John Gruber
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I write Daring Fireball and created Markdown.
Just one day after Election Day and I'm already getting next-cycle spam from Democrats again. My name is not "Michael", for what it's worth, and I've had the same phone number for like 30 years. Infuriating.
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““There’s been only one shortcoming in Dallas this year: the entire defense, which is on pace to be one of the worst we’ve ever seen.”
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The Winners and Losers of the 2025 NFL Trade Deadline — The Ringer
For once, the NFL’s trade deadline delivered. The league didn’t collectively execute more trades on Tuesday than it has in recent years (in 2022, a record 12 players were moved in 10 total deadline tr...
https://apple.news/AuaM-PqZ9RZq7Glv-74JC4g
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I was there for this evening in February 2012—3 months before Hop Sing actually opened—and it was even more mind-bending than Jason Sheehan describes.
www.phillymag.com/foobooz/202...
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How One Night in Chinatown Changed Philly's Cocktail Scene Forever
When Hop Sing Laundromat first opened, everyone thought it would fail. Instead, it ushered in a new era.
https://www.phillymag.com/foobooz/2025/11/04/hop-sing-laundromat-cocktails/
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Newsom 2028.
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That’s baseball.
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My advice to the Blue Jays: Don't drop any easy fly balls to the outfield.
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The Nobel Peace Prize campaign gathers steam.
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Craig Calcaterra
6 days ago
I keep getting this ad for men’s clothing. It’s absolutely wild that it took this long for Han Solo Core to catch on.
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11 days ago
I enjoy your work. I think you’re a thoughtful and perspicacious analyst, and fundamentally a good guy. But I *love* rooting against your asinine NFL picks. I can’t explain this well of hatred it taps into.
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NFL week 8 picks:
gruber.micro.blog/2025/10/26/nfl…
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NFL 2025 Week 8 Picks
https://gruber.micro.blog/2025/10/26/nfl-week-picks.html
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Fetterman lost the plot. If the Democrats unite behind one primary opponent (Conor “One N” Lamb would be my pick), he’s going to get creamed. What a fucking buffoon.
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Richard M. Nixon
16 days ago
"Trump is tearing down the White House." Hit that. It's not exactly true, but it's not lie. You have the photos. Poll it. The poll is not the point, of course.
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22 days ago
Talking Points Memo is turning 25 and I wrote a little encomium to early blogging, which I sometimes miss:
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...
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What Made Blogging Different?
Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-made-blogging-different
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Acyn
21 days ago
Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.
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Yankees have the Blue Jays right where they want them.
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29 days ago
Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."
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about 1 month ago
@gruber.foo
I found it!
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App Store scam of the week?
apps.apple.com/us/app/sora-2-...
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Sora 2: AI Video Generator
Transform your ideas into stunning videos instantly with the power of professional AI models - no filming experience required. Create captivating videos from just text descriptions or images using cutting-edge AI technology. Whether you're crafting content for social media, marketing campaigns, or…
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sora-2-ai-video-generator/id6747757145
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'Fuck You, Make Me'
daringfireball.net/linked/202...
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‘Fuck You, Make Me’
Link to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohPToBog_-g
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/03/fuck-you-make-me
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NFL 2025 Week 1 Picks
https://gruber.micro.blog/2025/09/07/nfl-week-picks.html
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Max Kennerly
2 months ago
Huh I wonder why Trump fired him oh there's a picture included, nevermind, same as usual
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This is some fucked up shit.
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2 months ago
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digby
3 months ago
VP JD Vance is opining on the Bolton case on television. Before we had an authoritarian tyrant running the government, the VP would say that it's in the hands of the DOJ and refuse to comment. But he's a motor mouth who can't help strutting and posing about everything just like his boss.
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My favorite post in a while:
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Woz: ‘I Am the Happiest Person Ever’
Link to: https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23765914&cid=65583466
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/15/woz-on-slashdot
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Trump should demand that whoever made today’s Wordle be fired.
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"I've got an exclusive for you. We're offering Google $34.5 billion to buy Chrome." "You're not talking to anyone else?" "Nope, exclusive for the Journal. I definitely do not have a colleague sitting next to me on the phone with Bloomberg as we speak."
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Jessie Char
3 months ago
A better Tim (Snyder) wrote, “Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.”
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★ Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon
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Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon
It is disturbing to think that the leader of a beloved, trusted, and widely believed-to-be-ethical company like Apple has succumbed to avarice. That Tim Cook feels no qualms about — or perhaps even delights in — participating in a quid-pro-quo-driven corrupt administration in which flattery, fealty, gifts, and barely-concealed bribes are rewarded. That the United States devolving into kleptocracy suits Tim Cook just fine, because Apple’s pockets are deep enough to pay the vig. But the alternative is more disturbing.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/gold_frankincense_and_silicon
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southpaw
3 months ago
We’re defying basic number theory at this point—riding roughshod over the intrinsic properties of integers.
