Ahmad Awais

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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

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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...

Software

Screencasting Tip: Auto Hide Cursor on macOS

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Ahmad Awais on November 10, 2020

When recording a screencast (video tutorial) I like to hide my cursor. It’s distracting to see a cursor hanging around for no...

Life

Web Purist

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Ahmad Awais on September 16, 2020

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...

Life

GitHub Stars Award

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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

Next.js Absolute Imports and Aliases

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Ahmad Awais on May 25, 2020

Since Next.js v9.4 you have the ability to use absolute imports or aliases for your import statements. I love this feature with all...

JavaScript

Deno: Learn by Example

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Ahmad Awais on May 15, 2020

Deno 1.0 has just been released. It seems to be pretty awesome. Learn deno with Awais and build a couple of example projects.

Web

Vercel is the new ZEIT

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Ahmad Awais on April 21, 2020

ZEIT just announced that they have raised a $21M funding and have rebranded the platform as Vercel. This is amazing news. I believe...

JavaScript

corona-cli <br>My Open-source COVID19 Tracking CLI...

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Ahmad Awais on April 17, 2020

While trying to keep up with COVID19 I built a CLI to avoid all the UIs and bad information out there. Picked a couple of authentic...

JavaScript

Introducing:
Gatsby Package Manager

Posted by

Ahmad Awais on February 20, 2020

The Gatsby Package Manager (gpm) helps you install a Gatsby package with all of its dependencies. It also allows you to read the docs...

Ahmad Awais

Ahmad Awais

I help businesses understand developers 📟 Just launched Node.js CLI Automation Course 👨‍🏫 Edutainer at VSCode.pro 🎩 An award-winning GitHub Star open-source engineer & advocate 🦊 Google Developers Expert Web DevRel 🌳 Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead ✌️ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers worldwide ⓦ WordPress Core Developer 📣 TEDx Speaker 🙌 Leading developers and publishing technical content for over a decade 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) ❯ Learn more →
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Clean Slate

👋 Hello, there. It’s Ahmad Awais. I’ve been blogging since 2003. I remember it vividly, the year 2003 UEFA Champions League, and I felled compelled to share my enthusiasm with the world wide web. One thing led to another and I started tech blogging. Early in childhood, I had this untiring curiosity to try & learn almost [...]