Om Malik
medium.com/@ow · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Om Malik, a technology writer and investor, posts on Medium about Apple, Twitter, Microsoft and coding on an iPad Pro.
What HN saysHN commenters mostly link his guide to coding web apps on an iPad Pro using a remote server and code-server.
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Most-shared posts
- 1iPad Pro, Hosted VS Code, and iPadOS 135 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 2Apple has no idea what’s next, so it’s just banging on the same old drum2 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 3The metaverse is already here its called fortnite 3a7d92e4acfd2 people · first shared 2022
- 4Surface Go: The Better PC the iPad Pro Wasn’t1 people · 10 points · first shared 2018 · 3 comments on HN
- 5Twitter has no idea what to do next1 people · 6 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 6Apple Is Trying to Kill Web Technology1 people · 6 points · first shared 2019 · 2 comments on HN
- 7Coding on an iPad Pro1 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 8Twitter isn’t about news, tweets, or even you anymore1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 9Microsoft acquiring GitHub is a good thing. Here’s why1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 10It’s time to treat push notifications as sacred1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 11Why Microsoft acquiring GitHub is a good thing1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
- 12What I learned over a year of asking users for money for the first time1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 13The writers ultimate guide to notion 6bf90d1cf45b1 people · first shared 2019
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reilly3000 · 2019-09-25
Have you looked into something like this?
https://medium.com/@ow/its-finally-possible-to-code-web-apps-on-an-ipa…
I would love to get to the workflow you've described.
owenwil · 2019-01-14
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-6bf90d1cf4…
ciupicri · 2020-06-03
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-ipa…
maskreplica · 2019-11-20
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-ipa…
mlsu · 2022-09-26
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.
But the key…
T-A · 2023-03-20
> 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-fortni…
August 2022: https://tech.hindustantimes.com/gaming/news/fortnite-gamemaker-epic-ce…
September 2022: https://mashable.com/article/fortnite-is-the-real-metaverse
September 2022: https://nordic.ign.com/fortnite/60374/opinion/how-fortnite-is-the-anti…
December 2022: https://mixed-news.com/en/fortnite-studio-epic-games-develops-metavers…
December 2022: https://coingape.com/education/explained-fortnite-game-and-why-fortnit…