TechpadinTech News Fixing Other People's Blue Screens A rundown of how a bad CrowdStrike update turned my Friday into six hours of manually fixing blue-screened laptops for family and small local clients. July 19, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching the Streak Break Falcon 9's remarkable nine-year run without a mission failure ended last night on a Starlink launch, and the timing couldn't be worse with Starliner still stuck at the ISS. July 11, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Tesla "Beat Expectations" by Selling Fewer Cars, Again Tesla's Q2 delivery numbers came in down year-over-year but "beat" Wall Street's recently lowered estimates, which got me thinking about how that framing trick works everywhere in tech reporting. July 2, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Two Months Later, My Sonos Speakers Still Cant Do Basic Things Two months after Sonos shipped a broken app redesign, alarms still dont work right, and Im done pretending this was a modernization instead of a downgrade. June 30, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Perplexity, My Server Logs, and Who Gets to Be Mad Wired's "bullshit machine" story on Perplexity got me checking my own server logs for scraper traffic, and I have complicated feelings about who gets to be outraged about content theft. June 24, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Sonos App Rewrite, Six Weeks In Six weeks into the Sonos app rewrite and my kitchen speakers still can't do things my 2016 setup could do without thinking. A rant, with a weird Nvidia tangent. June 22, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Forbes/Perplexity Thing Hit Closer to Home Than I Expected Forbes accused Perplexity AI of rewriting its Eric Schmidt drone-startup scoop almost word for word. As someone who's been putting words on the internet since 2011, I have thoughts. June 16, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Recall Gets Recalled (Sort Of) Microsoft quietly walked back its Recall feature this week, making it opt-in and delaying the rollout after security researchers found it was storing screenshots of your PC in plain text. June 14, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Starliner Finally Got Off the Ground, and Now Everyone's Watching the Thrusters Boeing's Starliner finally flew with a crew this week, and I spent launch day glued to NASA TV. But the helium leaks that showed up in flight are the part I can't stop thinking about. June 8, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching Starship Not Blow Up For Once Notes on watching Starship's fourth test flight live: a flap cooked itself in reentry, the ship kept flying anyway, and I still have complaints about Central time livestreams. June 7, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Starliner Docked Today, An Hour Late and a Few Thrusters Short Starliner docked with the ISS today, an hour late and after some thruster trouble on approach. Notes on watching a genuinely big milestone get buried under bigger headlines. June 6, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The $3 Trillion Company and the Rocket Nobody Watched Nvidia passed Apple to become the second most valuable company on earth today, and it ate up every headline. Meanwhile Boeing put two astronauts into orbit on Starliner's first crewed flight and almost nobody noticed. June 5, 2024·4 min read
