Learn how I resize and optimize images with JavaScript in Node.js. You can either do it yourself or install the resize-optimize-images...
Ahmad Awais
👨🏫 Edutainer & teacher at VSCode.pro 🎩 Full-time #OpenSourcerer 🦊 Google Developers Expert for Web 🥑 OSS Developer Advocate 🌳 Node.js Foundation Community Committee Member 🔥 Ridiculously hard-working Full Stack Web Developer 😂 Hilarious comedian ⓦ Regular WordPress Core Developer 📣 TEDx Speaker ✌️ Spends 50-80% of his time building professional FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) used by over 1,399,687 Developers 🙌 Cloud Community Evangelist 🎯 JavaScript & DevOps fanboy 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) 🍕 Learn more about Ahmad ↣
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Syntax Highlighting with Shades of Purple theme in WordPress
Add Shades of Purple theme-based syntax highlighting to your WordPress blog with the help of Prism.js syntax highlighter and enjoy high-quality code coloring that improves your blog readability.
Ahmad Awais
Resize & Optimize Images With JavaScript in Node.js
Learn how I resize and optimize images with JavaScript in Node.js. You can either do it yourself or install the resize-optimize-images node module and get it done.
Ahmad Awais
I am now a Google Developers Expert in Web Technologies!
Google has just welcomed me in the Google Developers Experts Program after recognizing my open source work as a web technology expert. As you can imagine, I’m quite happy to have earned this distinction. Woohooo! 🥳🥳🥳 I worked alongside the Google Developer Relations team back in 2017 hacking together a couple of open source [...]
Ahmad Awais
⚡ Practical Guide to Serverless Microsoft Azure Functions with JavaScript
As a Full Stack JavaScript developer, I am super excited about this relatively new FaaS or Functions as a Service offering that has also caught on a name of Serverless — since you don’t have to manage, update, patch, or worry about servers. While building this custom WordPress dashboard, I wanted to make sure that each module of this [...]
Ahmad Awais
🚀 Emoji-Log — A New Way to Write Your Git Commit Messages and Changelogs
Emoji log is a new way to write your Git Commit Messages. I like emoji. I like ’em a lot. Programming, code, geeks, nerds, open source, all of that is inherently dull and sometimes boring. I improve that by using Emoji.
Ahmad Awais
😮 In 2018, I Created 87 New Open Source Software & 113 Pull Requests…
I'm super passionate about Open Source — more than anything else in my professional life. It's a lifestyle. Over a decade of writing code and the most fun part has always been when I shared my workflows and open sourced my software.
Ahmad Awais
🌳 Node.js Foundation Community Committee Member
After contributing to the Node.js Foundation for sometime I was voted to become an active member of the Node.js Community Committee and an individual member of the Node.js Foundation. Super excited about this new phase of open source work.
Ahmad Awais
🎨 1 Million+ Developer Users of My Shades of Purple Theme
Celebrating over one million downloads and half a million active installs of my VSCode "Shades of Purple" theme suite. Thanks to the awesome developers' community.
Ahmad Awais
🐺 2018 Year in Review — Open Source, Node.js, Community & Developer Relations!
My (Ahmad Awais) 2018 Year in Review. I got to keynote at a conference, launched an online course (yay!), built an editor theme suite which is now used by more than a million developers, consulted with two fortune five companies (oh my), started a tech conference from the ground up, contributed to over 45 open source software projects (OSS [...]
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🎯 WPGulp Version 2
For several years WPGulp has served as the most popular WP theme/plugin development automation framework. In 2018, with the help of awesome contributors, I released a huge update in the form of version 2 for WPGulp. One thing led to another and there were 12 new version updates last year.
Ahmad Awais