Ahmad AwaisJust now, I was banging my head on the table trying to figure out how to renew or manually reissue a new free SSL certificate for a...
Ahmad Awais
Founder & CEO at Langbase.com — The Composable AI Developer platform · Serverless AI Cloud · Ship agentic AI pipes, tools, and memory with BaseAI — The first Web AI Framework (free, open-source, local-first, deploys serverless, agentic pipes, tools, and memory)
Ex VP DevTools & DevRel Eng. Rapid · Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member. 🧑💻 AI/ML/DevTools Angel Investor ❯ AI/ML Advisory Board 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 5x 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 and VSCode.pro course. Over 142 million views, 24 yrs Blogging, 108K 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.
💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) ❯ Read more about Ahmad Awais.
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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. 
WordPress 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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My Advanced Gulp Workflow for WordPress Themes
If you are an absolute beginner when it comes to Gulp, you might want to read Introducing WPGulp: An Easy to Use WordPress Gulp Boilerplate. Moreover, this post is just an article, which hasn’t been updated in a long time. I maintain this workflow under WPGulp repository. I suggest you all to read this post to get an idea and use WPGulp [...]
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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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Introducing _Child – A WordPress Child Theme Boilerplate
Today when I had to create a child theme, I thought of creating a boilerplate first, in accordance to DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) philosophy. So, there you go, a WordPress child theme boilerplate was born and the only parent (me) chose to call it _child.
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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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Repeatable Metabox fields to create Pricing Tables in WordPress
Learn how you can create a better user experience for end users in relation to creating Pricing Tables with repeatable metabox fields inside your premium WordPress Theme.
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Three intuitive WordPress Excerpts hacks for Theme Developers
I don’t really remember since how long I have had been using WordPress excerpts inside themes but I think almost all themes make use of the_excerpt() function. In relation to the excerpts, a theme developer needs certain functions like Custom length of excerpts Custom read more button Dynamic length of excerpts Custom read more button# [...]
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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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Zip WordPress theme through Terminal and ignore DS_Store
Since the day I shifted to Macbook, I fell in love with Terminal. Terminal is minimal, hackable, fast and to the point. There are so many benefits of being a terminal junkie that I’d have to write another post some day. Today I intend to write about how I zip WordPress themes through terminal whilst ignoring hidden .DS_Store files added [...]
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EDD Taxonomy Terms: Include/Exclude and Redux Select Field
Today while working over a premium WordPress theme I had to solve two problems. First of all I needed to build a custom WordPress query through which I could display posts from a particular term while excluding other particular terms. Secondly, I wanted to provide end-user with a select-2 based drop down menu to select from the present terms [...]
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