TechpadinTech News Glue on Pizza, Rocks for Breakfast, and My Flat Traffic Graph Google's new AI Overviews told people to eat rocks and glue pizza together this week. I checked what it's doing to my own Search Console numbers instead of just laughing at the screenshots. May 28, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News My Sonos Speakers Got Worse On Purpose Sonos rebuilt its app from scratch in early May and stripped out sleep timers, reliable alarms, and queue management along the way. Two weeks in, I'm still annoyed. May 26, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTutorials Slack Will Train on Your Data Unless You Email Them About It Slack quietly opted every workspace into AI/ML data training by default this week, and the only way out right now is an email. Here's what I actually did about it. May 20, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News X Hid Your Likes and I Have Thoughts X quietly hid everyone's Likes tab this week, and I have some specific, mildly bitter opinions about why. Plus: Starliner's about to fly astronauts for the first time. May 5, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Clearing My Monday Night For A Rocket Boeing's Starliner is set to fly astronauts for the first time Monday night, and I've already rearranged my whole evening around it, Boeing's recent track record notwithstanding. May 3, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Zuckerberg Tanks His Own Stock (On Purpose, Sort Of) Meta beat Q1 revenue estimates on April 24th and the stock still dropped 15% after hours over Zuckerberg's AI spending guidance. A few thoughts on why the market might be reacting to the wrong thing. April 25, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Cybertruck's Pedal Problem Tesla recalled nearly every Cybertruck on the road over a pedal pad that can slide loose and jam the accelerator down, and the fix is weirder than the problem. April 23, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinTech News I Almost Bought the Humane Pin. I'm Very Glad I Didn't. The Humane AI Pin reviews landed this week and they were brutal. I had my card ready to preorder one back in November. Here's why I didn't, and why I'm relieved. April 17, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Pin Drawer The Humane AI Pin reviews landed this week and they're brutal. A tour through my drawer of dead gadgets and why I'm glad I didn't preorder one. April 16, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Humane AI Pin Reviews Are In, and Yikes The Humane AI Pin reviews dropped this week and they were rough. Some thoughts on a $699 wearable with a $24/month subscription that can't handle sunlight. April 15, 2024·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Eclipse Day, From 90% Coverage Watching the total solar eclipse from just outside the path of totality, with a binder-clip phone filter, a buffering NASA stream, and a guy selling questionable glasses outside the grocery store. April 8, 2024·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal One More Sleep Until the Eclipse (And the Great Fake Glasses Panic) The night before the April 8 eclipse, sorting real ISO-certified glasses from the counterfeit ones flooding Amazon, and grumbling about only getting 91% totality where I live. April 7, 2024·4 min read
