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644				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/the-full-stack-of-terminals-explained-terminal-shell-tty-console-posix-ansi-escapes-ptys/"><time datetime="2026-02-17">February 17, 2026</time></a></li>
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646			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/the-full-stack-of-terminals-explained-terminal-shell-tty-console-posix-ansi-escapes-ptys/">The Full Stack of Terminals Explained: Terminal, Shell, TTY, Console, POSIX, ANSI Escapes, PTYs, Raw/Canonical Modes</a></h2>
647			<p class="excerpt">Most developers use a terminal for years before realizing they don&#8217;t actually know what a terminal is. They know how to use one. They couldn&#8217;t define one. This is fine, in the same way that most people drive cars without understanding combustion. But every so often, something breaks in a way that makes the distinction matter, and [...]</p>
648			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
649		</div>
650	</article>
651
652			
653				
654	<article id="post-8123" class="postitem post-8123 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-life">
655		<div class="wrapper">
656			<ul class="meta">
657				<li class="category"><a style="background:#5E38F5;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/life/">Life</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
658				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/things-im-proud-of-i-believe-and-some-more/">6 Min Read</a></li>
659				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/things-im-proud-of-i-believe-and-some-more/"><time datetime="2025-08-21">August 21, 2025</time></a></li>
660			</ul>
661			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/things-im-proud-of-i-believe-and-some-more/">things i&#8217;m proud of, I believe, and some more!</a></h2>
662			<p class="excerpt">👋 hey it&#8217;s Ahmad Awais, nice to meet you. i&#8217;m founder &amp; ceo at CommandCode (coding agent with continuous learning of your coding taste) f/k/a langbase (AI cloud) where we help developers build, deploy, and scale serverless AI agents with tools and memory. things i&#8217;m proud of# founding CommandCode with meta neuro-symbolic [...]</p>
663			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
664		</div>
665	</article>
666
667			
668				
669	<article id="post-8179" class="postitem post-8179 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-ai">
670		<div class="wrapper">
671			<ul class="meta">
672				<li class="category"><a style="background:#000000;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/ai/">AI</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
673				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/coding-agents-are-getting-scary-good-at-things-that-are-not-even-related-to-code/">1 Min Read</a></li>
674				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/coding-agents-are-getting-scary-good-at-things-that-are-not-even-related-to-code/"><time datetime="2026-01-19">January 19, 2026</time></a></li>
675			</ul>
676			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/coding-agents-are-getting-scary-good-at-things-that-are-not-even-related-to-code/">Coding agents are getting scary good at things that are not even related to code</a></h2>
677			<p class="excerpt">The other day, I had a bug where some of my SetApp apps config won&#8217;t load when I&#8217;d restart my Mac. I do use mackup which has had its fair share of issues lately. But I never could figure out what was going wrong. I was using Dropbox to backup and symlink all my system configurations. I gave this task to three agents, @Claudeai, [...]</p>
678			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
679		</div>
680	</article>
681
682			
683				
684	<article id="post-7916" class="postitem post-7916 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-web tag-dev-ex
684perience tag-devrel tag-dx">
685		<div class="wrapper">
686			<ul class="meta">
687				<li class="category"><a style="background:#18407D;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/web/">Web</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
688				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/home-shortcut/">3 Min Read</a></li>
689				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/home-shortcut/"><time datetime="2023-01-15">January 15, 2023</time></a></li>
690			</ul>
691			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/home-shortcut/">Improve Developer Experience: The /home shortcut</a></h2>
692			<p class="excerpt">tl;dr: When I&#8217;m logged into a SaaS app, it&#8217;s super hard to access the company&#8217;s homepage unless I log out. I want every company to do a domain.tld/home shortcut so I can check out their homepage. Do that; it&#8217;s an excellent developer experience. As developers, we often find ourselves constantly switching between different [...]</p>
693			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
694		</div>
695	</article>
696
697			
698				
699	<article id="post-7949" class="postitem post-7949 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-life tag-shades-of-purple">
700		<div class="wrapper">
701			<ul class="meta">
702				<li class="category"><a style="background:#5E38F5;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/life/">Life</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
703				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/celebrating-shades-of-purple-theme/">3 Min Read</a></li>
704				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/celebrating-shades-of-purple-theme/"><time datetime="2023-05-25">May 25, 2023</time></a></li>
705			</ul>
706			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/celebrating-shades-of-purple-theme/">Celebrating over 5M+ Devs using Shades of Purple Code Theme 🦄</a></h2>
