Ahmad Awaistl;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.
📟 Edutainer at Node.js CLI Automation course (100 videos · 22 Projects) & VSCode.pro course. Over 36K devs learning. 🎩 Award-winning Open Source Engineer & Dev Advocate 🦊 Google Developers Expert Web DevRel 🚀 Mars Ingenuity Helicopter code contributor 🏆 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient 🌳 Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator.
✌️ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers worldwide ⓦ WordPress Core Developer 📣 TEDx Speaker with 100+ international talks.
✨ As quoted by: Satya Nadella · CEO of Microsoft — Awais is an awesome example for developers.
🙌 Leading developers and publishing technical content for over a decade 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) ❯ Read more about Ahmad Awais.
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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 – I’ve never used the scrolling marquee with Comic Sans fonts. 
Celebrating over 3M+ Devs using Shades of Purple Code Theme 🦄
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 [...]
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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 different [...]
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‘Promise‘ is not a valid JSX element | Async React Server Component TypeScript Error in Next.js
You might have encountered the "'Promise
Ahmad Awais
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.
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Python not found on MacOS | Install Python with brew | Fix $PATH
Learn how to update Python on macOS and make Python 3.11 the default version. Follow step-by-step instructions to install Python via Homebrew, configure the $PATH variable, and start a new login shell. Say goodbye to "command not found: python" and enjoy the latest Python version on your Mac.
Ahmad Awais
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 [...]
Ahmad Awais
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.
Ahmad Awais
🐙 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 — prepping for the company 2022 kick-off next week. The work new year has just begun. Yep, today it’s December 74, 2021 (😅 not a typo). I can’t help but look back at 2021, a year well spent. In this blog post today, [...]
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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.
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My Open Source Code Contribution to NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Goes to Mars 🚀
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut—exploring 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 — 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.
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