Verify Domain Ownership in PHP

Have you ever wondered how can you verify if a user in your application owns an internet domain? This is not something that most of us have not seen before, most of the tools we use such as Google Search Console and many SaaS platforms such as email delivery services have the process of verifying …

PHP Link Preview: an open-source package to generate URL Previews

as part of working on our SaaS application, I had to find a way to get some metadata about URLs to generate previews for links. These sorts of metadata can mostly be grabbed from OG and Meta tags of a web page if they exist. To achieve this I have created PHP Link Preview an …

VitoDeploy: opensource alternative to Laravel Forge

In this post, I will introduce you to a friendly open-source server management tool VitoDeploy, a project beautifully crafted and thoughtfully designed by one of my best friends Saeed. VitoDeploy is a self-hosted server management tool aimed to make it easy to bootstrap servers and easily deploy PHP applications. In a nutshell, Vito is a …

Re-inventing Bookmarks for Teams

Bookmarks have been around for as long as the internet itself. They’re a simple way to save websites and articles that you want to revisit later. But in the age of teamwork, traditional bookmarks are starting to show their age. Here are some of the challenges with using traditional bookmarks for teams: So, what’s the …

I created a Browser extension that Enables Youtube Comments when they are disabled!

About a week ago, I wrote a blog post about how I concluded that disabling comments on Youtube videos could be oppression of free speech. My philosophy is that if you have the freedom and opportunity to express your opinions to the public, you should be open to receiving criticism and feedback. Preventing people from …