Ahmad AwaisSince Next.js v9.4 you have the ability to use absolute imports or aliases for your import statements. I love this feature with all...
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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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