TechpadinTech News The ChatGPT App Is On My Phone Now and I Keep Talking To It Like a Person 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
TechpadinTech News Tears of the Kingdom Ate My Week 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
TechpadinTech News Elon Hires an Ad Saleswoman to Run Twitter 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
TechpadinTech News Somebody Actually Agreed to Run Twitter for Elon 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
TechpadinTutorials Finally Killing My Google Analytics Habit 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
TechpadinTech News The Part of the WGA Strike That's Actually About AI 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
TechpadinTech News The ChatGPT Toggle I've Been Waiting For OpenAI quietly added a way to turn off ChatGPT's chat history (and stop it training on your conversations) right as Italy lifted its ban. I've been asking for this since December. April 30, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal So Who Actually Paid for Twitter Blue? Days after Twitter stripped legacy blue checkmarks, a bunch of celebrities who swore they'd never pay still have theirs, and nobody will say why. April 25, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Best Part of the Starship Launch Wasn't the Rocket The Starship test flight ended in a fireball everyone covered — but the wrecked parking lot six miles away in Port Isabel is the part I can't stop thinking about. April 24, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Three Checkmarks Elon Decided to Pay For Twitter ripped the legacy blue checkmarks off this week, and Elon Musk personally comped verification for exactly three people. Some notes on the pettiest tech story of the week, plus a Starship tangent. April 23, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Reddit Wants to Charge for Its API and I'm Worried About Apollo Reddit just announced it's going to start charging for API access, and while the headlines are about AI scraping, the part that actually worries me is what it means for apps like Apollo. April 22, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Samsung Banned ChatGPT and I Kind of Get It Samsung banned ChatGPT for employees after a few code-leak scares, and it made me think hard about the time I almost pasted a client's code into it myself. April 16, 2023·4 min read
