Ahmad AwaisJust 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...
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.
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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. 
things i’m proud of, I believe, and some more!
👋 hey it’s Ahmad Awais, nice to meet you. i’m founder & ceo at langbase where we help developers build, deploy, and scale serverless AI agents with tools and memory. things i’m proud of# founding langbase, creating command.new, inventing pipes (og mcp!) incredible investors: github’s founder, apple’s cfo [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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‘Promise‘ is not a valid JSX element | Async React Server Component TypeScript Error in Next.js
You might have encountered the "'Promise
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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.
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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.
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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 [...]
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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