Daniel is joined by John Siracusa, a software engineer by day who is better known to many as a podcaster and contributor to Ars Technica.
John is well known among Mac aficionados for his extensive reviews of major Mac OS X upgrades. He co-hosted 100 episodes of Hypercritical with Dan Benjamin on the 5by5 network. Most recently he’s teamed up with Marco Arment and Casey Liss to produce the Accidental Tech Podcast.
Additional links:
- @siracusa – John’s Twitter account.
- Hypercritical – John’s personal technology web site.
- The Incomparable – Jason Snell’s roundtable podcast about geeky topics, frequently featuring John.
- VIC-20 – John’s first computer, the Commodore VIC-20.
- Don Melton Interview – Debug podcast appearance by Don Melton of Safari fame.
- Larry Elmore – One of John’s childhood artistic heroes.
- Keith Parkinson – Another of John’s childhood artistic heroes.
- Hypercritical – John’s original blog post on Ars Technica, kicking off his appreciation of being “hypercritical.”
- Boston University – John’s alma mater.
- O’Reilly Books – The source of John’s ravenous self-education on various computer-related subjects.
- The Perl Programming Language – John’s favorite programming language.
- Car Talk – The NPR radio show whose early web site was built by John.
- CPAN – The comprehensive perl archive network.
- Jonathan Coulton – One of John’s very favorite musicians.
- Jonathan Coulton Interview – Interview with Jonathan Coulton on the Unprofessional podcast.
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