Ahmad Awais 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 then you re stuck. The terms terminal, shell, tty, and…
Ahmad Awais 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, @CommandCodeAI, and Gemini, and waited for them to suggest…
Ahmad Awais 👋 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 ai model founding langbase, creating command.new, inventing pipes…
Ahmad Awais 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 the SSL ❯ Edge Certificates Way down there, [Disable…
Ahmad Awais 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 be thoughtful, not just fast. Great tools should…
Ahmad Awais 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 pages of the apps. Whether we re working on a new feature, fixing…
Ahmad Awais 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 handling video, audio, and other multimedia…
Ahmad Awais 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. The post My Open Source Code Contribution to NASA’s…
Ahmad Awais 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. The post corona-cli <br>My Open-source COVID19 Tracking CLI Tool appeared first on Ahmad Awais by…
Ahmad Awais 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 The post How I Built My Own Teaching Platform appeared first on Ahmad Awais by Ahmad Awais.