2024 – Yaashaar Hadadian

25Nov 2024 by Yaashaar

Beta 19 is Done! – Back to Canada, Where It All Began

Brutal, surreal, and unbelievable 46 days! Life truly has a way of throwing unexpected challenges at you. In this post, I’ll share the story behind the delays we’ve faced post-pandemic and provide an update on our release timeline. Relocating to Vancouver As the title suggests, I’ve relocated again to Vancouver. In early October, a personal matter I had been tolerating for years suddenly escalated to a point where it could no longer be ignored. What had long been a distracting, disappointing, and limiting challenge demanded immediate action. This led me to make the tough decision to move back to Canada—a step I hoped would allow me to fully focus on the platform we’re building and bring it closer to public beta testing. Everything happened so suddenly that I’m still processing…

Beta 19 Mid Update

It's been a while since I last posted here; I haven’t been in the right mindset to write an update. Although the project is very active, and I've posted a few updates on its dedicated website (accessible to the initial beta testers), I just didn’t have the energy to write something here. Losing my buddy Alireza—mentioned in my last post—hit me harder than I expected. However, like everything in life, we humans tend to adjust, even if it's more about adapting to the new normal rather than fully accepting it. I’d say it’s like being born again with a new set of settings every time something drastic happens. Anyway, in this post, I’ll do my best to keep everyone updated on where we are now. One More Feature It feels…

This too shall pass: On the loss of my buddy, Alireza.

I've tried many times in the last few weeks to write about an utterly tragic incident in my personal life, but I found myself speechless every time. I lost one of my closest friends of all time – definitely the closest in the city. I'm trying my best to write a few lines in the hope of being able to move on or at least cope with it. I got to know Alireza about ten years ago when I graduated from engineering school and was moving to Vancouver. He was my cousin's fiance, Susan, who married her a year later. We formed a friendship group with my cousins and some of our friends. We called it the Vlad Group – Vlad was the name of a kind Armenian officer we…