Om Malik, a technology writer and investor, posts on Medium about Apple, Twitter, Microsoft and coding on an iPad Pro.
HN commenters mostly link his guide to coding web apps on an iPad Pro using a remote server and code-server.
Zuck's Metaverse (tm) is very forward looking in some ways, and very backward looking in others.
Although his particular vision is very weird and ugly, Zuck is on the right track: in the future, people will spend real time (not async time, a-la tiktok/instagram) with each other in virtual spaces. Facebook is already a text-based version of the metaverse, and it minted a pretty penny.
The metaverse, as Zuck imagines it, is already here though: video games. People who are hardcore about video games wake up, go to work, get home, and then plug in. Their friends and social circle exists on the internet, in the game. This is the metaverse. Video-game communities; Fortnight [1] , WoW, League, CS-Go, etc; these are the most complete so far existing metaverse(s). One exists for every major flavor of gameplay we can think of. Look on steam for people who have 10,000 hours in a game. These people live as Zuck wants us all to: in the metaverse.
Zuck's vision is to expand these virtual communities beyond the hardcore gamer group. You go to work (in a metaverse) then you come home and spend time with your friends (in a different metaverse), then you play a game (in yet another metaverse), then you sleep and do it all again the next day. It's actually a very forward-looking vision, and one that probably will come to pass over the next few decades. A metric for this is "time spent in front of a screen." It inexorably climbs year after year, generation after generation.
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> You are conflating the industry term 'metaverse' with Facebooks billions of investments and huge PR push on their 'Metaverse'
No, you are.
> it is not a common term, and even techies do not think of Minecraft and other digital worlds as being 'Facebooks Metaverse'
Here's a well-publicized example of techies persistently doing just that:
October 2021: https://medium.com/@ow/the-metaverse-is-already-here-its-called-fortnite-3a7d92e4acfd
August 2022: https://tech.hindustantimes.com/gaming/news/fortnite-gamemaker-epic-ceo-says-metaverse-is-a-multi-trillion-dollar-opportunity-71637175468720.html
September 2022: https://mashable.com/article/fortnite-is-the-real-metaverse
September 2022: https://nordic.ign.com/fortnite/60374/opinion/how-fortnite-is-the-antidote-to-metaverse-skepticism
December 2022: https://mixed-news.com/en/fortnite-studio-epic-games-develops-metaverse-programming-language/
December 2022: https://coingape.com/education/explained-fortnite-game-and-why-fortnite-is-being-called-a-real-metaverse-virtual-music-concerts-travis-scott-arianna-grande/
For those just discovering Notion, it's one of the most liberating tools I've ever used, because it offers just enough complexity to configure it however you want, while still remaining simple on the surface. I just love that I can mould it around how my brain works. I wrote this guide that might be useful for anyone else in understanding its power and what you can do with it: https://medium.com/@ow/the-writers-ultimate-guide-to-notion-6bf90d1cf45b
From [1] and [2] I understand that you can run the back-end on a server (in the cloud) and the front-end on the tablet in the Safari browser.
[1]: https://twitter.com/ow/status/1135919541073014786
[2]: https://medium.com/@ow/its-finally-possible-to-code-web-apps-on-an-ipad-pro-90ad9c1fb59a
Have you looked into something like this?
https://medium.com/@ow/its-finally-possible-to-code-web-apps-on-an-ipad-pro-90ad9c1fb59a
I would love to get to the workflow you've described.
I used this one recently (using code-server). iPad focused but it's all the same: https://medium.com/@ow/its-finally-possible-to-code-web-apps-on-an-ipad-pro-90ad9c1fb59a