How I Got "Made in Afghanistan" Added to GitHub Explore 🇦🇫

A two-week journey, a merged Pull Request, and a small step toward putting Afghan open-source on the global map.

After two weeks of waiting, my Pull Request was finally merged by GitHub and I'm proud to say that the Made in Afghanistan collection is now officially part of — a utility library I built to solve real-world challenges when working with right-to-left (RTL) languages such as:

• 🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)


• 🇦🇫 Dari


• 🇸🇦 Arabic


• 🇦🇫 Pashto


• 🇵🇰 Urdu


• 🇮🇱 Hebrew


• …and other RTL scripts

If you've ever had to deal with mixed-direction text, cursor jumping, or text manipulation in RTL languages, you know how painful it can be. rtl-text-tools aims to make that experience smoother for frontend developers working with these languages.

📦 GitHub:

Documentation Matters More Than Code

One lesson I've learned as a developer is that a project without good documentation is a project that won't be used.

That's why I didn't just publish the library , I invested serious time into making it a proper reference:

• ✅ A detailed README.md on GitHub


• ✅ A GitHub Wiki with 39 pages of documentation


• ✅ Real-world examples, API references, and usage guides


• ✅ Clear explanations for every feature and edge case

Good documentation is what separates a weekend experiment from a tool developers actually trust and adopt.

This Is Just the Beginning

Adding one project is a start, but it's not the destination.

I want to grow this collection into a showcase of Afghan talent in open source. Every time someone visits