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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 02/08/2026

Very chill day hanging out in Maine. Perkins Cove was idyllic.

boats parked in perkins cove, ogunquit maine.

Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 01/08/2026

No touching, but watching whales today. Awesome day on the water with Granite State Whale Watch: granitestatewhalewatch.com

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 30/07/2026

How have I been spending my time lately? Being very productive … at TFT 🤣

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 17/06/2026

Figured out how to get the goal scorers for the games. Still keeping things simple for now, but does the job. worldcupnext.com

screenshot for worldcupnext.com showing a game with goals and who & when the goal was scored.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 15/06/2026

Made a quick update to add scores (live as well) to World Cup Next: worldcupnext.com

screen shot of worldcupnext.com showing live score on the match information.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 12/06/2026

Touched water today 😊 Pool season has started!

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 09/06/2026

Been checking out the websites for seeing the next game for the World Cup, and as expected most of the suck, just to much going on in the pages, trying to get more page views/clicks probably. I think it might be time to recreate this beauty (not mine!)...

screenshot of wc fixtures website from 2014?

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 07/06/2026

First time making Nutella Babka, turned out very nice looking. Waiting for it cool a little before cutting.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 24/05/2026

Final day of the premier league season, following a couple of games 🤣

Following 4 games on the final day of the premier league season

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 22/05/2026

I always liked Ras Malai as a kid. Having a hard time finding it in restaurants near me. Found some frozen at the local Indian market. Thinking I might have to try making some of my own.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 20/05/2026

No bread today, how about some left over homemade sourdough pizza?

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 07/05/2026

Focaccia anyone? It’s fresh out of the oven 😉🍞

Home made Focaccia, fresh out of the oven

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 21/04/2026

Took a bit of trial and error, but finally feeling like I’ve got a handle on the bread making thing. #sourdough #bread

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 18/04/2026

Trying the whole touch grass this weekend. Going pretty well so far. Lovely day for it.

A picture of Durant Lake in Upstate New York.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 19/03/2026

Excited to Project Hail Mary tonight. Really enjoyed the book, and interested to see how it translate to the big screen.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 06/01/2026

Went with a Thinkpad laptop, will be switching from Mac to Linux as my primary OS when it arrives.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 03/01/2026

First attempt at making sourdough bread! Got some 200 year old starter as a Christmas gift. #food #bread

First attempt at baking sourdough bread.

Looked pretty nice.

Cut into my first sourdough loaf. Nice bubbles.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 26/12/2025

Well this can't be good. Wasn't expecting to start the day investigating this!

screenshot showing 4 emails from google adding a new owner to a websites i own.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 08/12/2025

No wonder my computer has been acting weird, running version 666 of anything is not recommended. Running version 666 of Zoom 🤯

upgrade dialog message for zoom. current version 6.6.6 now available version 6.6.11

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 30/11/2025

With the form Liverpool are in, not sure how I feel about the game score being shown all the time in the notch 😬

iPhone notch showing the current score in the west ham united vs Liverpool premier league game. Tied 0-0.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 31/08/2025

🍿 Not saying I like going to the movies but …. Thanks Regal 😊

1,011,018 lifetime regal movie reward points earned

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 24/08/2025

Ordering things from overseas and suddenly this delivery update send shivers down my shine 😩 #tariffs

USPS transit update …

Customs Transit
Inbound Into Customs

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 07/08/2025

A first for me, but a website I'm building (pre-launch) is getting traffic from Google before it's pages have been indexed?!? 🤯 But how? #seo #sideproject

search console display for pages indexed. 1 page not indexed, 0 pages indexed.

search console display for performance. 3 clicks, 7 impressions.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 20/07/2025

🚀 Passed 2700 subscribers for the @blueskydirectory.com newsletter. Are you subscribed? blueskydirectory.com Next issue going out later today!

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 13/07/2025

Played a little League of Legends today. First time I've been in a game where everyone on the team got an S or S+ rating 🤯

S or S+ for the entire team in League of Legends!

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 11/07/2025

Going to the movies early this week…excited to watch the new Superman!

