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Mobeen Ahmed

Nov 11

Rebuilding a Node.js downloader in plain PHP: what shared hosting forced me to rewrite

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Mobeen Ahmed

Nov 11

Writing honest 'coming soon' placeholders instead of shipping fake features

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Nov 11

A /api/health Endpoint: The Cheapest Uptime Monitoring There Is

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Nov 11

Why Extracted Folders Come Back as 750 on Shared Hosting and Break Everything

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Nov 11

Cache-Busting Static Assets with ?v=: So Visitors Actually Get the Fix

#php #webdev #javascript #css

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Nov 10

.htaccess Recipes I Trust: Forcing HTTPS and Hiding Config Files on Shared Hosting

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Mobeen Ahmed

Nov 10

Structuring a PHP project for shared hosting: no Composer, no build step

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Nov 10

Facebook Reel Extraction Quirks I Ran Into

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Nov 10

TikTok watermarked vs clean: what the API options really mean

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Nov 10

Why Some Instagram Reels Resolve and Stories Don't: Public vs Expiring Content

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Mobeen Ahmed

Nov 9

Expiring Signed URLs: Why Some Download Links Die After Minutes

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Nov 9

End-to-end download testing with curl: my checklist before calling a feature live

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Nov 9

Free vs paid RapidAPI tiers: the maths I did before subscribing

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Mobeen Ahmed

Nov 9

No Sign-Up, No Accounts: The Privacy Posture of a Simple Downloader

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Nov 9

Why I never store downloaded files on my own server

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Mobeen Ahmed

Nov 8

Logging provider failures without storing anything about the user

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Nov 8

When the Provider Is Down, Say So: Honest Error Messages Instead of Spinners

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Nov 8

'Direct' vs 'proxied' download links: what the user actually experiences

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Nov 8

A Language Selector Dropdown With No Framework and No Layout Shift

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Nov 8

Share links with app state in the URL hash: copy, paste, resume

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Nov 7

Canvas-generated receipt images in the browser: no server, no library

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Nov 7

Minifying a shared JS engine and proving it still works

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Mobeen Ahmed

Nov 7

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

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Mobeen Ahmed

Nov 7

Favicon 404s: the tiny missing file that made Google show a generic globe

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Nov 7

I Retagged My Site With the Wrong GA4 ID and Lost a Week of Data

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Nov 6

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

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Nov 6

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

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Nov 6

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

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Nov 6

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

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Nov 6

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

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Nov 5

Mobile-First CSS for a Single-Purpose Tool Page

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Nov 5

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

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Nov 5

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

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Nov 5

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

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Nov 5

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

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Nov 4

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

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Nov 4

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

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Nov 4

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

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Nov 4

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

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Mobeen Ahmed

Nov 4

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

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Nov 3

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

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Nov 3

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

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Nov 3

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

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Nov 3

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

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Nov 3

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

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Nov 2

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

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Nov 2

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

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Nov 2

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

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Mobeen Ahmed

Oct 26

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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Oct 25

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

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Mobeen Ahmed

Oct 25

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

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