707			<p class="excerpt">I love the purple color; purple is genius. Several years ago, I launched the Shades of Purple code theme; today, I&#8217;m celebrating over 3 million developers using it to write code with 15+ software. Update 2025: Over 5M developer machines run Shades of Purple now!! I believe software should be elegant, not just adequate. Development should [...]</p>
708			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
709		</div>
710	</article>
711
712			
713				
714	<article id="post-7433" class="postitem post-7433 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-life tag-ingenuity-mars-helicopter-code tag-mars">
715		<div class="wrapper">
716			<ul class="meta">
717				<li class="category"><a style="background:#5E38F5;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/life/">Life</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
718				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/my-open-source-code-contribution-to-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-goes-to-mars/">8 Min Read</a></li>
719				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/my-open-source-code-contribution-to-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-goes-to-mars/"><time datetime="2021-04-27">April 27, 2021</time></a></li>
720			</ul>
721			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/my-open-source-code-contribution-to-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-goes-to-mars/">My Open Source Code Contribution to NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Goes to Mars 🚀</a></h2>
722			<p class="excerpt">When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut—exploring space and whatnot. But I was afraid of heights, told my mom I'll settle as a scientist who'd invent things like rockets. Later I became an Electrical Engineer — switched to Computer Science and wrote a lot of open-source code. Less did I know my code will make it to Mars one day.</p>
723			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
724		</div>
725	</article>
726
727			
728				
729	<article id="post-7591" class="postitem post-7591 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-bash category-web tag-ffmpeg tag-video-editing">
730		<div class="wrapper">
731			<ul class="meta">
732				<li class="category"><a style="background:#2E2F3E;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/bash/">Bash</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
733				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/ffmpeg-command-line-audio-video-workflows/">7 Min Read</a></li>
734				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/ffmpeg-command-line-audio-video-workflows/"><time datetime="2021-05-27">May 27, 2021</time></a></li>
735			</ul>
736			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/ffmpeg-command-line-audio-video-workflows/">My Command Line Audio Video Workflows with FFmpeg</a></h2>
737			<p class="excerpt">If you know anything about me then you know I love automating anything and everything. I even have a complete course on building automation CLI tools with Node.js. In this post, I am sharing a couple of super useful ffmpeg workflows. FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a large suite of libraries and programs for [...]</p>
738			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
739		</div>
740	</article>
741
742			
743				
744	<article id="post-6901" class="postitem post-6901 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-business">
745		<div class="wrapper">
746			<ul class="meta">
747				<li class="category"><a style="background:#037ef3;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/business/">Business</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
748				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/custom-teaching-platform/">20 Min Read</a></li>
749				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/custom-teaching-platform/"><time datetime="2020-04-17">April 17, 2020</time></a></li>
750			</ul>
751			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/custom-teaching-platform/">How I Built My Own Teaching Platform</a></h2>
752			<p class="excerpt">I love to teach. It's a genetic bug in me (both parents and grandparents are teachers, eh). In this post, I discuss how I built my teaching platform for teaching VSCode.pro, NodeCLI.com, and DenoBeginner.com</p>
753			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
754		</div>
755	</article>
756
757			
758				
759	<article id="post-6916" class="postitem post-6916 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-javascript tag-cli tag-corona tag-track-covid19">
760		<div class="wrapper">
761			<ul class="meta">
762				<li class="category"><a style="background:#635CFF;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/javascript/">JavaScript</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
763				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/corona-cli/">7 Min Read</a></li>
764				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/corona-cli/"><time datetime="2020-04-17">April 17, 2020</time></a></li>
765			</ul>
766			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/corona-cli/">corona-cli <br>My Open-source COVID19 Tracking CLI Tool</a></h2>
767			<p class="excerpt">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 sources (listed at the end) and built a command-line tracker. Open-sourced it and everyone liked it, got trending on #1 in the JavaScript category for days.</p>
768			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
769		</div>
770	</article>
771
772			
773				
774	<article id="post-8036" class="postitem post-8036 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-bash category-devops tag-cloudflare tag-ssl">
775		<div class="wrapper">
776			<ul class="meta">
777				<li class="category"><a style="background:#2E2F3E;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/bash/">Bash</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
778				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/reissue-cloudflare-ssl-certificate-manually/">2 Min Read</a></li>
