TechpadinPersonal Cable Drawer Archaeology A Saturday spent cleaning out a desk drawer full of dead cables turns into a small meditation on tech hoarding, USB-C, and this blog's fourteenth year. December 20, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Up Past Midnight For The Game Awards A late-night recap of staying up for The Game Awards 2025, the show's bloated runtime, lingering Half-Life 3 hype, and a bowl of cereal eaten at midnight. December 14, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Finally Replaced the Router After years of blaming my internet plan, I finally swapped out the ancient rental router for a mesh setup and realized how much low-grade annoyance I'd just been living with. December 12, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal I Almost Bought the Thinnest iPhone Ever A personal, slightly grumpy take on iPhone 17 preorder week: why I skipped the ultra-thin iPhone Air's single camera and no-SIM-tray design for the boring Pro instead. September 17, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Spent the Day Before the Long Weekend Cleaning Out My Digital Attic A long weekend nudged me into finally testing my backups and redeploying a dead side project instead of writing about the week's big tech story. July 3, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Three Weeks Into the iOS 26 Beta and My Control Center Is Still Unreadable Three weeks of daily-driving the iOS 26 developer beta later, some notes on Liquid Glass, the weird new year-based version numbers, and why my Control Center still looks like a smudged window. July 1, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The F1 Movie Is a Two-Hour Ad for a Camera Apple Didn't Even Make Went to see Apple's F1 movie in IMAX opening weekend and came out thinking more about the camera rigs than the plot, plus a small rant about my own Apple TV+ hypocrisy. June 29, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal I Did Not Win the Switch 2 Preorder Lottery A personal rant about missing out on the Nintendo Switch 2 preorder lottery, and what the tariff-driven pricing saga actually says about Nintendo's strategy. May 12, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Drawer of Dead Cables A Sunday afternoon spent finally emptying the drawer of dead cables and dongles under the TV, and what eleven years of never throwing anything out actually looks like. April 13, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Eighty Dollars for Mario Kart Broke Something in My Brain Nintendo's Switch 2 Direct last week put real numbers on the table, $449.99 for the console and $79.99 for Mario Kart World, and I've been doing uncomfortable math ever since. April 7, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Ghibli Cat, and the Guilt That Came With It Everyone turned their photos into Ghibli-style AI art this week, including me and my cat. Some thoughts on why that felt a little more complicated than fun. March 29, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Nineteen Days on TikTok's Clock A personal, skeptical look at TikTok's January 19th divestment deadline, the upcoming Supreme Court arguments, and what fifteen years of watching platforms die has taught me about betting on deadlines. January 4, 2025·4 min read
