Shakirul

Building · Writing about System Design on · Software Engineer at @recruitinc 🧑‍💻

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

I send a newsletter to 20,000+ people every week.

For months, I tracked my links with tools that either looked like they were designed in 2009 or wanted $35/month for basic analytics.

So I started building my own link shortener. It's called https://t.co/v9rtqQ8awh.

Here's what it looks like:

[shadcn @shadcn]

Sometimes I leave out context and just sit and watch the agents struggle. Reminds them who's still in charge.

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

Read the episodes here:
https://t.co/8tAnrAJiB2

GitHub repo:
https://t.co/7Iew8MDtyF

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And if you have suggestions, topic requests, questions, or just want to talk system design, feel free to DM.

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

Montu Mia’s System Design crossed a small personal milestone:

⭐ 111 GitHub stars
📬 1,000+ email subscribers
👥 2,250+ LinkedIn subscribers
📈 140K+ impressions on the latest episode
🧭 100K+ page views from 30K+ visitors

Tiny-big moment 😄

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

It started as a fun hobby around a fictional character named Montu Mia.

The goal was simple:

Make system design feel less intimidating, more visual, more story-driven, and hopefully a little more fun.

Apparently people enjoy accidentally learning distributed systems from him.

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

New chapter is out. Read it from here: https://t.co/IxIZI9u5Dc

[Ray🫧 @ravikiran_dev7]

"ok claude, now commit it but don't add ur name"

[Tyler @rezoundous]

Opus 4.8 is insane guys. It one shotted my session usage limit.

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

Is there any way to open the editor on @antigravity ?

I hate the new update so very much!

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

I built a Balatro-style typing arcade — Word Fall + Type Race. Feedback wanted before I add more modes.

Try it out: https://t.co/n0iunm9HyN

Feedback wanted. 😊

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

@khushiirl I'd love your feedback:
https://t.co/I35ZFczYk0

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

@khushiirl I'd love your feedback: https://t.co/gQWi8iREwR

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

@GithubProjects Trying to build an arcade-style typing game: https://t.co/n0iunm9HyN

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

@heyblake Trying to build a typing game: https://t.co/n0iunm9HyN

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

@Ashhleyyyya Water?

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

An update on what Claude did to the game https://t.co/48OQwJKmpw while I was sleeping: 😴

1. Type Race: visible error feedback
2. Leaderboard: game-aware columns + current-user highlight
3. Rich share modal with branded image + social platforms
4. Type Race: per-difficulty personal best tracking
5. Fix: pause modal button overlap on both games
6. Home page personal bests + Type Race caps-lock warning
7. Type Race: RETRY button + R hotkey
8. Type Race: Daily Challenge mode
9. Word Fall: bonus-life heart words

So far it didn't break anything (hope so). I started this as an experiment to see how far only an AI can take this without breaking stuff! 😅

Check it out and break the leaderboard: https://t.co/h1EdAyxHWC 🎉

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

Bought https://t.co/48OQwJKmpw on a whim and one-shotted a typing game with @claudeai . 👾

The real trick? I put the entire development cycle on autopilot. ⚡

I set up an hourly Claude Cowork task to scan the codebase, pick the most crucial feature or bug fix, and just build it. My game is literally coding itself while I sleep. Let's see how long before it completely breaks. 😂

Go break my AI's hard work: https://t.co/48OQwJKmpw 🎉

[Shakirul @_khanshaheb]

Go take the State of AI 2026 survey if you have a minute! https://t.co/sI9Q4GG5EB

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

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.

[chase @_chase_____]

having adhd is all about taking one big task and breaking it down into 12 smaller more manageable tasks and then getting scared