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Magnetic north, a weak sensor and a curved earth — the three reasons two apps disagree about the qibla, and how to tell which is closer.
7 min read
It is not willpower. Fajr lands in the deepest part of sleep, moves by hours across the year, and a silent notification was never going to wake anyone.
8 min read
A city timetable is one point on a map. Longitude, latitude and the horizon in front of you all move your times away from it.
6 min read
Maghrib tracks sunset exactly, which means it swings further across the year than any other prayer — and why the sun you see is not the sun in the maths.
Barcode halal apps read a crowdsourced ingredient list and match keywords. Useful — but not certification. Here is exactly where the line falls.
Why the qibla points somewhere unexpected, what a phone compass actually measures, and two ways to check the direction without one.
Why offline matters more than it sounds, what the different Arabic scripts mean, how to read a translation honestly, and how to keep a daily portion going.
Time blindness, task initiation and the guilt spiral — why the five prayers are hard with ADHD, and what actually helps.
Six things worth checking before you settle on a prayer app — including the two that most people only discover weeks in.
5 min read
A practical approach to qada when you have prayers to make up — how to count them, how to pace it, and why the backlog is not the point.
Two timetables can disagree by ten minutes and both be right. Here is what calculation methods and madhab settings actually change.
Practical, non-preachy advice on making the five daily prayers a habit that holds — anchoring, tracking, and what to do when you miss one.