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How does that link discredit what Gruber said there? It seems to me to back it up.

FWIW, Gruber consistently condemns Trump, and portrayed Cook's obsequious sycophancy as lamentable and highly questionable "take one for the team" acts Cook chose to do for the sake of Apple.

It strikes me as a fairly plausible analysis.

Go read what Gruber says about Trump on his social media, or even on the very blog you were just on. Safe to say he isn’t a fan. I think what he’s saying is that Cook has been quite effective at stroking Trump’s ego enough that the admin leaves Apple alone, which is absolutely true in my opinion.

In a different world where Cook messed up, it might be Apple (a Big Tech company with uber-liberal employees, marketing, and vibes, and an openly gay CEO!) being designated a supply chain risk, not Anthropic.

Regardless of whether you agree with his opinions, Gruber invented Markdown. The world would be a very different place today without it.

I have to give props for him for keeping basically a simple blog with the same layout and still consistently pulling in over $40,000/month in weekly sponsorships after 20+ years.

No drama, never in the spotlight much nowadays, just posting on his blog and raking in insane money.

> Regardless of whether you agree with his opinions, Gruber invented Markdown. The world would be a very different place today without it.

So?

And also...with substantial contributions from Aaron Swartz.

Not solely Gruber.

Gruber is only known for his Daring Fireball blog amongst everyone important, only techies care about his Markdown 'invention'.

Markdown is just a side project for him.

I had no idea Markdown had an inventor (but obviously someone had to do it) - I guess I thought it evolved from usenet on its own.

And I only knew of Gruber as "the Mac guy" and (am embarrassed to admit) that I thought the daring fireball was another Mac guy.

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