TechpadinPersonal Watching Perseverance Land From My Kitchen Table A personal, kitchen-table account of watching NASA's Perseverance rover land on Mars live yesterday afternoon, seven terrifying minutes and all. February 19, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Digging Up an Old Coinbase Account A chaotic news week sends me digging through old email for a Coinbase account I forgot existed, and the 2FA nightmare that followed. January 7, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal A Graphics Card for My Nephew and a Bitcoin Chart I Can't Stop Refreshing A last day of 2020 post about failing to buy a graphics card for my nephew's Christmas present while Bitcoin quietly climbs past $28,000 in the background. December 31, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Chasing the Christmas Star With My Phone Camera I tried to photograph the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction with an iPhone and failed badly, plus a quick aside about Sony pulling Cyberpunk 2077 off the PlayStation Store. December 23, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Still No PS5: A Month Into the Restock Hunt A month into the PS5 launch and I still can't get one — some notes on restock bots, scalper markups, and giving up on principle vs giving up for real. December 8, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Refreshing Best Buy at 6am for a PS5 I Did Not Get A morning spent refreshing four different retailer tabs trying to buy a PS5, and losing to bots, on the actual US launch day. November 12, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal A Week With the iPhone 12 (And My Drawer Full of Old Chargers) A week in with the iPhone 12 - the MagSafe click is great, the missing charger in the box is a little less great, and my hand cramps on those flat edges. October 31, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal I Did Not Get a 3080 (And I'm Weirdly Fine With It) A blow-by-blow of failing to buy an RTX 3080 the normal way, and why the scalper-bot situation around last week's Nvidia launches bugs me more than the card shortage itself. September 29, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Day the Sky Turned Orange and I Still Had Standup A few days late, some notes on the morning the Bay Area sky turned deep orange and I still logged into a 9:30 Zoom standup like nothing was happening outside. September 12, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Checking PurpleAir More Than Twitter A week into hazardous wildfire smoke from the SCU and LNU Lightning Complex fires, I'm checking PurpleAir more than Twitter and rationing N95s between two different emergencies. August 24, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The App Store Fight Looks Different From Down Here Epic picked a fight with Apple and Google this week over the App Store's 30% cut. As someone with a tiny app earning $61 a quarter, the fight looks a lot different from where I'm sitting. August 15, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Widgets on a Phone I Don't Even Use A weekend spent on a spare iPhone messing with iOS 14's new home screen widgets, plus a note on finally fixing my Twitter 2FA after the mid-July hack. July 28, 2020·4 min read
