TechpadinPersonal The Pipeline Hack Showed Up at My Gas Station A ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline turned into gas station lines and grocery bags full of gasoline on my street, and it's got me thinking about how much better my backup plan for a dumb little blog is than theirs. May 12, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Dogefather Sketch and a Very Bad Night for Doge Elon Musk called Dogecoin "a hustle" during his SNL hosting gig this weekend, and the coin tanked live on air. A few thoughts on watching it happen. May 11, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal My Family Group Chat Has Officially Lost It Over Dogecoin My family group chat turned into a crypto trading floor this week over Dogecoin's pre-SNL price surge, plus some notes on the surprisingly entertaining Epic v. Apple courtroom drama in Oakland. May 6, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Epic v. Apple Trial and the 15% I Actually Pay The Epic v. Apple trial started this week, and instead of the monopoly arguments, I keep thinking about the 15% App Store cut I actually pay as a tiny developer. May 4, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News One Week of Tapping "Ask App Not to Track" A week into iOS 14.5's tracking prompts, most people are just saying no — plus a Dogecoin tangent I didn't plan on writing. May 3, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News iOS 14.5 Day One: So Many "Ask App Not to Track" Popups iOS 14.5 landed today and brought App Tracking Transparency with it, so I spent my morning tapping "Ask App Not to Track" on every app I own instead of drinking coffee. April 26, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News A Used Rocket Just Flew Four More People to Orbit SpaceX launched four astronauts on a Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 booster that had each already flown a human crew before, and somehow that quietly matters more than this week's shinier headlines. April 24, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Ingenuity Can Wait, My PS5 Restock Cannot Skipping the Coinbase recap everyone else is running this week to talk about NASA's Mars helicopter getting delayed again, and my own much lower-stakes wait for a PS5 restock. April 18, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Coin That Ate My Hard Drive Budget Chia cryptocurrency's "proof of space" mining is chewing through SSDs and driving up hard drive prices, and I felt it firsthand trying to buy a 4TB drive for my NAS. April 16, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Signal Added Crypto Payments and I Have Mixed Feelings Signal quietly added a MobileCoin-powered payments beta this week, and while the Facebook leak ate all the headlines, this smaller story has me more conflicted. April 9, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Six Days, One Boat, Zero Graphics Cards The Ever Given finally got unstuck from the Suez Canal, but that's done nothing for my six-month quest to buy a graphics card at anything close to sticker price. April 1, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Please Do Not Let Microsoft Turn Discord Into Skype Bloomberg says Microsoft's in talks to buy Discord for $10B+, and given what happened to Skype, I've got some opinions. Plus: I may have spent four days watching a stuck ship on a map. March 29, 2021·3 min read
