The Talk Show With John Gruber

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367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry


Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.

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Links:

  • Black Girls Code — recipients of $100 for each utterance of you-know-who’s name during this episode.
  • From the Daring Fireball archive (2009): “Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground”.
  • Craig, this week: “The Shit Show”.
  • My take this week: “Twitterrific: End of an Era”.
  • The Iconfactory’s other apps:
    • Wallaroo — delightful iOS wallpapers
    • Tot — text scratchpad for Mac and iOS
    • xScope — screen inspector for Mac designers
    • Linea — excellent drawing app for iPad
    • Frenzic — fun game in Apple Arcade
  • Edovia’s Screens — amazing VNC app to use your Mac from iOS devices.
  • Lights Off — the first-ever game for iPhone, still available in the App Store.
  • EDGE “2G” cellular data networking.
  • Blaine Cook, early Twitter engineer and champion of third-party client APIs, now all-in on Mastodon.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.


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 January 20, 2023  2h50m