TechpadinTutorials What My Own LG TV Is Actually Saying on the Network After the LG "spy TV" story broke, I finally pointed my own Pi-hole logs at my living room OLED to see what it actually sends home, standby included. September 19, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Bonsai 2 27B: Finally a Model My ThinkPad Can Handle PrismML's Bonsai 2 27B squeezes a 27B-parameter model into 5.9GB, and I ran it on my aging ThinkPad instead of caring about the latest frontier model headlines. September 17, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Twelve Years Later, Walmart Finally Lets You Tap Your Phone Walmart's state-by-state tap-to-pay rollout finally hit my store this week, twelve years after the company built a rival payment app just to keep Apple Pay off its terminals. September 16, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Claude Token Theft Story Had Me Checking My Own Sessions Hackers are hijacking Claude sessions to mint unauthorized tokens, and Anthropic can't itemize usage even when you ask. Here's what I checked on my own account after reading it. September 15, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Microsoft's Emergency Patch Only Half-Fixes the Audio Bug It Caused Microsoft's September 14th out-of-band patch brings back multichannel USB audio it broke earlier this month, but its own support page admits the rest of the bug isn't fixed yet. September 14, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinTech News My DNS Resolver Started Doing Post-Quantum Math and Nobody Told Me Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 quietly started validating post-quantum DNSSEC signatures this week, which sent me down a rabbit hole checking why my own domain still can't. September 11, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials The Backup Script I Should Have Written Years Ago A SMART-error scare on my laptop turned into finally fixing techpad's embarrassingly loose backup setup, here's the boring three-layer script that replaced it. September 9, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Fighting My Own NAS All Weekend A Labor Day weekend spent migrating a seven-year-old home server setup to a new mini PC turned into a two-day slog through undocumented cron jobs, GPU drivers, and one very good raccoon. September 8, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Killing My 13-Year-Old Contact Form After thirteen years, I finally killed the ancient PHP contact form on this blog and replaced it with authenticated transactional email, once I realized it had been silently failing for months. September 7, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Fifteen Years of This, Almost Techpad turns fifteen in November, and Im using an otherwise slow Sunday to think about why Ive kept typing into this thing since 2011. September 6, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Matter vs Thread vs Zigbee: What I'd Actually Pick for a Smart Home in 2027 I've been running Home Assistant with a mix of devices for a while now, and the Matter/Thread/Zigbee question keeps coming up. Here's how I think about it, and what I'd buy today. September 5, 2026·5 min read
TechpadinTutorials Hunting Down Fifteen Years of Dead Links I finally ran a link checker against 900 old posts going back to 2011 and found nearly a third of every link Ive ever posted is dead. Heres what broke, why, and what I did about it. September 4, 2026·4 min read
