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Ahmad Awais - Founder & CEO of CommandCode.ai f/k/a Langbase | Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding memberAhmad Awais is an award-winning open-source engineering leader,​ founder, and CEO of CommandCode.ai f/k/a Langbase. NASA Mars Inginuity Helicopter mission code-contributor. Angel investor. Ex-VP of Developer Relations, Google Developers Advisory Board founding member, Node.js Community Committee Outreach Lead, Business Governance Board Member Linux Foundation & OpenAPI Initiative, WordPress Core​ Developer​, and previously VP ​of ​Engineering​​ at WGA. He has authored various open-source software tools used by millions of developers worldwide, like his Shades of Purple code theme (5M Dev Users)​ or projects like the​ corona-cli​ (10+ Billion Requests).Ahmad Awais - Founder & CEO of CommandCode.ai f/k/a Langbase | Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member Ahmad Awais ABOUT TALKS NEWSLETTER USES COURSES CONTACT NAVIGATEABOUT TALKS NEWSLETTER USES COURSES CONTACT SHARE Twitter Facebook Reddit LinkedIn Code The Full Stack of Terminals Explained: Terminal, S... Posted by Ahmad Awais on February 17, 2026 Most developers use a terminal for years before realizing they don’t actually know what a terminal is. They know how to use one.... Web Improve Developer Experience: The /home shortcut Posted by Ahmad Awais on January 15, 2023 tl;dr: When I’m logged into a SaaS app, it’s super hard to access the company’s homepage unless I log out. I want... Life My Open Source Code Contribution to NASA’s Ingen... Posted by Ahmad Awais on April 27, 2021 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... Bash My Command Line Audio Video Workflows with FFmpeg Posted by Ahmad Awais on May 27, 2021 If you know anything about me then you know I love automating anything and everything. I even have a complete course on building automation... Business How I Built My Own Teaching Platform Posted by Ahmad Awais on April 17, 2020 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... JavaScript corona-cli
My Open-source COVID19 Tracking CLI... Posted by 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... Bash Reissue Cloudflare SSL Certificate Manually Posted by Ahmad Awais on June 8, 2024 Just 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... Life GitHub Stars Award Posted by 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... Life Wordle Solved: Reverse Engineering and Hacking Wor... Posted by Ahmad Awais on January 1, 2022 The story of how Awais reverse-engineered the famous Wordle game and built not one, not two, but three small tools to help developers... Life 🐙 RapidAPI DevRel 2021 Year in Review: 20M Deve... Posted by Ahmad Awais on February 13, 2022 It’s 8 am on a fine Saturday morning. I’m sitting here in the park at Union Square, San Francisco — prepping for the... Ahmad Awais VP of Developer Relations (DevRel, DX Eng., Dev Content Docs). I'm Hiring!Helping businesses build developer-led adoption for 15+ yrs. Copyright © Ahmad Awais 2003 - 2026. All rights reserved. Proudly published with WordPress & hosted with Kinsta. Terms • Privacy • Disclaimer 🤙 Contact 📨 Newsletter 🗃 RSS Feed ✨ Courses 🙌 Talks ⚙️ Uses 📰 Press 📟 Learn automation build Node.js CLI 🆚 Become a VSCode Power User 😎 Who is Ahmad Awais? Ahmad Awais ABOUT TALKS NEWSLETTER USES COURSES CONTACT Ahmad Awais Founder & CEO of ⌘ Command Code coding agent with taste. Founded Langbase.com, AI cloud to build, deploy, and scale AI agents with tools & memory · Creator of Command.new. "Awais is an awesome example for developers" — Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission code contributor 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient with 5x GitHub Stars Award (Listed as GitHub's #1 JavaScript trending developer). Google Developers Expert Web DevRel. Ex VP Eng (DevTools & DevRel) Rapid · Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member · AI/ML/DevTools Angel Investor (Replit, Resend, Daytona, Gumroad and you?) ❯ AI/ML Advisory Board San Francisco, DevNetwork. Award-winning Open Source Engineering leader authored hundreds of open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers, including Shades of Purple code theme and corona-cli. Linux Foundation (Node.js Committee Lead), OpenAPI Business Governing Board. Taught 108K+ developers via NodeCLI.com and VSCode.pro course. 274 million views, blogging for 24 yrs. ❯ Read more about Ahmad Awais or come say hi on 𝕏 @MrAhmadAwais. @_AhmadAwais Follow @AhmadAwais Courses and books Professional development courses and books by Ahmad Awais Talks, Conferences, Workshops Ahmad's list of talks and other speaking engagements Newsletter The Developer Takeaway newsletter by Ahmad Awais Uses page Ahmad uses these software & hardware products Speaker Bio and Press Kit Includes up-to-date bio, links, and images of Ahmad Awais Press Mentions, Media Coverage, Awards A non-exhaustive list of press, media coverage, and awards Contact / Email The best way to get in touch with Ahmad Awais Accomplished engineering leader; who loves the purple color. purple is genius! I like computers, problems, and using the former to solve the latter. I believe in elegance over adequacy, thoughtfulness over impulse, and the wonder of the world as we see it. I have been developing and designing web pages since the early days of tables and spacers. And no – I’ve never used the scrolling marquee with Comic Sans fonts. Code 40 Min Read February 17, 2026 The Full Stack of Terminals Explained: Terminal, Shell, TTY, Console, POSIX, ANSI Escapes, PTYs, Raw/Canonical Modes Most developers use a terminal for years before realizing they don’t actually know what a terminal is. They know how to use one. They couldn’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 [...] Ahmad Awais Life 6 Min Read August 21, 2025 things i’m proud of, I believe, and some more! 