TechpadinTech News 1:47 AM and the Rocket Finally Left the Pad Artemis I finally launched early this morning after three scrubbed attempts. I stayed up to watch it, and it was worth losing the sleep. November 16, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Eight Dollars for a Blue Checkmark: 48 Hours Later I paid $8 for a Twitter blue checkmark out of curiosity and watched it break the internet's trust signals in under 48 hours, fake Eli Lilly tweet and all. November 11, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Eight Dollars for a Blue Checkmark Twitter's $7.99 Blue checkmark started rolling out this week and it's already impossible to tell who's actually verified versus who just paid. Some thoughts on trust signals, plus the Meta layoffs that landed the same week. November 10, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Setting Up Mastodon: The Part Nobody Explains Well A practical, no-hype walkthrough of setting up a Mastodon account this week, including the server-picking confusion nobody warns you about. November 8, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Weirdest Balance Sheet I've Read All Year A leaked balance sheet shows Sam Bankman-Fried's trading firm Alameda Research is sitting on billions of dollars of a token it basically made up itself, and something about that number won't leave me alone. November 4, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Eight Dollars for a Checkmark Musk's $8 Twitter Blue checkmark plan turns verification into a purchase instead of a fact — plus a weekend spent poking around a laggy Mastodon instance. November 2, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News iPadOS 16 Showed Up, and So Did the M1 Catch iPadOS 16 and iOS 16.1 landed today. Stage Manager is good, but its external display support only works on M1 iPads, and mine isn't one of them. October 24, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Week With the Pixel 7 Pro A week-later hands-on with the Pixel 7 Pro: the camera bar's weight, a genuinely good zoom shot, and a fingerprint sensor that's letting the whole phone down. October 22, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Pixel 7 Pro, Three Days In Three days with the new Pixel 7 Pro: Magic Eraser is genuinely fun, the camera bar rocks on every flat surface, and I still haven't touched the Pixel Watch. October 16, 2022·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Netflix Ad Tier's Real Catch Isn't the Ads Netflix priced its ad-supported tier at $6.99 a month yesterday, and the 720p resolution cap and no-downloads rule matter more than the ad-count headline everyone's fixated on. October 14, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News My iPhone 14 Pro's Camera Still Won't Stop Shaking A week and a half after Apple promised a fix, my iPhone 14 Pro's camera is still buzzing every time I open Instagram or TikTok. October 8, 2022·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Pixel Watch Launched Today, And the Setup Restriction Bugs Me Google's Pixel Watch went on sale the same day it was announced, but the requirement that you pair it with a Pixel phone first is the part nobody's leading with. October 6, 2022·4 min read
