TechpadinTech News Salesforce, Buyout Rumors, and a CRM I'd Rather Forget Salesforce takeover rumors sent the stock jumping over 10% on Friday, and it dragged up some genuinely bad memories of the CRM job I had back in 2012. May 24, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Logjam Ruined My Saturday A new named-and-logo'd TLS vulnerability called Logjam sent me digging into my own Apache config this weekend, and it's got me thinking about how we cover these things. May 23, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Witcher 3 Ate My Weekend, and My Graphics Card Filed a Complaint The Witcher 3 came out last Tuesday and its mostly gorgeous, but Nvidias HairWorks hair tech is beating up my AMD card and I have opinions about why. May 22, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Spotify Running and My Doubts About BPM-Matched Playlists Spotify's New York event brought video partnerships and a cadence-matching running feature, but the one that actually solves a problem I've had for three years is the boring one. May 21, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Spotify Running and the Video Nobody Asked For Spotify announced video content and a tempo-matching Spotify Running feature today. The running feature might actually be useful; the video pivot I'm skeptical of. May 20, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Facebook Wants to Host My Words Now Facebook's new Instant Articles launched this week with nine big publishers on board. A one-person blog's take on why that trade makes sense for the New York Times and not for sites like this one. May 16, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Facebook Instant Articles and My Stubborn RSS Habit Facebook's new Instant Articles launched this week for nine publishers, and it's got me thinking about my stubborn old RSS habit and what's left of the open web. May 15, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Verizon Bought AOL and All I Can Hear Is a Modem Verizon is buying AOL for $4.4 billion, and I can't stop thinking about free-trial CDs and the sound of a 56k modem instead of the ad-tech strategy everyone else is writing about. May 14, 2015·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Instant Articles and My Own Domain Facebook launched Instant Articles today with nine big publishers on board, and it's got me thinking about why I still like owning my own domain. May 13, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching SpaceX Blow Up a Capsule On Purpose SpaceX blew up an empty capsule on purpose this week to prove it could save astronauts' lives someday, and I spent a coffee break watching the live feed instead of working. May 8, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching a Capsule Launch Itself Off the Pad SpaceX ran a pad abort test for the Dragon V2 capsule at Cape Canaveral, and a weird wobble under the parachutes made it more interesting than a routine safety check. May 7, 2015·3 min read
TechpadinTech News How I Watched Mayweather-Pacquiao on a Stranger's Periscope Feed The Mayweather-Pacquiao PPV crashed for half the East Coast Saturday night, so we ended up watching the fight through a stranger's Periscope stream instead. May 5, 2015·4 min read
