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Untitled Document Syndrome by John Gruber
If you want to understand why they call him “Chairman Gruber” read this great example of his writing. I’m not sure exactly how to explain what he does that is so important for the Mac community, but it has something to do with making ultimately simple points that seem obvious to everyone once he makes them but were not at all obvious before he makes them:
Everything on your computer is ultimately saved somewhere in the file system. But that doesn’t mean that you want to handle the actual filing by hand for everything. You don’t really want to know a lot of things about the specific technical details of how your data is saved, or if you did, you’d write your own app.
