Follow-up on why Flappy Bird was successful.
Kieran Healy's excellent article with science.
John Gruber and Merlin Mann at SXSW '09.
Goofball Jones' anonymous criticism of John's "shtick", and John's defense including many links:
An explanation of John's "schtick"
Some podcasts where John talks about things he likes:
Goodfellas
I Like My Coffee Like My Evil Sith Lords
Death Star University
Darth Vader's Office is Really Weird
Jedi Weekend
Wind is the Enemy
Skywalker's Eleven
Also Known as Endor
Journey: Then We Touched, Then We Sang
Professor Siracusa's Anime 101
Hangin' With the Totes
Masterpiece: Ico
The Incomparable #100: Who Cares What We Think? - Why we do podcasts about what we think of things, good and bad.
An ATP episode about how we deal with criticism
The massive WhatsApp acquistion by Facebook, the huge value of mobile messaging, and the web giants' chilling effect on competition.
The "Copland 2010" argument that Objective-C needs to be replaced:
John's original "Copland 2010" article from 2005
Copland 2010 Revisited (in 2010)
We Need to Replace Objective-C (Ash Furrow)
Replacing Objective-C and Cocoa (Steve Streza)
Objective: Copland 2010 (Guy English)
Separating language shortcomings from API shortcomings.
Casey got us to talk about LINQ briefly.
Long-term evolution of programming languages.


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