Web

Hiring the DevRel A-Team

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on June 4, 2021

I have some pretty big news. I am hiring RapidAPI’s first-ever Developer Relations team. A team of developers program engineers,...

Bash

My Command Line Audio Video Workflows with FFmpeg

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on May 27, 2021

If you know anything about me then you know I love automating anything and everything. I even have a complete course on building automation...

Life

My Open Source Code Contribution to NASA’s Ingen...

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on April 27, 2021

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...

Life

GitHub Stars Award

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on August 7, 2020

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...

Web

React Server Components

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on December 22, 2020

The React.js core team announced the RFC on React Server Components just now. Imagine React components that run only on the server...

Web

GitHub Dark Mode

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on December 9, 2020

GitHub just announced Dark Mode at GitHub Universe 2020 conference. I'm super duper excited. Check out my reaction video and a couple...

Software

Screencasting Tip: Auto Hide Cursor on macOS

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on November 10, 2020

When recording a screencast (video tutorial) I like to hide my cursor. It’s distracting to see a cursor hanging around for no...

Life

Web Purist

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on September 16, 2020

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...

Web

Next.js Absolute Imports and Aliases

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on May 25, 2020

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...

JavaScript

Deno: Learn by Example

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on May 15, 2020

Deno 1.0 has just been released. It seems to be pretty awesome. Learn deno with Awais and build a couple of example projects.

Ahmad Awais

Case Studies

How I Re-Designed ProPakistani.pk? A 360 Re-Branding Project

Like many other tech-junkies in Pakistan, ProPakistani.pk has been a permanent fixture in my RSS feeds for many years. I’ve watched them grow from a relatively lowbrow tech blog into a thorough, to the point, actually valuable online telcos resource. Part of that has been seen partly from ‘the inside’, as my team is contributing [...]

Ahmad Awais