Mr. Brightside
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Mr. Brightside
@gonzo_
Toddy hacker, Rubyist, Software craftsman, Elder millennial and Taquero amateur
เข้าร่วม Ocak 2008
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Celebrate ASMR Day with every keystroke! 🎧⌨️
From quiet linear to gentle tactile, each keyboard has its own feel. Which sound speaks to you? Find your vibe, explore the sounds and elevate your desk setup.
#Keychron #ASMRDay #KeychronKeyboard #KeyboardASMR #TypingASMR
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La mítica marca de teclados Keychron acaba de hacer algo tremendo. ¡Ha publicado todos los diseños y código de sus teclados! 83 modelos, 640 diseños.
github.com/Keychron/Keych…

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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.
Noah Cat@Cartidise
it’s 2026 and this is how you install apps on macOS
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@thesunno No, indicaron que hay que renovarlos si lo descontinuaron o si ya no lo actualizan el firmware.
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@thesunno No, recién lo supe por un curso de seguridad de la compañía.
Voy a buscar a ver qué dice la web.
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@gonzo_ Yo no los uso porque son una mierda xD tienes un artículo sobre eso?
Tampoco es que mi Asus sea mucho mejor, a veces le pica el culo.
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Acá Elon hablando de Artemis… quien lo diría ?
Elon Musk@elonmusk
NASA Artemis passing close to the Moon
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