TechpadinPersonal Why I Finally Deleted the Twitter App A personal note on finally ditching the Twitter app for Bluesky during the post-election migration wave, and what actually made it stick this time. November 18, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Rebuilding My Feed on Bluesky, One Bridge Extension at a Time A late-week scramble to rebuild a decade of Twitter follows on Bluesky using a browser extension, plus thoughts on custom feeds and why I'm not deleting the old account. November 9, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Clocks Back, Kindle Regrets Avoided Clocks fell back, I dodged a defective Kindle Colorsoft by a week, and ChatGPT's new search feature actually got something right for once. November 3, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal I Preordered the Color Kindle I preordered Amazon's new color-screen Kindle Colorsoft for $279.99 and have complicated feelings about the price, the color, and eight years of "almost here" E Ink promises. October 4, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Cleaning Out the Drafts Folder A Labor Day spent cleaning out a decade of abandoned blog drafts, plus some scattered thoughts on Apple's "Glowtime" invite and the astronauts still stuck up on the ISS. September 2, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Preordered a Pixel, Now Having Feelings About It A Pixel 9 Pro preorder, a friend's layoff-season joke about "meeting math," and some overdue honesty about my yearly upgrade compulsion. August 21, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Clearing My Monday Night For A Rocket Boeing's Starliner is set to fly astronauts for the first time Monday night, and I've already rearranged my whole evening around it, Boeing's recent track record notwithstanding. May 3, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Pin Drawer The Humane AI Pin reviews landed this week and they're brutal. A tour through my drawer of dead gadgets and why I'm glad I didn't preorder one. April 16, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Eclipse Day, From 90% Coverage Watching the total solar eclipse from just outside the path of totality, with a binder-clip phone filter, a buffering NASA stream, and a guy selling questionable glasses outside the grocery store. April 8, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal One More Sleep Until the Eclipse (And the Great Fake Glasses Panic) The night before the April 8 eclipse, sorting real ISO-certified glasses from the counterfeit ones flooding Amazon, and grumbling about only getting 91% totality where I live. April 7, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal 25 Minutes With Vision Pro (And a Lot of Other Peoples Returns) I finally did the guided Vision Pro demo at the Apple Store this week, and I've got thoughts on the display, the weight, the return-window chatter, and Google renaming Bard to Gemini the same week. February 9, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal I Didn't Preorder the Vision Pro, and I Don't Feel Bad About It Vision Pro preorders opened Friday at $3,499 and sold out fast. I sat at my laptop, cursor hovering over the buy button, and then didn't. January 21, 2024·3 min read
