Ahmad Rosid
Software Engineer
Hi there 👋 thanks for coming, I write both short and long tutorials about web development mostly about Next.js, React, Laravel, JavaScript, Rust and Golang.
Projects
I build some projects to help me learn new things and also to help other. Follow my journey build in public here.
Writing
June 10, 2025
Using better auth in Next.js
In the Next.js ecosystem, NextAuth.js is a popular authentication solution. However, if you need stronger TypeScript su...
December 4, 2024
Setting Up Vince Analytics: A Self-Hosted Alternative to Google Analytics
Setting up Plausible Analytics feels like preparing for a wedding - you need multiple components (PostgreSQL, ClickHous...
November 18, 2024
How to use Laravel Pint in VSCode?
Laravel Pint is an opinionated PHP code style fixer based on PHP-CS-Fixer. It helps maintain consistent code style acro...
November 8, 2024
How to hide scrollbar in tailwindcss?
There are multiple ways to customize scrollbars in Tailwindcss, we'll explore three approaches to handle scrollbars, ea...
November 6, 2024
How to Extract Audio from MKV Files Using FFmpeg
I have mentoring session today and it was fire! Student went from "I can't code" to landing their first tech job. Rec...
November 3, 2024
AI Won't Replace Developers - Here's Why We'll Thrive Instead
First time I saw AI generating code, I panicked. Not gonna lie. Felt like those nights in 2014 when I was struggling to...
November 3, 2024
Scraping Hacker News with Selenium
Ever wanted to automatically fetch the top stories from Hacker News? In this guide, we'll build a simple yet powerful S...
October 3, 2024
How to Create a Dialog Component with Alpine.js
Alpine.js is a lightweight JavaScript framework that allows you to add dynamic behavior to your HTML with minimal effor...
September 11, 2024
Where is the pip package file located?
The location of pip package files can vary depending on your operating system and Python installation. Here are some co...
September 7, 2024
How to deploy Laravel app with a PostgreSQL using Laravel Forge?
So recently I needed to improve the performance of my production Laravel app. The app was already deployed using Larave...
August 16, 2024
Understanding Reduce Operations in Laravel: A Beginner's Guide
Laravel has a handy Collection helper that can help you work with array data. It takes a functional programming approac...
July 23, 2024
How to Copy Folders to Remote Servers Using SSH
Copying folders between local and remote systems may not be a task you do daily, but sometimes you might need to do tha...