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@CYBTRAFFIC I would love to see what @streetfrontier has to say on this. #flyoverporn

TRAFFIC ADVISORY – ROUTE DIVERSION Location: IIIT Junction & Surrounding Areas (Gachibowli) Reason: Ongoing Multi-Level Flyover & Underpass Construction Effective From: 08 April 2026 Duration: Approx. 1 Year Traffic Regulation Timings: 08:00 AM – 09:00 PM (Daily) AFFECTED ROUTES: Gachibowli Junction IIIT Junction Gachibowli Stadium HCU Gate No. 2 → Lingampally Financial District Gopanpally Thanda Gowlidoddi Q-City Wipro Junction ROUTE DIVERSIONS ➤ 1. Gachibowli → Lingampally IIIT Junction → Wipro Junction → Right Turn → Gowlidoddi → Gopanpally Junction → Nallagandla → Lingampally ➤ 2. Lingampally → Gachibowli SMR/HCU Bus Depot → Masjidbanda → Sriramnagar → Botanical Junction → Right Turn → Udupi Hotel → U-Turn → ZPHS Gachibowli → Gachibowli Junction ➤ 3. Gowlidoddi / Q-City / Kokapet → IIIT Wipro Junction → Nanakramguda Rotary-2 → Left Turn → ORR → Gachibowli Junction IMPORTANT NOTICE Expect heavy traffic congestion near IIIT Junction Plan your journey in advance Follow traffic police instructions PUBLIC ADVISORY: Use Alternate Routes | Avoid Peak Hours | Stay Safe

@aakashgupta It’s so beautiful how you’ve managed to word it. 🤌

Let me explain exactly why Apple still uses drag-to-install in 2026, because the joke here accidentally proves Apple right. A macOS .app is a single self-contained folder disguised as a file. Every dependency, every framework, every resource lives inside it. Drag it to Applications, it works. Drag it to Trash, it's gone. No registry entries. No leftover DLLs. No uninstaller that misses half the files. Windows installers scatter fragments across Program Files, AppData, the registry, system32, and a dozen temp directories. Uninstalling a Windows app is an archaeological dig. Five years later you're still finding config files from software you forgot you owned. Linux is worse. Dependency hell is so common they named it. Entire package managers exist to solve the problem of "I installed something and now nothing else works." Flatpak and Snap were invented specifically to copy what macOS bundles already did natively. The macOS bundle architecture came from NeXTSTEP in 1989. Steve Jobs brought it to OS X in 2001. The core design hasn't changed because the core design was correct. An app is a folder. Installation is a copy. Removal is a delete. Three operations that map perfectly to how humans already think about files. The drag-to-install window with the arrow isn't lazy UX. It's the entire thesis of the system made visible. You are literally just moving a folder. There is no "installation" step because there's nothing to install. The app is already complete. Every other OS eventually tried to get here. Windows got MSIX. Linux got Flatpak. Mobile figured it out from day one because phones shipped after Apple proved the model. The pattern everyone else converged toward is the pattern this tweet is calling outdated. The funniest part: the app being dragged in that screenshot is Claude. An AI that can write code, analyze documents, and reason about complex systems. And the most advanced step in getting it onto your machine is holding down a mouse button and moving your wrist two inches to the right. That's not a design failure. That's a 37-year-old architecture so good that the most sophisticated software on earth still ships inside it.

@rabi_guha good that this blew up. the replies have insane insights.

This really blew up Reaction was split so I wrote an article about what's actually happening and where we're headed x.com/rabi_guha/stat…

notice something? Linear, PostHog, Attio - all shipped the same thing in the last few weeks. Homepage is a chat bar - not a dashboard. This is the SaaS industry quietly admitting that traditional UI doesn't work anymore. Every user is different. One homepage can't serve them all. The playbook is shifting: → expose your core APIs → connect an agentic layer → let users use software the way they want SaaS became chat. Chat will become Generative UI - the agent won't just reply in text, it will compose the interface itself. We're closer than people think.

@hvpandya I am in awe of how much clarity you have in your thoughts. Amaze. Amaze. Amaze. 🫡

Hmm, this actually proves the counter-point. Google, the same company that made the searchbox does not use a text box for Google Cloud, GCP, Workspace Admin, or any of their enterprise tools. Instead, they have hundreds of purpose-built dashboards, monitoring views, config screens. Search works because you're exploring. You don't know what you want looks like until you type it. The query space is infinite. You visit once, get the answer, leave. Enterprise SaaS is the opposite. You know exactly what you want. You do it every day. You need to trust that the view is complete without having to construct it yourself. A purpose-built UI means the product team already decided what a pipeline view or a sprint board or an incident dashboard should show. You didn't ask for at-risk flags, last activity dates, stage distribution. It's all there because experts pre-assembled it. A prompt-generated UI gives you exactly what you remembered to ask for. Nothing more. And you're not a prompt engineer. You're a sales rep trying to close deals before end of quarter. Having to prompt UIs creates a new anxiety that I didn't have before as a user: "Did I ask for the right thing?" In a traditional UI, you never had that doubt. The view was the view. The text box is the right interface for discovery. But a very tricky interface for repeatability and routine.

