I had the pleasure of talking with Bryan Robinson on his podcast called That's My JAM...stack. Cool name, right. I talked about how...
Ahmad Awais
👨🏫 Edutainer at VSCode.pro 🎩 An award-winning open-source engineer and developer advocate 🦊 Google Developers Expert for web 🌳 Node.js foundation Community Committee member ✌️ 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 😂 Self-confessed tech comedian cracking silly jokes in the JavaScript web and cloud communities 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) ❯ Learn more about Awais ↣
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YEARS IN REVIEW: Read what I've been doing in 
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2018
📢 Talk: Developer Experience & Developer Tooling — as A Developer Advocate
Yesterday, in the event of WordSesh I delivered a talk a topic that I am truly very passionate about; Developer Tooling — if it’s your first time here then let me prefix this article by saying that I love building and then open sourcing professional workflows with developer tooling. With hundreds of open-sourced automation tools and [...]
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A Custom WordPress Dashboard with MongoDB Atlas, Microsoft Azure, & Serverless Functions!
An extensive tutorial where Ahmad Awais shares how he's building a Custom WordPress dashboard which connects several hundred IoT devices, a bunch of 3rd party services, serverless Azure functions, to host data via MongoDB Atlas while making use of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence with the help of Microsoft Azure.
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Show Emoji in Git Log! 👌
Git log is a little emoji-racist. It doesn't display the emoji by default on MacOS. My research led to an old version of git's pager i.e. less which upon updating it started behaving itself. A 5 AM blog post about bringing my git log emoji to life.
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So, This Is What the Most Productive MONDAY Looks Like for Me?! 🔥👌😲
Mondays, as we know it, are not fun at all. Having a productive Monday is a godsend let alone the Most Productive MONDAY™ — which is what I had yesterday. I can’t shake the feeling of how awesome it felt. I wanted to write this article yesterday but didn’t wanna jinx it. So, here it goes. Not only was yesterday the most productive [...]
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🦊 Building A WordPress Artificial Intelligence Plugin
I've been working on this cool little project for WordPress, a sort of an Artificial Intelligence based on 🎩 Microsoft Azure, ☘️ MongoDB Atlas, and a bunch of other services that helps me automate lots of silly things for my WordPress website.
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Introducing Bold New VSCode Theme: Shades of Purple 💜 🦄
I've just released a bold new custom theme for Visual Studio Code called Shades of Purple — which is also available for Slack, AlfredApp, Konsole, iTerm2, Hyper™, etc. In just two days of the theme launch, more than 500 developers are using it. Which is completely unexpected and humbling at the same time. Check it out.
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🎩 Developer Advocacy: How Am I Helping Developers?!
Read this post to find out about how Ahmad and his friends helped other developers throughout 2017 and more. Ahmad is a full-time open source developer whose software projects are used by the likes of engineers at Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc. In this post he shares his meetups, software apprentices, and news about dev-advocacy.
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Visual Studio Code Power User
Ahmad Awais has announced a course to help developers become Visual Studio Code Power User. If you are interested in building a better development workflow, or if you want to save five to ten hours a week by being super productive, then sign up. Become a Visual Studio Code Power Developer. 💯
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🦁 2017 Year in Review: — Open Source, TheDevCouple, Leadership, & What’s Next?!
🕰 2017 was an incredible year for me both personally and professionally. I just published my year in review discussing everything from going full-time open source and receiving job offers from giant companies like Google, Intel, Fb, 10up, etc. I also made the announcement of an online course I am going to launch soon. Check it out.
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My AWP Gutenberg Interview #AMA — Think Like A Block
I’ve been super passionate about everything Gutenberg. Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor that’s going to change how you write content or build websites with WordPress. So, I did this interview at AWP Gutenberg Interview Series, where I talked about Gutenberg development and other stuff. 📺WATCH THE INTERVIEW: You can listen [...]
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