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@luciascarlet Ausweis App passt vom Design super da rein

…yeah it’s time I finally address this Launchpad has been neglected and seemingly in need of a redesign for a long time, and macOS Tahoe seemingly delivers on this, but its new “Apps” panel is WOEFULLY, COMICALLY SHIT as a replacement for it it’s no better than an Applications stack in the Dock the first thing you’re going to notice here is how much BOLLOCKS there is — AusweisApp? Backblaze Restore (the app you’ll hopefully never have to use)? Arturia crapware? standalone audio plugins? do you really think ANYONE would have any of this crap on their first page? the whole point of the Launchpad was that you could ORGANISE IT YOURSELF, the way YOU wanted to, so that you’d have all of your apps you actually use the most (but might not want to keep in your Dock at all times) on the first page, put apps into folders etc. it wasn’t perfect — it felt weird to use as they hadn’t updated it in forever, it still showed ALL of your apps so you’d still have to deal with the stuff that you kind of have on your Mac against your own will manually — but it was Fine; it served its purpose there and it was distinct from an Applications stack or Spotlight for this reason the new Apps panel, however, can only barf out all of the apps on your system using either a predefined category specified in the application bundle (if any) or alphabetical sorting (which as we’ve established is useless because it has precisely zero correlation to usage) so… it’s only good for… searching? like, the thing you could already do by hitting ⌘␣ for years? what I really would’ve liked to see is an approach similar to what iOS and iPadOS currently do with App Library, which I’d argue actually makes more sense on a Mac than it does on these devices, as on iOS and iPadOS, each app has to be manually installed by you and you therefore have control over what you have on your devices — the only way you’ll have unwanted crapware on your device is if you’re forced to install an app to use a piece of hardware that only works with it or whatever not so much on macOS: some particularly rude software will frequently install launchers or hubs, uninstallers as .app bundles that sit in the actual Applications folder alongside real applications, utilities you’ll almost never open etc. and there is absolutely nothing you can do about this with App Library, you get as many pages as you need to organise the apps you care about, but you don’t have to concern yourself with any other apps because the system will handle categorising them for you — it would’ve been the perfect approach for macOS all this is to say: Launchpad should’ve been integrated with the Dock, not with Spotlight, as in this concept I’d made years ago it’s only natural — it’s already this way on iOS/iPadOS where you can easily move apps and folders (!) between the Home Screen and the Dock in both directions

@mrjinjin2612 Why do we sonic fans suck so much

You guys might kill me for this but in retrospect I think it’s best off we didn’t get that Mania sequel Something about this art direction doesn’t rub me the right way Like it made me look at Superstars and think “it’s actually not that bad looking”

@eepy_ariel @oops4041555 Biggest lie ever. Window management is almost nonexistent and workspaces suck SO MUCH in macOS

I don't need to change ui in macos because it's good from the start

@yawaramin @mountain_coding @LukasHozda Most react apps don’t use server components though.

@SilasOnLinux @mountain_coding @LukasHozda CVE-2025-55182

Me at night remembering I can rewrite my years old Reactslop into HTMX

@yawaramin @mountain_coding @LukasHozda Yea and what. React is good enough

@SilasOnLinux @mountain_coding @LukasHozda This kind of attitude is what ends up creating overcomplicated Reactslop webapps

@oops4041555 @Bitwig Is that a Bluesky shirt

Hey @Bitwig Uh.. What the fuck? Why can't I pass CC into plug-ins?

@mountain_coding @yawaramin @LukasHozda It’s just pointing out that if you look at versatility, knowing how react works is more beneficial than super limited web technologies

@SilasOnLinux @yawaramin @LukasHozda So when he mentioned rewriting his react app into htmx, you thought of PlayStation 5 & vr headsets? What relevance do these non sequiturs have in regards to the obvious scenario of replacing api calls to server calls and hosting the new thing on a server? Why did you ask "how"?

@theo isnt Wonder that shit restaurant chain with frozen food??

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@htmx_org good. and if the issues im having persist im going to fuck off from convex and react to something else. so. i guess, pray for yet another database import to fail. i had wanted to look at solid after react. but maybe not

> "it can do anything just kinda badly and slowly" htmx is the php of front-end

@htmx_org i was just about to post "i hate that so much. you have htmx sucks merch. " what creative way of self doxxing is that though

@SilasOnLinux here is a free mug: swag.htmx.org/gifts/gft_Uh08…

@htmx_org should i buy htmx merch

@htmx_org Wow you f*cker

@htmx_org @LukasHozda @cata_en I should really look into it. And I want to. But my brain time is fully utilised right now with other things. And twitter.

@SilasOnLinux @LukasHozda @cata_en htmx cannot do anything

So. “It can do anything”. I have not yet seen an entire console OS ui made with htmx. Or almost every successful phone app. Or OS parts inside of windows. Even though that’s done rather poorly. But I have with react. Maybe htmx can do anything in a browser. But can it actually do anything? It at least doesn’t sound like it. Sounds like it relies on a browser

Maybe it can. I wouldn’t know because I haven’t used it. And wanting to do a broad spectrum of stuff. React seemed like a logical place to start. With all the things you can do with it. Realising that react does not rely on browser or on html in any way was the moment it clicked for me. Before I looked at react i was also one of the people to make fun of it. But understanding what things like react native are is too big brain for most people. Including me a year ago.

@LukasHozda @cata_en And living only in the browser doesn’t seem very php to me. Because I used php to coordinate database stuff. Put html together. Resize and convert images. Be a relatively ok performant proxy for http requests. Make cli applications. It can do anything

I never looked into it. How is htmx the php of frontend? I always thought of php as the “it can do anything just kinda badly and slowly”. Which is exactly what react is. 3d apps, web, windows native apps. Android and iPhone and probably other stuff. Slowly isn’t even true anymore if you use react-compiler. It’s just not that supported yet. Based on my knowdlegde that htmx heavily relies on browser features. It can only live in a browser.

@luciascarlet California “the golden state” sounds bright and sunshiny

@SilasOnLinux yes???

ugh I miss SF I’m so fucking BORED