"This is, after all, the way of our new product-based civilization — in order to participate as a citizen of the social web, you must yourself manufacture content. Progress requires that forms must be filled. Thus it is a critical choice of any adult as to where they will perform their free labor. Tens of millions of people made a decision to spend their time with the simple, mobile photo-sharing application that was not Facebook because they liked its subtle interface and little filters. And so Facebook bought the thing that is hardest to fake. It bought sincerity."

"PHP also has some affirmative virtues. The programming model is more productive than that of compiled languages, and even many interpreted languages; save/reload the web page is just a better, tighter loop to get work done in than save/compile/restart my server/reload the web page. I'm actually a fan of PHP's concurrency model, which naifs often mistake as "no concurrency allowed"; PHP's concurrency primitive is curl[1], and if you wrap a tiny bit of library around it, you can make it behave like actors.

[1] Seriously. curl provides a shared-nothing way to asynchronously run code, and has the virtue of not caring what language the other side is written in to boot."

"Developers want to build a great user experience on mobile. They want the experience to be fast, easy, and rewarding for the user. However, because of a mix of performance issues, broken features, or worse—missing features, this is quite difficult with the current state of the mobile web.

The best way to fix this is by focusing on those features that will actually help developers build high-quality apps.

And since the web is constantly evolving, we're taking a versioned approach to this effort, starting from the basics and building up, as illustrated by “Rings”."

"Many people feel distinctly uncomfortable about a site like Facebook learning what they look like, and using that information without their permission."

But they still won't turn off their Facebook accounts.