Con­grat­u­la­tions to John Gru­ber on the 10^th birth­day of Dar­ing Fire­ball, his blog on all things Apple, Kubrick, tech and typography.

See Kottke’s remem­brance and this arti­cle on The Atlantic.

Dar­ing Fire­ball was one of my main moti­va­tions for start­ing a blog of any sort. Back in the day before RSS read­ers & Twit­ter noti­fi­ca­tions, it was the first web­site I’d check in my daily rou­tine of find­ing out what was going on on the web and in par­tic­u­lar with Apple. It wasn’t the source for the lat­est inane Mac rumour — it was (and con­tin­ues to be) the place to go for smart analy­sis of the best of the Mac rumours float­ing around the web.

As dis­cussed in the afore linked arti­cle on The Atlantic, as Apple has risen to the top the story that John has writ­ten on Dar­ing Fire­ball has become slightly less inter­est­ing than the pre­vi­ous under­dog narrative.

But John remains one of the best tech writ­ers on the web and worth read­ing if you’re at all inter­ested in smart thoughts on Apple and related tech.