John Gruber

For the early LGBT rights activist known as John Gruber, see James Gruber.

John Gruber
Gruber at South by Southwest 2009
Occupation	Blogger
Citizenship	United States
Subjects	Design, Technology, Apple Inc.
daringfireball.net

John Gruber (born 1973) is a writer from the greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area of the USA. Gruber received his Bachelor of Science in computer science from Drexel University. He worked for Bare Bones Software from 2000 to 2002 and Joyent from 2005 to 2006.^[1] His main project is Daring Fireball,^[2][3][4] a technology weblog that has become his full time job; one side project is Markdown, a lightweight markup language. He co-hosts a podcast called The Talk Show with Dan Benjamin on the 5by5 network.^[5]

References

1. ^ "John Gruber: A Mix of the Technical, the Artful, the Thoughtful, and the Absurd". ShawnBlanc.net. 2008-02-19. http://shawnblanc.net/2008/interview-john-gruber/. Retrieved 2008-10-23. 
2. ^ "The blogosphere: Are blogs worth the hype?". CNET News. 2004-08-10. http://news.cnet.com/Editors-Picks-The-blogosphere-Are-blogs-worth-the-hype/2009-1025_3-5302954.html. Retrieved 2008-10-23. 
3. ^ "News.com's Blog 100". CNET News. 2005-10-07. http://news.cnet.com/News.coms-Blog-100/2009-12_3-5887900.html. Retrieved 2008-10-23. 
4. ^ "Laptop nation". Macworld. 2007-03-05. http://www.macworld.com/article/56520/2007/03/aprileic.html. Retrieved 2008-10-23. 
5. ^ Mark Webster (16 February 2011). "Webstock: An interview with the Daring Fireball". The New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10706690. 

External links

• Daring Fireball
• The Talk Show

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