TechpadinTech News A Photo That Turns Into a World You Can Walk Into Google DeepMind's Genie 2 turns a single still image into a playable, walkable 3D world for about a minute at a time, and it left me more unsettled than impressed. December 6, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News I Spent Sunday Night Wiring Claude Up To My Own Files Anthropic quietly shipped a new open protocol last week for hooking AI assistants up to your local files and apps. I tried it on Claude Desktop and it mostly worked, after some JSON wrangling. November 26, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Why I Finally Deleted the Twitter App A personal note on finally ditching the Twitter app for Bluesky during the post-election migration wave, and what actually made it stick this time. November 18, 2024·3 min read
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
TechpadinPersonal Rebuilding My Feed on Bluesky, One Bridge Extension at a Time A late-week scramble to rebuild a decade of Twitter follows on Bluesky using a browser extension, plus thoughts on custom feeds and why I'm not deleting the old account. November 9, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Clocks Back, Kindle Regrets Avoided Clocks fell back, I dodged a defective Kindle Colorsoft by a week, and ChatGPT's new search feature actually got something right for once. November 3, 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
