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Life
YEARS IN REVIEW: Read what I've been doing in 
2015 
2016 
2017 and especially in 
2018
Smashing Magazine:
Person of the Week
I woke up to a tweet by SmashingMagazine and learned that I (Ahmad Awais) am featured on the homepage as a "Person of the Week". I'm humbled beyond expression. Perfect start of the year.
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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 [...]
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🎨 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.
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🚀 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.
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😮 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.
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🌳 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.
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🐺 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.
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⚛️ On Joining Gatsby.js Open Source Org & Contributing FOSS
In 2018 I started getting serious about Gatsby.js. It’s one of the most awesome JAMstacks. I support the Gatsby.js team and their goals in making web performant while greatly improving the developer experience. So, yes I started core contributing to the amazing community of Gatsby.js. After building my course site and a couple of client [...]
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Fix Invalid Caption File on Vimeo
After building the VSCode.pro course, I wanted to make it more accessible by adding Closed Captions to the videos. I use Vimeo to host videos and they provide an interface for adding subtitles/captions. My apprentice and I wrote the closed captions ourselves and everything went well. Except for two videos where I would get an error when I [...]
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