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Ahmad Awais
Founder & CEO of ⌘ Command Code coding agent with taste. Founded Langbase.com, AI cloud to build, deploy, and scale AI agents with tools & memory · Creator of Command.new.
"Awais is an awesome example for developers" — Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.
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). Google Developers Expert Web DevRel.
Ex VP Eng (DevTools & DevRel) Rapid · Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member · AI/ML/DevTools Angel Investor (Replit, Resend, Daytona, Gumroad and you?) ❯ AI/ML Advisory Board San Francisco, DevNetwork.
Award-winning Open Source Engineering leader authored hundreds of open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers, including Shades of Purple code theme and corona-cli.
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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 5.0 Launched With a React.js Based Gutenberg Editor and I Got to Contribute — Yay! 🎉
The most anticipated WordPress 5.0 just got released. The core now includes audacious new editing experience code-named Gutenberg along with the all-new TwentyNineteen default theme. WordPress is embracing JavaScript, React.js is now a part of its core. Tell me about that… 📺 Watch this quick video on WordPress 5.0 “Bebo” ↓ [...]
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Cloudflare Registrar: What the WebDev/Blogger in Me Is Super Happy About?!
A couple of hours ago, Cloudflare — the company that has helped me save thousands of dollars in hosting fee since 2011 — announced Cloudflare Registrar. Yes, Yes Yes! Heard that right. ✅ Many of the regular readers of my blogs already know the fact that I started as a blogger, grew up becoming an electrical engineer, and on the side [...]
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Fix macOS Mojave Font Rendering Issue |
Big Sur Update
Just updated to macOS Mojave only to find out that there is a terrible font rendering issue for almost all the ElectronJS based apps like VSCode my code editor of choice. After researching a little bit, messing around with system defaults, less to my surprise, I found out that Apple has disabled Subpixel antialiasing for text in macOS Mojave. [...]
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📢 Talk: Developer Experience & Developer Tooling — as A Developer Advocate
Yesterday, in the event of WordSesh I delivered a talk a topic that I am truly very passionate about; Developer Tooling — if it’s your first time here then let me prefix this article by saying that I love building and then open sourcing professional workflows with developer tooling. With hundreds of open-sourced automation tools and [...]
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A Custom WordPress Dashboard with MongoDB Atlas, Microsoft Azure, & Serverless Functions!
An extensive tutorial where Ahmad Awais shares how he's building a Custom WordPress dashboard which connects several hundred IoT devices, a bunch of 3rd party services, serverless Azure functions, to host data via MongoDB Atlas while making use of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence with the help of Microsoft Azure.
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Show Emoji in Git Log! 👌
Git log is a little emoji-racist. It doesn't display the emoji by default on MacOS. My research led to an old version of git's pager i.e. less which upon updating it started behaving itself. A 5 AM blog post about bringing my git log emoji to life.
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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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🦊 Building A WordPress Artificial Intelligence Plugin
I've been working on this cool little project for WordPress, a sort of an Artificial Intelligence based on 🎩 Microsoft Azure, ☘️ MongoDB Atlas, and a bunch of other services that helps me automate lots of silly things for my WordPress website.
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Introducing Bold New VSCode Theme: Shades of Purple 🦄
I've just released a bold new custom theme for Visual Studio Code called Shades of Purple — which is also available for Slack, AlfredApp, Konsole, iTerm2, Hyper™, etc. In just two days of the theme launch, more than 500 developers are using it. Which is completely unexpected and humbling at the same time. Check it out.
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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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Visual Studio Code Power User
Ahmad Awais has announced a course to help developers become Visual Studio Code Power User. If you are interested in building a better development workflow, or if you want to save five to ten hours a week by being super productive, then sign up. Become a Visual Studio Code Power Developer. 💯
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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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What Does “Pragma” Mean in Programming?
Programming is hard. Well, anything technical is inherently hard. With that out of the way, today I'm writy a short post to let you in on a secret about what is pragma in the world of programming languages.
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Create Guten Block Toolkit: Launch, Introduction, Philosophy, & More! 🚀
I am excited to launch Create Guten Block. `create-guten-block` is a zero-configuration dev-toolkit (#0CJS) to develop WordPress Gutenberg blocks in a matter of minutes without configuring React, Webpack, ESLint, Babel, ES6/7/8/Next, etc.
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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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Remove the `p` Paragraph Tags From Author Description in WordPress
Since WordPress 4.9 by default WordPress adds paragraph tags to the author descriptions. This sometimes breaks your theme styles.
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WordPress 4.9 Tipton & My Core Contributions with TheDevCouple Team!
⚡️ WordPress 4.9 Tipton just got released! Update your sites and enjoy a fantastic update this time. The customizer, widgets, security, and the code editor have seen major updates. So, much more to share. 🍒 If you’re not reading my blog for the first time, you probably know about my commitment to the WordPress software and that [...]
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Command-Line ZSH Syntax Highlighting Is Dope!
Command-Line ZSH Syntax Highlighting is a total win. It helps me visualize if I am about to run a dangerous command `rm -rf *` (anyone?) — and also if a program exists in the $PATH or not. Check it out.
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Did WordPress Just Influence Facebook to Relicense React Under MIT License
Facebook just announced that they are relicensing React under MIT license and I think this is huge for so many reasons. Also, did WordPress had something to do with this decision? Did I help?
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WordPress-React Breakup: My Vue on P*react + WordPress Development!
WordPress is breaking up with ReactJS due to the patent clause. What I think about Vue JS & Preact JS in the WordPress Gutenberg and the WordPress Core. Also, Calypso (WordPress.com) and Jetpack will follow the pursuit, says Matt.
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QuickTip: How Do I Install pip on macOS or OS X?
Install pip for Python on macOS or OSX in one single command via command line. Easiest possible way!
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How Do I Find the Amount of Free Space on My Hard Drive with Command Line?
This is a quick-tip for Ubuntu users who'd like to find the amount of free space on their hard disk via command line.
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MEETUP: 📦 Learn to Host Your WordPress Site With DigitalOcean!
Hey, everyone! I am arranging a DigitalOcean + WordPress Meetup. I will be talking about how you can host your WordPress site yourself with a DigitalOcean droplet!
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Introducing ReSass — A Sassy Responsive Mixin for 8 Screen Sizes!
Sass SCSS Responsive Media Queries Mixin for Eight Different Screen Sizes! 💻📱🖥
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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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Introducing Gutenberg Boilerplate For Third Party Custom Blocks!
I have built a Gutenberg boilerplate to help WordPress theme and plugin developers kick-start their development with the new editor in town. It's heavily inline documented. This post also contains my thoughts and concerns about the Gutenberg project.
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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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How to Use BitBucket and GitHub at the Same Time for One Project?
I had a repository for which I needed the remote to be hosted both at BitBucket and GitHub. So, I figured out a few easy solutions to deal with it. A few EASY solutions. ⚡️ Method #1: Multiple Remotes Pushed (And Fetched) Independently# This is the easiest to get your head around, but the most effort to maintain. We start out by adding [...]
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A Premium WordPress Newsletter!
Soon (read as, in July) — I will be releasing this premium newsletter club called The WordPress Takeaway. This post serves as a way to let you folks know what I am up to as well as to hold myself accountable!
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