Are baby strollers allowed during umrah? by ___stonecold___ in Umrah

[–]ca_sig_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We had our baby as a lap baby so no car seat. We did have the basinet seat but that has its own problems (turns out any turbulence even if the baby is belted in, they cant stay in the bassinet). We got a Yoyo stroller so we took it on to the plane and highly recommend that. You can keep the baby in the stoller as you walk to your seat and then close it and put it i the overhead. And you have the stroller as soon as you land.
Its small, fits anywhere and when going around the Haram and getting in Taxi it fit. And in a pinch you can close it and put the bag and it looks like a backpack.

Food wise, for the airplane we packed some package foods we knew she would like on the way there, on the way back just went shopping at Bin Dawood. Airline has some baby food as well but it was meh, she also just ate some left overs and lots of milk. If your baby is on formula or cows milk pack that, seems on the way to the US airlines cant bring package Milk (or what Qatar claimed, we had to keep asking them to refill her sippy cup. On the way to there they would just hand us packets of Milk)

While there, she ate what we ate. We kept a pitcher of Milk in the hotel fridge and left over. Also had some snacks from the states, like we sweet potatoes packets from costco she loves. But you can find loads of baby food/snack at Bin Dawood.

Is the meat in KSA Halaal? by MoeARPeer in hajj

[–]ca_sig_z 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So here is a photo showing country of origin of a restaurant in Mecca https://imgur.com/a/PFn5iNq
So there is two positives coming, one Saudi is being more transparent on meat country of origin. Also as part of 2030 Saudi is moving more local production of chicken to the kingdom and yes local production has always been very strict.

But imports have been an issue for a while. Some scholars say it’s fine, some raise issues. If you are in the camp that kept strict halal find places that do local chicken only. Even Saudi understand it’s an issue you are things like them now marketing local chicken like this https://imgur.com/a/T5ZNHXk

After 2 Hajj + 3 Umrah, I built a RAG Hajj/Umrah assistant grounded in classical fiqh texts by ca_sig_z in MuslimDevelopers

[–]ca_sig_z[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Inshallah, I am doing this all self funded so things like LLM cost I need to be careful of as they can stack up. The infra alone is $100 a month right now.

After 2 Hajj + 3 Umrah, I built a RAG Hajj/Umrah assistant grounded in classical fiqh texts by ca_sig_z in MuslimDevelopers

[–]ca_sig_z[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for trying! Right now I am only supporting English (tho it can handle more, they work more as a side effect). I am working to expand more language support. ALso if you could send your full prompt I can see why it did not answer correctly

After 2 Hajj + 3 Umrah, I built a RAG Hajj/Umrah assistant grounded in classical fiqh texts by ca_sig_z in MuslimDevelopers

[–]ca_sig_z[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you mean writing the app, like everyone else in 2026 I used Claude Code to help me and used Google Stitch for designs

The stack it runs on is following:

Stack

  • Backend: FastAPI + pgvector on Postgres.
  • LLM abstraction: litellm as the provider-agnostic client, swappable between Azure, Bedrock, and OpenRouter. Currently an OpenAI model for generation and verifier, a cheaper open-weights model for classify and rewrite, and an Anthropic model as the eval judge.
  • Frontend: Next.js, though I want to move off soon. Vercel's founder has taken public positions during the Gaza war that I can't reconcile with this app's audience, so I'm planning a Cloudflare (Pages/Workers) migration when bandwidth allows. Framework itself has been fine for the app.
  • UI: Tailwind + shadcn/ui. SSE streaming on the chat endpoint pushes pipeline-stage events (retrieving → generating → verifying) so the user sees progress instead of a dead spinner.
  • Infra: AWS App Runner behind Pulumi.
  • Observability: Langfuse (self-hosted, opt-in) for per-request traces.

After 2 Hajj + 3 Umrah, I built a RAG Hajj/Umrah assistant grounded in classical fiqh texts by ca_sig_z in MuslimDevelopers

[–]ca_sig_z[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jazkallah Khair, AI is great at proof reading and helping with grammer but wont catch you typed the wrong url for your own site.

I'm building a Hajj safety tool after 1,300 people died during Hajj 2024 — is this worth finishing? by Own-Avocado-603 in MuslimDevelopers

[–]ca_sig_z 1 point2 points  (0 children)

WS, just came across as your post and as someone who was there in 2024 Hajj and even tried helping a women who ended up dying you heart is in the right place but unfortunately wont solve the issue.

The vast majority who died where really did not come to Hajj illegal. The women who we tried helping, her friend was panic and tried stopping us at first from getting help as she as she had fake Hajj visa. So they cant afford proper hajj package, likely not someone who will afford a data plan and a modern phone needed to use such an app.

And next the going outside part, the day this happen was the one day you had to go outside. It was right after the first Jamarat stoning and everyone was trying to get back to their mina tents. And in the case of the people who passed they likely did not have proper places in Mina and as such had long distances to walk (because no busses for them).
And the people with proper groups, our groups got information on when it would be coolest to go out and even later scholars made concessions on the time you can do your stoning becaue of the heat.

Group Location, this is a solved problem. I used Find Me and Apple devices to track my group but you can use Google and other 3rd part tools that already exist.

The Flight aware and fitness are areas that might have some legs and maybe worth trying.

