"Databases are global, shared, mutable state. That’s the way it has been since the 1960s, and no amount of NoSQL has changed that. However, most self-respecting developers have got rid of mutable global variables in their code long ago. So why do we tolerate databases as they are?"

Invisible, that’s how animation should be.

The always on, always connected nature of smartphones made the Internet accessible everywhere and anytime. So what happens when networked screens show up on our wrist ?