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Cake day: March 19th, 2024

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  • I graduated as a mechanical engineer in 2020, but with corona and other economic factors, the job market wasn’t great.

    That said, I was already working as a freelance writer for different brands via Upwork by then — since I had seen the writing on the wall after watching previous year’s graduates.

    Fast forward to now, I’ve worked for different SaaS brands, web hosting companies, and manufacturing businesses.

    I’ve written knowledge base articles, user guides, technical white papers, and faq articles.

    However, I’m still not an expert as my experience with user manuals, software documentation, and so on is bit lacking.







  • Kind of yes. Since Hajj brings 2-3 million people together, it was a minor crowd crush.

    The major crowd crushes have resulted in deaths in double or even triple digits (in 2015).

    Saudi Government has largely streamlined the movement of pilgrims, so I don’t know where this crowd crush happened.

    That said, I totally blame the government for inadequate response to the heat wave. While the article shares that the authorities distributed water and ice cream, it didn’t help much in peak times. When I (a pilgrim) was returning on Jun 17, the crowd was barely moving and I could not reach the water at all since it was on the right end of the road, and I was on left, from where it’s borderline impossible to move to the right without putting your life at risk.

    Plus, I don’t know who got the ice creams as I didn’t see any.