TechpadinTech News I Poked At Instagram Reels for a Weekend Instagram Reels rolled out worldwide on August 5th, and I spent the weekend poking at it. Some notes on the timing, the UI, and why it feels like homework instead of a hobby. August 8, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Samsung Shaved the S Pen Lag Down to 9ms and I Can't Stop Thinking About It Samsung's Note 20 Ultra dropped S Pen latency to 9ms and buried it in a keynote full of bigger, dumber news. That number is the only part I actually care about. August 7, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Helicopter Riding Along to Mars Perseverance launched to Mars this week carrying a tiny helicopter named Ingenuity, and that little four-pound gamble is the part of the mission I can't stop thinking about. August 1, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Widgets on a Phone I Don't Even Use A weekend spent on a spare iPhone messing with iOS 14's new home screen widgets, plus a note on finally fixing my Twitter 2FA after the mid-July hack. July 28, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Week Twitter Lost It Over GPT-3 A week of viral GPT-3 demos flooded tech Twitter, and a much bigger space milestone got barely a glance. July 21, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal I Put My Phone on the iOS 14 Beta and Now My Home Screen Looks Like a Ransom Note First impressions after installing the iOS 14 public beta over the weekend: widgets, App Library, and one banking app that flatly refuses to open. July 13, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News iOS 14 Beta: Widgets Are Great, Everything Else Is On Fire Two days into running the iOS 14 public beta on my main phone: the home screen widgets are the real deal, App Library sorts my apps into nonsense, and my Fitbit app keeps crashing. July 11, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News Those Do Not Sell Links Actually Do Something Now CCPA enforcement kicked in on July 1st and I spent an evening actually testing the Do Not Sell links instead of ignoring them like usual. July 5, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Hey App Fight Was Never Really About the 30% A closer look at the Hey email app's fight with Apple's App Store rules, and why the real problem isn't the 30% cut but who gets heard when they push back. June 27, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinTech News The Visa News Everyone Missed Because of WWDC While the internet argues about Apple's ARM transition from WWDC, this week's H-1B and L-1 visa suspension is quietly upending plans for a lot of the people who actually build tech. June 25, 2020·3 min read
TechpadinTech News The Hey App vs. Apple Fight Is About More Than 30 Percent Apple threatened to pull Basecamp's new Hey email app from the App Store over in-app purchase rules, the same week it was on stage at WWDC talking about empowering developers. June 24, 2020·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Master to Main, and a Broken Deploy at Midnight A weekend spent renaming git branches from master to main on old side projects, one broken deploy at midnight, and a quick note on Zoom finally doing the right thing. June 17, 2020·3 min read
