John Siracusa

John covers his extensive history as a Mac enthusiast, web developer, writer, podcaster and lover of music and art. He also explains his transition to a fully independent career on the Internet and how he has juggled various personas, roles and fandoms over the years. Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (producer) Find John at hypercritical.co. Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text. Links and Show Notes I Was Primed 00:00:00 Mur Lafferty Geek Fu Action Grip (now in the Internet Archive) I Should Be Writing iPod iTunes NPR Apple Inc. YouTuber Dan Benjamin RSS Hypercritical (podcast) Gabe Newell Valve Corporation Half-Life (series) Portal (series) Ars Technica Book review: Infinite Loop — John’s first article for Ars Technica Ivory tower Hypercritical (the mentioned article from John’s Ars Technica blog, now linked on his website) Steve Jobs I Had the Cultural Context 00:08:22 Home computer (redirected from ‘personal computer revolution’) Commodore VIC-20 Macintosh 128K Graphical user interface (GUI) Pictionary Usenet U2 Ken Fisher Mac (computer) Mac OS X NeXT Macintosh clone OS X Reviewed (a blog post that links to all of John’s reviews) Engadget ebook Amazon (company) Unix MacUser Macworld MacWEEK Multiple ‘Me’s 00:20:13 Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) A text file online that preserves information from John’s U2 Lyrics Archive Perl CPAN 5by5 Jason Snell The Incomparable Robot or Not? Merlin Mann Back to Work Marco Arment Build and Analyze was a weekly news and discussion show about technology by Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin, which can now be found in the Internet Archive. Casey Liss Hypercritical (website) Independence Day (blog post about John’s career transition) Open source A Childhood Dream 00:33:42 BASIC HyperCard Computer programming Web developer Below are blog posts about John’s two Mac apps: Front and Center; and SwitchGlass, along with the more recent SwitchGlass 2.0. Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) API iOS CodeWarrior App Store (iOS/iPadOS) Mac App Store Apple Tech-nerd World 00:42:18 AnandTech Tom’s Hardware Microsoft Windows Windows 95 Celeron Context collapse Fandom Anti-fan Some references to terminals include: computer terminal; terminal emulator; and Terminal (macOS). ‘Seeing the matrix’ means seeing the true nature of reality (or any particular situation) and is a phrase from The Matrix franchise. Marvel Comics DC Comics Ford Mustang Chevrolet Camaro Tom Cruise New York City The Incomparable Mothership Twitter Mastodon (social network) Repotting Myself 00:59:13 John’s use of the initialism ‘m.o.’ refers to the Latin term ‘modus operandi’, which is translated approximately as ‘mode (or manner) of operating’. ARM architecture family (John’s reference to ‘ARM Macs’, running Apple Silicon) John Gruber BMX bike Remote-control car Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion Contact Website: rsspod.net Email: [email protected] Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld A Special Note Martin is a paid subscriber of John Siracusa’s shared membership program for Accidental Tech Podcast; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on John as a participant of this academic podcasting project.