The Talk Show With John Gruber

Daring Fireball / John Gruber

The director’s commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.

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Friday · 2 hr 25 min
453: ‘What’s in Louie’s Wallet’, With Louie Mantia
Louie Mantia returns to the show to talk about the state of UI and icon design on Apple's platforms, and some speculation on Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI. Sponsored by: Notion: The collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents work side by side, with a Developer Platform teams can build on. Even Realities: Even G2, the everyday display smart glasses. Use promo code talkshow to save 10% off the R1 Ring and/or Even Clip. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code TALKSHOW. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: Louie on the squircle: “The Shape of Apps”. Me, linking to Louie on the squircle. Louie on Alan Dye: “A Responsibility to the Industry”. Me: “Bad Dye Job”. Me, after WWDC 2025, comparing Dye’s introduction of Liquid Glass to Steve Jobs’s introduction of Aqua back in January 2000. UI designer Chan Karunamuni’s tweet on Steve Lemay: “Steve’s been my manager for my entire 15 year career so far at Apple and I could not be more excited for this new era.”. Karunamuni’s Twitter/X account, with links regarding Liquid Glass, the Dynamic Island, and the cool Flashlight beam UI. Louie on The Talk Show last year. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
July 24 · 2 hr 44 min
452: ‘A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint’, With Quinn Nelson
Quinn Nelson returns to the show to discuss OpenAI’s ChatGPT/Codex “native” app migration fiasco, Siri AI in Apple’s OS 27 betas, MacOS 27 Golden Gate, and the hottest new cell phone of the year, the Trump T1. Sponsored by: Notion: Try the powerful, all-in-one Notion AI today. Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free daily greens, with code talkshow50off. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code TALKSHOW. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: Quinn’s hilarious but utterly fair review of the Trump T1. Quinn: “Apple Just Fixed Mac Gaming and Said Nothing”. John Siracusa on ATP endorsing Quinn’s idea for an Apple gaming console. Valve founder/CEO Gabe Newell on working with Apple. “Stupid-Americans are the New Irish-Americans, Trump is Their JFK”, by “tarltontarlton” on Reddit (and posted here on Daring Fireball). This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
July 1 · 1 hr 51 min
451: ‘Taking Drugs to Get Fat’, With John Moltz
The great John Moltz returns to the show. Topics include Apple’s hardware price hikes in response to the global RAM/SSD shortage, and some spitballing on what we like about the UI changes in the MacOS 27 Golden Gate beta. Sponsored by: Coax: Defeat the tyranny of choice. Channel surf your Plex server. Relax with Coax. Even Realities: Even G2, the everyday display smart glasses. Use promo code talkshow to save 10% off the R1 Ring and/or Even Clip. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code TALKSHOW. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: RAM Doubler and DiskDoubler, which came from two different developers. StuffIt and Compact Pro. “Apple in China” by Patrick McGee. Patrick McGee on The Talk Show last year. “Go Computer Now!”, Ben Zotto’s book on Sphere Computer Corporation. Movies: The Player Airplane! Monty Python and the Holy Grail "Apple Faced Bipartisan Opposition When It Last Lobbied to Buy Chinese RAM in 2022". Gnome, Lex Friedman's clever new animated GIF search/library utility for Mac and iOS. (Also: My link to Gnome at DF.) Biff! -- Moltz's fun superhero TV/movie podcast cohosted with Dan Moren and Guy English. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
June 23 · 2 hr 44 min
