TechpadinTech News Bluesky Finally Stuck for Me, and I Think It's the Starter Packs Ive tried Bluesky three separate times since 2023 and bounced every time. The post-election exodus off X finally made it stick, and I think Starter Packs are the actual reason why. November 17, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Everyone I Know Just Rejoined Bluesky A week after the election, Bluesky is suddenly full of people who swore they'd never leave X. Some notes on signing back in, starter packs, and why this exodus feels different from the Mastodon one. November 11, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News My Colorsoft Has the Yellow Screen Thing Too My new Kindle Colorsoft arrived this week and it's great, except for the yellow tint a lot of early units (including mine, faintly) seem to have along the bottom of the screen. November 1, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Wayback Machine Outage Freaked Me Out More Than It Should Have After the Internet Archive's October breach and DDoS attacks knocked the Wayback Machine offline, I went looking for a dead link in a 2013 post and finally got serious about backing up my own site. October 31, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The New Mac Mini's Power Button Is On the Bottom and I Have Thoughts Apple redesigned the Mac mini and it looks great, runs fast for $599 - but they put the power button on the bottom of the thing, and I cannot get over it. October 29, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Amazon's Color Kindle Is Late to a Party Kobo Already Started Amazon's new Colorsoft Kindle ships October 30th at $279.99, but Kobo's Libra Colour beat it to shelves a month ago for less money. October 23, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Giving an AI the Mouse Anthropic's new "computer use" beta lets an AI move your mouse and click around your actual desktop, and it's giving me flashbacks to a very bad AutoHotkey script from 2013. October 22, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Geoffrey Hinton Won a Nobel and It's Weirder Than It Sounds Geoffrey Hinton just won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the neural network work he now spends most of his public life warning people about, and that contradiction is the whole story. October 21, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Booster Catch, Watched Through a Buffering Stream Watching SpaceX catch the Super Heavy booster with the launch tower's arms yesterday, buffering livestream and all, and why the no-legs decision is the sane engineering call, not the crazy one. October 14, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching a Rocket Get Caught by Chopsticks Before My Coffee Went Cold I watched SpaceX catch a Starship booster with giant mechanical arms this morning and let my coffee go stone cold in the process. October 13, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Talking to My Phone Like It's a Person Now Advanced Voice Mode finally hit my ChatGPT app this week — first impressions from a morning of talking to it while making coffee, plus the one big thing it still can't do. September 26, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News iOS 18's Photos App Redesign Is Not It A few days into iOS 18, the new Photos app redesign is driving me up the wall even though RCS finally showing up for green-bubble texts almost makes up for it. September 18, 2024·3 min read
