Ahmad Awais

Life

🐙 RapidAPI DevRel 2021 Year in Review: 20M Deve...

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Ahmad Awais on February 13, 2022

It’s 8 am on a fine Saturday morning. I’m sitting here in the park at Union Square, San Francisco — prepping for the...

Life

Wordle Solved: Reverse Engineering and Hacking Wor...

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Ahmad Awais on January 1, 2022

The story of how Awais reverse-engineered the famous Wordle game and built not one, not two, but three small tools to help developers...

Life

Won MongoDB Innovation Award: Front Line Heroes 20...

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Ahmad Awais on November 24, 2021

Dev Ittycheria, CEO at MongoDB, has awarded Ahmad Awais with the MongoDB Innovation Award 2021 for the category of Front Line Heroes....

Life

I Helped 9.5 Million Developers Solve Coding Issue...

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Ahmad Awais on November 22, 2021

Ten years ago, I started giving back on StackOverflow. Today I’m celebrating that I have managed to help over 9.5 Million developers...

Web

Hiring the DevRel A-Team

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Ahmad Awais on June 4, 2021

I have some pretty big news. I am hiring and extending RapidAPI’s Developer Relations (DevRel & DX) team. A team of developers...

Bash

My Command Line Audio Video Workflows with FFmpeg

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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...

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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

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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...

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