TechpadinPersonal My Eclipse Photos Are Garbage (And I Don't Care) A week-late recap of watching the partial eclipse from the driveway, why my phone photos of it are all garbage, and how the Essential Phone's launch got completely buried under all the eclipse noise. August 27, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Eclipse Glasses Recall Almost Ruined My Monday A last-minute scramble after Amazon recalled a batch of counterfeit eclipse glasses, and how a Cheerios box saved eclipse Monday. August 25, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Eclipse Glasses Might Be Fake A last-minute scare over fake eclipse glasses sends me down a rabbit hole of ISO safety codes, price-gouged backup orders, and some strong opinions about who should be liable when it counts. August 18, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Cutting the Cord Just in Time for Dragonstone A cord-cutter's account of streaming the Game of Thrones Season 7 premiere on HBO Now, with a detour into AT&T's zero-rating deal, Prime Day disappointment, and a busted TV mount. July 16, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal iPhone Turns Ten (And My Package Is Still Stuck in Cologne) The iPhone just turned ten years old, which got me thinking back to my scratched-up secondhand 3G — plus a rant about a package stuck in FedEx limbo thanks to that malware outbreak everyone's been dealing with. July 3, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Grocery Store Got Bought By The Internet A personal, slightly rattled reaction to Amazon's $13.7 billion deal for Whole Foods, from someone who shops there every week and isn't sure how to feel about it yet. June 19, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Couldn't Buy a Graphics Card This Weekend Ninety minutes on Newegg and I still couldn't find a GTX 1060 or RX 580 that wasn't sold out or marked up, thanks to the Ethereum mining boom. Plus a couple of stray thoughts on WWDC week. June 11, 2017·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Arms Are Sore From a Video Game Called ARMS A Memorial Day weekend spent throwing punches at my TV via Nintendo's ARMS Testpunch demo, plus a sore forearm, a drifting Joy-Con, and a very belated Windows update. May 30, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Patching My Mom's Laptop, Ten Days Late A weekend visit turns into an unplanned patch job on my mom's neglected Windows laptop, ten days after WannaCry, and some notes on what I actually did to fix it. May 22, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Weekend I Lost to an XP Box and a Kill Switch A weekend spent patching an old XP box for a client, plus some thoughts on the 22-year-old who accidentally slowed WannaCry down and Microsoft's pointed blog post about the NSA. May 15, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Blue Shells Are Back and I Regret Nothing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe launched today and I've already lost half a night's sleep to it — thoughts on Battle Mode being good again, character stats actually mattering, and why now's the best time to play online before Nintendo starts charging for it. April 28, 2017·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The ISP Privacy Repeal Sent Me Down a VPN Rabbit Hole This Weekend Trump signed the bill killing broadband privacy rules on Monday, so I spent my Saturday flashing router firmware and arguing with myself about which VPN to trust instead. April 4, 2017·3 min read