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post malone ergo propter malone
3 months ago
a fun game to play with BLS numbers is to go “that’s stupid, why do they do it that way” and then go find the paper explaining why they do it that way to see if you still think it’s stupid, and if you do, you win I am like 0 for 19 lifetime at this game
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Glenn Fleishman
3 months ago
Struggling with figuring out how to get International service when roaming outside of the United States? I’ve untangled all the carrier options and roaming eSIM alternatives for you @sixcolors
sixcolors.com/post/2025/07...
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Don’t overpay for cellular data while traveling
Travelers used to find themselves at a loss for cheap mobile data when traveling outside of their home country or region, and often wound up paying dearly for it. You now have an enormous range of …
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/07/dont-overpay-for-cellular-data-while-traveling/
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Incredible.
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★ICEBlock, an iOS Exclusive
https://daringfireball.net/2025/07/iceblock
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ICEBlock, an iOS Exclusive
To maintain anonymity and store zero user data, there is and can be no web app version of ICEBlock. There is and can be no Android version. Only iOS supports the security and privacy features for ICEBlock to offer what it does, the way it does.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/07/iceblock
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 months ago
Just this week, the 79-year-old president hallucinated a lie about the Unabomber, forgot he appointed the Fed Chair he hates, blanked on names of officials, fell asleep at a rally, threatened to strip Rosie O'Donnell of her citizenship and spun wild theories about his good friend the pedophile.
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Baseball fans like to debate who the GOAT is, and to me the GOAT is John Smoltz, because he managed to make the Hall of Fame despite not knowing a single thing about the game of baseball.
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Tim Onion
4 months ago
I'm about to do it. I'm about to say "imagine if Biden did this." I don't want to but I must, because it'd be very funny. Imagine if Biden said his uncle told him how brilliant the Unabomber was a decade before he was identified. Imagine the very funny NYT push notification you'd get on your phone.
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Jiminy.
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K-Billy Supersounds of the 70s
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I love Drexel and I hope this guy is a great president and he's there for a few decades of growth and success. But damn if he isn't a dead ringer for Merkin Muffley.
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★ More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 The Movie' Wallet Ad
https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-eroding_f1_the_movie_wallet_ad
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More on Apple’s Trust-Eroding ‘F1 The Movie’ Wallet Ad
Sending this ad is completely destructive to all the hard work other teams at Apple have done to make Apple Wallet actually private — and, more importantly, *to get users to believe that it’s private*.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-eroding_f1_the_movie_wallet_ad
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Many thanks to
@gruber.foo
for having me back on The Talk Show this week:
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
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The Talk Show: ‘Through the Wall Like Kool-Aid Man’
Link to: https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2025/06/26/ep-425
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/26/the-talk-show-425
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Ants
5 months ago
Not the biggest issue right now, but Dutch continues to not be a serious language
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Craig Grannell
5 months ago
Retrospecs, a superb iPhone and iPad app that can make any image look like it's from a classic game system, is having a ridiculous barg sale: $0.99/99p for full unlock. If you don't already have it, buy it!
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/retrospecs/id887031094
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Retrospecs
A retro computing / pixel art camera app. Retrospecs lets you convert images and video clips so they appear as they would on a wide variety of home computers and consoles from the 70's, 80's and 90's. Simply take a picture (or select one from your photo library) and you can display it as it would…
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/retrospecs/id887031094
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I don't know will be funnier — if Trump himself starts using one of these, or if he doesn't.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/16/trump-mobile
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Trump Mobile — The President Launches a Mobile Carrier and a $500 ‘T1’ Android Phone
Link to: https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/trump-mobile-wireless-phone-service-launch-1236431690/?ref=platformer.news
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/16/trump-mobile
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5 months ago
Whether it's Democrats putting flyers on Chris Cillizza’s Tesla or Republicans assassinating Democratic lawmakers, it's time for both sides to turn down the temperature.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqwPUHTFEkg
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The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose Tuesday evening, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2025. Presented by: iMazing — The world’s most trusted software to transfer and save your messages, music, files and data from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac or PC. https://imazing.com/thetalkshow DetailsPro — Design with SwiftUI anytime, anywhere -- on iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Vision Pro. https://detailspro.app?utm_campaign=dfwwdc25 Ooni — Next-gen pizza power. The Koda 2 Pro oven features smarter heat, more room, and easier control. Save 10% with code "thetalkshow". https://ooni.com/thetalkshow Time stamps: 00:00:00 – Welcome and sponsors. 00:07:23 – What happened with Moltz? 00:12:27 – Apple Intelligence and Siri 00:44:29 – Visual Intelligence 01:11:01 – Liquid Glass 01:25:18 – VisionOS 26 01:30:25 – iOS and iPadOS 26 01:59:43 – Spotlight and MacOS 26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqwPUHTFEkg
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What the fuck is wrong with these people?
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5 months ago
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please stop with the Siri posts. I swear no one else cares as much as you do about Siri and at this point it seems like you need to be proven right or something? “These people aren’t your friends” is a good lesson you learned (again) but scorned lover is a look best suited 4 some1 else.
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Ron Filipkowski
5 months ago
A US Senator. Donald Trump’s America.
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Starting to doubt there’s going to be an Olympics in 2028.
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