377: ‘guyenglish.zip’, With Guy English
Guy English returns to the show to talk about the live show from WWDC, Mac Pros past and future, Marathon and Mac gaming, and Apple’s seemingly imminent XR headset. And definitely not to talk about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
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Links:
The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2013, with special guests Guy English and Scott Simpson. (Audio only — no video back then.)
Tickets for this year’s show at WWDC 2023.
SectorC: A C compiler in 512 bytes.
Wikipedia’s entry on the original Marathon.
“How Bungie’s Marathon Connects to the Original Game”.
Bungie’s teaser site for the new Marathon.
Apple’s MS-DOS compatible 486 Macintosh from 1995.
Harman Kardon SoundSticks. (In the show, we erroneously attribute them to Bose. We regret the error.)
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
335: ‘Blofeld-69-420’, With Guy English
Guy English returns to the show to talk about video games, the cold, the Heat, and the state of streaming video services.
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Links:
“Heat 2”:
“Heat”.
Michael Mann’s tweet announcing “Heat 2”.
I almost plotzed.
Michael Mann on The Rewatchables in November 2021, talking about “Heat”.
Roger Ebert in 2010: “Video Games Can Never Be Art”.
Me, in 2014: “I really wish [Ebert] had lived to see ‘Firewatch’.”
“The Making of N64 Goldeneye: A 90s Video Game Masterpiece”.
Rogue Amoeba: Audio Hijack.
Yours truly speaking at XOXO 2014, on how Google Reader shutting down gave me the idea that has funded Daring Fireball ever since.
BeOS screenshots — were those just-wide-enough-for-the-title window title bars a good idea or a gimmick?
Netflix Chicken Littles.
“Biff” podcast on The Incomparable — “Dan Moren, John Moltz, and Guy English discuss superhero TV shows and movies in the inimitable style that their loyal readers have come to love.”
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
305: ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian’ Holiday Spectacular, With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa’
As per holiday tradition at The Talk Show, a brief chat about *Star Wars: The Mandalorian*, with a cavalcade of special guests, including, but not necessarily limited to, Guy English and John Siracusa.
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*This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.*
211: ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests Guy English and John Siracusa
As per holiday tradition at The Talk Show, a brief chat about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and John Siracusa.
Links:
2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens Holiday Spectacular.
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165: ‘I Do Feel the Pea’ With Guy English
Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Tim Cook’s five year anniversary as Apple CEO, Steven Levy’s behind-the-scenes look at Apple’s AI and machine learning efforts, Apple’s decision to change the pistol emoji from a realistic revolver to a toy squirt gun, and the demise of Vesper. Also: our favorite Looney Tunes characters.
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Links:
WASD 6-Key Cherry MX Switch Tester.
Tim Cook's excellent interview in The Washington Post.
Jan Dawson: "Five Years of Tim Cook's Apple in Charts".
Steven Levy: "An Exclusive Inside Look at How Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Work at Apple".
Levy's excellent books, The Perfect Thing (about the iPod) and In the Plex (about Google's inner workings).
Andy Hertzfeld's book on the development of the original Macintosh, Revolution in the Valley, and the website with much of the same source material, Folklore.org.
Yours truly: "Vesper, Adieu".
Brent Simmons: "Last Vesper Update", "More Notes on Vesper", and "Why Vesper Didn’t Start as a Web App".
Yours truly: "Apple and the Pistol Emoji".
Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
“The High and the Flighty” — classic Looney Tunes Foghorn Leghorn short.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
152: ‘The Greatest Mic Drop I’ve Ever Seen’ With Guy English
Special guest Guy English returns to the show. Topics include Ben Thompson’s argument that Apple’s functional organizational structure is hindering their efforts in online services, recalling our first Apple computers and the elegance of the classic Mac OS’s conceptual design, Prince (and his early use of Macs for creating music), emoji and exclamation marks, WWDC 2016, and yours truly’s youthful foray into on-the-job vandalism.
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Links:
Great article by Ben Thompson: “Apple’s Organizational Crossroads”
BeOS developers tossing CRT monitors off the roof of their office building, circa 2000.
Interesting study on differing interpretations of emoji across platforms.
