TechpadinPersonal Apple Music and My Subscription Math Problem Apple announced Apple Music pricing at WWDC this week, and doing the math against my existing Spotify family plan has turned into an embarrassing accounting exercise. June 10, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Little Windows Flag in My Tray A weird little flag icon showed up in my system tray last week. Turns out its Microsoft reserving your free Windows 10 upgrade, and I have some thoughts about that (plus a Fallout 4 tangent). June 4, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Dumping My Photo Hoard Into Google Photos Google Photos went unlimited and free this week at I/O, so I spent Friday night dumping fourteen thousand hoarded photos into it — and thinking about why that makes me nervous anyway. May 30, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal What Happens to Your Library When the Site Dies Three weeks after Grooveshark shut down for good, I'm still mad about the library I lost and what it says about renting your music instead of owning it. May 18, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Powerwall Math for People Who Rent Doing late-night math on whether a Tesla Powerwall makes sense for a renter, plus a tangent about Age of Ultron's rogue-AI plot and why that story never seems to change anything. May 12, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Ultron, May the Fourth, and a Battery I Can't Even Plug In A weekend of Age of Ultron, an unplanned May the Fourth marathon, and some idle math about whether a Tesla Powerwall would even fit in my apartment. May 6, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Watch Shipped Today, I Was Fixing My Sidebar Apple Watch shipped to actual customers today, but I spent launch day fixing my own blog's broken mobile CSS after Google's mobile-friendly update, plus some Pebble-battery-fatigue skepticism. April 24, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Five Days Until Mobilegeddon and My Site Just Failed Google's mobile-friendly ranking update lands in five days and my own site just failed the test. Notes on fixing a three-year-old WordPress theme before Mobilegeddon hits. April 16, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal My First Weekend With HBO Now I finally tried HBO Now for the Game of Thrones season 5 premiere instead of turning on cable, and it mostly worked, minus the iTunes billing mess and the fact that piracy is still easier. April 13, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal I Stayed Up For a Watch I Didn't Buy I stayed up until 3am to watch Apple Watch preorders open, didn't buy one, and watched the shipping estimates slide to June in under an hour. April 10, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Playing Pac-Man on My Own Street Playing Google's Pac-Man April Fools joke on my own street, and a grumbly aside about GitHub getting hammered by a DDoS attack all week. April 1, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Spring Forward, Twice Daylight saving stole an hour of sleep the same weekend Apple's naming its event "Spring Forward" — some notes on clocks that never get fixed, a smartwatch I don't want, and the curved screen everyone at MWC was suddenly obsessed with. March 8, 2015·4 min read
