TechpadinPersonal A Week With IGTV and Its Vertical-Only Problem A week into using Instagram's new IGTV app, and the vertical-only video format is already driving me a little nuts. June 26, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Inbox Survived GDPR Week (Barely) Five days into GDPR and my inbox is a graveyard of privacy policy emails, some US news sites just blocked EU visitors outright, and I have thoughts about cookie banner design. May 30, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Fourteen Privacy Policy Emails and the Great Unsubscribe Purge Fourteen "we've updated our privacy policy" emails in four days ahead of Friday's GDPR deadline turned into an oddly satisfying inbox purge, and a reminder that a policy update isn't the same thing as a behavior change. May 23, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Great Privacy Policy Email Avalanche My inbox is thirty privacy-policy-update emails deep ahead of the GDPR deadline, and a much bigger internet policy vote got completely buried underneath it. May 21, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal How I Made It to Opening Night Without Getting Spoiled A rundown of how I avoided Infinity War spoilers this week using Twitter's mute-keywords feature, plus some stray thoughts on Facebook and Twitter earnings and the early GDPR email flood. April 27, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Machine That Did the Talking Stephen Hawking died today, and while everyone else is talking black holes, I want to talk about the open-source software and cheek-twitch sensor that actually gave him his voice. March 14, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Whole Building Goes Quiet at 9 PM Now My whole building has started going quiet at 9pm sharp because everyone's playing HQ Trivia. A rundown of the nightly ritual, the flag question that got me, and why the app keeps crashing. February 19, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Week My Crypto Portfolio Turned Into a Joke Bitcoin dropped under $8,200, the Dow had its worst day in two years, and Apple's record earnings still weren't enough for investors, all in one wobbly week. February 3, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Question Eleven, a Reboot Loop, and a Half Billion Dollar Heist HQ Trivia at 9pm, a laptop stuck in a reboot loop from the Spectre patch, and half a billion dollars stolen from a crypto exchange — three unrelated things from the same three weeks. January 31, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal So That's Why My iPhone Got So Slow Apple finally admitted this week that old iPhones get throttled on purpose. Turns out my "dying" iPhone 6 wasn't dying at all, it was just being held back. December 23, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Why I'm Skipping the iPhone X Launch The iPhone X launched Friday and everyone lined up. I stayed home with my iPhone 7 and some opinions about the price, Face ID, and a much bigger document leak nobody's talking about. November 6, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Avocados Were Fine A weekend trip to the newly Amazon-owned Whole Foods, where the avocados got slightly cheaper and the checkout line did not. September 5, 2017·4 min read
