As you know, Xiaomi has been releasing updates as Stable Beta first then full release recently.
This resulted in much confusion between users as they download a rom to update manually then the updater app doesn't allow to install it.

So, I have updated @MIUIUpdatesTracker, @XiaomiGeeksBot and xiaomifirmwareupdater.com to differentiate regular stable and stable beta roms. Stable Beta may be uninstallable using the updater app, so download it if you have a custom recovery only.

I have open-sourced Samsung Firmware Bot (that was available here)

The code is available under MIT license so feel free to modify and deploy it on your own.

https://github.com/yshalsager/samsung-firmware-bot

Edit: It's back

@XiaomiGeeksBot is down for some time. Fixing some underhood issues

Invite link has been updated once again

I have started to write on my own website! I will share various technical (and non-technical I think) stuff from time to another in Arabic and English.

Here's the first post about "Debugging and fixing Selenium's send_keys() wrong text input".
https://yshalsager.me/en/blog/debugging-and-fixing-selenium-send-keys-wrong-text-input

For Arabic readers, check out this post about NextDNS! It's a great service I really recommend to use to protect your internet from ads, trackers, and bad websites.
https://yshalsager.me/ar/blog/nextdns

Hopes you enjoy these posts and find it useful. I'd be very grateful to hear feedback from you about the content and website!

A new blog post in Arabic about controlling and customizing nextdns service has been published
https://yshalsager.me/ar/blog/nextdns-customization

@XiaomiGeeksBot is down at the moment due to Telegram servers connection error.
I will update the status here once it's back again.

It's back

Xiaomi Flashable Firmware Creator V2 is here

This is the tool that @XiaomiFirmwareUpdater project uses to create flashable firmware files.

Checkout what's new here:
https://github.com/XiaomiFirmwareUpdater/xiaomi-flashable-firmware-creator/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Magisk Modules Updates is back! 🎉

Hello guys!
As you see, the channel has been inactive since 16 May due to many reason but mainly the lack of time to maintain the channel.

Despite the channel founder veez21 is busy with his own life, he didn't want to leave the channel to die so he contacted me @yshalsager to see if I can keep the channel running since I already maintain many other automated channels and I agreed.

Starting from today the channel is back and It will keep providing Magisk modules updates as previous at regular basis.

I want to thanks veez21 for all his works and wish him the best of luck in his life. Don't forget to wish him luck too!

That's everything :D Enjoy your stay and share this good news with your fellow Magisk users!

Xiaomi Flashable Firmware Creator GUI has been updated to V2.2.1

Changes:
* Add Remote Zip support.
* Fix getting zip name when using drag and drop.
* Fix setting up non-default language on startup.
* Add consistent pop-up messages.
* Show a pop-up message when the process is done successfully with okay and show in folder buttons.
* Updated Translation thanks to all contributors on crowdin.

https://github.com/XiaomiFirmwareUpdater/xiaomi-flashable-firmware-creator-gui
https://pypi.org/project/xiaomi-flashable-firmware-creator-gui/

Edit: it's back since 17:22 GMT+2
@XiaomiGeeksBot is down because of Telegram connection errors.

@XiaomiGeeksBot is up now. It has been down because TG was as well :D

Made using https://github.com/ishandeveloper/github-wrapped

Goodbye 2020.
Welcome 2021.

Xiaomi Flashable Firmware Creator V2.1.0
A/B devices support is here

Xiaomi has released Mi 11 with virtual A/B partitions. This is the first device with MIUI interface that uses A/B since it was just limited to Android One devices. So, It became more necessary to add update payload support to our tool.

- Now you can use Xiaomi Flashable Firmware Creator to create firmware packages for Mi 11, Mi A3, Mi A2, and Mi A2 Lite. (Mi A1 is not supported!)
- For now, only firmware packages can be created, I will add fw+vendor packages support soon.

Release Info
https://github.com/XiaomiFirmwareUpdater/xiaomi-flashable-firmware-creator
https://pypi.org/project/xiaomi-flashable-firmware-creator/

Xiaomi Flashable Firmware Creator GUI has been updated to V2.3.0

Changes:
* Add Android One ZIP files support.
* Updated Translation thanks to all contributors on crowdin.

https://github.com/XiaomiFirmwareUpdater/xiaomi-flashable-firmware-creator-gui
https://pypi.org/project/xiaomi-flashable-firmware-creator-gui/

My large list for various open-source stuff (lists, guides. CLI tools, programs, websites, android apps and programming libraries), mostly a more organized copy from my GitHub/GitLab stars.
https://www.notion.so/yshalsager/29dd57f3391743e8891f0cbfbad42896?v=b302f3dfebcc4b0d84143d276f3348f7

I have started an open-source project to turn Facebook profiles/pages/groups feeds into RSS because FB is bad but sometimes it has some good stuff to follow.
https://github.com/yshalsager/facebook2rss

It's quite functional now! I have been working on it over last week and I have added some cool stuff.

Features:
- Access Facebook pages and public groups feed without using an account.
- Access Facebook profiles, pages, groups, and notifications when running the API with a Facebook account.
- Your login is automatically saved and refreshed on each API request to keep you signed in.
...