TechpadinTech News Amazon Quietly Names Its AI Titan, And Nobody Blinks AWS rolled out Bedrock and a model called Titan this week, and the most interesting part isnt the tech, its how little anyone reacted. April 14, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News So Long, Twitter Bots (And My Dumb Little Cross-Poster) Twitter's new API pricing just killed off the Big Ben bot and a bunch of other tiny hobby accounts - and it might take my decade-old blog cross-poster down with it. April 8, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTutorials Ditching Google Analytics Before It Ditches Me Ditching the looming Universal Analytics sunset for a self-hosted Umami setup on a $6 droplet, plus a quick aside about that Twitter doge logo swap. April 6, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Git History Twitter Didn't Open Source Twitter open-sourced its recommendation algorithm on GitHub, and I lost a Friday night reading it. Some notes on Home Mixer, SimClusters, and a suspiciously clean git history. April 2, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News My Mom Texted Me the Pope in a Puffer Coat A fake AI photo of the Pope in a puffer coat fooled my mom, and it's got me thinking about what Midjourney v5's quality jump actually means. March 30, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The ChatGPT Bug Nobody's Talking About Anymore OpenAI quietly confirmed that a bug briefly exposed ChatGPT Plus payment details for some subscribers. A look at the actual incident report, not the GPT-4 hype cycle. March 28, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The ChatGPT Bug Nobody Talked About Because of GPT-4 A bug briefly exposed some ChatGPT Plus users' billing info and other people's chat titles this week, and it deserved a lot more attention than it got under the GPT-4 headlines. March 22, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Payroll, Panic, and a Depegged Stablecoin A personal look at the week Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, USDC briefly depegged, and UBS bought Credit Suisse, and how it briefly knocked GPT-4 out of everyone's feed. March 20, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Thermostat Still Thinks It's an Hour Ago Daylight Saving Time broke half my smart home this morning while the rest of tech Twitter was busy panicking about Silicon Valley Bank. March 12, 2023·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Nokia Killed Its Logo and I'm Weirdly Bothered By It Nokia retired its 60-year-old logo at MWC 2023 in Barcelona this week, and it sent me down a whole drawer-of-old-phones spiral I wasn't expecting. March 4, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Meta's New Model Is "Open" If You Fill Out a Form First Meta quietly released its LLaMA language models this week — but getting the actual weights means filling out an application form, not downloading anything. February 25, 2023·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Bing Bumped Me Up to Six Messages and I Still Ran Out Microsoft nudged Bing Chat's turn limit up to six messages per session this week. Notes from actually running into that wall while asking it about recipe substitutions. February 23, 2023·4 min read
