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Its the first programming language that I use. I was a junior high school student at that time, and my first app was an app to solve trigonometry homework. Maybe back then it wasn't as beautiful as I thought it is now. Or maybe now I am weighted with responsibilites. So when I look back, the memories of looking at me smiling as my app compiles correctly and solved the homework, feels so beautiful without any weight. Just a kid discovering something.

So even when the world forgets about it. My heart would always find it dear.

React Native asks the native layer to render the UI natively.

I really wanted to work with native SwiftUI, but the lack of hot reload and long waiting times for the preview to refreshes is just painful. React Native on the contrary, delivers good enough live feedback experience. I don’t enjoy React, but compared to waiting 10 seconds for preview changes and occasional “expressions too complex, break it down to smaller one” - I’d choose React. I do still trying to code natively on every XCode updates; just with the hope of it getting better somehow.

Thank you for taking your time to write this, it gives me a valuable insight. Wishing all the best for you, me, and others out there who're struggling.

Thank you. I wrote it as I was inspired by the Silverwash from Witch Hat Atelier, a disease that causes the eye to see grayscale. Its also because silver is a symbol of money, and as an adult; the responsibility to provide for our family, pay here and there, taxes, tuitions, mortgage, etc - can make life feels bleak.

Thank you. Now that you mentioned it. Maybe it was a burnout.

If you don't mind sharing, what did you do to improve your mental health?

I don’t know. Reading this made me tear up a bit. I learned software engineering when I was in junior high school. I learned it because I sucked at math, and I want to write programs that solve my homework. Then I continue writing LAN chat, HTTP server, Anti Virus, and a lot more things just because it was fun to do.

It was fun, it was challenging, it was rewarding, it was amazing.

Now that I’m working, with the endless stream of new technologies, the debates of X considered harmful, J is better than K, and a barrage of never ending new things. It started to numb my mind.

Somehow, those joyful feeling of engineering no longer feels like the blue sky. I think its still blue, but for an eye washed in silvers, everything looks gray.

Reading this story somehow light up that childhood feeling of me learning software engineering. It can still be fun. I can still write things for the sake of me and not for the sake of exit nor a new shiny SaaS.

Thank your for writing this. It gave me a ray of hope that it can still be fun.

In Islam, err is forgiven. If you’ve done your best and there’s a bug you missed, then its forgiven, and when you discover it, just fix it.

That’s why if a scholar based with intensive research and data, has concluded that X is true. If in the end its really true, they’ll receive two rewards; when its debunked and it was actually false, they receive one reward. The sin is to be ignorant and without any research and data concluded that X is true.

Specifically for Ramadan, the guideline is to use Moon sighting. If you see a new moon, then you begin fasting. If not, then you postpone for a day before starting Ramadan. Usually there’s a committee that does this and they will announce the result. But it doesn’t prevent anyone with the ability to observe to decide when to start Ramadan.

Salah guideline is the sun, e.g the dawn prayer is when there’s thin strike of the sun on the horizon. So to calculate the prayer time you use the sun position relative to your position on earth. If there’s a bug that somehow err the prayer time to ~5 minutes. We can always observe the sun first.

So there’s always this second factor that you can use to validate the first method. Time seems off? Look at the sun. Sun not visible? Estimate with time. Both seems off? Estimate with the variables that you can observe.

“ God does not burden any soul with more than it can bear “ (Al Baqarah 286)

——- So to answer the question, the tolerance depends on your effort on trying to reduce the err.

God knows best

If granular accuracy is not an important factor, you can also use Islamic calendar to calculate the moon phase. Muslims uses lunar cycles for some religious events (e.g. the Ayyamul Bidh or 3 days fasting during full moon). So when its 15 of an Islamic calendar, it’ll be a full moon.

I used this approach because most platforms supports islamic calendar.

I really like the offline first approach, and would definitely use the library when there’s a need.

Thanks for sharing!

When I was working on a small sized startup. We used to write “obituaries” for people who resigned in a newspaper format. We would add some insider jokes as a side article and some parody ads about their new company on the page if the person resigned already found a new company.

IIRC, it started from my resignation. Then we kept doing it for future leavers

I always wondered why some of the raw vs edited video on social media shows the raw one as a very washed and unsaturated picture. I even thought they made the raw looks so bad, so that the edited one looks great.

I never owned a pro-camera, only a smartphone. So, reading this article now I learned that it was washed and unsaturated for a good reason. Is this Log thing 15 pro specific or its software so that we can use it on an older iPhone?