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Mobeen Ahmed

I build small, practical web tools and write about how they are made. PHP, CSS, and shipping simple ideas without overcomplicating them.

Joined on Oct 25, 2026

Nov 5

Mobile-First CSS for a Single-Purpose Tool Page

#showdev #css #webdev #tools

3 min read

Nov 5

Why some CDNs serve empty responses to datacenter IPs — and the direct-link fallback that saved my downloader

#php #webdev #api #tools

3 min read

Nov 5

Following redirects safely in a PHP download proxy: why I cap them at five hops

#php #webdev #api #tools

4 min read

Nov 5

Content-Disposition: the header that makes the browser download instead of play

#php #webdev #tools #api

3 min read

Nov 5

How I Check a Download Is a Real MP4, Not an HTML Error Page Wearing a .mp4 Name

#showdev #php #webdev #tools

3 min read

Nov 4

Where the Download Button Goes: Small UX Decisions on a Tool Homepage

#showdev #webdev #tools #javascript

3 min read

Nov 4

Sitemap strategy for an 18-page tool site: what to include and what to leave out

#showdev #webdev #php #tools

3 min read

Nov 4

Submitting URLs to IndexNow from PHP: getting Bing and Yandex to notice new pages in hours

#php #webdev #api #tools

3 min read

Nov 4

i18n for 9 languages with a tiny JS dictionary and zero frameworks

#showdev #javascript #webdev #tools

3 min read

Nov 4

A network-first service worker for a tool site: installable without breaking the downloader

#showdev #javascript #webdev #tools

2 min read

Nov 3

Caching provider API responses in flat files to survive outages on shared hosting

#php #webdev #api #tools

3 min read

Nov 3

There Is No MP3 on YouTube: Why I Label the Audio Button M4A

#showdev #php #webdev #tools

2 min read

Nov 3

YouTube adaptive vs muxed streams: why video-with-sound tops out at 360p

#showdev #php #webdev #api

3 min read

Nov 3

HLS vs progressive MP4: what a video downloader actually hands you

#showdev #webdev #tools #api

3 min read

Nov 3

Why I proxy video downloads through my own server instead of hotlinking

#showdev #php #webdev #tools

2 min read

Nov 2

The guard rails in my PHP download proxy: stopping server-side request forgery on ramrom.io

#showdev #php #webdev #api

3 min read

Nov 2

Retrying flaky APIs in plain PHP: the 3-attempt loop behind ramrom.io's downloader

#showdev #php #webdev #api

3 min read

Nov 2

Per-IP rate limiting in plain PHP with no Redis: a file-based counter that keeps my downloader alive

#showdev #php #webdev #api

3 min read

Oct 26

My pay tables kept getting cut off on phones. The fix was showing less, not shrinking more.

#webdev #css #frontend #php

2 min read

Oct 25

TikTok photo posts have no video file, so I stopped looking for one

#showdev #php #webdev #tools

1 min read

Oct 25

I built a free video downloader that runs on plain PHP hosting

#showdev #php #webdev #tools

2 min read

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