Ancestors

Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 03:14

Starting a long-lived thread here about some small tech/design things I notice that are or appear positive, to counter the normal human tendency to focus on the negative.

(Some of these will, on closer inspection, turn out to be bad ideas! But I'll still share my positive first impressions.)

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Toot

Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 03:15

Delta's mobile app is one of the least bad transportation-related apps I've used. Notably, the notifications are actually useful, refresh works intuitively, etc.

Boarding reminder notifications are pretty standard, but not every airline app does luggage reminders. "Your luggage has been loaded onto the plane", "Your luggage can be picked up at carousel 11", etc. As someone who's gone through missing luggage situations 3-4 times over the last 20+ years, it gives me some peace of mind.

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Descendants

Written by Erik Moeller on 2025-01-14 at 03:24

Most hotels still have alarm clocks, but it always feels like a waste of space if they don't have USB ports or other functions.

The one I'm staying at right now has an alarm clock with USB-A charging ports and a surface for wireless charging. Convenient and probably quite cheap!

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Written by ocdtrekkie on 2025-01-14 at 04:18

@eloquence I wonder what the average age of a hotel alarm clock is. You probably lucked out by staying somewhere that had recently replaced all its alarm clocks, but I can't imagine it being a thing hotels think about doing regularly.

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