TechpadinTech News Fandango Fell Over And I Refreshed That Page A Hundred Times Advance tickets for The Force Awakens went on sale today and promptly took down Fandango, AMC, and Movietickets.com. Some thoughts on predictable traffic spikes, plus Back to the Future Day is two days away. October 19, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Jailbroke the iPhone Again, Battery Regrets Already Pangu dropped an untethered iOS 9 jailbreak this week, so I finally did it to my iPhone 6 - what I installed, what it cost me in battery life, and why the whole scene feels thinner than it used to. October 17, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Bat Flip, and Also Twitter Just Fired 336 People Twitter cut 336 jobs this week, two days before its live-event superpower was on full display during the Blue Jays bat flip game. Some thoughts on both, plus a Tweetdeck tangent. October 15, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Safe Harbor Just Sank and Nobody Told the Small Sites The EU court just killed the Safe Harbor data-transfer framework, and it turns out that's not only a Facebook-sized company problem, it's a my-$5-DigitalOcean-droplet problem too. October 11, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Marshmallow Showed Up This Week. Mine Still Hasn't. Android 6.0 Marshmallow started rolling out to Nexus phones this week, and mine hasn't gotten it yet. Notes on Doze, the new permissions model, and why staggered OTA rollouts are the worst part of owning a Nexus. October 8, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Band 2 Detail Nobody's Talking About Microsoft's big event this week was all Surface Book headlines, but the Band 2's curved screen is the detail that actually matters to me after a year of fighting with the original. October 7, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Dorsey Drops the "Interim," Twitter Drops 336 People Twitter made Jack Dorsey's "interim" CEO title permanent today and cut 8% of staff in the same breath. Some thoughts on running two companies at once and what that says about where Twitter's headed. October 5, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Google Quietly Became a Subsidiary This Week and Basically Nobody Noticed Alphabet officially became Google's parent company this week, and I spent way too long trying to figure out why a paperwork shuffle felt so strange to watch happen. October 3, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Day Google Actually Became a Subsidiary Alphabet's Google reorg quietly went into effect today, weeks after the announcement everyone already wrote about back in August. October 2, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News 13 Million Phones Sold and Still Only 16GB Apple bragged about 13 million iPhone 6s sales over launch weekend, but the base model is still stuck at 16GB and my sister already ran out of room by day two. October 1, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Best Thing From Yesterday's Google Event Wasn't a Phone Everyone's talking about the Nexus 5X and 6P from yesterday's Google event, but the $35 Chromecast Audio is the product I actually ordered. September 30, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News I Stayed Up For The Mars Water Announcement And The Stream Buffered The Whole Time NASA said Monday there's strong evidence of liquid water flowing on Mars right now, and I watched the whole announcement through a laggy stream while my router quietly gave up on life. September 29, 2015·3 min read
