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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.


“When they replaced sharing with +1 on Google Reader, it was clear that this day was going to come,” he said. Wetherell, 43, is amazed that Reader has lasted this long. Even before the project saw the light of the day, Google executives were unsure about the service and it was through sheer perseverance that it squeaked out into the market. At one point, the management team threatened to cancel the project even before it saw the light of the day, if there was a delay.

I think many of us can relate to working on a dead project, but what many of us can’t relate to is working on a dead project with so many vocal users.

It must be hard for him to never see Reader reach it’s full potential.


Not so open after all.


I’m not entirely sure what to make of this, but Rubin’s replacement Sundar Pichai has proven himself with the Chrome browser and it will be…


Graham Hill describes what happened after he sold his first start-up in the 90s: My life was unnecessarily complicated. There were lawns to…


Whether the WSJ has an agenda or not, they’re certainly producing more link bait about Apple than any other company.


Daniel Eran Dilger rips into a Bloomberg “news” article seemingly based on a Samsung press release about how well they’ll survive after…


The revised Apple TV isn’t using the quad-GPU A5X chip that was speculated in January. However the new revised A5 is smaller than the old…


We launched the WebM Project in May 2010 with the goal of providing the web with a high-quality, open, royalty-free video codec that anyone…


I wonder if he’ll continue this as a long winded three parter.


Since the iPhone 3G, Apple has recycled old iPhone models to be the low end model. As Apple produces more of each model, it’s profit margin…


Psst Americans, leave your litigious culture in the US.


The reliable Rene Ritchie from iMore has a source which claims that Apple has considered launching the next generation of iPads in April…