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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#1 JavaScript Developer on GitHub Trending Worldwide
It's always an honor to be featured among over 40 million developers on GitHub that have created 44+ million repositories. It's probably my 3rd time.
Ahmad Awais
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 into 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. Woohoo! 🥳🥳🥳 I worked alongside the Google Developer Relations team back in 2017 hacking together a couple of open source [...]
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Listed on GitHub Trending Developers for JavaScript
It's always an honor to be featured among over 40 million developers on GitHub that have created 44+ million repositories. It's probably my 3rd time.
Ahmad Awais
🎨 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.
Ahmad Awais
🌳 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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Why I’m Not Writing Year In Review Posts?
Many of you know that for the last four years, I regularly published my year in review posts. Here’s a list for reference. 2018 Year in Review: Open Source, Node.js, & Developer Relations 2017 Year in Review: Open Source, TheDevCouple, & What’s Next 2016 Year in Review: WordPress, Business, & Getting Married 2015 Year in [...]
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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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