John C. Dvorak, a pioneering technology journalist, podcaster, and cultural commentator, passed away peacefully on the morning of Monday, July 20, 2026. He was 80 years old. For tech journalists of a certain age, there was a time when everyone knew him.
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He gave me the idea to approach writing my book in bite-sized chunks.
In an episode of "Cranky Geeks" he said "Hell, write 200 words a day and in a year you have a novel."
Though I never met the man, I did stand next to him while waiting for a cab outside a hotel once.
@sjvn I haven’t followed him for a long time but TechTV was transformative for me and I watched him a ton on Silicon Spin and TwiT. RIP.
@sjvn - I remember Dvorak from This Week in Tech with @leo. I just uploaded a photo of them with Patrick Norton at the opening of the "TWiT Brickhouse" in Petaluma, July 2011:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TWiT_Brickhouse_opening_20110724-1193.jpg
(I have more pix from that event on Flickr, but they're all watermarked with my deadname; I'll edit the rest eventually.)
@sjvn one of the early highlights of my pre career tech life was getting my website mentioned in his column. RIP
@sjvn Ahh, that sucks. I used to read his stuff all the time.
@sjvn Oh, that is sad news. Was there any tech magazine for which he didn't write?
@withaveeay There were a few, but not many. He started his career at InfoWorld and at Ziff-Davis, the publisher I always end up writing for over and over again; he was in pretty much every magazine. I edited him at Computer Shopper.
Computer Shopper was a tome.
@sjvn Not only tech journalists, tech readers too. RIP.
