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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.


I like the new look of Office 2013 and the “cloud” integration, but as The Verge reports:

The touch experience isn’t great from my own testing on Windows 8 Release Preview, and it feels all too familiar to Windows 7 — a first stab at touch improvements on desktop software. Microsoft’s Office division has taken a similar approach, by increasing touch targets, but it seems that any truly touch-optimized versions of Office will come as Metro style apps, if anything at all. It’s clearly difficult to create a fully functional touch-based word processor or spreadsheet with legacy support, and Microsoft hasn’t cracked it yet.


Better sharpen your knives.


I can’t believe ReadWriteWeb let Antone Gonsalves write a follow-up post to his piece on the MacBook Pro with Retina Display. And of course…


I wouldn’t normally link to a link-bait article such as this, but the comment from another staff writer at ReadWriteWeb is quite revealing…


Channel 4 is bringing back Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror for a second series of three episodes:  The first series prompted 322 complaints…


I sell an app for money, then I spend less than I make. Bingo. Source: What is the Readability & Instapaper business model? - Quora


It seems BetaWorks is buying Digg for their technology, and not so much the brand. That is the price for being the loser. Update: it seems…


Things you used to find on Twitter back when I first joined.


The best Twitter app for iPhone and iPad is now on the Mac. A public alpha has been released today. More from the Tapbots blog: “We’ve…