TechpadinTech News Elon Deleted Two Facebook Pages Last Night Elon Musk deleted the Facebook pages for both Tesla and SpaceX overnight after a Twitter dare, and the offhand way it happened says more than another Cambridge Analytica recap would. March 24, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 29 Candles for the Web, and the Guy Who Built It Sounds Worried The web quietly turned 29 this week, and Tim Berners-Lee marked it with an open letter that reads less like a birthday card and more like a warning. March 16, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Banana Phone Is Back and I'm Weirdly Into It HMD Global brought back the yellow Matrix-famous Nokia 8110 slider at Mobile World Congress last week, and it's got me thinking modern phones lost all their personality. March 7, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 1.35 Terabits and a Very Dumb Reason It Worked GitHub just survived the biggest DDoS ever recorded, and the mechanism behind it (misconfigured memcached servers) turned out to be way dumber, and way more relevant to small server owners, than you'd expect. March 6, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The 9pm Trivia Habit Nobody Saw Coming Everyone's still talking about the Tesla in space, but the thing actually running my evenings this month is a glitchy live trivia app. Plus a quick note on the Olympics drone show that wasn't quite as live as it looked. February 13, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Part of the Falcon Heavy Launch Nobody's Talking About Everyone wrote about the car in space, but the part that stuck with me was the twin sonic booms that had people in Cocoa Beach calling 911 thinking it was an earthquake. February 11, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Netflix Made $100 Billion Look Easy Overnight Netflix's blowout Q4 earnings pushed its market cap past $100 billion overnight, but the price hikes and the exhausting browsing UI are what I keep thinking about. January 23, 2018·3 min read
TechpadinTech News No Checkout Line Isn't the Same as No Watching Amazon Go opened its cashierless store to the public in Seattle today, and I've got more complicated feelings about the surveillance and job questions than the "no checkout lines!" headlines let on. January 22, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Dropdown Menu Nearly Started a Panic A closer look at the actual software interface behind Saturday's false missile alert in Hawaii, and why "employee error" is the least interesting part of the story. January 16, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Smart Toilet and a Bricked PC: My CES Week CES rolled out a WiFi toilet and a robot dog while half the internet was busy trying to un-brick PCs after last week's Meltdown and Spectre patches. Some thoughts on priorities. January 14, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News My Weekend Got Eaten By Meltdown and Spectre A weekend spent patching servers for Meltdown and Spectre, watching AWS reboot notices roll in, and wondering how much performance I just lost. January 8, 2018·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Bitcoin at $19,800 and Everyone Suddenly Has an Opinion Bitcoin flirted with $19,800 today just as CME's futures contract went live, and suddenly everyone from my brother-in-law to my mom has an opinion about it. December 17, 2017·4 min read
