Ahmad AwaisMost developers use a terminal for years before realizing they don’t actually know what a terminal is. They know how to use one....
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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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Engineers: Perfection Is a Curse!
Do away with perfection. It’s a curse. Innovation is messy. Be messy, launch soon, do more, do NOT hibernate.Yeah, it’s all good advice until unless you start a side project yourself. Engineer you are, you get back to what you do, you start solving problems. Even those, that are only in your head. That’s pretty much what I have been [...]
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🎉 I Got Verified on Twitter! | @MrAhmadAwais
I am a social animal and that my friend is an understatement. I love to talk, hang out, and be social. Though, I am a tech geek (full stack web dev) — point being I am not an introvert. I have been using Facebook for I think even before I found WordPress. That was a decade ago. And before that, there was MySpace — not forgetting about [...]
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🎖 Became a Moderator at StackOverflow!
Yes, you read it right. My new role at StackOverflow is Human Exception Handler. I just became a moderator at StackOverflow — a site that almost every developer loves to use and receive a great amount of help from. Membership# While I am a member of StackOverflow network for five years, five months, it was only one and a half years ago, [...]
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🦊 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.
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Are You Selling to HUMANS or Robots?
Today, I am going to talk about marketing, but before I do that, I need to make a case for who I am and why you should listen to what I have to say. That is, it's not a post from a developer who's sharing a bunch of tips on how to do it. I used to be a marketer. Wore many hats throughout my career and marketing was one of them.
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Getting Featured on WordPress.tv’s Homepage
John reached out to me, we had a fun little chat about global aspect of the WordPress community, giving back to WordPress as a Core Contributor, and about AWP Group with the $100K WP giveaway that I ran last month.
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This Part of My Life Is Called … WordPress
This is a story about how I fell in love with WordPress (and web) even after being misguided towards the career-path of Electrical Engineering and that of a jack of all trades, but WordPress community was where I found my true self.
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A Stupid-simple WP Developer Fitness Challenge!
To situate a better future, I am challenging YOU to run/jog/walk 60 minutes daily for next 90 days with me. I'm in, are you? Let's do it!
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🐼 My Commitment to WordPress and Epic Moments of 2015
I wrote about my year 2015 as a WordPress developer sharing my thoughts, resolutions, goals, friends, and all the Epic Moments. Happy New Year!
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What Every Beginner Is Doing Wrong as a Web Developer
Being a beginner at web development in 2015 may not be the best thing. Confusion, decision-making, marketers, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Google Chrome Extension I Use to Stay Productive
Get to know what Google Chrome extensions I use as a Full Stack developer to stay productive and to make Google Chrome just work for me. Make Google Chrome stop from being such a resource hog.
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How Much Do You Invest Being a Tech-Entrepreneur?
I was recently interviewed by a local Tech Magazine, they asked me a question Can a small online business could also be setup with small investment? I wanted to blog about this topic. Answer# I think the interpretation of investment is generally wrong. There is so much you invest in a business except for money. I like to think of investment [...]
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Confused About Your Career Path? Read This!
Hey there, YOU ARE WRONG!!! (Yes! this is a strongly opinionated article, my opinion, which might not get me featured at Smashing Magazine, but it’s totally worth your time). Being Human? Are You?# Stop jerking around and start working over something which really matters. You cannot live your life over ideas you feel passionate about. [...]
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Hands on Review of Nokia Lumia 1320
Nokia sent me one of their lower end smartphone devices, Nokia Lumia 1320, for a hands-on review. I personally used it for about a month before writing this review. Let’s start with the specs. Nokia Lumia 1320# Let’s me show you some hands-on pics Lumia 1320 Specifications# General – Supports 2G/3G/4G SIM – Micro SIM [...]
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I Told My Story! Internet Marketing vs Development & Design
Today I thought why not to share with all of you a question/answer session between a youngster and me myself. There is this friend in my Facebook’s friends’ list, he asked a question about choosing between Internet Marketing VS Development & Design and I responded to him with my own story. The Question# Usama is a young technology [...]
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Clean Slate
👋 Hello, there. It’s Ahmad Awais. I’ve been blogging since 2001. I remember the year 2003 UEFA Champions League vividly, and I felt compelled to share my enthusiasm with the world wide web. One thing led to another, and I started tech blogging. Early in childhood, I had this untiring curiosity to try & learn almost anything [...]
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