450: ‘Perp Walk for Selfies’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, his and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast. Sponsored by: Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free daily greens, with code talkshow50off. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code TALKSHOW. Finalist — A daily planner for iPhone, iPad and Mac, built on proven paper-based planning methods. DF readers get six months free; see details at the link. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: “Designed in California” — Kickstarter campaign running through the end of June 2026 to fund Jason and Myke Hurley’s 50-episode Apple history podcast. If you don’t back this you’re not hooked up right. WebKit in Safari 27 changes and notes, from the WebKit blog. Helium — My favorite Chromium browser for the Mac. Fast, free, no bloat. Camino — An open source Mac-assed web browser based on the Mozilla engine from the 2000s. Last updated in 2012, but, blessedly, the website still works. When it was discontinued I described it as “like a glass of ice water on a hot day for Mac users who wanted a modern but Mac-like browser in the early years of Mac OS X.”. Photos of John Ternus and Tim Cook at Apple’s WWDC post-Keynote “Tech Talk”: Mine. Federico Viticci’s. Jason on BBEdit 16, the world’s greatest text editor. Jason, writing at Macworld, on the foundation of Apple’s OS 27 updates. Jason, writing at Macworld, on Mac OS X Snow Leopard back in 2009. (The update cost $29 — which we thought was cheap, because previous Mac OS X updates cost $129.) Boston College’s Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
June 10 · 1 hr 59 min
449: ‘Live From WWDC 2026’, With Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel
Recorded in front of a live audience at The California Theatre in San Jose on Tuesday 9 June 2026, special guests Joanna Stern and Nilay Patel join John Gruber to discuss Apple’s announcements at WWDC 2026. Video: This show is available to watch on YouTube. 3D video with spatial audio: Exclusively in Sandwich Vision's Theater on Vision Pro, available on the App Store. Sponsored by: DetailsPro — Design with SwiftUI anytime, anywhere: on iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Vision Pro. Get one year of DetailsPro Premium for $26 (normally $59.99) with this link. Flighty — The world’s best flight tracker and travel app. Now hiring one Senior Product Designer and one Senior Full-Stack iOS Engineer. Finalist — A daily planner for iPhone, iPad and Mac, built on proven paper-based planning methods. DF readers get six months free; details at the link. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: Apple’s WWDC keynote and State of the Union videos. New Things — Joanna’s new thing. Joanna’s first take on Apple’s announcements. I Am Not a Robot — Joanna’s new bestselling book on consumer AI. Sandwich — the team behind the video version of this show. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
June 1 · 1 hr 50 min
448: ‘Twins Named John’, With Stephen Hackett
Stephen Hackett returns to the show to help me make sense of a problem that is hard even to describe, let alone solve, regarding Apple One, family sharing, a separate Media & Purchasing account, and iCloud storage space. Also: what we’re expecting from WWDC 2026. Sponsored by: Notion: Try the powerful, all-in-one Notion AI today. Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free daily greens, with code talkshow50off. Even Realities: Even G2, the everyday display smart glasses. Use promo code talkshow to save 10% off the R1 Ring and/or Even Clip. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code TALKSHOW. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: Cross Forward — David Smith’s suite of iOS apps, where Stephen is now managing director. 512 Pixels. Connected — The weekly podcast Stephen co-hosts with Myke Hurley and Federico Viticci. Apple Support: Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another Apple Account. What happens to your iCloud storage when you sign up for Apple One. Stephen’s post on the restrictions around Apple Account migration. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
May 16 · 2 hr 15 min
447: ‘A Sociopathic Father’, With Adam Lisagor
Adam Lisagor returns to the show to talk about Hovercraft, his new virtual presentation camera app for Mac, and how he's developing it with AI coding tools. Also, delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies. Sponsored by: Parcel: Track your packages in one place, with native apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. Scribe: Instantly capture and optimize workflows so your teams and AI agents do their best work. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code TALKSHOW. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: Hovercraft — A virtual presentation camera for Mac. Adam’s intro video, on Twitter/X. Version 1.1 is already out with some cool new features. Theater — Sandwich Vision’s theater experience app for VisionOS. Television — Sandwich’s, well, television experience app. Cursor — Adam’s preferred coding agent. Birdhouse, Adam and Cameron Hunt’s “Notepad for Twitter” from 2009. The Birdhouse launch video, which launched Sandwich Video. Daring Fireball: Birdhouse — A Notepad for Twitter. Noir — Delicious Japanese spite sandwich cookies. Allen Pike. Allen on The Talk Show, back in December 2024. Yojimbo. The graph I generated, using AppleScript and Numbers, of the new Yojimbo items I’ve created per year. Canon’s XL1 digital video camera from 1998. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
May 1 · 2 hr 46 min
446: ‘Food and Beverage Director’, With MG Siegler
MG Siegler returns to the show to discuss Apple’s announcement that Tim Cook is stepping aside (into the role of executive chairman) and John Ternus will become CEO. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code TALKSHOW. Drafts: The Swiss Army knife for text on all your Apple devices. Act now to get your first year of Drafts Pro for 50% off. Finalist: A daily planner for iPhone, iPad and Mac, built on proven paper-based planning methods. Use this link to get six months free. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: Apple Newsroom: “Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman; John Ternus to become Apple CEO”. “Johny Srouji named Apple’s Chief Hardware Officer”. MG, at Spyglass: “A Cook’s Tour”. “John Ternus’s Magic Show”. Yours truly: “Another Day Has Come”. “Time to Serve Some Delicious Claim Chowder Regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO Transition”. “The New York Times Printed the Wrong Crossword Grid Last Sunday, and I Find That Timing Serendipitous”. Steven Levy: “Apple’s Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product” (paywall-busting Apple News+ link). 2008: “Joe Nocera Gets a Call From Steve Jobs”. 2010, regarding Mark Papermaster, whom Steve Jobs fired just weeks after the iPhone 4 antennagate press conference: “Papermaster and That Damn Antenna.” “Look at how many blueberries your muffin has, and how many mine has. Yours is falling apart. I have nothing.” This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
April 1 · 2 hr 34 min
445: ‘Apple at 50’, With John Siracusa
Who better to join the show to commemorate Apple’s 50th anniversary than John Siracusa? Sponsored by: Sentry: A real-time error monitoring and tracing platform. Use code TALKSHOW for $80 in free credits. Notion: The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together. Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free breakfast for 1 year, with code talkshow50off. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code TALKSHOW. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: The Commodore VIC-20. Apple’s looks-good-to-this-day “Snow White” hardware design language from the 1980s, created in collaboration with Frog Design. The Apple IIc — in my opinion, the epitome of “Snow White”. Frog Designed turned 50 back in 2019, and The Verge has some amazing photos from their collection, including a jaw-dropping prototype for the Lisa. Star Blazers. Yours truly, back in 2014, on the Finder’s “Special” menu. Yours truly guesting on The Verge’s Version History podcast, to talk about the original Macintosh. Hyperspace — Siracusa’s perfectly-named Mac utility for saving space via APFS magic. ATP (a pretty good podcast), and episode 683 in particular (a pretty good episode of that podcast, wherein Marco Arment tells the tale of the Mac Mini server farm he built for Overcast’s now-in-beta generated-transcripts feature). Infinite Mac — classic Mac (and NeXTStep) emulators that run in your web browser. “Can’t innovate anymore, my ass.” ResEdit 2.1 Reference — still hosted at Apple’s website. SNL’s “McIntosh Jr.” commercial, the best Apple parody ad ever made. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
March 29 · 1 hr 37 min
444: ‘You’re Going to Have the Niggles’, With Christina Warren
