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The Talk Show With John Gruber

272: ‘The Save Twitch’ With Rich Siegel

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

For your holiday listening enjoyment, very special guest Rich Siegel joins the show to talk about BBEdit's past, present, and future, the state of developing for the Mac, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

First guest ever we're up on episode this is episode 272 first time I've ever had a guest who I've worked for

0:08.7

And it'll never happen again. Well, maybe you'll come back

0:11.8

But I've run out I was gonna say that sounded a little ominous. I've run out of former employers. I believe food who I can

0:19.8

There are there's a lot of long list anyway

0:23.2

But anyway, I thought what better time BB at 13 came out

0:28.5

Recently, I actually don't have the date in front of me, but I've always liked the idea of having I need to do it more often is have some of my

0:37.2

Developers come out and you know movie stars come out with a movie. What do they do? They go on shows talk about it

0:42.3

Why don't developers do it when there's a major release?

0:46.2

And you know that's that that's a sort of an old-school big co thing to do

0:51.4

From back in the day is whenever there was a major release the

0:55.0

The company would would go out on tour they do a press tour they go around everywhere and meet with everybody and

1:02.7

And that's how it used to work

1:05.3

Your BB at its career

1:07.8

Well, BB doesn't have a career, but your career leading co-founding bear bones with your longtime partner Patrick

1:14.4

How's Patrick doing by the way? He's he's great. He's the same as he ever was unchanged

1:19.3

13's a big number you've always been relatively conservative

1:26.5

I would say in the grand scheme of version numbers that if it's a dot-o. It's pretty significant

1:33.1

13 but how long how old is BB at it now?

1:35.8

so

1:37.0

The first commercial V your version of BB at it was 2.5 and that shipped back in

1:43.5

May of 1993

1:46.2

You and I used to always talk about it. You've always said that one of the it's sort of like

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