Bouba Diallo

I’ve been looking for a place online that actually fits the way I think. Not just a blog, not just a portfolio, not just a link in bio. Something that holds all of it together. The essays, the photos, the music I’m stuck on, the tools I keep coming back to, the projects I’m building or have buried. Everything out there felt like it was designed for one kind of person doing one kind of thing. I’m not that.

So I built my own. In my spare time, slowly, the way you do things when no one’s waiting on you. You can read what I write about technology and building things, see photos I’ve taken on film and digital, check what’s on my reading list or playing in my headphones, and follow the products I’m working on. And then there’s my Quran memorization progress. I track it here because my faith is the thing that keeps everything else in order. It grounds me, it slows me down when I need slowing down, and it keeps me honest about the kind of person I’m trying to be. Everything else on this site sits next to that, not above it.

I’m also thinking about turning this into something others can use. I don’t know exactly what that looks like yet, but the idea is there. For now it’s mine, and I’m glad it exists.