Ahmad AwaisWhen 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...
Ahmad Awais
Helping businesses understand developers. Head of Developer Relations RapidAPI 📟 Edutainer at Node.js CLI Automation and VSCode.pro 🎩 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, 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+ talks 🙌 Leading developers and publishing technical content for over a decade 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) ❯ Learn more →
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Quick Tip: Update an outdated fork on GitHub with a click
Developers fork repositories and forget about them. I mean until they need it again. But git’s moved on by then — your fork is probably suffering the same fate which is why you’re reading this. How should I update an outdated fork? Before today you had to do the following: git remote add upstream <clone-url> git fetch upstream [...]
Ahmad Awais
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.
Ahmad Awais
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.
Ahmad Awais
React Server Components
The React.js core team announced the RFC on React Server Components just now. Imagine React components that run only on the server and have zero impact on the client-side bundle-size. Hence zero-bundle-size.
Ahmad Awais
GitHub Dark Mode
GitHub just announced Dark Mode at GitHub Universe 2020 conference. I'm super duper excited. Check out my reaction video and a couple of other excellent features Nat Friedman (GitHub's CEO) announced in the keynote.
Ahmad Awais
QuickTip: How to set Python default version to 3.x on macOS?
If you are a macOS user like me, you know the default version of Python that comes by default with your mac is version 2.X. Most of the time, you’ll end up needing Python 3.X — which I’m told you can run using the python3 command. But let’s set the default version to Python 3 — so you can run it using the default python [...]
Ahmad Awais
Screencasting Tip: Auto Hide Cursor on macOS
When recording a screencast (video tutorial) I like to hide my cursor. It’s distracting to see a cursor hanging around for no reason. Leads to a bad user experience, many times you think of it as your own cursor and try to move it away while watching a video — only to realize it’s not yours, and you’re stuck with it. Trick [...]
Ahmad Awais
I Made A Silly Mistake Launching NodeCLI.com
Awais made a silly mistake when he launched his new course called NodeCLI.com — where he's teaching how to build automation CLI DevTools in 10 hours 100-videos course.
Ahmad Awais
Web Purist
Let's talk about web development. I'm a web purist and I don't plan to change that any time soon. Which means I chose to stick with the web platform. I love the web platform. I have seen it grow since 2002.
Ahmad Awais
Next.js Absolute Imports and Aliases
Since Next.js v9.4 you have the ability to use absolute imports or aliases for your import statements. I love this feature with all my heart.
Ahmad Awais