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I’ve been thinking about the format of Mu. It’s currently a set of apps with overview cards on the home screen but a different format might be better e.g a messenger app.

Feel free to discuss here or on discord.

There are a lot of lessons to learn from 41 years on this earth but they can’t be summed up here. What I can say is that everything has a purpose.

In Islam, life is a test. All that happened to you is a test and all that continues to happen to you is a test.

In every breath, does it bring you closer to Allah or taking you further away him? If life is a struggle and you continually ask yourself, why is this happening to me, then know Allah could be trying to bring you closer to him….

10 years ago I started work on a project called go-micro. It was an open source Go framework for distributed systems development. Something that would enable the creation of microservices on the backend to be consumed through a singular API for the frontend. That project became very popular and through that popularity it enabled me to get a corporate sponsor, to have flexibility in my lifestyle and to raise funding that would enable me to build a team, work on products, pay my bills, help pay…

Lately I’ve been wondering if I’m the only one. The situation is as follows. I don’t believe humans respect language to any meaningful degree. I understand we lie, but that’s not my point.

Take YouTube, for example. Most channels are using clickbait titles and thumbnails with exaggerated facial expressions for emotional appeal. Sometimes the question in the title is answered, but most of the time it isn’t even addressed — it’s just clickbait.

Since I’m seeing that this is becoming…

The Reminder is another name for the Quran. You might see a card displaying various verses from it. Essentially it’s considered a message from God, a kind of news, informing us the way life should be lived, and what’s to come in the future.

I wrote an app that makes it easier to read and consume it.

https://reminder.dev

Al-Qalam - The Pen - 68:51-52

The disbelievers would almost cut you down with their eyes when they hear ˹you recite˺ the Reminder, and say, “He is certainly a madman.”

But it is simply a reminder to the whole world.

I’m in two minds about this. On the one hand, I think social platforms are terrible and we should avoid them at all costs (having been an avid user over a decade ago). And on the other hand, I feel they are a useful utility yet massively exploitive and addictive in a way that we have to do something about it.

I don’t think you can fix X. I don’t think you can fix Instagram. I don’t think you can fix Threads. Or Even Mastodon. They are what they. But the value system is born of whoever…

Bismillah. This is the first post.

May we be on the path of guidance.