I don’t know if this is classic Gruber. I’ve read a lot of his stuff and it’s always been interesting. Now I haven’t followed him closely either, so maybe I’ve only seen the good stuff, but this is the first time I’ve come away from it thinking he was an idiot.

If you've been following the Markdown debacle closely[1], this is classic Gruber.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo...

Gruber's stock in trade is ambiguous 1 line response to an extract from an article he's linked to which he can then criticise people for mis interpreting.

Once you've noticed this pattern it's much harder to take his (often very good) long form pieces seriously.

Also his total and complete inability to admit he was 100% wrong about large screened phones being successful is painful.

Gruber/Apple is never wrong - but sometimes reality realigns.