lmorchard - Pebbling Club 🐧🪨

But what if I really want a faster horse? | exotext

rakhim.exotext.com
2025-04-11T19:52:49.684Z
product enshittification

Notes

Overall, consistency, user control, and actual UX innovation are in decline. Everything is converging on TikTok—which is basically TV with infinite channels. You don’t control anything except the channel switch. It's like Carcinisation, a form of convergent evolution where unrelated crustaceans all evolve into something vaguely crab-shaped.

Feed

Unfurl

{ "expires": 1744487565527, "status": 200, "bodyLength": 53279, "author": null, "date": "2025-04-04T12:00:00.000Z", "description": "But what if I really want a faster horse? | exotext", "image": "https://img.exotext.com/1/vzBUOzXXWZU_1BzCoyxsZ.jpg", "logo": null, "publisher": "exotext", "title": "But what if I really want a faster horse? | exotext", "url": "https://rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-i-really-want-a-faster-horse", "feed": "https://rakhim.exotext.com/rss.xml", "iframe": null, "lang": "en", "video": null, "audio": null, "duration": 1434 }
Cereal Box Design: New Closure | New Republic

www.newrepublic.com
2013-05-28T20:04:07.000Z
to:fb cereal product design imported:pinboard

Notes

But here's something you may not realize (or if you do, it's probably on a subliminal level): There are actually two different types of tabbed box-closure mechanisms out there. One is the kind described above, with a perforated slot. The other format involves two interlocking box flaps that snap together without the need for a perforated slot. You can see the differences between the two designs by looking here.

Unfurl

{ "author": "Paul Lukas", "date": "2021-05-11T00:00:00.000Z", "description": "Did anyone notice that the way you close a cereal box has changed? One-Man Focus Group noticed, and found out the surprisingly complicated design history.", "image": "https://images.newrepublic.com/f5acdc0030e3212e601040dd24d5c2c0c684b15f.png?w=1200&h=630&crop=faces&fit=crop&fm=jpg", "logo": "http://assets.newrepublic.com/assets/favicons/favicon-194x194.png", "publisher": "The New Republic", "title": "The Mysteries of the Cereal Box", "url": "https://newrepublic.com/article/113319/cereal-box-design-new-closure", "lang": "en", "failed": true, "failedAt": 1728194794608, "failedError": "TimeoutError: Promise timed out after 10000 milliseconds" }
Little Printer | BERG Cloud

bergcloud.com
2011-11-30T16:41:54.000Z
nifty tech printer cloud social berg design product imported:pinboard

Notes

<blockquote>Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from friends. Use your smartphone to set up subscriptions and Little Printer will gather them together to create a timely, beautiful mini-newspaper.</blockquote> Total waste of paper, but still a really cute product idea despite that.

Unfurl

{ "failed": true, "failedAt": 1728195031915, "failedError": "TimeoutError: Promise timed out after 10000 milliseconds" }
Folding Plug System

www.minkyu.co.uk
2009-08-28T00:49:27.000Z
electricity plugs power uk awesome product design electronics innovation imported:pinboard

Notes

"‘Folding Plug’ changes the shape form the normal U.K plug into a 10mm thickness object"

Unfurl

{ "failed": true, "failedAt": 1728195507402, "failedError": "TimeoutError: Promise timed out after 10000 milliseconds" }
Cherish The AIR? Just because you can doesn't mean you should

greenmonk.net
2008-10-18T15:41:56.000Z
apple sustainability technology gadgets design product imported:pinboard

Notes

"the core idea that should be upheld by companies like Apple should be about making things better and less often. Making things that will be able to evolve, be upgraded, be adaptable, hackable and more fun to use for longer so that as a customer I don’t think that I’m buying version 3.4 of something that will only be as good as it’s last press release. I want to buy “the” quintessential Apple product and cherish it for years, like people would cherish a vintage car."

Feed

Embed

Unfurl

{ "failed": true, "failedAt": 1728195547425, "failedError": "TimeoutError: Promise timed out after 10000 milliseconds", "expires": 1728365947956, "status": 200, "bodyLength": 65758, "author": "James Governor", "date": "2008-02-13T17:39:43.000Z", "description": "Guest post by hardware hacking industrial design maven: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino. The dust has settled on this year’s Stevenote and the ripple effect on my side of the planet was that for the first time, sustainability had made a big public appearance on Apple’s agenda. Hardly a leader in the field, but we’ll forgive them for […]", "image": "http://farm1.static.flickr.com/104/280574252_3aa1518ef2.jpg?v=0", "logo": "http://greenmonk.net/favicon.ico", "publisher": "GreenMonk: the blog", "title": "Cherish The AIR? Just because you can doesn’t mean you should - GreenMonk: the blog", "url": "http://greenmonk.net/2008/02/13/cherish-the-air-just-because-you-can-doesnt-mean-you-should/", "feed": "http://greenmonk.net/feed/", "iframe": "<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"6mZY1e9WbN\"><a href=\"http://greenmonk.net/2008/02/13/cherish-the-air-just-because-you-can-doesnt-mean-you-should/\">Cherish The AIR? Just because you can doesn’t mean you should</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"http://greenmonk.net/2008/02/13/cherish-the-air-just-because-you-can-doesnt-mean-you-should/embed/#?secret=6mZY1e9WbN\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"“Cherish The AIR? Just because you can doesn’t mean you should” — GreenMonk: the blog\" data-secret=\"6mZY1e9WbN\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"></iframe><script type=\"text/javascript\">\n/* <![CDATA[ */\n/*! This file is auto-generated */\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n/* ]]> */\n</script>\n", "lang": "en", "duration": 3579 }
How To Launch Software (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

www.aaronsw.com
2008-08-23T03:17:50.000Z
webdev product launches howto startups projectmanagement beta development imported:pinboard

Notes

"Instead what happens when software developers try the Hollywood Launch, and I've seen this many times, is that users indeed do flood to your site on launch day but... Tomorrow, hardly any of those users come back. Your traffic graphs look like the sharpest mountain you've ever seen: a huge climb up and then, almost immediately, a similarly-sized crash back down. ... So what do you do then? Well, you do what you should have done all along: you grow the site."

Unfurl

{ "failed": true, "failedAt": 1728195557439, "failedError": "TimeoutError: Promise timed out after 10000 milliseconds" }

0 - 50 of 6 items

10 25 50 100 250