TechpadinTech News The Shortest CEO Tenure in Tech Right Now A weekend recap of OpenAI's leadership chaos, focused on the strangest footnote of all: Emmett Shear's few days as interim CEO before Sam Altman came back. November 25, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Starship Got To Space This Time (Before It Blew Up) SpaceX's second Starship test flight on Saturday made it to space before both stages were lost — notes from watching the livestream at 7am with bad coffee. November 19, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials I Built a Custom GPT This Week and Now I Cant Stop A weekend spent building custom GPTs after OpenAI's DevDay update, plus notes on the new GPT-4 Turbo pricing and what actually works once you sit down and try it. November 17, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News I Dumped 12 Years of This Blog Into GPT-4 Turbo's New Context Window After OpenAI's DevDay announcements this week, I tried feeding two years of this blog's archive into the new 128k-token GPT-4 Turbo just to see what would happen to my API bill. November 11, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Watching the Epic v. Google Trial Instead of the OpenAI Livestream While everyone's covering OpenAI's DevDay, I'm watching the Epic v. Google Play Store trial that started this week, and thinking about the 30% cut I used to pay Google on my own dumb little Android app. November 9, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The MacBook Pro Is Black Again, Sort Of Apple's new Space Black MacBook Pro finish has me thinking about my old plastic black MacBook from 2007, and whether this one will actually resist fingerprints like they claim. November 3, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Cheap MacBook Pro Isn't Really a Pro Anymore Apple's new M3 MacBook Pro lineup landed this week, but the $1599 base model quietly ships with last-generation display tech and the same 8GB of memory it had in 2020. November 2, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Doorbell Cam Ruins Halloween a Little Bit A Tuesday-night Halloween, a video doorbell that would not stop buzzing, an emergency gas-station candy run, and some grumbling about the $3-a-month tax on basic doorbell footage. October 31, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Stack Overflow's Layoffs and Where All the Questions Went Stack Overflow just laid off around 28% of its staff, and my own browser history explains exactly why: I barely use the site anymore now that Copilot and ChatGPT answer things inline. October 23, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Few Days With the Quest 3 (and the Strap That's Still Bugging Me) A few days in with the new Meta Quest 3, why the passthrough finally feels real, and why I'm still annoyed the good strap costs extra. October 14, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Nobody Hacked 23andMe, Somebody Just Reused a Password The 23andMe breach making the rounds this week wasn't some elaborate hack, it was reused passwords plus a relative-matching feature that quietly widened the damage to people who did nothing wrong. October 8, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Blast Radius of a Reused Password 23andMe's newly confirmed breach wasn't a database hack, it was credential stuffing amplified by the DNA Relatives feature, turning a few thousand weak passwords into millions of exposed profiles. October 6, 2023·4 min read