@aakashgupta @imprakrut this right here is why I love being on this app

Peanuts in Coke is one of the most accidentally perfect food pairings in history, and the chemistry explains why this guy can't go back. Coca-Cola sits at pH 2.5, roughly the same acidity as stomach acid. When you drop roasted peanuts into that, the phosphoric acid partially denatures the surface proteins on the nut, releasing free glutamate. You're generating umami in real time inside the glass. The salt on the peanuts suppresses bitter taste receptors on your tongue, which amplifies your perception of sweetness without adding a single gram of sugar. Coca-Cola already has 39g of sugar per can. Your brain registers it as even sweeter because the salt is clearing the noise from competing flavor signals. Then carbonation does two things. CO2 dissolved in liquid forms carbonic acid, which triggers pain receptors (TRPA1), not taste receptors. That mild irritation resets your palate between sips so you never get flavor fatigue. Every sip hits like the first. Second, the bubbles physically agitate the peanut surface, accelerating the protein breakdown and glutamate release. The longer the peanuts sit, the more umami you extract. The fat content seals it. Peanuts are 49% fat by weight. Fat is the only macronutrient that activates CD36 receptors, which your brain interprets as richness and satisfaction. Mix that with sugar, salt, acid, umami, and carbonation and you've accidentally triggered every major reward pathway in the human taste system simultaneously. Georgia farmers in the 1920s did this because they needed one hand free while working. They stumbled into the optimal salt-acid-umami-fat-carbonation loop a century before food science could explain why it worked.

The VFX didn’t serve the story. The story served the VFX. Bang on.

bois, frontend is still alive

@tuhinat221b Not pointing my reply at her, but I’ve seen far too many Indians who can’t seem to get over this cheap labor disguised as convenience.

it’s angers so much when these NRI come to india and the first thing they brag about is “oh 10mins delivery”, “oh 6am paneer tikka”

I have a secret to share After your first $2–$3 million, a paid off home and a good car, there is no difference in quality of life between you and Jeff Bezos. Both of you have limited amount of time on earth; you have twice if not more than Jeff, so you are richer than him. A cheeseburger is a cheeseburger whether a billionaire eats or you do. Money is nothing but a piece of paper or a number in your app. Real life is outdoors. Become financially independent; that’s usually 2–3mil. Have good food. Enjoy the relations. Workout. Sleep well. Call your parents. That’s all there is to life. Greed has no end. Repeat after me: Time is the currency of life. Money is not. Sooner you figure this out, happier you will be.

the banger one

some excerpts from newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

it’s hindsight bias which makes us believe that aamir/xyz actor should have taken this/that role the reason why dhurandhar worked so well is a combination of all the reasons biggies like aamir would definitely have some disagreements but AK or any actor would not.

extremely sad to see that @Bank_on_Fi is shutting down. such a great product, with an absolutely fantastic zero forex card, but unfortunately it is coming to an end it seems.

@Naina_2728 @emergentlabs cwazyyyyy! congratulations 🥂

i’ve joined @emergentlabs as a product designer. it's been a month and i’ve gotten to work on crazy features with colossally talented people. i keep telling this to all my friends, at the pace we ship, it’s no surprise this is one of the fastest-growing startups. 🚀 funny thing is, last year, @nitprashant reached out to me for a growth role at emergent and though I really liked the idea, i kinda just wanted to continue doing design.😛 fast forward to jan this year, i randomly reached out to @mukundjha, he connected me with the team, I also gave my first in-person interview (here’s a picture, you can see the nervousness on my face :P ) and somehow everything just fell into place.

hyd is gurgaon in making

Dhurandhar is propaganda. It is designed 100 % to influence public opinion and showcase India’s superiority in espionage and covert operations. So what? So is Zero Dark Thirty, all the Top Gun movies, American Sniper. I don’t understand the fuss. Liberals, don’t you want India to become a military superpower, with complete dominance and hegemony over at least South Asia? You do realize that this can only be achieved by establishing a thriving military-industrial complex, supported by a culture-driven narrative beneficial to the nation? I am really struggling to see why the propaganda discussion is relevant. The more important question is, is Dhurandhar effective enough? My only problem with Dhurandhar is that at times it seems to hold back. I did not see the kind of subtle moral posturing that Hollywood executes so much more effectively. Argo, is an excellent example. You can barely tell it is propaganda.