My days as a landlord in Gotham

Fat Jeff is the author of the tech blog "Independent Software Review"

blogger, and also a writer of "Connection" and a columnist on the official website of Connection.

Unlike other technology blogs who are obsessed with products that have attracted public attention, Fat Jeff has always focused on independent software, so Fat Jeff has "mentors" in the independent software industry

Reputation.

If Fatty Jeff can mention a sentence on his blog, then this software is very likely to enter the sight of venture capitalists; if Fatty Jeff can write a special article to give positive comments, then the angel of the development team The round or A round of fundraising is basically safe.

It is precisely because the industry attaches so much importance to Fat Jeff's comments that Fat Jeff's comments are becoming more and more stringent.

On the one hand, most of the outstanding programmers and software engineers are now recruited by large software companies, and the average quality of independent developers has declined compared to before; on the other hand, due to the popularity of the Internet concept, a lot of hot money has poured As a result, developers are becoming more and more impetuous, and some developers even dare to say that they developed other people's software by themselves.

For the chaos in the independent software circle, Fat Jeff can only criticize and appeal on his blog.

Fat Jeff still opened his Gmail as usual, which was the mailbox he published on his blog.

This mailbox receives a large number of emails from independent developers around the world every day, and I hope Fatty Jeff can help me with a good word.

But most of the software is not of much value from the description alone. Fat Jeff not only values ​​the innovation of the software, but also the practicality of the software.

An innovative piece of software that doesn't serve any purpose is simply flooding the developer's head.

For these emails, Jeff will probably delete half of them, and he will try to use the remaining half, but there are only one to three of them that are worthy of his own evaluation.

But these reviews are basically neutral or slightly negative. Even Jeff can't remember how long he hasn't given a positive review.

"A system optimization software?

What age is this, and someone still develops system optimization software? "

Jeff almost didn't laugh out loud when he saw this contribution called Zenuo Software Studio.

In the era when computer hardware was still very expensive, for the general public, this kind of optimization software was very marketable.

After all, trying to squeeze the potential of the computer is something that every computer user will do, but it is a pity that experts rely on their own knowledge, and ordinary people can only rely on this kind of optimization software.

However, with the decline in computer hardware prices, most system manufacturers have built-in optimization functions, so specialized optimization software has gradually faded out of the user's field of vision.

However, for third world countries, there is still a certain market for optimization software, so there are still people involved in this field.

Unfortunately, Jeff felt that this software was not useful for most users in the United States, so he decided to skip it.

But when he saw the size of the software installation package and the function description file, a sneer appeared on the corner of Jeff's mouth, "It's you impetuous developers who have caused the current independent software circle to deteriorate every year!

How dare you tell me that the 3M size installation package is one of the best optimization software in the world?

You are mocking the engineering teams of system developers such as Apple and Microsoft!

Well, let me test your quality first, and if you are not qualified, then let me wipe you out of the indie software development circle before these behemoths destroy you!

There are already too many scandals in our circle, and we really can't have some people who don't know what to do to embarrass us. "

Since the installation package of the computer version is only 3M, for the vast majority of optical fiber users, the download can be described as "lightning-like speed".

Looking at the 3M installation file, Fat Jeff first chose to disconnect from the network, and it was a purely physical disconnection of unplugging the network cable.

Because Fatty Jeff also knows that there is a bad trend in the software circle now, which is to deliberately make the installation package small, so that users will think that the installation package is not big anyway, so why not try it?

As a result, I didn't know until it was installed that the real installation package was downloaded through this miniature installation package.

Finally, there is an installation package that may be less than 10M, but the installed program is several G in size.

In Jeff's view, this is the developer's fraud on the user.

However, this software called Zenuo Optimization is actually only 3M in size, and no redundant files are transferred from the network at all.

Because the installation package is small, the installation is completed in less than 1 minute.

What surprised Jeff the most was that the software developer did not choose to force the software to reside in the system process, but silently generated a panda-like startup method on the desktop.

Although the generation startup method used to belong to "rogue software"

behavior, but as the moral lower limit of software developers is getting lower and lower, this is already a very well-intentioned behavior.

Jeff is not the kind of old-fashioned person, and he is also acquiescing to this kind of behavior.

He double-clicked the panda icon, and an interface appeared in the middle of the desktop.

I have to say that the art of this Zeno studio is also very good.

Different from the simple interface of most independent software, the interface optimized by Zeno is very friendly and friendly, and has a feeling of Japanese cute culture.

After all, Jeff is an otaku, so it is impossible that he has not been exposed to Japanese cute culture.

Although Jeff himself is not interested, he knows how harmful this culture is to girls and children.

