TechpadinTech News The Skype Ringtone Is Gone For Good Microsoft actually shut Skype down this week, and going through old blog-era Skype history turned out to be more of a gut punch than expected. May 10, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Amazon Finally Got Kuiper Off The Ground Amazon's first 27 production Kuiper satellites finally launched this week, but the real story is a looming FCC deadline, not a Starlink rivalry. May 2, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Surviving the Switch 2 Preorder Scramble A firsthand account of the Nintendo Switch 2 preorder chaos on April 24th, from tariff-driven delays to a GameStop site that just fell over. April 30, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Setting an Alarm for a Video Game Nintendo Switch 2 preorders open tomorrow after tariff chaos delayed them by two weeks, and I'm annoyed at how normal it feels to plan my morning around a refresh button. April 23, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTutorials Feeding My Entire Blog Archive to GPT-4.1-nano OpenAI quietly shipped GPT-4.1 and two smaller siblings straight to the API this week, so I spent an evening dumping fourteen years of this blog into the cheapest one just to see what a million-token context window is actually good for. April 15, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Drawer of Dead Cables A Sunday afternoon spent finally emptying the drawer of dead cables and dongles under the TV, and what eleven years of never throwing anything out actually looks like. April 13, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Nintendo Just Punted My Switch 2 Preorder to "Later" Nintendo was supposed to open US preorders for the Switch 2 today. Instead they punted, citing tariffs, and I'm annoyed in a very specific and personal way. April 9, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Eighty Dollars for Mario Kart Broke Something in My Brain Nintendo's Switch 2 Direct last week put real numbers on the table, $449.99 for the console and $79.99 for Mario Kart World, and I've been doing uncomfortable math ever since. April 7, 2025·3 min read
TechpadinTech News A Weekend Rebuilding My Invoice Script With Gemini 2.5 Pro A weekend spent rebuilding an invoice script three ways to actually test Gemini 2.5 Pro against Claude, plus a note on DeepSeek's quiet open-weights update. April 1, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Ghibli Cat, and the Guilt That Came With It Everyone turned their photos into Ghibli-style AI art this week, including me and my cat. Some thoughts on why that felt a little more complicated than fun. March 29, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Deleting My DNA From 23andMe Before Someone Else Owns It 23andMe filed for bankruptcy this week and state attorneys general are urging users to delete their genetic data before it changes hands. I finally did, and the process taught me more than I wanted to know. March 27, 2025·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Best Part of Nvidia's Keynote Was a Fake Dog Nvidia's GTC keynote this week had a two-year GPU roadmap and a $3,000 desktop AI computer, but the part I keep thinking about is the robot dog. March 20, 2025·3 min read
