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The Talk Show With John Gruber

207: ‘Christmas Mitzvah’ With Merlin Mann

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2017

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Merlin Mann returns to the show for a Thanksgiving-week holiday spectacular. Topics include the history of Markdown, nerding out with Keyboard Maestro, kids today and the computers they want to use, caring about idiomatic native UI design, a look back at last year's election, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If there's any appliance, I don't want to turn into a social network or advertising platform.

0:08.0

It's communications, like a phone.

0:10.6

I don't want to know if somebody's having time.

0:12.4

This is not part of the show because talking about Skype is like, it's like a college

0:16.8

newspaper columnist writing about writing at college.

0:20.4

You have to include this in the show.

0:23.9

Here's the problem.

0:25.4

It's like, and this is this, everybody goes around with the Skype works fine until it doesn't.

0:30.4

It's mostly fine.

0:31.4

It's annoying.

0:32.4

It's weird that it has ads in it.

0:35.2

It's strange that I've got, there's so much craft.

0:38.0

I want like five buttons to click to connect with the people that I talked to you and I don't

0:43.0

want anyone else to talk to.

0:44.0

That's exactly what I want.

0:45.0

I want like somebody to build me a front end for Skype.

0:48.2

Right.

0:49.2

Right.

0:50.2

Let's go back.

0:51.2

You can probably just put it together yourself.

0:52.2

You're just doing more down there.

0:53.2

I just laugh because it's the podcast is it's like I'm half writer during Fireball, half

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