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379: ‘An Extra Kick in the Nuts’, With Christian Selig

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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Mimescreen: A Gmail Client for the Mac

Reddit is a very specific case where if you're not using old dot Reddit, like I find the new site, well, technically impressive in a lot of ways is quite slow. So out of a selfish reason, almost I've long went it away just to say get me the JSON and represent that in a way as fast as possible so I can quickly browse Reddit. And even just based on building an app based off of that foundation alone, I think would appeal to a lot of people. It's really no, no less complex and no less back and forth between the device you're on and Google servers than a client. Making fast software is it's a skill. You have to be

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