450: ‘Perp Walk for Selfies’, With Jason Snell

Jason Snell returns to the show for a look back at WWDC 2026, and a look ahead to Designed in California, his and Myke Hurley’s upcoming 50-episode Apple history podcast.

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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.

Links:

• “Designed in California” — Kickstarter campaign running through the end of June 2026 to fund Jason and Myke Hurley’s 50-episode Apple history podcast. If you don’t back this you’re not hooked up right.
• WebKit in Safari 27 changes and notes, from the WebKit blog.
• Helium — My favorite Chromium browser for the Mac. Fast, free, no bloat.
• Camino — An open source Mac-assed web browser based on the Mozilla engine from the 2000s. Last updated in 2012, but, blessedly, the website still works. When it was discontinued I described it as “like a glass of ice water on a hot day for Mac users who wanted a modern but Mac-like browser in the early years of Mac OS X.”.
• Photos of John Ternus and Tim Cook at Apple’s WWDC post-Keynote “Tech Talk”:
  • Mine.
  • Federico Viticci’s.
• Jason on BBEdit 16, the world’s greatest text editor.
• Jason, writing at Macworld, on the foundation of Apple’s OS 27 updates.
• Jason, writing at Macworld, on Mac OS X Snow Leopard back in 2009. (The update cost $29 — which we thought was cheap, because previous Mac OS X updates cost $129.)
• Boston College’s Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.