779				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/reissue-cloudflare-ssl-certificate-manually/"><time datetime="2024-06-08">June 8, 2024</time></a></li>
780			</ul>
781			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/reissue-cloudflare-ssl-certificate-manually/">Reissue Cloudflare SSL Certificate Manually</a></h2>
782			<p class="excerpt">
782Just now, I was banging my head on the table trying to figure out how to renew or manually reissue a new free SSL certificate for a domain on Cloudflare. TBH, it&#8217;s not obvious in the docs. Here goes nothing … How to renew or reissue a free SSL Certificate from Cloudflare in ten minutes!# Go to your domain on Cloudflare Head over to [...]</p>
783			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
784		</div>
785	</article>
786
787			
788				
789	<article id="post-7217" class="postitem post-7217 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-life tag-award tag-github tag-github-stars">
790		<div class="wrapper">
791			<ul class="meta">
792				<li class="category"><a style="background:#5E38F5;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/life/">Life</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
793				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/github-stars/">5 Min Read</a></li>
794				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/github-stars/"><time datetime="2020-08-07">August 7, 2020</time></a></li>
795			</ul>
796			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/github-stars/">GitHub Stars Award</a></h2>
797			<p class="excerpt">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 about that.</p>
798			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
799		</div>
800	</article>
801
802			
803				
804	<article id="post-8000" class="postitem post-8000 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-web tag-next-js tag-supabase">
805		<div class="wrapper">
806			<ul class="meta">
807				<li class="category"><a style="background:#18407D;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/web/">Web</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
808				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/supabase-with-next-js-app-router-fix-for-invariant-cookies-expects-to-have-requestasyncstorage-none-available/">3 Min Read</a></li>
809				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/supabase-with-next-js-app-router-fix-for-invariant-cookies-expects-to-have-requestasyncstorage-none-available/"><time datetime="2023-10-13">October 13, 2023</time></a></li>
810			</ul>
811			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/supabase-with-next-js-app-router-fix-for-invariant-cookies-expects-to-have-requestasyncstorage-none-available/">Supabase with Next.js App Router Fix for Invariant: cookies() expects to have requestAsyncStorage, none available</a></h2>
812			<p class="excerpt">Next.js App router is pretty awesome. Sadly, it&#8217;s super new. The errors you face are sometimes hard to debug as you can&#8217;t see where it&#8217;s coming from and why. I hope they fix it soon. Supabase is pretty awesome, too. I&#8217;ve been using it as a backend, database, file storage, and, most importantly, as an authentication [...]</p>
813			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
814		</div>
815	</article>
816
817			
818				
819	<article id="post-7945" class="postitem post-7945 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-web tag-next-js">
820		<div class="wrapper">
821			<ul class="meta">
822				<li class="category"><a style="background:#18407D;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/web/">Web</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
823				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/promise-is-not-a-valid-jsx-element-async-react-server-component-typescript-error-in-next-js/">1 Min Read</a></li>
824				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/promise-is-not-a-valid-jsx-element-async-react-server-component-typescript-error-in-next-js/"><time datetime="2023-05-24">May 24, 2023</time></a></li>
825			</ul>
826			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/promise-is-not-a-valid-jsx-element-async-react-server-component-typescript-error-in-next-js/">&#8216;Promise<Element>&#8216; is not a valid JSX element | Async React Server Component TypeScript Error in Next.js</a></h2>
827			<p class="excerpt">You might have encountered the "'Promise<Element>' is not a valid JSX element type" error. But fret not because there's a quick fix! Async React Server Component TypeScript Error in Next.js.</p>
828			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
829		</div>
830	</article>
831
832			
833				
834	<article id="post-7753" class="postitem post-7753 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-life">
835		<div class="wrapper">
836			<ul class="meta">
837				<li class="category"><a style="background:#5E38F5;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/life/">Life</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
838				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/wordle-solved-reverse-engineering-and-hacking-wordle/">8 Min Read</a></li>
839				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/wordle-solved-reverse-engineering-and-hacking-wordle/"><time datetime="2022-01-01">January 1, 2022</time></a></li>
840			</ul>
841			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/wordle-solved-reverse-engineering-and-hacking-wordle/">Wordle Solved: Reverse Engineering and Hacking Wordle</a></h2>
842			<p class="excerpt">The story of how Awais reverse-engineered the famous Wordle game and built not one, not two, but three small tools to help developers and non-developers solve Wordle.</p>
843			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
844		</div>
845	</article>
846
847			
848				
849	<article id="post-7954" class="postitem post-7954 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-general tag-python">
850		<div class="wrapper">
851			<ul class="meta">
