The Talk Show With John Gruber
Daring Fireball / John Gruber
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This again. Jiminy. Well, once more, let's talk around another election, and try, by doing so, to maybe express something about it.
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- Previously on The Talk Show, with Merlin:
- Holiday Party 2016 (the bad one)
- Holiday Party 2020 (the good one)
- Yours truly, on this week: “How It Went”.
- Seki Edge nail clippers:
- Panzarino at The Obsessor: “The Best Nail Clippers You’ll Ever Use”.
- The Talk Show, October 2022: ‘Big Booger Came After You’, where Merlin first recommended these to me.
- Get them at Amazon for $16. Buy two pairs.
- Kai scissors. Get a few pairs of these too.
- Merlin’s Wisdom Project. Read this if you haven’t. Read it again if you have. So good.
- Reconcilable Differences — Merlin’s podcast with John Siracusa. The kids call it “Rec Diffs”.
- Merlin’s Happy Place — a YouTube playlist, comprised of “Videos I watch pretty often when I need a little pick-me-up.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Dan Moren returns to the show to discuss this week’s introductions of the first M4 Macs: iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pros.
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Links:
- Yours Truly: “In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement”.
- “Sidenote of the Week: All MacBook Air Models Now Start With 16 GB RAM”.
- Dan, in a column for Macworld: “The Truth Behind Apple’s Most Unpopular Decisions: It’s Not About You”.
- M4 iMac:
- M4 Mac Mini, now even mini-er:
- Daring Fireball: “Apple Unveils Mac Minis With M4 and M4 Pro Chips”.
- Dan Moren: “The M4 Mac Mini: Tricks and Treats”.
- M4 MacBook Pros:
- All Souls Lost — Dan’s latest novel, a modern noir mystery.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Tyler Stalman joins the show to discuss the iPhone 16 lineup’s cameras, and the state of iPhone photography.
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- Tyler Stalman on YouTube:
- Tyler’s recommended Photographic Styles recipe:
- Undertone: Amber
- Tone: -50 to -60
- Color: 20
- Palette: 100
- JPEG XL.
- Steven Soderbergh has shot two feature films on iPhones:
- Robert Rodriguez:
- El Mariachi — his debut feature film, shot for just $7,000 in 1992.
- Desperado — his big-budget 1995 sequel, starring Antonio Banderas and Selma Hayek.
- Rebel Without a Crew — Rodriguez’s book on the making of El Mariachi.
- Benedict Evans: “The Best Is the Last”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss Apple’s September product announcements, and Meta’s Orion prototype AR glasses. Absolutely no baseball talk, almost.
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Links:
- Ten years of Six Colors.
- Take Control of Photos (updated for iOS 18 and MacOS 15 Sequoia).
- KQED: Fans Flood Coliseum to Bid Emotional Farewell to A’s at Last Game in Oakland.
- A’s fan who was at their first game in Oakland in 1968, and their final game last week.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Nilay Patel returns to the show to consider the iPhones 16.
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- Nilay’s review of the iPhone 16 Pro.
- Also from Nilay: “Let’s Compare Apple, Google, and Samsung’s Definitions of ‘a Photo’”.
- Yours Truly’s iPhones 16 review.
- Also from truly: “The Things They Carried” (thoughts and observations on Apple’s event).
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.