Christina Warren returns to the show to discuss Apple’s big month of product announcements — in particular, the iPhone 17e and MacBook Neo. And we pour one out for the Mac Pro. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code TALKSHOW. Sentry: A real-time error monitoring and tracing platform. Use code TALKSHOW for $80 in free credits. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: The iPhone 17e. Thoughts and Observations on the MacBook Neo. My review: The MacBook Neo. Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro With No Plans to Bring It Back. Yankees-Giants opens MLB season, on Netflix. Nomad 65W Slim Power Adapter. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
March 18 · 1 hr 25 min
443: ‘The Pogue Feature’, With David Pogue
Special guest David Pogue discusses his excellent and amazingly comprehensive new book, Apple: The First 50 Years. Sponsored by: Notion: The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow. Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free breakfast for 1 year, with code talkshow50off. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: “Apple: The First 50 Years” official website. Hardcover: Amazon Bookshop.org E-book: Kindle Apple Books Photo of Sculley and the other white dude in suits on his executive team, circa 1993, from page 251. (My son Jonas quipped that they look like the executives from the company that made Robocop.) The “Apple at 50” event David hosted at the Computer History Museum earlier this month. The similar event David hosted two years ago, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Macintosh. Matt Neuberg, back in 1998 (!), reviewing Conflict Catcher for TidBITS, with mention of the user manual. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
March 1 · 2 hr 16 min
442: ‘Bad Dates’, With Jason Snell
Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the 2025 Six Colors Apple Report Card, MacOS 26 Tahoe, Apple Creator Studio, along with what we expect/hope for in next week’s Apple product announcements. Sponsored by: Notion: The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow. Sentry: A real-time error monitoring and tracing platform. Use code TALKSHOW for $80 in free credits. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: Apple in 2025: The Six Colors Report Card. Kieran Healy, in a post at Six Colors published after we recorded the show: “Charting the Vibes in the 2025 Apple Report Card”. Kieran Healy’s homepage/weblog. My 2025 Apple Report Card. Upgrade: “The Shifting Sands of Liquid Glass”, wherein Jason and Myke discuss this year’s report card, and Jason makes rascally comments supporting MacOS 26 Tahoe. (And Myke isn’t much better.) Apple’s July 2025 announcement of the Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit. Derek Sivers, in 2005: “Ideas Are Just a Multiplier of Execution”. ChangeTheHeaders — a Safari extension I convinced Jeff Johnson to build, which, among other things, allows me never to be served WebP images in lieu of PNG or JPEG. StopTheMadness — the older sibling, companion Safari Extension to ChangeTheHeaders that gives you explicit control over all sorts of web features, on a per-website basis. (I conflated the two during the show.) WebP. Mac Launchers: LaunchBar (my favorite, and until Tahoe, Jason’s too). Alfred. Raycast. Tuna. Quicksilver. Incomplete list of what’s wrong with MacOS 26 Tahoe: Terrible app icons. The terrible idea to include inscrutable, inconsistent icons next to just about every menu item in every app, as documented by Jim Nielsen and Nikita Prokopov, and linked to by yours truly here and here, respectively. Norbert Heger: “The Struggle of Resizing Windows on macOS Tahoe” — and a follow-up. Daring Fireball: “Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe”. Daring Fireball: “Bad Dye Job”. Stephen Hackett’s MacOS Screenshot Library at 512 Pixels. Steve Krug’s classic book, “Don’t Make Me Think”. The Appearance Manager and the themes that never actually shipped for classic Mac OS. Comparing Alan Dye’s horseshitty introduction of Liquid Glass at WWDC 2025 to Steve Jobs’s introduction of Aqua back in 2000. Manu Cornet’s 2011 classic: “Organizational Charts In Major Tech”. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
February 25 · 2 hr 10 min
441: ‘Serious Opinionators’, With Adam Engst
