The Talk Show

‘Prison Oreos’, With Special Guest Jason Snell

Friday, 25 August 2017

Special guest Jason Snell returns to the show. Topics include Daring Fireball’s 15th anniversary, fruit fly infestations, clicky keyboards, sandwich cookies, the birth of Markdown, iOS 11’s new “cop mode”, favicons in Safari, Apple’s Project Titan, last week’s total solar eclipse, and Jerry Lewis.

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Links:

• Justin Scott’s “upstream/downstream” advice.
• Wireless Emergency AMBER Alerts have supposedly saved 40 kids.
• Steven Troughton-Smith’s new Apple Extended Keyboard II inspired keyboard.
• WASD keyboards.
• Leopold keyboards.
• WASD tester.
• Newman-O’s vs. Oreos.
• DF turns 15.
• This Is How Apple Rolls.
• Cop Mode on iOS 11.
• Mark Gurman’s embarrassing article positing that Apple follows its competitors.
• Safari should show favicons in tabs.
• Project Titan.
• iMessage as an unheralded social networking Goliath.
• Jason’s road trip.
  • Kottke on the eclipse.
• Letterman to return with Netflix series.
• Jerry Lewis and ‘The King of Comedy’).

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.