Yahoo has a new pitch to email users: Forget about your password. Source: WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/10/15/yahoo-offers-password-free-login-for-email/ and… The new @Yahoo Mail app is out. There’s magic at every tap…and now supports Hotmail, Outlook.com and AOL Mail! Learn more here: Yahoo Tumblr

Flickr Tab in Chrome brings beautiful images to every new tab | Flickr Blog. Fast and beautiful!!  

Watch his talk on YouTube Programming is one of the hardest things humans do Programming uses Head and Gut, we don’t really know how we do it JavaScript: Good Parts. Bad Parts.  It was done in 10 days and released to the wild JSLint : defines and professional subset of JavaScript JSLint will hut your […]

’Tis the season to talk tech, have some drinks, and hang out at Yahoo!    This Thursday we’re hosting our Pre-Holiday Engineering Open House and Good Time.  If you made it to our first open house, then you know not to miss this one! We will be talking tech, serving cocktails + mulled wine + snacks, and […]

zen habits: The Tiny Guide to Being a Great Dad http://zenhabits.net/great-dad/ “vision without execution is hallucination” – https://tonytam.wordpress.com/

http://happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2012/05/happiness-without-a-good-work-ethic-is-pretty-impossible/ via Byline Happiness interview: Hugh MacLeod. Hugh is a cartoonist with a wildly popular blog, gapingvoid. He is the master of capturing a large idea in a single drawing, and a great deal of his work focuses on happiness: how to find happiness in work; how to have the courage to be yourself, do […]

Reasons I’m disconnecting from Facebook I don’t visit it often anymore, maybe 2-3 times a week It’s hard even for a technologist like me to keep track of new privacy settings that I have to actively manage It’s not something I’m proud to tell my child I’ve been on the fence about leaving anyways The […]

I have learned a lot from John Thrall. while working at Yahoo! in the last 3 years. John became the leader for Yahoo! Media during a transition of the leadership position a few years ago. From the point of view of the rank and file, he looked to be young, high energy but an unknown […]

On November 3rd, 2011 Yahoo! Livestand becomes the #1 News app on the Apple AppStore and #1 overall free App

Today my manager at Yahoo! held an all hands for her engineering group in Yahoo! Media and invited our CEO to take some Q/A. It was wonderful to have Carol there to talk about why what we are doing in Yahoo! Media is important to the company.  It was inspiring to hear her long term […]

Carlos was first hired in 2007 into the US News team as one of backend engineers to work on http://news.yahoo.com/.  He joined when the team was in it’s growing phase (from 2 in 2001, 5 in 2005).  He started off working on fixing bugs, adding features to the modules on the web site.  Then helped […]

The team was here and finally finished the first phase of their product.  We are all very very impressed.  Wait for end of June to hear more!

From Evernote: Comic Strip Sunday March 20, 2011 C. and I did a time boxed 15 minute strip

From Evernote: C’s Comic Strip Sunday March 20, 2011 C. and I did a timeboxed 15 minute strip

As a technologist, I like the proposal to use HTTP header to convey a preference. With any proposals, there will be people who have other ideas. I wonder first who made the decision, how did he communicate the process, and finally made the call. MEDIA DECODER BLOG: Google and Mozilla Announce New Privacy Features Mozilla […]

(photo is of the Dragon Beard candy from Koi Palace) Today I was driving into work from Berkeley after dropping off Kate at school. It’s a 46 mile drive if I went on a straight route along 880. Today 511.org said there where 4 accidents on 880 so I decided to take 580, 680 and […]

I admit I’m a bit obsessed with working at Yahoo!  I don’t work very very long hours but I spend a lot of my free time thinking about Yahoo!   I don’t believe I’m a workaholic, just someone who loves his job. I used to apologize for being so obsessed, but now I’ve come to terms […]

(photo is from Barcelona) As an early engineer in the ‘trenches’ I saw Yahoo! from a 5 foot angle. I focused on what I needed to do immediately to keep the site running. As a 7 year veteran, I see things from 50 foot.  I see the business, I try to see and understand the […]

Yahoo has a superstar award every year. My manager won it this year… Here is why he deserves it. 1) always positive 2) never blames, never talk down 3) this year: bulit lots and lots of products Y! Tech, Sprint tool, 2005 Y! News redesign, part of many infrastruture product teams 4) embodies Y! Spirit: […]

Finally made it to DMV after 4 months and picked up my identity. Now I can be at peace.

Dave Viner is leaving Yahoo! tomorrow and we briefly chatted in the hallway.  I told him that he fought a long and uphill battle to make the engineering team better in Yahoo!’s Media Engineering group.  I admire him for staying course and never giving up.  Here is what I remember about Dave He was always […]

Another one of many perks of working for Yahoo! When commuting from San Francisco, I ride the Yahoo! WiFi bus straight to work. I can login while riding and last test I ran, I can get 312 kbps down and 46 kbps up. Granted I end up working on the bus, and it’s a better […]

The above is scallion+ginger fried rice, wonton soup (no noodles) and chilli pepper+salt fried squid, perfect HK style food. This week I’m working in the Yahoo!’s Santa Monica campus.  I’m enjoying the change of scenery and I get to work side by side with George for a week.  Some initial thoughts on this building. It […]

I was having ramen at Ryowa in Berkeley with someone I met who was  a consultant.  I told her I worked at Yahoo! for 6 years already, she was shocked at first then she said it’s ok, there are a bunch of “lifers” at her company as well. Somehow that didn’t make me feel better […]

Well our fiscal year 2006 started on Oct 1st.  Here comes the annual reviews, quarterly objective for the next quarter.  Every year I vow to be more organized and more accountable for my time at work.  I vow to keep track of all the little distractions that keep me for focusing on the high priority […]

Kate’s going to school next week, sniff.. now on to the memories She loves listening to Jack Johnson’s Sexy Plexy when she falls asleep, I would have it on for her to calm her down.  When I was in Paris with her, we listened to that before she fell asleep.  That one song always brings me […]

Interesting question got me thinking: If I were to take one thing away from your life for a month, what one thing would you not want to part with? some type of food car mobile phone laptop toothbrush cable/satellite tv tivo your pet your gym home dsl/cable modem your spouse or partner (taken away on […]