John Pham

The silence had me dying 😭

what the hell is going on with you guys

NASA simulation for airflow around an aircraft during takeoff and landing ✈️

London architecture and history never fail to amaze me What do you mean there's a perfectly straight road that goes from outer London right up to Hyde Park

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I made a USB-Clawd who gets my attention when Claude Code finishes a response

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 The pattern everyone else converged toward is the pattern this tweet is calling outdated.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.

@BarryPierce Maughan Library. Part of the King's College London campus. A beautiful building with an abundance of quiet study space. Not sure visitors can visit though

when people get off the tube at Chancery Lane, I always wonder... where ARE you going?

The latest Economist cover says it all.

Great Britain

Finance types worship at the altar of the Bloomberg terminal. So when AI evangelists recently declared it “cooked,” it was war. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4dsDa0d

Good piece on Bloomberg Intelligence and for those with HELIUM exposure. • Qatar’s shutdown of LNG production has taken about a third of global helium production offline, affecting chipmakers who rely on helium for semiconductor manufacturing. • Helium has no viable substitute in the chip manufacturing process, and no other source can immediately replace Qatar's supply, with helium containers already filled before the war remaining stranded • If the disruption persists, helium shortages could force chipmakers to deprioritise lower-margin product lines, reinforcing the existing allocation toward AI memory and deepening an already severe memory shortage

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a lot of London Maxxing on the timeline atm despite its flaws, London is one of the greatest cities in the world (London is not just Oxford street or Kensington) few places in the world where you can get finance bros, tech bros, 8am clubs and chicken shops within a few miles of each other Thursday beers in shoreditch after work remains undefeated

London looking good here - AI Capital of the World - Pro-AI Laws - AI meetups getting filled up every week connecting Builders, VCs, and Key AI figures. - Every AI Company in the world opening an office in London. WE ARE SOOOOOOOO BACK! 🇬🇧

there's an AWS outage in me-central-1 because it got bombed

A new public fountain has appeared in central London, but look closer & you’ll see that it’s a actually a fountain of filth. The water is black, the human victims of the sewage crisis are vomitting streams of liquid, whilst surmounted by a smug water executive with a briefcase stuffed with cash. The fountain commemorates one of the biggest environmental crimes in British history, where water companies stole tens of billions of pounds that was supposed to be spent on our sewage system, gave it to shareholders and executives and illegally poured billions of lites of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas instead. The channel 4 docudrama about the sewage crisis, #dirtybusiness, starts at 9pm tonight. Watch it, get sad, get angry and then join the thousands of people around the country demanding an end to the sewage crisis.