852				<li class="category"><a style="background:#574B90;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/general/">General</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
853				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/python-not-found-on-macos-install-python-with-brew-fix-path/">4 Min Read</a></li>
854				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/python-not-found-on-macos-install-python-with-brew-fix-path/"><time datetime="2023-06-12">June 12, 2023</time></a></li>
855			</ul>
856			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/python-not-found-on-macos-install-python-with-brew-fix-path/">Python not found on MacOS | Install Python with brew | Fix $PATH</a></h2>
857			<p class="excerpt">Learn how to update Python on macOS and make Python 3.11 the default version. Follow step-by-step instructions to install Python via Homebrew, configure the $PATH variable, and start a new login shell. Say goodbye to "command not found: python" and enjoy the latest Python version on your Mac.</p>
858			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
859		</div>
860	</article>
861
862			
863				
864	<article id="post-7903" class="postitem post-7903 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-software">
865		<div class="wrapper">
866			<ul class="meta">
867				<li class="category"><a style="background:#0085c3;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/software/">Software</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
868				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/developer-relations-rap-song/">1 Min Read</a></li>
869				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/developer-relations-rap-song/"><time datetime="2023-01-09">January 9, 2023</time></a></li>
870			</ul>
871			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/developer-relations-rap-song/">Developer Relations Rap Song (Use it if you will)</a></h2>
872			<p class="excerpt">[Verse 1] We&#8217;re the Developer Relations team, at the top of our game We bring developers and the company together, it&#8217;s a beautiful thing Our tools are the best, with features that impress But without a strong team, it would all be a mess [Chorus] We&#8217;re the glue that holds it all together Without us, the company would fall [...]</p>
873			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
874		</div>
875	</article>
876
877			
878				
879	<article id="post-7938" class="postitem post-7938 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-general tag-inaction tag-productivity">
880		<div class="wrapper">
881			<ul class="meta">
882				<li class="category"><a style="background:#574B90;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/general/">General</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
883				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/the-excuse-epidemic-inaction-the-paralysis-of-analysis/">4 Min Read</a></li>
884				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/the-excuse-epidemic-inaction-the-paralysis-of-analysis/"><time datetime="2023-04-01">April 1, 2023</time></a></li>
885			</ul>
886			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/the-excuse-epidemic-inaction-the-paralysis-of-analysis/">The Excuse Epidemic: Inaction &#038; The Paralysis of Analysis</a></h2>
887			<p class="excerpt">Overcome the excuse epidemic and take action today. Break free from analysis paralysis to improve your life. Don't let inaction hold you back.</p>
888			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
889		</div>
890	</article>
891
892			
893				
894	<article id="post-7817" class="postitem post-7817 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-life tag-devrel tag-rapidapi">
895		<div class="wrapper">
896			<ul class="meta">
897				<li class="category"><a style="background:#5E38F5;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/life/">Life</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
898				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/rapidapi-devrel-2021-year-in-review/">20 Min Read</a></li>
899				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/rapidapi-devrel-2021-year-in-review/"><time datetime="2022-02-13">February 13, 2022</time></a></li>
900			</ul>
901			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/rapidapi-devrel-2021-year-in-review/">🐙 RapidAPI DevRel 2021 Year in Review: 20M Developers, Learn Platform, Teaching &#038; Helping Developers!</a></h2>
902			<p class="excerpt">It&#8217;s 8 am on a fine Saturday morning. I&#8217;m sitting here in the park at Union Square, San Francisco — prepping for the company 2022 kick-off next week. The work new year has just begun. Yep, today it&#8217;s December 74, 2021 (😅 not a typo). I can&#8217;t help but look back at 2021, a year well spent. In this blog post today, [...]</p>
903			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
904		</div>
905	</article>
906
907			
908				
909	<article id="post-7727" class="postitem post-7727 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-life tag-award tag-corona tag-mongodb">
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911			<ul class="meta">
912				<li class="category"><a style="background:#5E38F5;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/life/">Life</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
913				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/won-mongodb-innovation-award-front-line-heroes-2021-corona-cli/">5 Min Read</a></li>
914				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/won-mongodb-innovation-award-front-line-heroes-2021-corona-cli/"><time datetime="2021-11-24">November 24, 2021</time></a></li>
915			</ul>
916			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/won-mongodb-innovation-award-front-line-heroes-2021-corona-cli/">Won MongoDB Innovation Award: Front Line Heroes 2021 &#8220;corona-cli&#8221;</a></h2>
917			<p class="excerpt">Dev Ittycheria, CEO at MongoDB, has awarded Ahmad Awais with the MongoDB Innovation Award 2021 for the category of Front Line Heroes. Project: corona-cli. </p>
