John Gruber Concepts

The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

by Brian Merchant · 19 Jun 2017 · 416pp · 129,308 words

all—kind of. Using the Safari engine, they could write web 2.0 apps “that look exactly and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone.” John Gruber, perhaps the best-known Apple blogger and a developer himself, explained that the “message went over like a lead balloon.” Indeed. “You can’t bullshit

Design Is a Job

by Mike Monteiro · 5 Mar 2012 · 137pp · 44,363 words

take you away from the thing you love to do, which is to design things. Although your definition of “designing things” may change. My friend John Gruber once said that Steve Jobs’ greatest accomplishment wasn’t designing any particular Apple product—it was designing Apple itself. At some point you may get

Getting Real

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matthew Linderman and 37 Signals · 1 Jan 2006 · 132pp · 31,976 words

, and compare text solo or with others. It's the refreshing alternative to bloated word processors that are overkill for 95% of what you write. John Gruber of Daring Fireball said, "Writeboard might be the clearest, simplest web application I've ever seen." Web-guru Jeffrey Zeldman said, "The brilliant minds at

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, but it's the most important onethousandth, because it's the first one-thousandth, and it sets their expectations and initial impression. —John Gruber, author and web developer (from Interview with John Gruber) Table of contents | Essay list for this chapter | Next essay Get Defensive Design for when things go wrong Let's admit

Digital Wars: Apple, Google, Microsoft and the Battle for the Internet

by Charles Arthur · 3 Mar 2012 · 390pp · 114,538 words

, and Jobs had boasted about the software. So clearly APIs existed. And an SDK must exist for the developers to have written the apps. Afterwards John Gruber, an independent (and professional) blogger whose Daring Fireball site is regarded as a nexus for thinking about Apple (and other) news, called the suggestion ‘insulting

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million per year, so Apple – with an even tinier share of the PC market – was clearly on course to sell only a few thousand devices. John Gruber, a self-described raconteur (more precisely, a Philadelphia-based blogger who has developed wide and deep connections inside and around Apple), responded: ‘The hype isn

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most effective traits of the company could be promulgated, refined and reproduced. Even without Jobs, his spirit would still live on inside the company. As John Gruber put it, as he pondered the Apple co-founder’s goodbye, ‘Jobs’s greatest creation isn’t any Apple product. It is Apple itself.’ On

Designing for Emotion

by Aarron Walter · 4 Oct 2011 · 89pp · 24,277 words

, bleeps, and blips. You can certainly see the parallels with WALL•E, in physical and personality traits. Both are friendly, endearing, and reliable. Technology blogger John Gruber sums up audience sentiment about Tapbots apps with this simple review (http://bkaprt.com/de/6): I adore the way their apps look and sound

Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook

by Michael Lopp · 20 Jul 2010 · 336pp · 88,320 words

beast: the completely honest manager who uses plain language. You want to know how to cultivate a thriving career in this industry? Listen to Lopp." John Gruber, Daring Fireball "I've seen too many people who were technically brilliant but who you didn't want to let out of a locked room

Content Everywhere: Strategy and Structure for Future-Ready Content

by Sara Wachter-Boettcher · 28 Nov 2012 · 245pp · 68,420 words

. Instead, some organizations are experimenting with crafting their content in markdown—a lightweight alternative to using HTML to give content shape that was created by John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame. Unlike full HTML, markdown allows authors to write in a standardized but natural language that can be easily read and understood

Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

by David Kadavy · 5 Sep 2011 · 276pp · 78,094 words

smaller sizes – attributes that looks less than flattering when displayed at larger sizes. You can see this in action in Figure A-11, which features John Gruber’s website, www.daringfireball.net. The larger portions of type – the titles of blog posts and the menu items, for example – are displayed in a

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wouldn’t read as well in body copy, so Verdana is used instead. Figure A-11 John Gruber’s website uses Verdana for readable body copy and Gill Sans for more interesting headers. Copyright © 2002–2011 John Gruber But this pairing is no accident. Verdana has a humanist letter structure that is quite similar

The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

by Matthew Ball · 18 Jul 2022 · 412pp · 116,685 words

, these are really just the “iOS system version of [Apple’s Safari] WebKit wrapped around Google’s own browser UI,” according to the Apple expert John Gruber, and the iOS Chrome app [cannot] “use the Chrome rendering or JavaScript engines.” What we think of as Chrome on iOS is simply a variant

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-lawsuit-judge-tim-cook-app-store-questions. 9. Nick Wingfield, “IPhone Software Sales Take Off: Apple’s Jobs,” Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2008. 10. John Gruber, “Google Announces Chrome for iPhone and iPad, Available Today,” Daring Fireball, June 28, 2021, accessed January 4, 2022, https://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/06/28

I Live in the Future & Here's How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted

by Nick Bilton · 13 Sep 2010 · 236pp · 77,098 words

and then build their trust level by delivering content that is valued. If you’re an Apple computer enthusiast, you surely will have heard of John Gruber, a Mac expert and writer. He isn’t associated with any big-name news outlets or magazines, but he has built a loyal subscriber base