Crossword x Daring Fireball

I've been reading John Gruber's work since I was in high school. I've listened to every Dithering episode to date. I once started a blog about inspired by Daring Fireball (it petered out, as blogs sometimes do).

And for the past five years, I've been recording Crossword with Jonathan Wold. It's a podcast about WordPress and the Open Web, with 15-minute (Dithering inspired) episodes.

We recently talked with John in a guest episode of Crossword, and he was kind enough to link to our show from his blog.

It's been a bit of a viral moment for us! My mind is a little blown that I am – right now – writing about my conversation with the creator of Markdown in Markdown.

That's one of the topics we cover in the episode, along with Substack, RSS, browsers, the open web, and where WordPress missed a trick.

Gruber joins the list of Open Web A-Listers we've spoken to on Crossword, including Aaron Gustafson, Peter Saint-Andre, and Ryan Singer.

I'm marking this one down as a career highlight. Huge thanks to Jonathan for his hard work editing the audio and transcript.