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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Bismillah. This is the first post.

May we be on the path of guidance.