Yes, you read it right. My new role at StackOverflow is Human Exception Handler.
I just became a moderator at StackOverflow β a site that almost every developer loves to use and receive a great amount of help from.
π Became a Moderator at StackOverflow!
Ahmad Awais
Membership#
While I am a member of StackOverflow network forΒ five years, five months, it was only one and a half years ago, I thought about getting serious to give back at least 10% of what I take from this awesome resource.Β And it’s moderator by privilege not by the popular vote. Hope to be that someday soon.
The Story#
So, what started as an experiment, quickly escalated into something interesting. Now, almost every time I find a solution to something weird like:
- How to install PIP on Mac
- β or β
- Β How to create custom labels on GitHub β
I end up contributing an easyΒ to follow answer.
Gladly, sometimes it helps fellow developers and I get the sense ofΒ giving back, however small it may seem.
Some Statistics#
If you’re like me thenΒ you looooveΒ data. I’ve some data, some fun statistics about my StackOverflow profile.
- Top 2% this year.
- 2,040 reputation.
- 1,300,000 people have read my solutions to their problems.
I published this post to hold myself accountable and to make a point that you should start helping people. Helping people is fun! It’s a rewarding thing to do, in its own way!
Cheers!
Founder & CEO of β Command Code coding agent with taste. Founded Langbase.com, AI cloud to build, deploy, and scale AI agents with tools & memory Β· Creator of Command.new.
"Awais is an awesome example for developers" β Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.
NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission code contributor 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient with 5x GitHub Stars Award (Listed as GitHub's #1 JavaScript trending developer). Google Developers Expert Web DevRel.
Ex VP Eng (DevTools & DevRel) Rapid Β· Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member Β· AI/ML/DevTools Angel Investor (Replit, Resend, Daytona, Gumroad and you?) β― AI/ML Advisory Board San Francisco, DevNetwork.
Award-winning Open Source Engineering leader authored hundreds of open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers, including Shades of Purple code theme and corona-cli.
β― Read more about Ahmad Awais or come say hi on π @MrAhmadAwais.
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Great Job Ahmad Awais, You are an inspiration for all pakistani youth.
wish you all the best for more success!
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Masha’ALLAH … Congratulations Sir, … Carry on … Best of Luck :)
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Sir , You are rock ! <3
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