As a full-time #OpenSourcerer β October is one of my favorite months. And it’s October already. Today’s #OneDevMinute...
Ahmad Awais
π¨βπ« Edutainer & teacher at VSCode.pro π© Full-time #OpenSourcerer π¦ Google Developers Expert for Web π₯ OSS Developer Advocate π³ Node.js Foundation Community Committee Member π₯ Ridiculously hard-working Full Stack Web Developer π Hilarious comedian β¦ Regular WordPress Core Developer π£ TEDx Speaker βοΈ Spends 50-80% of his time building professional FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) used by over 1,399,687 Developers π Cloud Community Evangelist π― JavaScript & DevOps fanboy π Loves his wife (Maedah) π Learn more about Ahmad β£
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YEARS IN REVIEW: Read what I've been doing in
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2017 and especially in
2018
How to Start Contributing to Open Source for Hacktoberfest With a Github Pull Request
As a full-time #OpenSourcerer β October is one of my favorite months. And it’s October already. Today’s #OneDevMinute is about #Hacktoberfest β it’s a month-long online event where you signup at GitHub.com and Hacktoberfest to celebrate Open Source by contributing at least four times between the October 1-31. Let me help [...]
πΊ 2018 Year in Review β 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 [...]
Introducing Bold New VSCode Theme: Shades of Purple π π¦
I've just released a bold new custom theme for Visual Studio Code called Shades of Purple β which is also available for Slack, AlfredApp, Konsole, iTerm2, Hyperβ’, 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.
[PODCAST INTERVIEW] Ahmad Awais β Open Source as a Lifestyle
A couple of weeks ago, I got interviewed by the WordPress PressThis Podcast about my favorite topic, i.e. Web & Open Source. I enjoyed talking about how I got into open source, grew a huge network of followers especially over 10,000 developers who use my open source code, got half a million open source software downloads, and how it has [...]