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On Chromebooks

I spent the summer of 1994 working minimum wage (a princely $4.25/hour), testing electronics, saving all of my pay to buy a beast of a computer. That September, I entered my sophomore year of high school and plunked down my saved ~$3000 to become the proud owner of my first Windows PC, a Comtrade PentiumContinue reading “On Chromebooks”

Stock Holdings, Mid-2015

Not very diversified, I’m afraid.

Anecdotal Ephemera

This post is a basically random list of things that have happened over the years; it will grow over time. My freshman year of college, we had three bins in the halls of our dorm—“Trash”, “Recycle” and “Styrofoam”. I diligently sorted everything for disposal and fumed that my dorm mates were constantly throwing out theirContinue reading “Anecdotal Ephemera”

The Edge Team

Microsoft publicly revealed the IE/Edge team’s size: ~300 people in an article with some fun profiles of a few of them: http://microsoftjobsblog.com/team-shapes-the-future-of-internet-browsing-with-microsoft-edge/. Of course, my favorite profile story remains Zeke’s.

Optimize PNGs using PngDistill

Unfortunately, many PNG image generators opt for minimum compression time, failing to achieve maximum compression. Even worse, the most popular PNG generation tools often include huge amounts of unnecessary metadata that can bloat images by thousands of percent! Fiddler now includes PngDistill, a simple tool that removes unnecessary metadata chunks and recompresses PNG image dataContinue reading “Optimize PNGs using PngDistill”