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Daring Fireball is the web site of John Gruber, an Apple enthusiast, technology pundit, and writer....

Daring Fireball is the web site of John Gruber, an Apple enthusiast, technology pundit, and writer. Daring Fireball hosts Gruber's opinions in the form of a blog, and also some of Gruber's software. In April 2006, it became Gruber's sole full-time job, funded by advertisement revenue, membership fees, T-shirt sales, and donations from various software projects also hosted on the site, like Markdown. Gruber has since expanded into other media, including several podcast appearances and a Macworld Expo panel spot on Macworld's dime. Gruber also covered WWDC 2006 on location. Gruber has described his Daring Fireball writing as a "Mac column in the form of a weblog". The articles tend to run long and stay focused on at most a handful of points, rarely straying from the subject, and as a result often spark discussion in the Mac community. Common article subjects are the media's reflections on Apple's affairs (especially refuting of myths and misunderstandings), user interfaces (and the consistency thereof), software development and emerging Mac applications. Gruber also runs a linklog called The Linked List (presumably a pun on the data structure) where brief commentary is provided, and