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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Guest Starring:

John Gruber

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Daring Fireball

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Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games and the very first sports arcade video game.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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Pinboard: social bookmarking for introverts

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LaunchBar 6

TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time

Tweetbot for Mac

Bjango

Panic - Transmit - The ultimate Mac OS X FTP + SFTP + S3 app

FastScripts

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264: Workflows with John Gruber