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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.


Now, I’m not disputing that Maps does give a lot of strange results to a lot of people all around the world, but for a large, large number of people, iOS 6 Maps has been a huge improvement over Google Maps. I’m talking about those of us who live in China


A common complaint I’ve seen is “I don’t want to install (company)‘s shitty app in order to get their storecard on my phone”. You don’t have to!


Windows clients can’t connect to an Airport Extreme network with an Emoji name, this could be a useful feature.


Sam Biddle at Gizmodo: There was a time when you could buy something that was compact, fast, and beautiful. That time is over. “Smaller” is…


Google effectively bought Motorola to use as its personal patent troll.


The thing to remember is that UI design is like selling a restaurant, where you can’t just serve up good food in order to run a restaurant…


FOSS Patents has an insightful article about the Apple vs Samsung verdict: Samsung has issued a statement that claims this jury verdict is a…


Some years ago, executives at a Houston airport faced a troubling customer-relations issue. Passengers were lodging an inordinate number of…


Marco Arment on Twitter’s blocking of Tumblr “find friends” access Twitter will now only permit large services to add value to Twitter, not…


Dave Winer being right again about tent.io:  “Think of a protocol like a road. You could have a wonderful road. Well paved. Wide lanes…


Gruber delves deep into the abyss of iPad mini rumours.


I’m sure Mike Daisey is already at the Samsung factory gates.