#32 Daily Tech: Twitter to expand into long-form content with Twitter Notes
Twitter to expand into long-form content with Twitter Notes
In what could be one of Twitter’s more significant changes since doubling the character count from 140 to 280 characters, the company is preparing to launch a new feature that would support the direct publishing of long-form content on its platform. With Twitter Notes, as the upcoming feature is called, users will be able to create articles using rich formatting and uploaded media, which can then be tweeted and shared with followers upon publishing.
Mark Zuckerberg on Meta OS, revenue expectations for metaverse
The Facebook founder and CEO mentioned the possibility of an operating system and spoke about the business possibilities of 'the metaverse' in a CNBC interview.
Amazon’s first fully autonomous warehouse robot is called Proteus
Amazon showed off a “fully autonomous mobile robot” called Proteus that can move carts around its warehouses, and even interact with humans, all on its own. The company also has other robots it’s working on.
StackOverflow Developer Survey 2022
In May 2022 over 70,000 developers told us how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want.
Markwhen: Markdown for timelines
Markwhen is a text-to-timeline tool. You write markdown-ish text and it gets converted into a nice looking cascading timeline.
RISC OS: 35-year-old original Arm operating system is alive and well
In June 1987, Acorn launched the Archimedes A305 and A310, starting at £800 ($982) and running a new operating system called Arthur. At the time, it was a radical and very fast computer. In his review for Personal Computer World, Dick Pountain memorably said: "It loads huge programs with a faint burping noise, in the time it takes to blink an eye."
Horse inside a player in Ultima Online
In Ultima Online, the player was a container — one you couldn’t open, but which held your equipped items, your backpack which was the container you could actually see, etc. Because of the freeform “gump”1 style containment system used in the Ultimas, you could position anything to any location in a container, which meant they were basically treated like maps, with coordinate systems in them.
Tomorrow is another public holiday down here in New Zealand (when do we actually work 🤔). So I'll see you on Monday 👋.
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