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Weiran Zhang

Hi, I'm Weiran Zhang. I work as a Senior Engineering Manager at Capital One. I have a passion for technology and building thriving software teams. This blog is where I write about things I find interesting. You can follow me on Mastodon.


Craig Hockenberry writes about the behind the scenes of the latest version of the original Twitter app, Twitterrific 5.


Google demonstration how to discontinue a free service while sugarcoating the announcement.

My family use Google Apps hosting for all our email, and while I have no problems with paying the $50 per year cost personally, I’m not sure the rest of my family would.

I wonder how long it will be until exisiting free users will have to start paying. I’ve already begun looking into alternatives like FastMail and Outlook.com domain hosting.


The worst UI “feature” in Android is it’s back button. It feels like a superfluous addition from the days when Android was more like…


Anand has found that recent builds of Webkit nightly have drastically better scrolling performance than Safari 6.0.2. It’s not just Retina…


Brett Terpstra offers some sound advice for developers releasing a new app.


Jakob Nielsen points out many usability problems with Windows 8. It’s sad that I’m not surprised when Microsoft release such a shoddy piece…


MG Siegler rightly points out Engadget’s pandering to comment trolls by trying to “remain neutral” on an editorial post. If being neutral…


Fascinating article about the abadoned Japanese island of Hashima which was used as the hide out of the new Bond villian.


Dmitry Fadeyev on the practice of changing the default font smoothing for WebKit for no reason other than misguided aesthetics: Designers…


MG Siegler speculates on the reasons for Sinofsky’s departure from Microsoft: Sinofsky was the driving force behind the “no compromise…


In the video, the speaker explains and demonstrates improvements made to the machine understanding of his English words, which are…


I’m seriously disappointed in Google not standing behind a defective Nexus 7, just because I didn’t purchase it from them. Apple and Amazon…