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I'm KinfeMichael Tariku, an Ethiopian software designer and developer who accidentally turned a hobby into a career. I've somehow convinced people to let me build things that solve real-world problems, mostly by writing code that doesn't break (most of the time).

I'm the core maintainer of Better Auth, an open-source authentication framework for TypeScript. What started as "there has to be a better way to do auth" (spoiler: there wasn't, so I built one) has somehow accumulated over 20,000 GitHub stars and more than 500,000 downloads. The internet is weird like that.

When I'm not maintaining Better Auth, I run FarmUI, where I create developer tools and UI components that I wish existed when I started coding.

I also lead and organized Better Hack 2025, a 24-hour hackathon in Addis Ababa because apparently organizing chaos is my idea of fun. As a competitive programmer, I enjoy the masochistic pleasure of solving problems that make me question my life choices, and then I write about them because suffering alone is boring.

I write blog posts about things I'm genuinely curious about React, Next.js, Performance, Optimization, Security, bundlers, TypeScript, and other modern web technologies. When something doesn't make sense or seems oddly designed, I dig into it and write about what I find. This is either a healthy intellectual curiosity or an unhealthy obsession I'm still deciding. When I'm not coding or writing, I'm probably exploring new frameworks or contributing to open-source, because I clearly haven't learned my lesson about free time yet.