TechpadinTutorials Transcribing Two Years of Voice Memos With whisper.cpp I finally transcribed two years of accumulated voice memos using whisper.cpp running locally on a Mac Mini, and learned more about my own rambling than I expected. June 13, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinTutorials Getting FreshRSS Running on the Old NUC I finally moved my RSS subscriptions off Feedly and onto a self-hosted FreshRSS instance running on an old NUC, and it took about forty minutes I'd been dreading for months. June 7, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The External Drive I Keep Almost Throwing Away A cracked old external hard drive, four hundred photos from a 2014 Portugal trip, and a slow afternoon spent finally culling it down instead of just staring at the folder names again. June 5, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinTech News I Didn't Mean To Quit Google Search, But Here We Are DuckDuckGo installs jumped 30% this week as people get sick of AI overviews burying real answers, and a broken espresso machine finally pushed me to switch too. May 26, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinPersonal Cleaning Out The Cable Drawer A Memorial Day weekend cleanout of a drawer full of dead cables and old gadgets, and some thoughts on why so much of personal tech ends up as sentimental clutter. May 24, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Printer Will Outlive Us All I spent three hours of my Saturday fixing my parents' printer and came away convinced that printer software is the one corner of the tech industry that time has completely forgotten. May 18, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinTutorials Getting a Local Model Running on My Ancient Desktop I finally got a small local AI model running on my old desktop instead of assuming it was too weak, and it took less than two hours once I stopped procrastinating. May 16, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Auditing Fourteen Years of Dead Links I spent a Saturday clicking every outbound link in my oldest posts and found out how much of the early-2010s internet has just quietly vanished. May 12, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal Cleaning Out My RSS Feeds I spent a few hours pruning my bloated RSS feed list and it turned into an accidental meditation on which blogs last and which ones quietly die. May 10, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Shoebox Backup Strategy Fifteen years into this blog and my entire backup strategy is still a shoebox of dying hard drives under my desk. A dispatch from three hours I will not get back. May 4, 2026·3 min read
TechpadinTutorials Finally Self-Hosting My RSS Reader After years of half-hearted attempts, I finally self-hosted FreshRSS on my Synology, ditched Inoreader, and discovered a third of my old feeds were dead anyway. May 2, 2026·4 min read
TechpadinPersonal The Subscription Audit I'd Been Avoiding Since January I finally audited every subscription hitting my card and found $71 a month of stuff I forgot I was paying for, including a QR code generator app. May 1, 2026·3 min read