Adam Engst returns to the show to talk, in detail, about certain of the UI changes in iOS 26 and Apple's version 26 OSes overall. In particular, the new Unified view in the Phone app, and the Filter pop-up menu in both the Phone and Messages apps. Also: a shoutout to Balloon Help. Sponsored by: Sentry: A real-time error monitoring and tracing platform. Use code TALKSHOW for $80 in free credits. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow. Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free breakfast for 1 year, with code talkshow50off. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: Adam’s two pieces on the Classic and Unified views in the iOS 26 Phone app: “Hidden Setting Controls What Happens When You Tap a Call in the Phone App”. “Comparing the Classic and Unified Views in iOS 26’s Phone App”. My link post, with some commentary. Reader support for TidBITS in 2026. Brent Simmons, linking to code, on how to eliminate all the menu item icons in a Mac app built for MacOS 26 Tahoe. Paul Kafasis’s One Foot Tsunami. Nikita Prokopov: “It’s Hard to Justify Tahoe (Menu Bar) Icons”. Yours truly, linking to Prokopov: “A shitty idea that works against usability, inconsistently implemented, all in the name of adding some ugly visual bling to the UI.” Jim Nielsen on Tahoe’s menu-item icons: “Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help”. Yours truly, linking to Nielsen: “Well, who’s laughing now?” Norbert Heger: “The Struggle of Resizing Windows on macOS Tahoe” — and a follow-up. Daring Fireball: “Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe”. Daring Fireball: “Bad Dye Job”. Episode sponsor Sentry’s two-minute video showing how to use Seer, their AI debugging agent. TipKit Apple Developer documentation. Balloon Help in System 7. David Pogue’s soon-to-be-released book: “Apple: The First 50 Years”. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
February 1 · 2 hr 6 min
440: ‘Flush a Radar’, With Brent Simmons
Brent Simmons returns to the show. Topics include NetNewsWire 7, MacOS 26 Tahoe, and I guess, some other stuff. Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow. Sentry: A real-time error monitoring and tracing platform. Use code TALKSHOW for $80 in free credits. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: NetNewsWire 7. How to omit menu item icons on Tahoe. Rogue Amoeba, on omitting those icons. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
January 27 · 1 hr 59 min
439: ‘A Mitigated Disaster’, With Daniel Jalkut
Daniel Jalkut returns to the show so we can both vent about MacOS 26 Tahoe. Sponsored by: Notion: The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow. Sentry: A real-time error monitoring and tracing platform. Use code TALKSHOW for $80 in free credits. Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free breakfast for 1 year, with code talkshow50off. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: Classic Mac OS Control Strip. Manu Cornet’s oft-cited cartoon caricaturizing the org charts of major tech companies circa 2011. Black Ink. MarsEdit. Rogue Amoeba: “Removing Tahoe’s Unwanted Menu Icons”. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Dec 31, 2025 · 2 hr 42 min
438: ‘2025 Year in Review’, With Rene Ritchie
A look back at Apple’s 2025, with special guest Rene Ritchie. Sponsored by: Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free breakfast for 1 year, with code talkshow50off. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: The classic Mac OS Appearance Manager and its support for (rather garish) themes: ATPM, August 2000: “GUI Junkie: Schemin’ and Themin’” by Christopher Turner. Includes screenshots. Wikipedia: Appearance Manager. Luria Petrucci celebrates 20 years on YouTube. Steve Jobs on product people vs. sales/marketing people, back in the early 1990s. John Browett’s brief tenure running retail at Apple back in 2012. His sacking was effectively a footnote in the announcement that Apple had parted with Scott Forstall. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Dec 24, 2025 · 2 hr 28 min
437: ‘A Naughty Citizen’, With Quinn Nelson
Special guest Quinn Nelson returns for a two-topic holiday spectacular: the iPad in the wake of iPadOS 26, and Apple's executive changes as Tim Cook seemingly nears the end of his time as CEO. Sponsored by: Notion: The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: Quinn on YouTube: "The iPad's Software Problem Is Permanent". "Apple Is Falling Apart (On Purpose)" (on executive shuffling). Spark -- Quinn's email app of choice. Yours truly back in January 2020: "The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10". Slide Over was originally eliminated in iPadOS 26 but came back in 26.1. Apple Notes extension apps, available on the Mac because they're only possible on the Mac because the iPad and iPhone are baby computers: ProNotes. NotesCmdr. Mark Papermaster, the hardware executive who took the fall for the iPhone 4 antenna saga. The classic cartoon from 2013: "Organizational Charts of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle". This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Nov 30, 2025 · 1 hr 35 min