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 05/07/2025

The weeks movie is Jurassic World Rebirth! Big fan of the Jurassic Park movies, so excited for this one.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 04/07/2025

Nothing like a power outage to celebrate the holiday! Going to without power for 3 hours 🥲

Power outage map from National Grid.

1912 customers affected.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 29/06/2025

Trying to make time for movies on the weekends. 🏎️ This week going to see F1.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 22/06/2025

Excited to see Mumford and Sons tonight! Gigi Perez opening in a few minutes…

View of Saratoga Performing Arts Center for the Mumford and Sons concert

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 21/06/2025

🤯 Liverpool spending over £100M for a player! Which ever version of the multiverse I've moved too, I like it. www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpo... #liverpool #lfc

Florian Wirtz in a Liverpool shirt after signing his new contract to join the Reds

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 17/05/2025

Made it to the beach. Day started cloudy, but turning out to be a very nice day! #photograph #beach #capecod

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 12/05/2025

In-fact I've actually got the old and new servers running side-by-side in case there are any issues and I need to rollback. Still a relatively simple setup, but well positioned for scale, as resource needs continue to grow.

bluesky directory server setup.

4 droplets for: web, search, firehose and queue processing
1 managed database cluster

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 03/05/2025

About to watch Clue at Proctor’s theatre in Schenectady NY.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 27/04/2025

Didn’t think we’d be champions the year after Klopp leaving, makes it so much sweeter! Congrats to everyone at the club for a fantastic season.

Liverpool 2024/25 Premier League champions

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 22/04/2025

Will be working hard to keep sending the @blueskydirectory.com newsletter on a regular schedule. Open rate from this weekends edition was pretty similar to the others, but the click rate is nearly half. 🤯 I know it was a holiday weekend, but that's a pretty massive drop off. #buildinpublic

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 22/04/2025

Finished adding verification badges to @blueskydirectory.com Will be interesting to see how this evolves, do love that it's not just Bluesky doing the verifying. Already feels better than what we had on the other site. Excited to continue to use my domain as verification 😉 #buildinpublic

screenshot showing verification badges on blueskydirectory

screenshot of blueskydirectory showing the verifier of an account

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 20/04/2025

Scheduled! Glad I was able to keep the streak alive 😀

bluesky directory issue 22 is scheduled to be sent to 2304 fans.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 08/04/2025

The Feb update seems to have been lost in my ether somewhere, so here is the March #SEO update for @blueskydirectory.com from Google. Have been expecting to traffic to drop as growth has slowed, but things appear to be holding steady, which is a great sign that Bluesky has traction. #buildinpublic

March google search performance

71.1K clicks, 4.464M impressions.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 24/03/2025

Finally can say that @blueskydirectory.com has made it! The drug spammers have arrived 😂 Requires a Bluesky account to submit, so took some effort on their part to submit. #buildinpublic #spam #bots

drug spammers submitting links to blueskydirectory

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 22/03/2025

Got a bird house/feeder with a camera for Xmas. Was finally warm enough to put out this week and caught this shot! #bird

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 21/03/2025

Profiles database is getting to be a good size. Gonna be interesting to see how this grows with the user base. Don't need all the profiles for the app I'm building (have captured about 3M so far), so can optimize this for sure, but consuming all firehose data is the promised land. #buildinpublic

3 million profiles saved to database is 3.36GiB

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 21/03/2025

Unfortunately couldn't make it out to Seattle for #ATmosphereConf, so I picked up a Livestream ticket. Looking forward to watching the talks! You can get your tickets: atprotocol.dev/atmosphereco...

ATmosphereConf Seattle 2025 Livestream ticket receipt.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 18/03/2025

About than 5 months ago I started working @blueskydirectory.com This the quickest I've had a site reach a 50 DR. I put it down entirely to luck, being in the right place at the right time, and working on the things that most people were asking for. Sounds simple 😂 #buildinpublic

Domain rating of 50 from Ahrefs for blueskydirectory.com

3.8K backlinks, from 891 websites.

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Mubashar “Mubs” Iqbal @mubashariqbal.com · 16/03/2025

Sure, I've added a new option to the dropdown...

screenshot showing new "we've moved" banner option

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