Ahmad AwaisIt’s 8 am on a fine Saturday morning. I’m sitting here in the park at Union Square, San Francisco — prepping for the...
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🐙 RapidAPI DevRel 2021 Year in Review: 20M Developers, Learn Platform, Teaching & Helping Developers!
It’s 8 am on a fine Saturday morning. I’m sitting here in the park at Union Square, San Francisco — prepping for the company 2022 kick-off next week. The work new year has just begun. Yep, today it’s December 74, 2021 (😅 not a typo). I can’t help but look back at 2021, a year well spent. In this blog post today, [...]
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Wordle Solved: Reverse Engineering and Hacking Wordle
The story of how Awais reverse-engineered the famous Wordle game and built not one, not two, but three small tools to help developers and non-developers solve Wordle.
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Won MongoDB Innovation Award: Front Line Heroes 2021 “corona-cli”
Dev Ittycheria, CEO at MongoDB, has awarded Ahmad Awais with the MongoDB Innovation Award 2021 for the category of Front Line Heroes. Project: corona-cli.
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I Helped 9.5 Million Developers Solve Coding Issues via StackOverflow
Ten years ago, I started giving back on StackOverflow. Today I’m celebrating that I have managed to help over 9.5 Million developers find solutions to their coding issues. That led to a 25,922 reputation and a top 0.37% profile this year. Humbled! 🥳 I studied Electrical Engineering in college and attempted Computer Science exams as [...]
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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.
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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.
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My Developer Courses ~70% OFF on Black Friday to Cyber Monday
I'm running a huge discount of up to 73% off on my courses for developers. Check it out. Includes NodeCLI.com, VSCode.pro, and Writy.io.
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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.
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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.
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Fears of an Indie Maker
👋 Hello, it’s Awais. As a full-time open-sourcerer, I’m humbled to share that I’ve won awards for my open source work and prestigious titles like Google Developers Expert. But as an indie-maker just like any of you, I struggle with many basic things, have all kinds of fear, and haven’t figured out life. In this post, [...]
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