👋 hey it’s Ahmad Awais, nice to meet you. i’m founder & 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’m proud of# founding CommandCode with meta neuro-symbolic [...] Ahmad Awais AI 1 Min Read January 19, 2026 Coding agents are getting scary good at things that are not even related to code The other day, I had a bug where some of my SetApp apps config won’t load when I’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, [...] Ahmad Awais Web 3 Min Read January 15, 2023 Improve Developer Experience: The /home shortcut tl;dr: When I’m logged into a SaaS app, it’s super hard to access the company’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’s an excellent developer experience. As developers, we often find ourselves constantly switching between different [...] Ahmad Awais Life 3 Min Read May 25, 2023 Celebrating over 5M+ Devs using Shades of Purple Code Theme 🦄 I love the purple color; purple is genius. Several years ago, I launched the Shades of Purple code theme; today, I’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 [...] Ahmad Awais Life 8 Min Read April 27, 2021 My Open Source Code Contribution to NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Goes to Mars 🚀 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. Ahmad Awais Bash 7 Min Read May 27, 2021 My Command Line Audio Video Workflows with FFmpeg 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 [...] Ahmad Awais Business 20 Min Read April 17, 2020 How I Built My Own Teaching Platform 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 Ahmad Awais JavaScript 7 Min Read April 17, 2020 corona-cli My Open-source COVID19 Tracking CLI Tool 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. Ahmad Awais Bash 2 Min Read June 8, 2024 Reissue Cloudflare SSL Certificate Manually Just 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’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 [...] Ahmad Awais Life 5 Min Read August 7, 2020 GitHub Stars Award 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. Ahmad Awais Web 3 Min Read October 13, 2023 Supabase with Next.js App Router Fix for Invariant: cookies() expects to have requestAsyncStorage, none available Next.js App router is pretty awesome. Sadly, it’s super new. The errors you face are sometimes hard to debug as you can’t see where it’s coming from and why. I hope they fix it soon. Supabase is pretty awesome, too. I’ve been using it as a backend, database, file storage, and, most importantly, as an authentication [...] Ahmad Awais Web 1 Min Read May 24, 2023 ‘Promise‘ is not a valid JSX element | Async React Server Component TypeScript Error in Next.js You might have encountered the "'Promise' 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. Ahmad Awais Life 8 Min Read January 1, 2022 Wordle Solved: Reverse Engineering and Hacking Wordle 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. Ahmad Awais General 4 Min Read June 12, 2023 Python not found on MacOS | Install Python with brew | Fix $PATH 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. Ahmad Awais Software 1 Min Read January 9, 2023 Developer Relations Rap Song (Use it if you will) [Verse 1] We’re the Developer Relations team, at the top of our game We bring developers and the company together, it’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’re the glue that holds it all together Without us, the company would fall [...] Ahmad Awais General 4 Min Read April 1, 2023 The Excuse Epidemic: Inaction & The Paralysis of Analysis Overcome the excuse epidemic and take action today. Break free from analysis paralysis to improve your life. Don't let inaction hold you back. Ahmad Awais Life 20 Min Read February 13, 2022 🐙 RapidAPI DevRel 2021 Year in Review: 20M Developers, Learn Platform, Teaching & Helping Developers! It’s 8 am on a fine Saturday morning. I’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’s December 74, 2021 (😅 not a typo). I can’t help but look back at 2021, a year well spent. In this blog post today, [...] Ahmad Awais Life 5 Min Read November 24, 2021 Won MongoDB Innovation Award: Front Line Heroes 2021 “corona-cli” 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. Ahmad Awais Life 2 Min Read November 22, 2021 I Helped 9.5 Million Developers Solve Coding Issues via StackOverflow Ten years ago, I started giving back on StackOverflow. Today I’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 [...] Ahmad Awais Web 13 Min Read June 4, 2021 Hiring the DevRel A-Team I have some pretty big news. I am hiring and extending RapidAPI’s Developer Relations (DevRel & 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 [...] Ahmad Awais Tutorials 1 Min Read May 7, 2021 Quick Tip: Update an outdated fork on GitHub with a click Developers fork repositories and forget about them. I mean until they need it again. But git’s moved on by then — your fork is probably suffering the same fate which is why you’re reading this. How should I update an outdated fork? Before today you had to do the following: git remote add upstream git fetch upstream [...] Ahmad Awais Web 8 Min Read December 22, 2020 React Server Components 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. Ahmad Awais JavaScript 20 Min Read October 26, 2021 Vercel Edge Functions with Next.js Vercel’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’ll be deleting a bunch of infrastructure code and probably thousands of lines of code that I have now for things [...] Ahmad Awais Web 1 Min Read December 9, 2020 GitHub Dark Mode 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. Ahmad Awais Tutorials 3 Min Read March 6, 2021 QuickTip: How to set Python default version to 3.x on macOS? 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’ll end up needing Python 3.X — which I’m told you can run using the python3 command. But let’s set the default version to Python 3 — so you can run it using the default python [...] Ahmad Awais Software 1 Min Read November 10, 2020 Screencasting Tip: Auto Hide Cursor on macOS When recording a screencast (video tutorial) I like to hide my cursor. It’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’s not yours, and you’re stuck with it. Trick [...] Ahmad Awais Life 3 Min Read October 9, 2020 I Made A Silly Mistake Launching NodeCLI.com 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. Ahmad Awais Life 4 Min Read September 16, 2020 Web Purist 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. Ahmad Awais Web 3 Min Read May 25, 2020 Next.js Absolute Imports and Aliases 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. Ahmad Awais 1 2 3 … 6 Older Posts Ahmad Awais CEO & Founder of Command Code | Langbase.com — AI Cloud. Angel Investor, Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member, AI/ML SF DevNetwork. 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