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It’s that time of year again. Fasting (sawm) is a big part of most religions. Something that brings us back to the true way of living and the ancient ways of life.

Before machines and agriculture we were hunter gatherers and life was very different in a resource constrained world.

Humans have evolved but essentially our bodies need these constraints. We do not need the abundance of food and water that we consume now. But also this is a time of remembrance. To remember why we are here…

Mu is an app platform without ads, algorithms or tracking. It attempts to remove the addictive behaviours or intrusive usury of advertising found in many products today. It was something I had really battled with for a long time. Like most people born into the millennial generation, I was mostly addicted to the internet, tv, movies, etc. Anyway that technology was advancing, I was consuming the new tools and services. But in my old age (37-41) I grew tired of this. I became more God conscious…

As a bit of a side, watching how things are unfolding in the UK government it’s pretty sad to see. The obvious dishonesty and lack of trust is one thing but what’s despicable is really how each side attacks each other in these moments. Rather than helping lead the country, conservatives and others would rather tear it apart. Does it help to add fuel to the fire in moments of turmoil? If anything you’d think parties would come together to try to address common problems of corruption and vetting…

As much as I can make use of agents with copilot, anthropic and exe.dev I’ve found trying to add something here is a distraction. It does not yet serve a purpose. For now we have a simple set of apps that do something well. In future we may add more but not yet. Also apps builder removed as I didn’t feel you could interate fast enough or quite get the right experience with it.

I used to say if I don’t write the code no one will write the code. This was at a time time when I was trying to raise venture capital to build a team and a product. Much like this one. Now less than 10 years later agents write the code. What does one even say to that? I think we have to view as a blessing.

We have been given this tool for a purpose. We have to understand that we are not the makers of this tool or the owners of it. In fact, we’re merely the stewards of it much like the…

I think part of my strategy here now is to try to eliminate things like stripe because there’s too much of a reliance on these big systems to handle payments. Whereas I think something like this lends more of itself to the crypto ecosystem.

I’m rapidly iterating on the ux. You’ll see there’s access to a top bar on the homepage that’s for an agent which can sort of use specific tools like news search and playing videos directly so you don’t have to search for them.

I also added notes and the pricing model has changed so there’s no subscription. There’s only pay as you go. So if you want to use something like email you can pay 4p.

I’ll continue to iterate but I think I also don’t want to add too much. Oh the other thing I…

And ˹on Judgment Day˺ Allah will say, “O Jesus, son of Mary! Remember My favour upon you and your mother: how I supported you with the holy spirit so you spoke to people in ˹your˺ infancy and adulthood. How I taught you writing, wisdom, the Torah, and the Gospel. How you moulded a bird from clay—by My Will—and breathed into it and it became a ˹real˺ bird—by My Will. How you healed the blind and the lepers—by My Will. How you brought the dead to life—by My Will. How I…

Wow. Started playing with this. What a breath of fresh air. VM hosting. Check it out https://exe.dev

In the Quran, chapter 112, titled The Sincerity we hear a distinct description of God. “He is Allah, the one. The Eternal, the absolute. He did not beget, nor was he begotten. And there is none like him.”

Our prophet, peace be upon him, said this is equal to one third of the Quran. We can only imagine that the depths and weight of these words must be immense.

https://reminder.dev/hadith/61#534

https://reminder.dev/quran/112

I’m reading this article that showed up on HN and thinking back to scribblings in a notebook from 2018. I remember having this concept of inputs/outputs and transformers but I’m too dumb to have connected the dots to this. That system I was considering, you have to feed in real world sensory input (the 5 senses) so that it is constantly processing. Through that you have the opportunity to create the emergent intelligence everyone is…

Came across this article on transformers on HN. Haven’t read the full thing yet but thought I needed to save/share it.

https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

I’ve been hacking away at the mail feature. You can basically send messages to other users or via email. Not yet encrypted. But I spent a lot of time on threading logic and realised email includes the whole thread in the body for legacy reasons even though we know have headers to manage threads. So I stripped the whole thing out.

You will be seeing a lot of changes here as I continue to evolve the format. It’s important to get it right.

We also have private messaging/email for paid members. I’m using that feature now and it’s pretty good.

You get username@mu.xyz email address. It’s going to google inbox, so that’s a positive sign.

Friday is a holy day in Islam, just like church on Sunday for Christians, we as Muslims go to the mosque. We go to pray and to listen to a sermon which provides a reminder for the week. Something to help keep you going, some motivation. A piece of advice. A truth, something important.

Society as a whole has lost that. Those who believe, many don’t go to church or mosque or synagogues or anything like that, I didn’t. Worship changed. A lot of time was being spent online. And so it’s important…

News articles now have their own page which you can access through the read link. We generate summaries using AI.

There is now an MVP mailbox feature. You’ll see it in the top right. It’s a way to send messages directly to people. I’ve decided to keep this for admins and members first. Become a member.

Trying to make chat work on posts made no sense. Posts need comments. Its pretty standard stuff.

Hello Asim, saw you’re a long-time contributor to go-micro repo. I’ve been trying to get it to work but I’m facing an issue. didn’t want to make a whole issue until I’ve confirmed I’m doing it right.

Basically, I’m calling a micro service via an api gateway and get an error when the response contains the google.protobuf.Timestamp type.

{“id”:“go.micro.client.codec”,“code”:500,“detail”:“json: cannot unmarshal object into Go value of type string”,“status”:“Internal Server Error”}

minimum…

I was thinking a lot about public profiles. It’s a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it feels like we should live our lives a lot more privately, on the other hand, having a public profile can be useful to share thoughts, ideas, apps, etc.

Every social platform seems to have a public profile. The places that don’t have them, it’s hard to gauge the credibility of the people you’re talking to. Okay, the merit of what people say should stand on the words they write but at the same time…