Katie and David sit down with John Gruber of Daring Fireball to discuss the origins of his site, how he finds and publishes the news and how he uses his Mac and iOS.
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Daring Fireball
John Gruber (@gruber) | Twitter
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Daring Fireball: Independent Days
MovableType.org
Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 11
Pong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games and the very first sports arcade video game.
Apple II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products
Dave Winer
Texas Instruments TI-99/4A - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A was an early home computer, released in June 1981, originally at a price of US$525.
Atari 2600 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console released in September 1977 by Atari, Inc.
QuarkXPress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
QuarkXPress is a computer application for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment.
Gopher (protocol) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet.
Myriad (typeface) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Myriad is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly for Adobe Systems.
Movable Type - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Medium
MarsEdit 3 - Desktop blog editing for the Mac.
Stratechery by Ben Thompson - On the business, strategy, and impact of technology.
John Gruber, Daring Fireball - XOXO Festival (2014) - YouTube
For the last 12 years, John Gruber’s tracked the modern era of Apple on Daring Fireball, his personal web site turned full-time job. Bootstrapped with reader contributions and shirt sales, John’s thoughtful approach to sponsorship allowed him to remain fiercely independent, while working on projects like Markdown, The Talk Show, and Vesper, his minimalist note-taking app.
Daring Fireball: Markdown
Textile (markup language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Textile is a lightweight markup language originally developed by Dean Allen for use in the Textpattern CMS and billed as a "humane web text generator".
Mac Power Users 131: Markdown Revisited | Mac Power Users
Markdown: A MacSparky Field Guide
Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boing Boing
ios - Swift 1.2 Documentation Changes (Markdown Support) - Stack Overflow
The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 119, With Guest David Sparks
Special guest David Sparks joins the show for the first time. Topics include “power users”, Markdown, Apple Watch, the new MacBook, iCloud Photo Syncing and the new Photos for Mac, WWDC, and wearing slippers as “work” shoes.
Field Notes — “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.”
Monaco (typeface) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Monaco is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Susan Kare and Kris Holmes. It ships with OS X and was already present with all previous versions of the Mac operating system.