predicting iPad-like tablets and vertical video in 1968.
https://botsin.space/@2001faster/112168316108705131

brianrkf,
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@gruber The predictions from 2001 are uncanny. Tablets? Check. Vertical video? Check. People not interacting in person and glued to their gadgets? Check. Artificial intelligence hallucinating itself into utter insanity…..?

rileytestut, to random

since we have some, um, extra time, here’s what installing apps with AltStore will look like in the EU

atow, to random
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Working on a new app for Apple Photos on macOS, and want to gather the community's thoughts on how they organize and access their photos and albums. If you use Photos on a Mac, fill it out. It's short and all responses are private: https://forms.gle/ZGJj63a5NwYU5rhx9

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