few days into saudi, I am asking myself if this is the situation that people said it got worse to, how better could the living have been here before. the cost of living, the people, the life - everything is great here. No wonder why Ronaldo chose to play in saudi :)

😁😁😁

بإذن الله، لن أنساكم يا إخوتي وأخواتي

we’re already 2/3 through Ramadan… and honestly it feels heartbreaking like saying goodbye to someone you love before you’re ready 😭💔

Only the last 10 nights are left and we all know how fast they will pass... fast like light

everyone is starting to talk about Eid, but maybe this is the time to think more about Ramadan itself
did we complete the Quran we hoped to?
did we hold on to every taraweeh?
did we make the most of the nights?

Not everything that begins ends well but the ones who finish strong those are the real GOATS!

The most powerful tahajjud nights are here so let's do our best in order to have a good farewell and have something for the rest 11 months...who's ready🫡

let’s give Ramadan a beautiful ending

You can never be good at something unless you start.

Whenever someone with many more years of experience is hired in my position, I automatically think they must be right and that I could be wrong. Because of that, I hold back my suggestions. I assume that if my idea was good, they would have already thought of it. I tell myself my ideas probably don’t work and that’s why they didn’t bring them up.

back in high school, When I moved to a school where English was spoken a lot more than my previous school, if someone talked to me in English, I would answer back in Amharic. They were my age, and I definitely could have responded in English. But I kept thinking they had spent more time speaking it, so I should practice more and only speak once I reached their level. That mindset stopped me from speaking at all.

The same thing happens with programming. You keep thinking you’re behind, so you go back into tutorial hell again and again just to feel like you’re reaching some senior level before you start building real things. But that’s wrong.

After some practice, everyone knows the basics. Think about driving. You take driving lessons for about 21 days, and then boom, you can drive on the street. Someone with 21 days of driving experience and someone with 10 years of experience both know how to drive. It’s not rocket science. Of course experience has benefits over time, but that doesn’t mean you can’t drive at all.

Programming is similar. You just need to know the basics. After that, it’s about spending time building projects and working on real things, even when you feel like you don’t know enough.

And please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying. I’m not saying go apply to a Google software developer job with only “Hello World” experience. You get what I mean. There’s a level above that, and that’s what I’m talking about.

I’m honestly a bit tired right now, but I hope I communicated my message well.

If you’re telling me you can stay up after eating suhoor until Salat al-Fajr without losing your wudu, bro, take risks in your life. You’ve already done one of the hardest things in life.

Lock in, guys! The best nights of the year are around the corner.

1, 2, 3… then we skipped and jumped to 20. Time flew and now we are in the last days of Ramadan. Let’s make sure we use the remaining days to compensate for what we missed in the past 20 days.

Let’s close everything and get closer to Allah. Turning off all social media may not be ideal since that’s where we get important updates like classes or work and stuff. But we can reorganize it in a way that won’t affect our time. Pin the channels and groups you actually look up to at the top so you don’t end up doom scrolling.

Put your phone away. Don’t make the first thing you reach for when you wake up and before you sleep your phone. Use the mushaf wherever possible to recite Quran.

Don’t miss layl salats. If you can’t make it every day, at least do on the odd numbered days. Have work or class and you’re busy all day? Anytime you would have been doom scrolling, replace it with time to recite Quran. If you can’t read, at least listen.

And inshallah it will be the best for all of us. Don’t forget me in your prayers. I want evidences from u when making duass for me otherwise… 😁

Haya, bye.

Continue the thread if you’ve got additional suggestions to share.

And for the boys—may your haircut come out right, may your thobe fit you well, and wishing you a happy Eid 😁

https://t.me/ahbab_labs

Let’s go for 400.

Y’all I am glad to have you all. let’s see if we can do a short s.m.a to get to know each other.

You’re welcome to ask any questions anonymously here and I will be answering them later.

https://sma.robi.work/b/RHm7VZdpk9Hc

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Yo .. eid is great here.

got a few questions here. I will be answering them one by one today

the questions are kinda common ones. so I grouped them in a way I can address all at once. here are the first set of questions. my answer will follow...