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@aakashgupta @gregnacu Great. Now we can put this argument to bed once and for all. Everything Microsoft has done in the last 10 years is absolute trash. Downward trajectory.

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 The pattern everyone else converged toward is the pattern this tweet is calling outdated.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

@ordermentum Your app has a bug. I am unable to 'Pay the supplier directly'. It uses my linked card as soon as I checkout.

@talhauxd @alibey_10 Very true. Too bouncy

@alibey_10 Clean, thoughtful component. Subtler easing would elevate the polish.

slot picker component npx shadcn@latest add https://registry .watermelon.sh/r/slot-picker.json

@dillon_mulroy @nihil2501 What kind of code do you share?

@nihil2501 i can share code and agents thrive in monorepos

migrating all my personal apps and agents on cloudflare to a single monorepo has been a clutch move

@damengchen But you have to pay $99 to get in

Used mailcheep.com to send a broadcast campaign to 16k contacts, and it only cost $1.66 from my AWS bill. ✌️

@mikeysee syd-1 when?

He’s right

SharePoint in 2026

@mikeysee You guys should link 'Never deployed' to the 'Getting Started' guide in Convex docs.

Another month, another domain name purchased. Thanks @ZimbiX for recommending Micron21. Saved some serious $$

@gill_kyle Yep, Clerk really sucks

We can now finally: - test with our auth on a localhost domain - setup preview deploys without needing to fork over more money - own our users table - remove our flaky webhook code - develop on airplane mode

@clerk Didn’t this happen like 3 months ago, and you said the same thing?

The postmortem for our incident yesterday has been published, including the root cause analysis and our planned remediations. We are deeply sorry for the disruption this incident caused to your team, your business, and your users. We understand that you depend on Clerk to be available, and we failed to meet that expectation yesterday, and too many times in recent months. This is unacceptable, and we will be bringing increased attention to proactively adding monitors, redundancies, and failovers to our overall system. While we've added many throughout the past year, recent events have made it clear that we are not moving fast enough. Thank you for your patience and continued partnership. clerk.com/blog/2026-02-1…

"You're sentenced to work 9 to 5 with 2 weeks vacation a year for the rest of your life"

It’s over

@simeonGriggs It’s a band-aid solution to fix LLMs not knowing how to seperate their knowledge by version

Can anyone explain why we're not installing skills from npm so we actually get versioning and updates? Downloading plain text files to your project exactly once feels insane.

@Varcyyyy It’s too quick. Hard to take anything away from the video.

should notion hire us?

@levelsio Yup. It’s been noticeable.

My secret conspiracy theory about AI companies is they nerf models to save on compute Then they check X to see if anyone notices it If yes, give back compute If not, continue

@hunterjisaacson That is a beautifully crafted homepage you have there

3.5 years ago I was broke working a 9-5 designing apps for $35/hr Then the 8th one ngl.link teleported to #1 on the App Store on my 23rd birthday 100M+ downloads and $1M+ MRR within weeks Sued by the federal government and deposed at 24 Cofounded bags.fm to accelerate the onchain economy $1.5B+ volume last month Never quit Never surrender Just keep shipping It’s all gonna work out

@charl_dot_dev So nothing has changed then

Send emails from Cloudflare to your users, from your domain - reliably, securely and at scale. Beta waitlist is open dash.cloudflare.com/ACCOUNT_ID/ema…

Awesome thing about @convex is that you don't need to set up local listeners for Stripe/Clerk webhooks!