John Gruber
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
These are the words you think are italics.
The readability was more important.
And it was... A, I thought that was missing in all the other ones.
It was driven by the fact that the whole reason I wanted to make it is that HTML was so hard to edit, right?
And it's like, once I had it written, it's like optimizing for readability.
You read something over and over again.
You only type the characters once.
But the other thing that Anil hit on was that the stuff in tech that was going on was blogging itself, right?
And so that's what we wrote about.
And it sounds navel-gazy, but it wasn't, because it really was some of the most interesting stuff going on.
It actually took off from 2004 to, like, 2010.
It was very slow and actually very disappointing to me.
I was like, this is the fucking shit.
I can't believe more people aren't using this.