2016 Year in Review: WordPress, Business, & the Big NEWS!
2016 has been a phenomenal year! I wrote about the business, stability, My Open Source Contributions, the products I built, interviews, fitness, the big news, and my future plans.
Ahmad Awais
Ahmad Awais
Ridiculously hard-working Full Stack Web Developer ❯ Regular WordPress Core Contributor ❯ TEDx Speaker ❯ Spends 50% of his time building FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) ❯ WordPress Advocate & Community Evangelist ❯ DevOps fanboy ❯ Cracks silly jokes ❯ Loves his wife (Maedah)!
Ahmad Awais
Command-Line ZSH Syntax Highlighting Is Dope!
Command-Line ZSH Syntax Highlighting is a total win. It helps me visualize if I am about to run a dangerous command `rm -rf *` (anyone?) — and also if a program exists in the $PATH or not. Check it out.
Ahmad Awais
Did WordPress Just Influence Facebook to Relicense React Under MIT License
Facebook just announced that they are relicensing React under MIT license and I think this is huge for so many reasons. Also, did WordPress had something to do with this decision? Did I help?
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WordPress-React Breakup: My Vue on P*react + WordPress Development!
WordPress is breaking up with ReactJS due to the patent clause. What I think about Vue JS & Preact JS in the WordPress Gutenberg and the WordPress Core. Also, Calypso (WordPress.com) and Jetpack will follow the pursuit, says Matt.
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QuickTip: How Do I Install pip on macOS or OS X?
Install pip for Python on macOS or OSX in one single command via command line. Easiest possible way!
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How Do I Find the Amount of Free Space on My Hard Drive with Command Line?
This is a quick-tip for Ubuntu users who'd like to find the amount of free space on their hard disk via command line.
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MEETUP: 📦 Learn to Host Your WordPress Site With DigitalOcean!
Hey, everyone! I am arranging a DigitalOcean + WordPress Meetup. I will be talking about how you can host your WordPress site yourself with a DigitalOcean droplet!
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Introducing ReSass — A Sassy Responsive Mixin for 8 Screen Sizes!
Sass SCSS Responsive Media Queries Mixin for Eight Different Screen Sizes! 💻📱🖥
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🎉 1000+ Stargazers on My Open Source GitHub Repositories
I am celebrating 1000+ GitHub Stargazers on my free and open source GitHub repositories (GitHub Profile). That's huge! — Thank you, everyone!
Ahmad Awais
Introducing Gutenberg Boilerplate For Third Party Custom Blocks!
I have built a Gutenberg boilerplate to help WordPress theme and plugin developers kick-start their development with the new editor in town. It's heavily inline documented. This post also contains my thoughts and concerns about the Gutenberg project.
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The LOSS of a Great WordPress Community Member — Jesse Petersen!
It's a sad day for the WordPress community. I write this with a heavy heart, that Jesse Petersen — a Genesis Preferred Developer, theme and plugin developer, and so much more lost his fight with Cystic Fibrosis today.
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