TechpadinPersonal I Put My Phone on the iOS 14 Beta and Now My Home Screen Looks Like a Ransom Note First impressions after installing the iOS 14 public beta over the weekend: widgets, App Library, and one banking app that flatly refuses to open. July 13, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Master to Main, and a Broken Deploy at Midnight A weekend spent renaming git branches from master to main on old side projects, one broken deploy at midnight, and a quick note on Zoom finally doing the right thing. June 17, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Pilot Who Flew the Last Shuttle Mission SpaceX just launched astronauts to orbit for the first time from US soil since 2011, and the pilot flew the last shuttle mission ever. A personal reaction, watched from a kitchen table. May 30, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Twitter Said Forever, and I'm Still Thinking About It Twitter told employees they can work from home forever. A few things about that memo nobody seems to be saying out loud, plus a complaint about hour-long video calls. May 12, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal X Æ A-12 Is a Better Variable Name Than a Baby Name A few days after Elon Musk and Grimes named their kid X Æ A-12, some thoughts on why it's a great variable name and a rough baby name, plus the Tesla tweet that got lost in the noise. May 6, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Nobody's Bothering With April Fools This Year My inbox was empty of the usual fake product launches this April 1st - a quiet aside on skipped jokes, an Animal Crossing addiction, and a chaotic family Zoom call. April 1, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Week MWC Didn't Happen This week I was supposed to be in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress. Instead its cancelled, and I've got some thoughts on what that actually costs beyond the obvious. February 26, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Monday, Market Panic, and a Phone That Folds A Monday where the Dow dropped over a thousand points on coronavirus fears, and a smaller gripe about the Galaxy Z Flip's scratch-prone "glass" screen. February 24, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Battery Is Stuck in a Warehouse in Shenzhen A $6.50 AliExpress battery stuck in a Chinese warehouse turns Apple's coronavirus supply chain warning into something a lot more personal. February 18, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Small Business Saturday and I Didn't Buy a Single Thing A Black Friday weekend recap: why I didn't buy anything, why Baby Yoda has taken over every group chat I'm in, and why I talked myself out of a Stadia bundle. November 30, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Sitting Out Stadia Launch Week Google Stadia launched this week and everyone's writing about it, but here's why I didn't buy the Founder's Edition, and it's not really about the tech. November 21, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal An Extra Hour, Spent Entirely on Apple TV+ Clocks fell back an hour this weekend and I burned the bonus time bouncing around Apple's brand new streaming service. Some quick, unfiltered thoughts on what's actually there. November 3, 2019·3 min read
