Words about #apps
Optimistic User Interfaces: A good kind of lie
Optimistic UIs are full of little lies that attempt to make the web feel more responsive and real-time. The truth can be predicted. Most of the time.
App privacy, part I: Apps are not private
It's hard to build cloud-synced collaborative apps if you genuinely care about user privacy. Most apps are not private by default by design. They should be.