If you wanna convince your boss here's github's email template 😂
https://githubuniverse.com/convince

This is the craziest thing i've seen in a while 🙌🏽

Excited to announce the Auth.js project (formerly NextAuth.js) joins Better Auth

https://www.better-auth.com/blog/authjs-joins-better-auth

The JS Execution Model

[bsky]

The lion does not concern himself with edge cases.😂

Average vibe coder’s prompt 😭

Just sent my first-ever PR to the Laravel framework

added except() method to JsonResource class so you can easily exclude fields like:

(new UserResource($user))->except(['email', 'profile.ssn']);

Taylor Otwell reviewed it (yeah, that Taylor 👀) and said they’ll consider it for Laravel 13.

Didn’t get merged, but still feels awesome seeing my name in a Laravel PR thread 😎

Here's the link - https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/57426

Ever wondered why we hash JWTs with a secret key if anyone can decode them anyway?

A JWT has three parts:
header.payload.signature

The header and payload are just Base64URL-encoded, not encrypted so yes, anyone can decode and read them. That’s intentional.

When a server receives a JWT, it recomputes the signature using its secret key and compares it to the token’s signature.
If someone changed even one letter in the payload like switching

"role":"user"

to

"role":"admin"

the signatures wouldn’t match and the token would be rejected. so hashing a JWT with a key isn’t about secrecy it’s about authenticity.
It proves the data is real, untampered, and issued by someone who holds the secret.

damn😭

Distributed Locks in microservices

lets say multiple microservices share one cache, things can get messy fast two services might try to refresh the same token or update the same record.

A distributed lock makes sure only one process touches a shared resource at a time.

Laravel example

$lock = Cache::lock('cache-key', 10); // 10 seconds

if ($lock->get()) {
    try {
        // ✅ Only one process gets here
        $this->refreshToken();
    } finally {
        $lock->release();
    }
} else {
    // 🚫 Another process is refreshing already
}

That’s it.
You can safely run multiple workers or services only one will hold the lock at a time.

Today I dialed *804# to check my balance… ⏳

Then Ethio Telecom sent me a never-ending SMS 😩

Is that only me, or is anyone else frustrated by these giant messages too?

As a programmer 😊, instead of reading all this, I opened my PC and built this mini bot.

👉  Try it here: Tele Package Shortener

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If your mindset isn’t evolving from being developer minded to business minded ቆም ብለህ አስብበት :)

Back with another open-source contribution 😎

I wanted to use the Laravel Audit Logger package for a project, Turns out, it didn’t support PostgreSQL which I needed for the setup.

I decided to build and add a Postgres driver myself.

and guess what the PR got merged .

Not bad for my first open-source merged PR 😅

Here’s the PR thread → github.com/iamfarhad/laravel-audit-log/pull/4

Going Big 🔥

𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝗶𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗮’𝘀 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆

For the first time, travelers can book flights and purchase airline services directly using Ethiopian debit cards, traditionally used for ATM withdrawals.

The move expands the airline’s digital payment ecosystem without having to establish individual integrations with each local bank.

The partnership also strengthens Chapa’s role in Ethiopia’s fintech landscape by expanding its payment services across major industries.

𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.👇
https://shega.co/news/chapa-partners-with-ethiopian-airlines-to-enable-atm-card-payments-in-local-currency