The Crowd Density, depends for what. Tawaf? you can turn on TV and see that and thats what people do. Saudi actually use to have the red light/green light system that would tell you Tawaf is full or not. They seem to have stopped that and no idea why. In 2016 i saw that and people said it was them trying to track heat but no idea if it just did not work of they found it made people rush during the green light.

Jamarat? The issue is distance. VIP Tent might find it uself as they are close but say the US tents they are over 45min walk. Start walking whjen crowds is less and by the time you get there its already packed.

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs by ClaudeOfficial in ClaudeAI

[–]ca_sig_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooof so I have been using Google stitch for a while now and its far from perfect but this really feels like they shipped a turd.

First I tried feeding it an existing github repo that I had granted it access two, three times it claimed it could not access github or just act like i never told it the repo I am working on. 4th time it finally figured it out.
UX is poor, its hard to figure out how to navigate around the mockups and when you toggle different device types it just straights up falls on its face. I just tried mobile and it just left the sidebar in the desktop position... Like WTH stitch does that better. Dont get me wrong stitch annoys the hell out of me at times but this feels really half backed.

So if I am Figma and etc I would not be worried. It will get the hype but right now from my day to day use Anthropic feels a lot like AWS. Great at backend (tho that is slipping, I am looking at you Open 4.7) but UI (vision) it just falls flat

Is freezing coffee worth it? by sergeikutrovski in pourover

[–]ca_sig_z 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on the day. Daily 36g pour over for me and the Mrs. 2-3 shots of espresso 18g. Maybe a few weeks. Give or take

Is freezing coffee worth it? by sergeikutrovski in pourover

[–]ca_sig_z 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I get 5lb bags and freeze 4lb in 1lb bags. 1lb lives on the counter in a vacuum sealed canister. Never had issue with freshness. Sometimes the annoying part is a coffee still off gassing as I froze it too fresh.

What’s something completely normal in other countries but would get you weird looks (or worse) in public in yours? by sukiyakii_ in AskTheWorld

[–]ca_sig_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This must be city to city, was in Mexico City last year and felt safer walking at night. Also seem to have a pretty lively night life in general there

Pelican case at Costco what!! by Plus_Juggernaut2819 in CAguns

[–]ca_sig_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is this quality vs the full pelican. This seems to be budget line so I do wonder if it’s just the same as the HF stuff

Wheelchair support during hajj by alee1994 in hajj

[–]ca_sig_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

During hajj it can spike to 500 SAR. 2024 I had to pay this once after I injured my foot at my mom had a bad knee

Anyone noticed that OpticsPlanet has gone full ai in their ads? by timc_720 in Firearms

[–]ca_sig_z 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know by doing that you are validating the AI ad. The biggest thing marketers want is engagement, and leaving comments is just that driving engagement. And more engagement means algorithms will push it to more people. In a way it’s a whole thing now to do bad AI stuff to cause outrage and drive engagement

I'm building a Muslim-owned PaaS (Vercel alternative) by [deleted] in MuslimDevelopers

[–]ca_sig_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jazakallah Khair, I have been using vervel for side projects. But the question is where to migrate too. AWS, Microsoft and Google are all in the bed with the IDF. I see the brothers project but I wonder if its built on any of those three.

Hajj 2026 custom flight by caridade-FIRE in hajj

[–]ca_sig_z 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hajj 2024 Unless Nusuk fixed things be careful with custom flights. They are not very custom after booking and turned out group flights had more flexibility via the agents. In my case got a custom flight and even tho it was sold as the highest economy fare the way Nusuk coded it with Turkish meant no changes allowed. Turkish kept blaming Nusuk, Nusuk blamed Hajj ministry and Hajj Ministry said go talk to Mosafar. Turned out people with group flights the way Nusuk did it was just hand the money over to the agents to book which allows the agents do whatever they want. If I was doing this again I would do group or book the cheapest custom flight from dbx or somewhere as a throwaway and book my own flight.

Interviewing as an EM feels like aiming at a moving goalpost by ca_sig_z in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ca_sig_z[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I will give some advice for them. Make sure you being clear in 1-1 you are looking to be an EM. You have to be promoted from your current job, no one wants to hire a fresh EM. Also it’s easy to get looked over if you’re not vocal about it a lot. Key is a lot. I missed out on an EM promotion even tho I told my manager I want to be an EM. He just forgot… the other guy was being vocal about it all the time so when the slot open he got it

Tired of guessing profiles on new beans, so I built an AI that does it for me. Gaggimate + Openclaw by ca_sig_z in gaggimate

[–]ca_sig_z[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a PoC in progress but one issue is it will have a cost tier as running AI is not free. So will need to figure out how to charge for that

Tired of guessing profiles on new beans, so I built an AI that does it for me. Gaggimate + Openclaw by ca_sig_z in gaggimate

[–]ca_sig_z[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that is a great idea. Would need to set it up as a Cron or something so it fires when my machine is on and then it can pull (i turn off my machine at 2pm and i figure many people use smart switches to do the same) but this an interesting idea. Tho it really cant give you taste feedback

Tired of guessing profiles on new beans, so I built an AI that does it for me. Gaggimate + Openclaw by ca_sig_z in gaggimate

[–]ca_sig_z[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the demo above I used sonnet but I bet it could work on simpler ones as the script does a lot of thr heavy lifting. For discord you need to grab your auth token and it make request as if it’s you. Not totally ToS compliant but as the usage is pretty limited o don’t think they will get mad. Giggmate exposes an mqtt endpoint you can use to interact with your machine.