tl;dr: When I’m logged into a SaaS app, it’s super hard to access the company’s homepage unless I log out. I want...
Ahmad Awais
Helping businesses build developer-led adoption for 10+ yrs.
VP of Developer Relations and Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member.
π Edutainer at Node.js CLI Automation course (100 videos Β· 22 Projects) & VSCode.pro course. Over 36K devs learning. π© Award-winning Open Source Engineer & Dev Advocate π¦ Google Developers Expert Web DevRel π Mars Ingenuity Helicopter code contributor π 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient π³ Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator.
βοΈ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers worldwide β¦ WordPress Core Developer π£ TEDx Speaker with 100+ international talks.
β¨ As quoted by: Satya Nadella Β· CEO of Microsoft β Awais is an awesome example for developers.
π Leading developers and publishing technical content for over a decade π Loves his wife (Maedah) β― Read more about Ahmad Awais.
πβ¦ Awais is mostly active on Twitter @MrAhmadAwais
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Accomplished engineering leader; who loves the purple color.
purple is genius!
I like computers, problems, and using the former to solve the latter. I believe in elegance over adequacy, thoughtfulness over impulse, and the wonder of the world as we see it. I have been developing and designing web pages since the early days of tables and spacers. And no β Iβve never used the scrolling marquee with Comic Sans fonts.
Celebrating over 3M+ Devs using Shades of Purple Code Theme π¦
I love the purple color; purple is genius. Several years ago, I launched the Shades of Purple code theme; today, I’m celebrating over 3 million developers using it to write code with 15+ software. Shades of Purple offers a hand-picked selection of bold and vibrant shades of purple that will transform your code into a visually stunning [...]
Improve Developer Experience: The /home shortcut
tl;dr: When I’m logged into a SaaS app, it’s super hard to access the company’s homepage unless I log out. I want every company to do a “domain.tld/home shortcut so I can check out their homepage. Do that; it’s an excellent developer experience. As developers, we often find ourselves constantly switching between [...]
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Wordle Solved: Reverse Engineering and Hacking Wordle
The story of how Awais reverse-engineered the famous Wordle game and built not one, not two, but three small tools to help developers and non-developers solve Wordle.
Developer Relations Rap Song (Use it if you will)
[Verse 1] We’re the Developer Relations team, at the top of our game We bring developers and the company together, it’s a beautiful thing Our tools are the best, with features that impress But without a strong team, it would all be a mess [Chorus] We’re the glue that holds it all together Without us, the company would fall [...]
The Excuse Epidemic: Inaction & The Paralysis of Analysis
Overcome the excuse epidemic and take action today. Break free from analysis paralysis to improve your life. Don't let inaction hold you back.
π RapidAPI DevRel 2021 Year in Review: 20M Developers, Learn Platform, Teaching & Helping Developers!
It’s 8 am on a fine Saturday morning. I’m sitting here in the park at Union Square, San Francisco β prepping for the company 2022 kick-off next week. The work new year has just begun. Yep, today it’s December 74, 2021 (π not a typo). I can’t help but look back at 2021, a year well spent. In this blog post today, [...]
Won MongoDB Innovation Award: Front Line Heroes 2021 “corona-cli”
Dev Ittycheria, CEO at MongoDB, has awarded Ahmad Awais with the MongoDB Innovation Award 2021 for the category of Front Line Heroes. Project: corona-cli.
My Open Source Code Contribution to NASAβs Ingenuity Helicopter Goes to Mars π
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronautβexploring space and whatnot. But I was afraid of heights, told my mom I'll settle as a scientist who'd invent things like rockets. Later I became an Electrical Engineer β switched to Computer Science and wrote a lot of open-source code. Less did I know my code will make it to Mars one day.
GitHub Stars Award
After creating open-source software for about a decade, I've been awarded a GitHub Star by folks who run GitHub. Wrote a little something about that.