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Wow. Started playing with this. What a breath of fresh air.

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…

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.