367: ‘Slow-Moving Hurricane’, With Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry returns to the show to talk about the demise of third-party Twitter clients, the overall Twitter shitshow, touchscreens on the Mac, and the perils of autocorrect when you have a clever username.

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Links:

• Black Girls Code (wearebgc.org) — recipients of $100 for each utterance of you-know-who’s name during this episode.

• From the Daring Fireball archive (2009): “Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground” (daringfireball.net/2009/04/twitter_clients_pla…).

• Craig, this week: “The Shit Show (furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show)”.

• My take this week: “Twitterrific: End of an Era (daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/19/twitterri…)”.

• The Iconfactory’s other apps:
• Wallaroo (wallaroo.app) — delightful iOS wallpapers

• Tot (tot.rocks) — text scratchpad for Mac and iOS

• xScope (xscopeapp.com) — screen inspector for Mac designers

• Linea (linea-app.com) — excellent drawing app for iPad

• Frenzic (frenzic.com) — fun game in Apple Arcade

• Edovia’s Screens (edovia.com/en/screens-mac) — amazing VNC app to use your Mac from iOS devices.

• Lights Off (apps.apple.com/us/app/lights-off/id292025150) — the first-ever game for iPhone, still available in the App Store.

• EDGE (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G) “2G” cellular data networking.

• Blaine Cook, early Twitter engineer and champion of third-party client APIs, now all-in on Mastodon (thenewstack.io/why-a-twitter-founding-engineer…).

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