Developers, developers, developers” is all that Microsoft cares about in 2019. This is a welcomed change — Microsoft has unveiled Windows Terminal, a new command-line app for Windows. Windows Terminal You heard that right. It’s like Windows forgot to update the terminal app for about two decades and only now realized that…

Google has just welcomed me in 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! 🎉🎉🎉 I worked alongside the Google Developer Relations team back in 2017 hacking together a couple of open source projects. Since then I’ve got the opportunity to hang out with and work alongside some of the finest engineers in the web industry.

Maybe like me you are thinking about migrating away from Medium? While there are some complex guides available on how you can get links to all of your Medium posts, I have an easier one that just works. STEP #1: Go to your profile latest page https://medium.com/@mrahmadawais/latest— swap my username…

As a Full Stack JavaScript developer, I am super excited about this relatively new FaaS or Functions as a Service offering that has also caught on a name of Serverless — since you don’t have to manage, update, patch, or worry about servers. While building this custom WordPress dashboard, I…

Just updated to macOS Mojave only to find out that there is a terrible font rendering issue for almost all the ElectronJS based apps like VSCode my code editor of choice. After researching a little bit, less to my surprise, I found out that Apple has disabled Subpixel antialiasing for…

🔥 Hot-tip: Do you mess up git commit messages quite often? I DO! Most of the time I have to amend the last git commit message. So, I made a small bash function out of it. ⚠️ Avoid --force unless it is absolutely necessary and you can be sure that nobody else is syncing your project at the same time. ✅ Amend git commit in one go 🤖 Put it in .bashrc/.zshrc etc files 👌 Sharing this quick-tip is a fun thing to do

Shades of Purple VSCode theme is featured as a best VSCode theme of 2021. P.S Check out my VSCode.pro and NodeCLI.com professional courses. Shades of Purple - Visual Studio Marketplace ⚡ A professional theme with hand-picked & bold shades of purple 💜marketplace.visualstudio.com I have been using Sublime for over ten years, but last year, as a full-time open source developer — I got inspired by the new open source…

Google seems to have just announced the new Gmail. ICYMI I am an avid user. So, I went ahead and started trying out what’s new.

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…