By John Gruber
Articles Published in 2009
December 2009
The Tablet 31 Dec 2009
Why the HTML5 ‘Video’ Element Is Effectively Unusable, Even in Browsers Which Support It 21 Dec 2009
More on PastryKit 17 Dec 2009
PastryKit 15 Dec 2009
Who Do You Believe, Randall Stross or Your Own Lying Eyes? 13 Dec 2009
November 2009
A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs 27 Nov 2009
iPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store 23 Nov 2009
Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle 20 Nov 2009
The OS Opportunity 18 Nov 2009
Oh Joe You Didn’t 15 Nov 2009
The Airfoil Speakers Touch Situation 13 Nov 2009
The Yankees 9 Nov 2009
Pinching and the Droid 2 Nov 2009
October 2009
Regarding Apple TV 30 Oct 2009
Regarding Joe Wilcox’s ‘iPhone Cannot Win the Smartphone Wars’ Piece 28 Oct 2009
Pound the Quality 27 Oct 2009
Herd Mentality 23 Oct 2009
Apple Netbook Claim Chowder 21 Oct 2009
Microsoft’s Competition for Windows 7 15 Oct 2009
C:\ONGRTLNS.OSX 7 Oct 2009
September 2009
Snow Leopard Adoption Rate 21 Sep 2009
How Should Mac Apps Be Distributed? 17 Sep 2009
iTunes and Cocoa 11 Sep 2009
It’s Only Rock and Roll Event Prelude 8 Sep 2009
Regarding WordPress and Security 6 Sep 2009
More on the Snow Leopard/Old Version of Flash Brouhaha 5 Sep 2009
Regarding the Brouhaha Over the Version of Flash in Snow Leopard 4 Sep 2009
August 2009
So Dan Lyons Called 30 Aug 2009
How I Got the Google Voice/App Store Story Wrong 23 Aug 2009
Regarding the Lack of Consistency in the Age Ratings for Wikipedia-Based iPhone Apps 21 Aug 2009
Android Opportunity Addenda 19 Aug 2009
The Android Opportunity 17 Aug 2009
Zune Apps 14 Aug 2009
Phil Schiller Responds Regarding Ninjawords and the App Store 6 Aug 2009
Ninjawords: iPhone Dictionary, Censored by Apple 4 Aug 2009
July 2009
Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline 30 Jul 2009
Apple Rejects Google Voice Apps From App Store 28 Jul 2009
Pay Walls 24 Jul 2009
Charging for Access to News Sites 20 Jul 2009
Simplenote 16 Jul 2009
Putting What Little We Actually Know About Chrome OS Into Context 10 Jul 2009
Mobile Phone Keyboards 7 Jul 2009
Creating Ogg Theora Files on Mac OS X With ffmpeg2theora 2 Jul 2009
June 2009
Copy and Paste 26 Jun 2009
Apple’s Secrecy 23 Jun 2009
Regarding the WSJ’s Report That Steve Jobs Had a Liver Transplant 21 Jun 2009
WWDC 2009 Wrap-Up 17 Jun 2009
WWDC 2009 Predictions 7 Jun 2009
Palm Saturday 5 Jun 2009
More on Palm’s WebOS ‘Media Sync’ 2 Jun 2009
Why Palm’s WebOS ‘Media Sync’ iTunes Integration Can’t Be Legit 1 Jun 2009
May 2009
Excerpts From the Diary of an App Store Reviewer 29 May 2009
The Next iPhone 21 May 2009
Regarding the Verizon and ‘iPhone Lite’ Rumors 1 May 2009
April 2009
Twitter Clients Are a UI Design Playground 24 Apr 2009
How to Block the DiggBar 9 Apr 2009
New Daring Fireball T-Shirts 6 Apr 2009
Complex 1 Apr 2009
March 2009
Obsession Times Voice 27 Mar 2009
February 2009
Lost in the Shuffle 28 Feb 2009
Best Picture 23 Feb 2009
Untitled Document Syndrome 20 Feb 2009
Apple on the Mind at MWC 18 Feb 2009
Copying the Wrong Thing 17 Feb 2009
Anti-Bootlegging Measures and the iPhone App Store 11 Feb 2009
Apple, Google, and Palm 10 Feb 2009
‘Do Shell Script’ and Premature Optimization 5 Feb 2009
January 2009
Writing AppleScripts That Dynamically Target Either Safari or WebKit 30 Jan 2009
The Truth 23 Jan 2009
NetNewsWire and iPhone-Sized Data 21 Jan 2009
Godspeed 14 Jan 2009
Macworld Expo 2009 Predictions 5 Jan 2009