918			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
919		</div>
920	</article>
921
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923				
924	<article id="post-7730" class="postitem post-7730 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-life tag-helping-developers tag-stackoverflow">
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926			<ul class="meta">
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928				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/helped-9-5-million-developers-solve-coding-issues-via-stackoverflow/">2 Min Read</a></li>
929				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/helped-9-5-million-developers-solve-coding-issues-via-stackoverflow/"><time datetime="2021-11-22">November 22, 2021</time></a></li>
930			</ul>
931			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/helped-9-5-million-developers-solve-coding-issues-via-stackoverflow/">I Helped 9.5 Million Developers Solve Coding Issues via StackOverflow</a></h2>
932			<p class="excerpt">Ten years ago, I started giving back on StackOverflow. Today I&#8217;m celebrating that I have managed to help over 9.5 Million developers find solutions to their coding issues. That led to a 25,922 reputation and a top 0.37% profile this year. Humbled! 🥳 I studied Electrical Engineering in college and attempted Computer Science exams as [...]</p>
933			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
934		</div>
935	</article>
936
937			
938				
939	<article id="post-7600" class="postitem post-7600 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-web tag-devrel tag-hiring tag-rapidapi">
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941			<ul class="meta">
942				<li class="category"><a style="background:#18407D;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/web/">Web</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
943				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/hiring-developer-relations/">13 Min Read</a></li>
944				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/hiring-developer-relations/"><time datetime="2021-06-04">June 4, 2021</time></a></li>
945			</ul>
946			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/hiring-developer-relations/">Hiring the DevRel A-Team</a></h2>
947			<p class="excerpt">I have some pretty big news. I am hiring and extending RapidAPI&#8217;s Developer Relations (DevRel &amp; DX) team. A team of developers, program engineers, developer advocates, and dev-community advocate roles. And I want you to be a part of it! This is your chance to join a DevRel A-Team and make a difference for over 50 million developers [...]</p>
948			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
949		</div>
950	</article>
951
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954	<article id="post-7483" class="postitem post-7483 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-tutorials tag-fork tag-git tag-sync-upstream">
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958				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/quick-tip-update-an-outdated-fork-on-github-with-a-click/">1 Min Read</a></li>
959				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/quick-tip-update-an-outdated-fork-on-github-with-a-click/"><time datetime="2021-05-07">May 7, 2021</time></a></li>
960			</ul>
961			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/quick-tip-update-an-outdated-fork-on-github-with-a-click/">Quick Tip: Update an outdated fork on GitHub with a click</a></h2>
962			<p class="excerpt">Developers fork repositories and forget about them. I mean until they need it again. But git&#8217;s moved on by then — your fork is probably suffering the same fate which is why you&#8217;re reading this. How should I update an outdated fork? Before today y
962ou had to do the following: git remote add upstream &lt;clone-url&gt; git fetch upstream [...]</p>
963			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
964		</div>
965	</article>
966
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968				
969	<article id="post-7375" class="postitem post-7375 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-web tag-react">
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973				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/react-server-components/">8 Min Read</a></li>
974				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/react-server-components/"><time datetime="2020-12-22">December 22, 2020</time></a></li>
975			</ul>
976			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/react-server-components/">React Server Components</a></h2>
977			<p class="excerpt">The React.js core team announced the RFC on React Server Components just now. Imagine React components that run only on the server and have zero impact on the client-side bundle-size. Hence zero-bundle-size. </p>
978			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
979		</div>
980	</article>
981
982			
983				
984	<article id="post-7708" class="postitem post-7708 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-javascript">
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987				<li class="category"><a style="background:#635CFF;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/javascript/">JavaScript</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
988				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/vercel-edge-functions-next-js/">20 Min Read</a></li>
989				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/vercel-edge-functions-next-js/"><time datetime="2021-10-26">October 26, 2021</time></a></li>
990			</ul>
991			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/vercel-edge-functions-next-js/">Vercel Edge Functions with Next.js</a></h2>
992			<p class="excerpt">Vercel&#8217;s Edge Functions to be used with Next.js (v12) announced today at the second Next.js Conference look pretty amazing. Now everyone building on Next.js using Vercel will have access to a super useful middleware. I&#8217;ll be deleting a bunch of infrastructure code and probably thousands of lines of code that I have now for things [...]</p>
