TechpadinTech News That Five-Second Reddit Ad Reddit's five-second, no-budget Super Bowl LV ad quietly outshined every $5.5 million commercial in the break, and I can't stop thinking about why it worked. February 8, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Three Weeks Into the Great Signal Switch Three and a half weeks after ditching WhatsApp for Signal, here's the unglamorous reality: no import tool, half your contacts won't switch, and you end up running both apps anyway. February 2, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Discord Ban Nobody Believed the Timing On Discord quietly banned the WallStreetBets server the day before Robinhood restricted GameStop trading, and the coincidental timing did more damage than either company's actual explanation. January 30, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Best Earnings Report Nobody Watched This Week Apple posted the biggest quarter in its history on Wednesday and almost nobody noticed, because the entire internet was busy staring at GameStop. January 28, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News A Judge Tells Parler What Everybody Already Knew A federal judge denied Parler's bid to force AWS back into hosting it, and it's a good excuse to talk about how fragile "your own platform" really is when it sits on somebody else's servers. January 22, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinTech News Netflix Doesn't Need My Debt Money Anymore Netflix's Q4 earnings call this week had two things I wasn't expecting: a second CEO, and a company that might finally stop borrowing money to make TV. January 21, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The S21 Got Cheaper and Nobody's Talking About That Samsung's Galaxy S21 Unpacked event happened this morning, and the price cut on the base model is more interesting than any of the camera specs. January 14, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News A Face Mask With RGB Lighting Is the Only CES Thing I Care About CES went all-virtual this year and most of it was forgettable, except for Razer's Project Hazel, an N95-style mask with Chroma RGB lighting, which somehow says everything about 2021 in one object. January 13, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News CES Goes Digital, LG Teases a Phone That Rolls Up CES 2021 went fully digital for the first time ever, and the most interesting thing out of day one was a fifteen-second teaser for LG's rollable phone. January 11, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Digging Up an Old Coinbase Account A chaotic news week sends me digging through old email for a Coinbase account I forgot existed, and the 2FA nightmare that followed. January 7, 2021·3 min read
TechpadinTech News 450 Cars Short Tesla delivered 499,550 cars in 2020, missing Elon Musk's 500,000 goal by just 450 vehicles. Some notes on that suspiciously specific miss, plus a word on CES going all-digital this year. January 5, 2021·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal A Graphics Card for My Nephew and a Bitcoin Chart I Can't Stop Refreshing A last day of 2020 post about failing to buy a graphics card for my nephew's Christmas present while Bitcoin quietly climbs past $28,000 in the background. December 31, 2020·3 min read