Now, those who still need to optimize the software are obviously mostly female and young users. It seems that the developers are very clear about who their target users are, so they directly please these users on the interface.

In addition to the beautiful interface, there are only two buttons for Zeno optimization, one [Detect] and one [Optimize].

In addition, there is a relatively inconspicuous [Uninstall]

Button.

Jeff did not deny the developers' small thoughts.

In addition to the three buttons, it is the copyright indication at the bottom of the interface, and three links, corresponding to the [official website]

,【User Forum】

and [Customer Service Center].

With a simple and clear interface that directly displays the functions, Jeff's impression of this Zeno optimization is much better.

But whether the software is easy to use or not is the key.

Jeff first clicked 【Detect】

button, you can see that the interface turns into a panda, rolling and jumping on the desktop to show its cuteness.

For this animation effect, Jeff was taken aback.

Because he has seen the size of the software after installation, and to achieve this animation effect with software of this size, it proves that the developer has either mastered an unknown compression method on the market, and can use the smallest resources to achieve animation Effect; or the developer has developed a new animation language alone, which can achieve dazzling animation effects with the most streamlined code.

Regardless of the method, Jeff can only say that you already have a product that can change the milestones of software development, so what else do you want to optimize the software for?

After less than 1 minute, the panda made an "OK"

gesture, and then I saw a paragraph on the Panda Recovery interface, [Your system can be improved by 150%], and the following is [Optimize Now]

and [abandon optimization]

two buttons.

Jeff clicked [Optimize Now] without hesitation. He wanted to see how his top-end computer could be optimized by this cute optimization software.

Press 【Optimize Now】

After that, the interface changed to look like a panda again.

But at this moment, the panda is no longer cute, and has performed a set of Shaolin Changquan.

After about 1 minute, the panda made a "victory"

gesture, and then 【Optimization complete】

interface appears.

Jeff turned off the optimization software. He first ran a test with Microsoft's built-in system evaluation system, and then found that his computer's score actually overflowed!

According to Microsoft's scoring rules, score overflow means that Microsoft does not have similar hardware configurations to match.

Jeff felt a little unbelievable, and then ran a few of his commonly used test software, and the results were so high that Jeff was a little confused.

Jeff immediately ordered his assistant, "Go look in the utility room now to see if we still have the computers that were eliminated a few years ago.

By the way, you can contact the recycling shop and find me a ten-year-old computer.

The older the better, but it has to work! "

With that said, Jeff reconnected to the Internet and contacted his friend Trish.

Although Tracy is a girl, her achievements in the mobile phone system have attracted the attention of countless men, and she has always been one of the core programmers in the Android community. She has contributed a lot of code to the Android system, and she is the most wanted by Google. One of several programmers.

Jeff sent Trish the optimization software for the mobile version, and said, "Help me evaluate it!

Also, don't get dizzy! "

"Mobile phone optimization software?

This kind of software is flying all over the sky, can it scare me? "

Trish accepted the software nonchalantly.

"I thought so too at first, but its computer version has convinced me. I'm waiting for your evaluation results."

Jeff not only tried Zeno optimization on his top-end computer, but also tried Zeno optimization on several mainstream configurations and even low-end computers.

According to the evaluation software, the performance of an optimized computer can be improved by at least 120% to 150%.

Even when Jeff's assistant found an old computer that could only run Windows 95, after installing Windows 10 forcibly and optimizing it with Zeno, the computer could barely run "Survival on a Deserted Island". The evaluation process was filmed, and Jeff was lost in thought.

He has to admit that this Zeno optimization is probably the best independent software he has come across in the past five years.

Importantly, in addition to the performance of the software itself, this software also seems to have made great breakthroughs in animation and compression.

It's a pity that the other party didn't seem to be willing to show off their achievements in these areas. Instead, they made an optimization software that made Jeff feel a bit wasteful.

But Jeff's major must also admit that even in terms of software optimization, Zeno optimization has achieved astonishing levels, and he absolutely wants to write a positive evaluation.

"I said fat man, where did you dig this team from?

This software is simply a work of God! "

Just when Jeff was sighing, Tracy called.

Tracy usually doesn't call, but if she can call to inquire, I think she is also shocked.

"Such a streamlined but powerful software, this is made by an independent developer?

Also, their encryption is too perfect, right?

I thought of many ways but there is no way to disassemble their program! "

"Tracey, I don't know their origins, they just appeared suddenly."

Jeff really wanted to find news about Zeno's studio in the circle, but no one knew.

"However, what I want to know is, are you willing to jointly recommend it with me?"

"Of course, it is my honor to recommend such an excellent software!"

Trish replied.

"If that's the case, then I will write your evaluation on my review article."

Jeff said.