Napkin — a terrific Mac image annotation app from Guy and Chris Parrish.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
141: ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Holiday Spectacular With Special Guests Guy English, Amy Jane Gruber, and More
A brief holiday chat about Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with a cavalcade of special guests, including Guy English and Amy Jane Gruber.
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Writers Guild panel discussion between Lawrence Kasdan, JJ Abrams, and Michael Arndt, writers of The Force Awakens.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
134: ‘Field Sobriety Test’ With Guy English
Special guest Guy English returns to the show for an in-depth discussion about the new Apple TV.
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Christina Warren’s review of the Apple TV for Mashable.
Serenity Caldwell’s list of six ways the new Apple TV could be improved.
Steel Series Wireless Gaming Controller — $50 gaming controller compatible with Apple TV.
Scriptnotes — John August and Craig Mazin’s excellent podcast about screenwriting and things interesting to creative people.
Manticore — Ambitious 3D space shooter for Apple TV.
NetNewsWire Today for Apple TV.
VentureBeat: “Storehouse’s Apple TV app turns your television into a slideshow screen”.
This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.
124: ‘Schiller Did Not Have to Put Up With This Bullshit’ With Guest Guy English
Guy English returns to the show, and we make a valiant but failed effort to cover all of the technical/developer news from last week’s WWDC. Among the topics we did hit: app thinning, Bitcode, WatchKit 2.0, CloudKit (and opening it up to web developers), Swift 2.0, Metal coming to the Mac, accessibility and low-level support for right-to-left languages, iOS 9’s new low-power mode, and more.
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Links:
Napkin: A great Mac imagine annotation app from Guy’s company, Aged & Distilled.
Guy English on Twitter.
“Inertial Lemon“‘s take on Bitcode, which Guy and I think is probably incorrect in several ways.
Chris Lattner.
Becoming Steve Jobs, the new biography by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli.
WWDC 2015 session videos, all of which are viewable without an ADC account.
Video of last week’s live episode of The Talk Show, with special guest Phil Schiller.
106: ‘Star Wars Holiday Spectacular’ With Guests John Siracusa and Guy English
A brief chat about the Star Wars movies, with special guests John Siracusa and Guy English.
Update, Monday 5 January 2015: Updated with a new Special Edition edit, including a new introduction, a new editing gag around the 2:20:00 mark, new poster art, and some subtle re-syncing of the audio tracks. No extra Banthas were added, and Siracusa still shoots first.
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Michael Heilemann’s Kitbashed (highly recommended).
“Plinkett” reviews The Phantom Menace (sort of kind of not really recommended).
Original poster for Star Wars.
Leigh Brackett’s script for The Empire Strikes Back.
“Star Wars” Episodes of The Incomparable.
Yes, that was young Greedo in The Phantom Menace.
The complete Star Wars: Clone Wars cel-animated series from 2003 — pretty fun, worth watching.
97: ‘Copious Software Projects’ With Guy English
Special guest Guy English returns to the show to talk about iOS 8 quality concerns, and whether Apple’s annual software cycle is stretching the company too thin. Then things devolve into a bitter argument over the merits of file name extensions.
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Links:
iOS 8 adoption rate lags behind iOS 7 and 6
“Note to Self: It’s the Storage Space, Stupid”
Businessweek’s unflattering portrait of Gene Munster
From the DF Archive: “The Good, the Bad, and the Avie”
Donnie Baseball grabs some popcorn
211: Workflows with Guy English
David and Katie are joined by Guy English to talk about a career in Mac and IOS development, creating a beloved conference and more.
Thanks to MPU listener Hay Oborn for assistance with the shownotes this week!
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84: ‘Doctoring the Ball’ With Guy English
Special guest Guy English. Topics center on WWDC 2014, particularly how XPC — interapplication communication — is playing a fundamental but largely behind-the-scenes role in many of the new features for iOS and OS X. The new much-improved WebKit API (which brings third-party apps the faster Nitro JavaScript engine), third-party keyboards, Sharing menu extensions, and Notification Center widgets — all these things are built on XPC. Other topics include Apple TV, Swift, and the apparent happiness not just of third-party developers, but Apple employees, too.
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Sean Heber on Apple TV and gaming