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

The Talk Show With John Gruber · Daring Fireball / John Gruber

January 20, 20232h 50mExplicit

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Show Notes

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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