# John Gruber
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john gruber (born 1973) is a technology blogger, UI designer, and creator of the Markdown markup language. Gruber writes the Apple enthusiast blog Daring Fireball and hosts its accompanying podcast, The Talk Show.
== History ==
Gruber is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Make Your Own Thing
In the age of aspirational influencers, million-dollar podcast hosts, and so, so many newsletters, it's sometimes hard to imagine the very idea of making a career out of writing on the internet was once considered controversial. John Gruber has been writing at Daring Fireball for nearly a quarter o…
MBW 1029: Intimate Functionalities - Is the New Siri AI Good?
John Gruber of Daring Fireball joins the MacBreak Weekly panel this week! A deep dive into Apple's new Siri following WWDC. Why Apple Intelligence & the new Siri are not coming to the EU initially later this year. And could the iPhone Ultra's launch be delayed this year?
Private cloud compute se…
SUMO Weekly: 26 September 2026
About this episode
An independently researched digest of worthwhile A.I. developments from the week.
How this episode was made
SUMO is researched and created with the help of ChatGPT. Ben, our real human in the loop, sets the editorial direction.
Sources
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user imag…
618: Green Man and The Lime
Scary children, speculating about Apple’s October event and touchscreen Macs.
John Gruber suggests Apple might use an October event to hand out iPhone Duo review units.
Mark Gurman says John Ternus would like to make Apple more efficient.
Moltz should really check out Lex games. If only there were …
Honus Wagner, the T-206, and the Original American Baseball Hero
Honus Wagner’s refusal to appear on a cigarette-pack card accidentally creates the rarest baseball card in history.
Along the way, we connect the T206 legend to Wagner’s personality, his negotiating tactics, and why cigarettes were viewed as a different kind of vice in 1909.
• How the American To…
MBW 1029: Intimate Functionalities - Is the New Siri AI Good?
John Gruber of Daring Fireball joins the MacBreak Weekly panel this week! A deep dive into Apple's new Siri following WWDC. Why Apple Intelligence & the new Siri are not coming to the EU initially later this year. And could the iPhone Ultra's launch be delayed this year?
Private cloud compute se…
Did Apple get too big for its own good?
We’re doing something a little different today — I asked my friend John Gruber of Daring Fireball to come on the show and talk about the future of Apple, and, importantly, the App Store. I wanted to talk about the most recent ruling in the Epic v. Apple legal saga. But I also wanted to talk about…
10AM Hour: Apple's Foldable Future, SpaceX Shakes Up Telecom, OpenAI’s New Valuation 10/23/26
Apple hits a record high as its new foldable iPhone Duo officially goes on sale. Longtime Apple blogger John Gruber joins Squawk on the Street to discuss whether the device can move the needle for shareholders. Plus, telecom stocks tumble as Bloomberg reports SpaceX is looking to secure at least 80…
Ben Thompson – Platforms, Ecosystems, and Aggregators - [Invest Like the Best, EP.176]
My guest today is Ben Thompson. Ben is the author of my favorite business strategy newsletter called Stratechery. He’s also the host of the exponent podcast, and now the Dithering, a podcast he recently launched with John Gruber. I think Ben is among the most interesting business analysts in the wo…
v57.1 - iPhone Duo Review
Positive comments from The Real Reviewers
Lance Ulanoff at TechRadar:
'Satisfying' is the best way to describe the feeling of repeatedly opening and closing the iPhone Duo.
Britta O'Boyle at Tech Advisor:
The paper-like texture makes long reading sessions a pleasure, too.
Chance Mi…
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