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Life
Fears of an Indie Maker
๐ 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, [...]
#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.
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.
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! ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ I worked alongside the Google Developer Relations team back in 2017 hacking together a couple of open source [...]
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.
๐จ 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.
๐ Emoji-Log โ 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 โem a lot. Programming, code, geeks, nerds, open source, all of that is inherently dull and sometimes boring. I improve that by using Emoji.
๐ฎ In 2018, I Created 87 New Open Source Software & 113 Pull Requestsโฆ
I'm super passionate about Open Source โ 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.
๐ณ 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.
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, & Whatโs Next 2016 Year in Review: WordPress, Business, & Getting Married 2015 Year in [...]