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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.


The biggest mistake Microsoft could make is back down from the progress they’re making with Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

It’s good to see they’re fully committed.


It was like this for Mac users until around 2008.


Nick Quaranto at 37 Signals describes writing the Basecamp app with RubyMotion so he could avoid using Xcode and learning Objective-C. When…


People complain about iTunes and Calendar apps, but the App Store app is by far the worst app Apple makes.


Without asking permission, Google sends developers the personal details of everyone who buys their app from Google Play. According to…


Nutrition is probably one of the least well understood sciences, this piece looks at the biggest misconceptions we’re told by governments…


Jim Dalrymple cuts out the bullshit PR.


My local (Northern Virginia) Microsoft store sold out in 15 minutes, which means there wasn’t much to sell. The local Best Buy sold out too…


Design is now so ingrained with taste that it’s quite hard to form partisan arguments, but Rian van der Merwe manages it: Dieter Rams…


In an interview this week, Mr Heins hailed the success of his company’s new phones, saying that sales in the UK were “beyond expectations…


In late October, researchers at North Carolina State University alerted Google to a security flaw that could let scam artists send phony…


Good reporting from Ed Bott, when comparing the Surface Pro to a MacBook Air the amount of free space is about the same. The problem is that…