miniblog.

There are labels that make technology ideas sound more exciting. For example, 'augmented intelligence' was used early in the history of computing. (A pocket calculator would qualify but it's less cool.) Is there a good term for this phenomenon? It's hype that inspired projects.

I often merge simple PRs from my phone, so it's exciting to see a native GitHub app: https://github.blog/2020-03-17-github-for-mobile-is-now-available/ UI density still seems less than the web UI though.

Gate is exploring transferring program state (like Smalltalk images), but leveraging wasm to execute untrusted code. An exciting model! https://savo.la/introduction-to-gate.html Execution of untrusted code still feels like a really underexplored space.