439: ‘A Mitigated Disaster’, With Daniel Jalkut
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 119 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Daniel, it's good to see you. |
| 0:01.4 | You too. |
| 0:02.5 | We're both snowed in right now, right? Well, like the whole eastern half of the United States, I guess. I don't know. It's one of those times where everybody I know on the East Coast has the exact same weather. Yes, it's true. Sub-freezing and about a foot of snow. Exactly, yeah. I was just out before we started recording. I went out to fill |
| 0:22.3 | up a portable gas tank thing for my snowblower. And it's kind of surreal out there. I don't know |
| 0:28.0 | if you've been out at all, but it's just almost. Amy and I went out for a bit. Okay. Yeah. It's kind of, |
| 0:34.5 | kind of insane out there. But yeah, it's fun. I like it when everything |
| 0:38.1 | kind of slows down. Everything is forced to be slow. So, yeah, we get very little, well, |
| 0:44.9 | relatively speaking, we get little snow in Philadelphia. And we haven't had more than six inches |
| 0:52.5 | of snow. And I forget how many years they said but it doesn't |
| 0:55.5 | happen very often but I love it when it does because the city I mean because we live right in |
| 1:00.8 | the city and it gets so quiet from this when it snows because there's no traffic or almost |
| 1:06.0 | no traffic and the traffic that is there is just creeping by on a bed of snow and then I thought thought to myself, well, then if I like it so much, why the hell do I live in a noisy city? Oh, yeah. Well, you probably like all the things that you can get to amidst the noise. It's like when you like something once a year. Yeah, right, right. What else is going on? |
| 1:28.1 | Are you ready to hear all of my gripes? |
| 1:29.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:30.5 | I'm worried that everybody who reads Staring Fireball is going to get sick of me complaining about macOS 26 Tahoe. |
| 1:36.8 | I think it's kind of weird. |
| 1:39.0 | It's kind of surprising and weird, maybe not too surprising, but the way that everybody's complaining about Tahoe right now, |
| 1:46.1 | not just accidental tech podcast is going off on it. |
| 1:49.4 | There's partly inspired by these recent blog posts, like criticizing the icons and blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:55.2 | You would think that Tahoe came out like last week. |
| 1:58.0 | Yeah, and I was thinking about it. |
| 2:00.1 | And I forget when Apple first started consistently doing, I guess it's been a long time, |
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