Textpad — paste a link, photo or thought and become a blog at yourname.textpad.cloud
Any link, image, or text you paste becomes an entry in a blog that's yours to keep.
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Author Contributions As we mentioned in Curve Detectors, our first investigation into curve neurons, it’s hard to separate author contributions between different papers in the Circuits project. Much of the original research on curve neurons came before we decided to separate the publications into the behavior of curve neurons and how they are built. In this section we’ve tried to isolate…
May 28th 2026|2 min read Listen to this story DEET is the gold standard for preventing mosquito bites. Although there is some debate over precisely how it works to ward off the insects, most researchers agree that a key part of its effectiveness is unpleasantness—the bugs just hate to be around it. Effective as it is, however, some mosquitoes seem capable of getting over their revulsion. This has…
Apr 22nd 2026|3 min read Listen to this story Nature has evolved an extensive range of visual codes to allow individuals of one species to pass important messages to those of another. Brightly coloured skin? Potentially poisonous—do not eat. Thorny leaves? Not worth the effort—stay away. The message “Do not collide with this chair lift” has, however, proven harder to communicate. This state of…
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Who is it for?
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See it in action
Paste to publish
Press Cmd/Ctrl+V on the home page and your clipboard becomes a real blog post - with its own URL - in under a second. A photo, a screenshot, an article URL, a YouTube link, a paragraph of text: paste it, get a page. You can also drag-and-drop a file from your desktop. No uploader, no setup, no account between paste and a live URL.
No sign-up between paste and a live URL
URLs unfurl into rich preview cards automatically
Claim the blog with an account when you're ready
Tout ce que vous pouvez glisser, coller, importer
Pas de conversion préalable, pas d'export-import. Posez un fichier sur la page, ou collez son contenu — chaque type est reconnu et inséré au bon endroit, avec le bon rendu.
Images
PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF — plus HEIC from iPhones (auto-converted on upload).
Vidéos
MP4, WebM, MOV, MKV, AVI, OGG. Hébergées en lecture inline.
Audio
MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, M4A. Lecteur HTML5 natif intégré au post.
Markdown & texte
.md, .markdown, .txt — convertis en blocs riches à l'import.
HTML
Déposez un .html : on l'héberge en embed interactif sandboxé.
Liens
YouTube, Vimeo, articles — collez l'URL, on génère un aperçu.
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Migrate from your old blog in one paste
Paste your existing RSS or Atom feed URL and we pull every post in. Images are downloaded and rehosted — no broken hot-links the day your old platform goes offline. Slugs and dates are preserved.
WordPress, Ghost, Substack, Medium — anything that exposes a feed
Images mirrored on our servers so the migrated archive is self-contained
Original publish dates and slugs kept — your old links stay meaningful
Photos: paste, drop, done
Drop a photo from your desktop, paste a screenshot from your clipboard, or drag a file straight onto the page. The image appears inline, full-quality, with a resize handle. Type**bold**, ## headings, or any other Markdown shortcut and it converts as you type. No image-host setup, no upload-then-paste-the-URL dance.
Paste images straight from your clipboard with Cmd/Ctrl+V
Drag-and-drop a file from your desktop, anywhere on the page
Resize handles, sketches, and freehand drawing built in
Same affordance for videos and audio - drop it, embed it
Markdown shortcuts work too if that's how you write
async function paste() { const blog = await clipboard.read() return 'live in 1s' }
Code blocks, real ones
Paste a snippet — the editor detects the language and syntax-highlights it. Drop a .py, .js, .html, .json file from your desktop and the same thing happens. No fenced-markdown gymnastics, no copy-paste-reformat dance.
Auto-detected language, manual override available
Light or dark theme, picked per block
Drop a code file → instant code block with the right lang
Bring your own domain
Already own yourdomain.com? Connect it in one click and your blog serves at your own address, fully white-label. No Textpad logo, no header, no footer, no sign-in prompt. Just your archive and your writing.
Apex (yourdomain.com) and subdomains (www, blog…) supported
SSL certificate auto-issued and renewed for you
Visitors never see Textpad, your domain, your brand
Likes that count, even silent ones
Readers can tap the heart, but they don't have to. A post that holds a reader for more than ten seconds gets credited automatically. The number of dwell-likes counts as a quieter signal alongside the explicit ones, so the page rewards reading, not just clicking.
One-click likes, anonymous or signed-in
Dwell-time auto-likes after ~10 seconds in view
Reader counter shows how many people lingered