My (Ahmad Awais) 2018 Year in Review. I got to keynote at a conference, launched an online course (yay!), built an editor theme suite...
Ahmad Awais
Ahmad Awais 👨🏫 Edutainer & teacher at VSCode.pro 🎩 Full-time #OpenSourcerer 🥑 OSS Developer Advocate 🌳 Node.js Foundation Community Committee Member 🦊 Google Developers Expert for Web 🔥 Ridiculously hard-working Full Stack Web Developer 😂 Hilarious comedian ⓦ Regular WordPress Core Developer 📣 TEDx Speaker ✌️ Spends 50-80% of his time building professional FOSS (Free & Open Source Software) used by over 902,556+ Developers 🙌 Cloud Community Evangelist 🎯 JavaScript & DevOps fanboy 💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) 🍕 Learn more about Ahmad ↣
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YEARS IN REVIEW: Read what I've been doing in 
2015 
2016 
2017 and especially in 
2018
🦁 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 WPCouple 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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