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...
Ahmad Awais
Founder & CEO at Langbase.com · Ex VP DevRel Rapid · Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member. 🧑💻 AI/ML/DevTools Angel Investor ❯ AI/ML Advisory Board member San Francisco, DevNetwork 🎩 Award-winning Open Source Engineer & Dev Advocate 🦊 Google Developers Expert Web DevRel 🚀 NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission code contributor 🏆 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient with 3x GitHub Stars Award (Listed as GitHub's #1 JavaScript trending developer). 🌳 Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator. 📟 Teaching thousands of developers Node.js CLI Automation (100 videos · 22 Projects) & VSCode.pro course. Over 142 Million views, 22 yrs Blogging, 56K developers learning, 200+ FOSS. ✌️ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries utilized by millions of developers worldwide ⓦ WordPress Core Developer 📣 TEDx Speaker with 100+ international talks. ✨ As quoted by: Satya Nadella · CEO of Microsoft — Awais is an awesome example for developers. 🙌 Leading developers and publishing technical content for over a decade 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) ❯ Read more about Ahmad Awais. 👋… Awais is mostly active on Twitter @MrAhmadAwais
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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.
My Vision: WordPress Collaboration Over Competition
Instead of envy, jealousy, and war; I prefer building relations by getting to know you and your work better and by collaboration over competition. In 2016, I plan to write more about collaboration, team-effort, partnerships and so on. After all, it's one of my new year's resolutions to collaborate and partner up. Maybe you are my next partner. [...]
Ahmad AwaisA 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!
Ahmad Awais🐼 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!
Ahmad AwaisTalk: Personal Development for a WordPress Developer
This last Saturday, I was invited, at our local WordPress Meetup Lahore, to speak. It took me a week (which is quite normal) to understand what kind of audience would be there. I am a Full Stack WordPress developer, which means there were a number of topics that I could talk about. But, what good a talk would do if the majority didn't understand [...]
Ahmad AwaisWordPress 4.4 Clifford and My Core Contributions
WordPress 4.4 "Clifford" just got released. I managed to get six core contributions, two commits to TwentySixteen theme and twelve commits to the WordPress REST API and I am super duper excited about it.
Ahmad AwaisA Prediction, Calypso & What I Think Is the Next WordPress!
My take on the all new WordPress.com's Calypso and how I think I predicted it. There are a few more predictions in there about The Next WordPress™ and why I feel it's the best way forward.
Ahmad AwaisWill WordPress Ever Rule the World Wide Web?
Everyone's getting a WordPress REST API, so I let my mind wander for a little while into the future, to find out what would it be like to use, write, develop and design with WordPress or what they call the Future WordPress.
Ahmad AwaisBEM CSS Basics for WordPress Themes Developers
BEM is a logical standard of writing CSS it helps make CSS more Semantic. BEM's hierarchical naming convention helps a team of developers to understand the structure of a website to work uniformly and with harmony.
Ahmad AwaisIntroducing CF7 Customizer | Form Styling via WP Live Customizer
CF7 Customizer is an intuitive plugin to design your contact forms via WordPress live customizer, right at the front-end. Cherry on the top, it will be free forever.
Ahmad AwaisWordPress and HTTP/2 — What Developers Need to Know?
We are at the verge of HTTP/2 being introduced as a new standard. If you develop WP Themes being a front-end developer, you need to read this. Hacks and performance fixes which we had for HTTP 1.1 will actually slow down your theme's page loading speed in HTTP/2.
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