Tech News
Twitter capped how many tweets people could read per day this weekend, and getting locked out for an afternoon taught me more about where this is all headed than the announcement itself did.
July 2, 2023 · 3 min read
Tech News
Apollo for Reddit closes its doors at midnight tonight, and I'm genuinely bummed about it in a way I didn't expect to be over an app.
June 30, 2023 · 4 min read
Tech News
Apollo shuts down in six days, but the part of the Reddit API fight that actually got to me this week was watching the company strip mod permissions from subreddits that stayed dark.
June 24, 2023 · 4 min read
Personal
Apollo for Reddit shuts down on June 30th, and I'm more bummed about losing my favorite iPhone app than I expected to be.
June 22, 2023 · 3 min read
Tech News
Reddit's API pricing fight boiled over into a mass subreddit blackout this week, and the fallout means Apollo, the best third-party Reddit app around, is shutting down for good on June 30th.
June 16, 2023 · 3 min read
Tech News
Twitter Spaces melted down under a stampede of listeners this week, and it's a better case study in thundering-herd traffic problems than in campaign politics.
May 27, 2023 · 4 min read
Tech News
OpenAI's ChatGPT app landed on the iPhone last Thursday and I've been using it constantly since, mostly for things I'm slightly embarrassed to admit.
May 21, 2023 · 4 min read
Tech News
A week after Tears of the Kingdom launched, my yard work and inbox both lost to Ultrahand, floating islands, and a stubborn Joy-Con drift problem.
May 19, 2023 · 4 min read
Tech News
Elon Musk named NBCUniversal ad chief Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's new CEO right in the middle of upfronts week, and the timing tells you exactly which of Twitter's problems he thinks is the real emergency.
May 13, 2023 · 4 min read
Tech News
Elon Musk says he's hired a new Twitter CEO without naming her, and the rumor mill has already landed on an NBCUniversal ad exec. Some thoughts on why that pick would actually make sense.
May 11, 2023 · 3 min read
Tutorials
With Universal Analytics set to stop collecting data on July 1st, I finally ripped Google Analytics out of techpad's footer and moved to Fathom instead. Here's what that migration actually looked like.
May 5, 2023 · 4 min read
Tech News
The WGA walked out yesterday, and the part of their AI proposal actually worth paying attention to isn't the ban-the-robots headline, it's the fine print about pay.
May 3, 2023 · 4 min read