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Cabel Sasser
Personal blog · cabel.comculturedesign
Cabel Sasser's personal blog at cabel.com covers culture and design. Since 2020, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-21, and you can follow it by feed.
A blog by Cabel Sasser
Most-linked posts?
- DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-11-06
- The Courtyard3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-02-26
- Fantasy Meets Reality2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-30
- Snacks and Cereals of 20242 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-03
- Woz vs. Wooz2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-15
- Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-13
- Apple Passwords Deserve an App2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-27
- Turn-On Found2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-07
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of: https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadge...
Comment linking /2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/
on “The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close”Submitted A forged Apple employee badge as a story · 952 points
HN discussionIf you want something even more detailed than Cabel Sasser’s annual sanck and cereal showcase is something else https://cabel.com/2025/01/27/the-snacks-cereals-of-2024/
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on “I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen”Submitted Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise as a story · 87 points
HN discussionThe cabel.com article linked to in many comments has the copy that explains it. [1] One of the DAK signatures was buying other company's production line "mistakes", "fixing" them, and selling the result. In this case, the original Thunder Lizard was another firm's speaker[2]. The mistake was that it assembled with the wrong (inferior) tweeter. DAK bought the mistakes, the correct tweeter, and sold them. The Plus, ii…
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on “DAK Industries Catalog, Early Fall 1985”Submitted Apple Passwords Deserve an App as a story · 83 points
HN discussionDAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs (2023) https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadge...
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on “DAK Industries Catalog, Early Fall 1985”Submitted DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe DAK Industries Catalog is a wild masterpiece of copywriting. One carefully-curated product per page, with no table of specifications or even a price box, just densely information-packed, quirky, well-paced, clever conversational descriptions of each item. Every word is the product of Drew A. Kaplan (whose initials provide DAK its name), a kind of blog in its own time. Cabel Sasser recently wrote a definitive tri…
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on “DAK Industries Catalog, Early Fall 1985”Submitted Snacks and Cereals of 2024 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionYup. The catch is, it's kind of buried in System Settings. Cable Sasser wrote a blog post that was making the rounds a few weeks ago, advocating for a dedicated app. He's right, the existing Apple implementation works great but it's still a lot for normies. https://cabel.com/2023/03/27/apple-passwords-deserve-an-app/
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on “Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization”Submitted Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHad to let this here: A TV clip on YouTube of an episode of “That’s Incredible”, featuring Apple co-founder Stephen “Woz” Wozniak (aged 38) running through a maze and nearly winning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoJexQjoMtk (found on the blog of Cabel Sasser: https://cabel.com/woz-vs-wooz/ )
Comment linking /woz-vs-wooz/
on “There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him”Submitted The Snacks and Cereals of 2025 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Woz vs. Wooz as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fantasy Meets Reality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backstage Disneyland as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Courtyard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Basement (Portland) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wes Cook and the McDonald's Mural as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turn-On Found as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turn-On Found as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fantasy Meets Reality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lotte Little Secret as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Courtyard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Courtyard – Cabel.com as a story · 1 points
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