TechpadinPersonal Father's Day, an E3 Hangover, and Stadia's Math A Father's Day tangent into E3 week, my dad's Atari in the garage, and why Google Stadia's pricing still doesn't add up for me. June 16, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal What I Found In My Google+ Archive A week after Google+ finally shut down for good, I ran the Takeout export and went digging through seven years of circles, communities, and posts nobody read. April 9, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Instagram Died For a Day, Right As the Web Turned 30 Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook went down together for the better part of two days, right after the web quietly turned 30. Some notes on both. March 14, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Watching Both Fyre Documentaries Back to Back Was a Mistake I watched both Fyre Festival documentaries back to back this week, and the more interesting story isn't Billy McFarland, it's who actually produced one of the films. February 9, 2019·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Polar Vortex Notes: Batteries, Frozen Charge Ports, and a Dead Phone on the Porch Notes on a brutal polar vortex week: phones dying in minutes outside, Tesla charge ports freezing, and a small complaint about how Apple handled that FaceTime bug report. January 31, 2019·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Peanuts and a Buffering Livestream: How I Watched Something Land on Mars I watched NASA's InSight touch down on Mars from a laptop propped on a filing cabinet, and the best part of the whole thing was a decades-old good-luck ritual involving peanuts. November 27, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Stan Lee and a Weirdly Heavy Monday Stan Lee died today at 95, and it's got me thinking about how tangled up this blog's whole run has been with the rise of the MCU, plus a couple of smaller asides on the new MacBook Air's price hike and the Google walkout. November 12, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Refreshing Stock Apps During the October Selloff A personal account of compulsively refreshing stock apps during the October 2018 tech selloff, with a few thoughts on Tesla's surprise Q3 profit and financial media's identical talking points. October 25, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Digging Through My Old Google+ Circles Google announced it's shutting down Google+ after a data-exposing bug, so I dug up my old account from 2011 and found seven years of embarrassing posts. October 10, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Twitter Follower Count Took a Dive This Week (On Purpose, Apparently) Twitter's big purge of locked and suspicious accounts finally showed up in my own numbers this week, and it got me thinking about why I still check that little counter at all. July 31, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Five Billion Dollars and I Still Can't Delete Facebook The EU just fined Google $5 billion over Android bundling, but the real bloatware problem is the three unremovable app stores sitting on my own phone right now. July 22, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Fourteen New Games and Zero New Hours in the Day The Steam Summer Sale wrapped up Thursday and I bought way more than I'll ever play, which is basically a tradition at this point. July 6, 2018·3 min read
