Folks, I've two amazing news to share! Last weekend, WordCamp US was taking place at the music city, Nashville, TN, USA. Less did I...
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2017🏆 On Winning the Automattic Design Award Trophy & Appreciation from Matt Mullenweg
Folks, I've two amazing news to share! Last weekend, WordCamp US was taking place at the music city, Nashville, TN, USA. Less did I know, I'd win an Automattic Design Award Trophy for Best Solution category. And WordPress founder — the Matt Mullenweg in his State of Word talk would ask for a round of applause, calling my open source work [...]
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Cancel All Facebook Sent Freind Requests!
More often than not you find someone interesting and send them a friend request but don’t get a response. That sucks. Well, getting to undo these sent friend requests sucks more. So, here’s an easy way to do it. It worked till 2018-05-21 ➡ Step#1: Go to this link on Facebook (it’s a mobile site link). https://m.facebook.com/friends/center/requests/outgoing/#friends_center_main [...]
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New Gmail 📨
Google just announced major improvements to Gmail — calling it the new Gmail. There are lots of fun new features like confidential expiring emails, snooze button, super fast UI/UX, and integrated apps including Calendar, Keep, (new) Tasks, etc. I shared some thoughts and pictures about it. Take a look and try the new Gmail.
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So, This Is What the Most Productive MONDAY Looks Like for Me?! 🔥👌😲
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 jinx it. So, here it goes. Not only was yesterday the most productive [...]
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🎩 Developer Advocacy: How Am I Helping Developers?!
Read this post to find out about how Ahmad and his friends helped other developers throughout 2017 and more. Ahmad is a full-time open source developer whose software projects are used by the likes of engineers at Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc. In this post he shares his meetups, software apprentices, and news about dev-advocacy.
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🦁 2017 Year in Review: — Open Source, TheDevCouple, Leadership, & What’s Next?!
🕰 2017 was an incredible year for me both personally and professionally. I just published my year in review discussing everything from going full-time open source and receiving job offers from giant companies like Google, Intel, Fb, 10up, etc. I also made the announcement of an online course I am going to launch soon. Check it out.
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My AWP Gutenberg Interview #AMA — Think Like A Block
I’ve been super passionate about everything Gutenberg. Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor that’s going to change how you write content or build websites with WordPress. So, I did this interview at AWP Gutenberg Interview Series, where I talked about Gutenberg development and other stuff. 📺WATCH THE INTERVIEW: You can listen [...]
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[PODCAST INTERVIEW] Ahmad Awais — Open Source as a Lifestyle
A couple of weeks ago, I got interviewed by the WordPress PressThis Podcast about my favorite topic, i.e. Web & Open Source. I enjoyed talking about how I got into open source, grew a huge network of followers especially over 10,000 developers who use my open source code, got half a million open source software downloads, and how it has [...]
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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!
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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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