JB
Muke Johnbaptist
Go (Golang) expert · Creator of the Grit Framework
Tools(17)
Free utilities, sandboxes, and roadmaps to speed up your workflow.
Learn Go — Notes & Exercises
Learn Go from scratch with structured notes and hands-on exercises — the Golang prerequisites track from the Grit Framework docs.
Golang Playground
Write, run and share Go code right in the browser — an instant Go playground with zero setup.
Committed — Android App
Developer leaderboard app: turn commits, PRs, reviews and issues into a live ranking with clubs and streaks. Download free on Google Play.
Stride — Android App
Workplace step-challenge app with honest step counting (vehicle rides removed on-device), leaderboards and group chat. Download free on Google Play.
BD Connection String Formatter
Paste your Neon database connection string below to extract and format it for Laravel.
JWT Decoder
Paste a JSON Web Token to decode its header, payload and claims, with expiry status. Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Base64 & JSON Tools
Encode or decode Base64 and format, minify or validate JSON — all locally in the browser.
Cron Expression Explainer
Type a cron expression to get a plain-English description plus the next run times in your local timezone.
DevOps Roadmap
Step by step guide for DevOps, SRE or any other Operations Role in 2025.
Next.js Sandbox
An interactive sandbox with a code editor, file explorer, and live preview for Next.js.
Vibekit
Open-source Next.js dev toolkit — curated UI components, patterns, and starter templates for shipping production apps fast. Live demo at vibekit.desishub.com.
Vibekit Native
Open-source Expo + React Native toolkit — the mobile sibling of Vibekit. Batteries-included components and starters for shipping native iOS and Android apps.
Claude Token Diet
Autonomously configures Claude Code to use far fewer tokens on large codebases — deny rules, a slimmed CLAUDE.md, LSP + a retrieval layer, read-guard hooks, a scout subagent and a codebase map. Measures the savings and reports them.
Reader
A quiet place to read your PDFs — add a PDF, open it like a book, and read. Your library, reading time and progress stay in your browser: no account, no upload, no server.
Simple UI
One of the best component libraries for both web and React Native — accessible, themeable, copy-paste components so you ship the same polished UI across Next.js and mobile.
Zenith Analytics
Self-hosted, privacy-first multi-site analytics and SEO auditing in Go + React — cookieless tracking (no consent banner), per-domain dashboards and automatic monthly email reports. It tracks this very site.
Scout — Vulnerability Scanner & Pentest Toolkit
Self-hosted, open-source vulnerability scanner, penetration-testing toolkit and attack-surface mapper in Go — point it at your own URL or repo to check headers, TLS, DNS, open ports, secrets and Dockerfiles, get an A–F grade with a fix per finding, and gate CI with SARIF. Safe by default.
Public APIs(3)
Production REST APIs I've built and shipped — free for the community to use.
DGateway Payment API
Unified payments API for East Africa. Collect and disburse payments via MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money, and Stripe through a single integration. Powers production merchants in Uganda and beyond — including Connect ISP. One API key, one SDK, one dashboard.
- Go
- MTN MoMo
- Airtel Money
- Stripe
- Payments
EduGate API
A public REST API for Ugandan education data — universities, courses, scholarships, and admission requirements. Built for EdTech apps, AI student advisors, and counselling tools that need accurate local education data. The first public API in the JB API portfolio.
- Next.js
- Prisma
- PostgreSQL
- Education
Uganda Food API
Authentic Ugandan recipes — luwombo, matooke, eshabwe, malakwang, kuon kal — with real ingredients, step-by-step instructions, nutrition, UGX cost analysis and local-language names. Built for mobile apps, food-delivery platforms and nutrition tools.
- Next.js
- Recipes
- Nutrition
- Uganda
Tools & APIs I use(14)
The third-party stack behind the products here — hand-picked, used in production, not a directory.
Next.js
The React framework behind every web client here — App Router, RSC and a great DX for shipping fast.
Vercel
Zero-config deploys, previews on every PR and edge delivery — where the Next.js front-ends live.
Neon
Serverless Postgres with branching — the default database for new projects, scales to zero between requests.
Upstash
Serverless Redis (and Kafka) billed per request — caching, rate limiting and background jobs without running a server.
Cloudflare
Workers, D1 and R2 — the edge runtime and object storage one half of Flare ships on, plus DNS and a CDN.
shadcn/ui
Copy-paste Radix + Tailwind components you own and theme — the base layer under most of the interfaces here.
Tailwind CSS
Utility-first CSS that keeps styling in the markup — fast to build, consistent across a whole app.
Better Auth
Framework-agnostic authentication with sessions, OAuth and OIDC — powers accounts in PesaSmart 3D and more.
Stripe
The card-payments and subscriptions layer — one of the rails DGateway unifies alongside Mobile Money.
Resend
Developer-first transactional email with React email templates — the mailer across the client apps.
UploadThing
Type-safe file uploads for Next.js without wiring S3 by hand — great for quick, secure upload flows.
Expo
The React Native toolchain behind Committed and Stride — EAS Build, OTA updates and native modules.
Docker
Containers for every Go backend — reproducible builds from local dev to the VPS and CI.
Vercel AI SDK
The toolkit for streaming LLM responses and tool calls — the backbone of the AI features and chatbots here.