I've Made That Promise With the Mobile Optimized Layout of Daring Fireball Too Many Times to Do It Again.

Jason Kottke returns to the show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kottke.org.

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Links:

• 0sil8.
• Kottke.org’s 10th anniversary, with a retrospective of site designs.
• Stellar:
  • Jason’s introduction.
  • Miriam Krule’s profile for The Atlantic.
  • Archive.org’s archive of the home page.
  • Jason’s farewell post, upon shutting it down in 2016. (“I’m not good at quitting things.”)
• The Suck.com origin story.
• Jason’s “Ask Me Anything” solicitation for questions.
• Neolithic weblogs:
  • Jorn Barger’s Robot Wisdom. He coined the term “weblog” and hosted a good FAQ.
  • Justin Hall’s Justin’s Links.
  • Dave Winer’s Davenet, which started in 1994.
• Dean Allen:
  • Cardigan Industries (“At the corner of art and commerce.”)
  • Textism, perhaps the best written, best designed weblog ever. (“Make haste slowly.”)
  • Dean’s bio, one of my favorite pieces of writing ever.
  • Favrd.

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