993			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
994		</div>
995	</article>
996
997			
998				
999	<article id="post-7356" class="postitem post-7356 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-web tag-dark-mode tag-github">
1000		<div class="wrapper">
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1003				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/github-dark-mode/">1 Min Read</a></li>
1004				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/github-dark-mode/"><time datetime="2020-12-09">December 9, 2020</time></a></li>
1005			</ul>
1006			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/github-dark-mode/">GitHub Dark Mode</a></h2>
1007			<p class="excerpt">GitHub just announced Dark Mode at GitHub Universe 2020 conference. I'm super duper excited. Check out my reaction video and a couple of other excellent features Nat Friedman (GitHub's CEO) announced in the keynote.</p>
1008			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
1009		</div>
1010	</article>
1011
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1013				
1014	<article id="post-7408" class="postitem post-7408 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-tutorials">
1015		<div class="wrapper">
1016			<ul class="meta">
1017				<li class="category"><a style="background:#588BFA;" href="https://ahmadawais.com/category/tutorials/">Tutorials</a></li> 				<li class="issticky"><i class="fa fa-thumb-tack"></i></li>
1018				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/how-to-set-python-default-version-to-3-on-macos/">3 Min Read</a></li>
1019				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/how-to-set-python-default-version-to-3-on-macos/"><time datetime="2021-03-06">March 6, 2021</time></a></li>
1020			</ul>
1021			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/how-to-set-python-default-version-to-3-on-macos/">QuickTip: How to set Python default version to 3.x on macOS?</a></h2>
1022			<p class="excerpt">If you are a macOS user like me, you know the default version of Python that comes by default with your mac is version 2.X. Most of the time, you&#8217;ll end up needing Python 3.X — which I&#8217;m told you can run using the python3 command. But let&#8217;s set the default version to Python 3 — so you can run it using the default python [...]</p>
1023			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
1024		</div>
1025	</article>
1026
1027			
1028				
1029	<article id="post-7301" class="postitem post-7301 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-software tag-screencasting">
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1033				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/hide-cursor-mac-os/">1 Min Read</a></li>
1034				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/hide-cursor-mac-os/"><time datetime="2020-11-10">November 10, 2020</time></a></li>
1035			</ul>
1036			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/hide-cursor-mac-os/">Screencasting Tip: Auto Hide Cursor on macOS</a></h2>
1037			<p class="excerpt">When recording a screencast (video tutorial) I like to hide my cursor. It&#8217;s distracting to see a cursor hanging around for no reason. Leads to a bad user experience, many times you think of it as your own cursor and try to move it away while watching a video — only to realize it&#8217;s not yours, and you&#8217;re stuck with it. Trick [...]</p>
1038			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
1039		</div>
1040	</article>
1041
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1044	<article id="post-7263" class="postitem post-7263 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-life tag-automation tag-node-js-cli">
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1048				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/silly-mistake/">3 Min Read</a></li>
1049				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/silly-mistake/"><time datetime="2020-10-09">October 9, 2020</time></a></li>
1050			</ul>
1051			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/silly-mistake/">I Made A Silly Mistake Launching NodeCLI.com</a></h2>
1052			<p class="excerpt">Awais made a silly mistake when he launched his new course called NodeCLI.com — where he's teaching how to build automation CLI DevTools in 10 hours 100-videos course. </p>
1053			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
1054		</div>
1055	</article>
1056
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1063				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/web-purist/">4 Min Read</a></li>
1064				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/web-purist/"><time datetime="2020-09-16">September 16, 2020</time></a></li>
1065			</ul>
1066			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/web-purist/">Web Purist</a></h2>
1067			<p class="excerpt">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 the web platform. I love the web platform. I have seen it grow since 2002.</p>
1068			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
1069		</div>
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1071
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1078				<li class="readtime"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/next-js-absolute-imports-aliases/">3 Min Read</a></li>
1079				<li class="date"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/next-js-absolute-imports-aliases/"><time datetime="2020-05-25">May 25, 2020</time></a></li>
1080			</ul>
1081			<h2 class="title"><a href="https://ahmadawais.com/next-js-absolute-imports-aliases/">Next.js Absolute Imports and Aliases</a></h2>
1082			<p class="excerpt">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 my heart.</p>
1083			<a href="https://twitter.com/MrAhmadAwais/" class="author"><img src="//0.gravatar.com/avatar/fae697f476a1d1271cb98f73e43ac1a1?s=75" alt="Ahmad Awais">Ahmad Awais</a>
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