436: ‘Financial Boner’, With Tyler Hayes
Special guest: Tyler Hayes. Topics include how to get a small phone today, which way foldables should fold, the state of Apple TV (including its new “sonic logo”), and some holiday gift gadget recommendations. Sponsored by: Clic for Sonos: No lag. No hassle. Just Clic. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: This Week The Trend. Tyler on the flip-style Motorola Razr as a small phone solution. DF: “Tyler Hayes Suggests Trying a Flip-Style Foldable If You Want a Smaller Phone”. Tyler: “Apple TV Is Finally Worth $99 Per Year”. Ad Age: “Apple TV’s Colorful New Branding Was Built With Glass and Captured In-Camera”. Aura Ink, $500 e-paper picture frame. Chargers: Anker Nano 70W 3-port charger — $50, on sale for $32 if you act fast. Nomad’s excellent “slim” chargers, in 40W (one port), 65W (two ports), and 100W (two ports) — I think the 65W one is the sweet spot. Nomad’s Wallet Tracking Card, compatible with Find My. (Not mentioned on the show, but very cool — Tyler and I both own one and recommend them.). Sharge’s Pixel 100W and 140W chargers, with cool fat-pixel dot-matrix displays on the side. The Sigma BF, a gorgeous, minimal L-mount camera. $2,200 at B&H Camera. Tyler’s August issue of This Week The Trend that mentioned it. Govee Smart Christmas Lights. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Nov 22, 2025 · 1 hr 18 min
435: ‘Lincoln Bio Services’, With Stephen Robles
Special guest Stephen Robles joins the show. Topics include indie media and YouTube, Shortcuts and automation, and the state of podcasting. Sponsored by: Uncommon Goods: Out of the ordinary gifts, great for the holidays. Save 15% off your next purchase after following that link. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: Stephen goes indie: Stephen’s YouTube channel. Announcement: “I Don't Have a Job Anymore, Thanks to You”. Video: “These Shortcuts Are Magic”. Primary Technology: Stephen's podcast, with cohost Jason Aten. Episode 74, May 2025, with yours truly as a guest. Apple Podcasts and AI-generated chapters: Apple Podcasts for Creators: “Enhance Your Episodes With Chapters, Links, and More”. Daring Fireball: “Apple Podcasts Is Adding AI-Generated Chapters for Podcasts Without Chapters”. Primary Technology discussion. Beard.fm: “Apple’s Losing Its Podcast Legacy”. Downie, a fantastic Mac app for downloading local copies of videos from the web (especially YouTube). Daring Fireball post on Downie 4, from early this year. Transloader — Apps from Eternal Storms that allow you to initiate downloads on a Mac remotely from an iPhone, iPad, or another Mac. F-Bomb paperweight at sponsor Uncommon Goods. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
Nov 18, 2025 · 1 hr 54 min
434: ‘Knee-Jerk Contrarian’, With Dan Frommer
Special guest Dan Frommer returns to the show. Topics include the indie media business, the iPhone Pocket, the iPhone Air (including rumors about the second generation model), AI “personalities”, and five years of Apple Silicon Macs. Also, six years of Dan’s site, The New Consumer. Sponsored by: Factor: Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free breakfast for 1 year, with code talkshow50off. Notion: The AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together. Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code talkshow. Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good. Links: Dan’s site: The New Consumer. Fromedome. iPhone Pocket: Apple’s announcement. My link. Recalling iPod Socks. Steve Jobs’s signature black turtlenecks. Sold out in hours. iPhone Air: WSJ: “Apple’s iPhone Air Is a Marketing Win and a Sales Flop” My response. Rumors re: the second-gen iPhone Air. Jason Snell at Six Colors, in 2022: “Find Photos Taken by Specific iPhone Lenses”. Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, Two MLB Pitchers, Charged in Gambling Investigation. Ricoh GR IIIx: A few example photos I’ve taken with mine. This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.