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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.

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Minifying a shared JS engine and proving it still works
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Minifying a shared JS engine and proving it still works

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Deferring render-blocking JS without breaking a vanilla-JS app
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Deferring render-blocking JS without breaking a vanilla-JS app

#javascript #webdev #php #tools
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Favicon 404s: the tiny missing file that made Google show a generic globe
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Favicon 404s: the tiny missing file that made Google show a generic globe

#showdev #webdev #tools #css
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I Retagged My Site With the Wrong GA4 ID and Lost a Week of Data
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I Retagged My Site With the Wrong GA4 ID and Lost a Week of Data

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ads.txt on a plain PHP site: the 5-minute job people skip
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ads.txt on a plain PHP site: the 5-minute job people skip

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Robots meta vs X-Robots-Tag: why I only use the meta tag
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Robots meta vs X-Robots-Tag: why I only use the meta tag

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Open Graph Tags for a Downloader: Making Pasted Links Look Right
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Open Graph Tags for a Downloader: Making Pasted Links Look Right

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WebApplication Schema for a Free Web Tool: the JSON-LD I Ship on ramrom.io
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WebApplication Schema for a Free Web Tool: the JSON-LD I Ship on ramrom.io

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FAQPage JSON-LD on Tool Pages: What It Is and Why I Add It to Every New Page
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FAQPage JSON-LD on Tool Pages: What It Is and Why I Add It to Every New Page

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Mobile-First CSS for a Single-Purpose Tool Page
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Mobile-First CSS for a Single-Purpose Tool Page

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

#php #webdev #api #tools
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Following redirects safely in a PHP download proxy: why I cap them at five hops
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Following redirects safely in a PHP download proxy: why I cap them at five hops

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

#php #webdev #tools #api
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How I Check a Download Is a Real MP4, Not an HTML Error Page Wearing a .mp4 Name
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How I Check a Download Is a Real MP4, Not an HTML Error Page Wearing a .mp4 Name

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

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

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

#php #webdev #api #tools
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i18n for 9 languages with a tiny JS dictionary and zero frameworks
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i18n for 9 languages with a tiny JS dictionary and zero frameworks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#webdev #css #frontend #php
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TikTok photo posts have no video file, so I stopped looking for one
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TikTok photo posts have no video file, so I stopped looking for one

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

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