207: ‘Christmas Mitzvah’ With Merlin Mann

Merlin Mann returns to the show for a Thanksgiving-week holiday spectacular. Topics include the history of Markdown, nerding out with Keyboard Maestro, kids today and the computers they want to use, caring about idiomatic native UI design, a look back at last year's election, and more.

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Links:

• Various apps mentioned during the show:
  • Keyboard Maestro
  • Drafts
  • Editorial
  • nvAlt
  • Simplenote
  • Justin Williams’s now-defunct Elements — the first Dropbox-backed text editor for iOS
  • Vesper
  • Bartender — a Mac utility for managing all those stupid little menu bar apps
  • Vanilla — another Mac menu bar app manager
• Apple Support technote documenting standard Mac text editing keyboard shortcuts.
• [Reconcilable Differences #65](https://www.relay.fm/rd/65 “Reconcilable Differences #65: The Mustard of My Father - Relay FM”) — Merlin and John Siracusa talking about Steam.
• The Elements of Eloquence — the book that explains the implicit rules of adjective order in English.
• Dr. Drang on Excel.
• Last year’s day-after-the-election “Holiday Party” episode.
• PredictIt — Website where you can gamble on election and political predictions.
• Max Temkin’s US Politics Twitter list.

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