Nicky Raph

Software Engineer & System Administrator, Secretary General @yso_tanzania

[Youth Survival Organization @yso_tanzania]

YSO Tanzania 🇹🇿 represented by Humphrey Mrema & Brenda Wilson at the 2026 Youth VNR Consultation, Dar es Salaam, shaping Tanzania’s youth inputs for the UN HLPF in New York.
Youth voices belong in the report. #VNR2026 #SDGs

[Haulay @Positivenga1]

I’m happy to share that the Central Bank of Tanzania (BOT) @BankOfTanzania has granted @SwahiliesPay our own Payment Service Provider (PSP) License.

Over the past few years, we have worked with more than 15,000 SMEs through bookkeeping and embedded finance solutions. This license now allows us to build and launch our own financial products directly with licensed partners, while also serving businesses with higher transaction volumes.

We are getting back to work, focused on building bigger things for businesses across Tanzania and Africa!

[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

[Nicky Raph @nickyraph]

@bichwaa Depends, for a single domain would do it via CloudFlare if the domain is proxied by them. subdomains may be tricky, for them nafanya via nginx.

[Robert Lewandowski @lewy_official]

Demà, crideu més fort que mai, Culers!💙❤️

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

Came as a star.
Leaves as legend.

Thank you, Robert Lewandowski, for every goal, every battle, and every magic moment wearing these colours. Culer forever. 💙❤️

[Freek Van der Herten @freekmurze]

Let's go!

Blogpost incoming

[Youth Survival Organization @yso_tanzania]

YSO Tanzania is calling on young journalists, editors, and content creators aged 18–35 to join a 4-month hybrid fellowship building the next generation of climate-literate media professionals in Tanzania.

Deadline: 15 May 2026
Apply now: https://t.co/PUIzr2oJRr

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

2004 was a good year, but your Gmail address doesn't need to be stuck in it.

To say goodbye to [email protected] or [email protected] (or whatever you were into at the time), go to your Google Account settings and choose any name available. You'll keep your old username and you can sign in with both.

[Nicky Raph @nickyraph]

@YasTanzania_ not supporting your own new numbers on your own app is wild business

[Josef Bender @josefbender_]

Am I the only one who uses domain names as repository names?

[Nicky Raph @nickyraph]

Downloaded and installed iOS 18 last year after failing to uninstall iOS 26 Beta at the time. Was so shocked on how easy that whole process was. No iCloud or password was required, I just shutoff the phone and booted into their recovery mode, then installed the new OS

[Munyu🌊 @EliraNyamu]

So apparently all that upuuzi wa kusema huwezi kubypass an Iphone it’s a lie?
Mdogo angu kaibiwa simu jana, washenzi wale accessed her phone, disabled find my iPhone, changed passwords including her gmail account, and added passkeys.
And so far the police hasn’t been helpful.

[Nicky Raph @nickyraph]

This Album🔥 Bangers only, since 2018

https://t.co/Z8ZE2B72DH

[Nicky Raph @nickyraph]

Apparently, Ive been sleeping on the Ultra Wide Camera Lens on my Phone🙌🏼

[Nicky Raph @nickyraph]

AI is still terrible at working on images. Tried to convert a PNG to SVG today, damn😅 lot of gaslighting, lying, fake transparent pngs instead of svgs.. total mess

[Nicky Raph @nickyraph]

@MarCalma87413 Makes sense

[Nicky Raph @nickyraph]

I get the concept and the optics, especially in the innovation race among local banks. Just thinking out loud though: since most modern phones already support NFC, wouldn’t supporting contactless payments on phones cover a much wider use case, with wearables as a nice add-on?

[Given Edward @GIVENALITY]

NMB launched a brilliant product 👏

[Nicky Raph @nickyraph]

@GIVENALITY I get the ‘cover’ confusion there, not what I meant tho😅. I mean like the phone itself through NMB Mkononi app for instance to support contactless payments without additional accessories since they already have the hardware

[Nicky Raph @nickyraph]

Brings me joy when I withdraw money from an agent, I ask them if they support Selcom Pesa, to which they say they don’t but they are following it up since most customers ask about it… soon

[Barry vd. Heuvel @barryvdh]

I released Laravel Debugbar 4.0!

Check the release blog: https://t.co/GyOh9FaDBI

This brings a lot of changes under the hood (like php-debugbar 3, no jquery, optimized loading) but also a lot of Laravel improvements (better Livewire/Inertia/Octane support) and more collectors!