Mahmoud Ramadan

Computer Science Geek 🧐 || Software Engineer 👨‍💻 || Digging Code Creator 🚀

[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

🎉 **Digging Code 6** is now live on @ProductHunt!

A complete refresh with redesigned pages, better content discovery, and a cleaner developer experience 🚀

✨ Launch:
https://t.co/O994TAE9wd

Feedback and support are appreciated 💚

#Tech #PHP #Laravel #Design #UI #CSS #AI

[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

🎉 My @laravelphp packages reached 3,045+ downloads & 72 GitHub stars!

📦 Easy Model
https://t.co/yTpy9zCknl

📦 Custom Fresh
https://t.co/vdwC2H5WQ9

Thank you! 💚

#Tech #Laravel #PHP #OpenSource #GitHub

[Alexandre Daubois @alexdaubois]

match in #PHP isn't just "switch with ===".

The OPcache optimizer turns match expressions into a ZEND_MATCH opcode backed by a jump table. A single hash lookup picks the right arm in O(1).

switch compiles to a chain of CASE comparisons walked one by one. O(n) on the number of arms.

10 arms, hot loop? match wins by a wide margin. Same syntax cost, real speed difference.

[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

Built this package to make database refreshing more flexible. Glad to see Laravel News sharing it with the community. Thanks, @ylynfatt! ⚡

#PHP #Laravel #SQL #Database

[Laravel News @laravelnews]

Refresh Your Laravel Database Without Dropping Every Table posted by @ylynfatt https://t.co/LGfJMsKmpB

[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

@PovilasKorop Great tip! I recently shared a tip about a subtle issue with Laravel's each collection method that many developers might not be aware of.
https://t.co/SMYDXCE9Bt

Would love to hear your thoughts on it.

[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

🚀 Two @laravelphp package launches are now live on @ProductHunt!

⚡ Easy Model
https://t.co/bCDnAV7vkS

⚡ Custom Fresh
https://t.co/LKt56ImkeO

Would love your support ❤️

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[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

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[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

New @laravelphp tip on Digging Code 🚀

Using Arrow Functions with Laravel Collections?

💡 There's a subtle gotcha you should know about.
https://t.co/SMYDXCE9Bt

#Tech #Tips #PHP #Laravel

[Alexandre Daubois @alexdaubois]

Timing attacks are real, and most devs don't protect against them.

When you compare two strings with === or strcmp(), #PHP stops at the first different byte. If the first character matches, it takes slightly longer than if it doesn't.

An attacker can measure response times to guess a secret character by character. HMAC token, API key, CSRF token... byte by byte, statistically.

hash_equals() was added in PHP 5.6 specifically for this. It always compares ALL bytes, regardless of where the first mismatch is. Constant time.

Same applies to #golang: use crypto/subtle.ConstantTimeCompare().
Same in #nodejs: crypto.timingSafeEqual().

If you're comparing secrets with == or ===, you may be leaking information through time!

[Freek Van der Herten @freekmurze]

🔗 Automate your PHP security updates
https://t.co/Hh3WE7DP9c
#PHP #Security

[Povilas Korop | Laravel & AI Coding Educator @PovilasKorop]

Security reminder.
Any `.env` files on your computer left from older/testing/temp projects?

Those `.env` files have any ACTIVE prod credentials to any 3rd-parties?

Cleanup time.

Run this command to search, you may be surprised.

find ~ -name ".env*" -type f 2>/dev/null

[nunomaduro @enunomaduro]

introducing laravel moat

as an open source maintainer, recent supply chain attacks in the ecosystem made me want a simple cli to audit the security of my GitHub organizations and repositories

built in Rust. for any open source project on GitHub

[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

@ProductHunt 🌐 Explore the blog:
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[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

🎉 **Digging Code 6** is now live on @ProductHunt!

A complete refresh with redesigned pages, better content discovery, and a cleaner developer experience 🚀

✨ Launch:
https://t.co/O994TAE9wd

Feedback and support are appreciated 💚

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[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

Big thanks to @PovilasKorop for featuring my package!

[Povilas Korop | Laravel & AI Coding Educator @PovilasKorop]

Found this useful Laravel package!

mahmoudmohamedramadan/custom-fresh:
Specify the tables that you do not want to drop while refreshing the database. https://t.co/KxYwTpKjAT

[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

New **Digging Code** issue is live. 📩

**Laravel 13.8**, **Two Alpha Releases** & **AI** in Your **Office Apps**

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[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

@DevenPatil_007 I recently published Digging Code on @SellWithBoost. 🚀

Digging Code is a developer-focused blog and tech hub featuring practical articles, engineering insights, tools, and continuous updates designed to help developers build better and grow faster.
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[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

🚀 Two new alpha releases are out!

Easy Model v1.2.0-alpha.1
https://t.co/6bQFeTK6MP

Custom Fresh v1.2.0-alpha.1
https://t.co/zHLcp98lGy

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[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

@delveroin Easy Model is a #Laravel package for enjoyably managing database queries.
https://t.co/bz43lZSvLA

[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

New **Digging Code** issue is live. 📩

**Laravel 13.7**, New Dev Tools, **Trending Packages** & **Claude Security**

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[Mahmoud Ramadan @mmramadan496]

It might be a bit late, but I’ve released a new version of **Custom Fresh** that supports @laravelphp 13. 😅

This update also includes a redesigned logo and some structural improvements. 🎉

🔗https://t.co/mQplouKyTo

#PHP #Laravel #SQL #Database #GitHub