Page Load Test

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P alt the page load test, as p t stands for, was this performance tool that we used during our daily development. We would run r r r page load test to see that there were no speed regressions. And and so anything we could do tospeed up the browsing experience was w something that wd be attractive to people, people would notice. So he said, browser team, you need to figure out how to make this browser better. He told us this a year plus ahead of tonton.

In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his career there, called Creative Selection.

They discuss Ken’s unconventional path from freelance photographer to software engineer at Apple, his work on many core products from Safari web browser to iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch and features like Autocorrect, what it was like to demo new products for Steve Jobs, and more.