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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. 
What Is the Best API for Geolocating an IP Address? [2021]
Looking for a reasonably stable Geolocation API to find out more about an IP address (user) that visits your site or application? It's your lucky day — because I built an exhaustive list for that. It includes Gelocating APIs, their responses, and limitations.
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WordPress 4.8: TheDevCouple Is Now WordPress Core Contributor 🎉
WordPress 4.8 just got released. As usual, I got props for my core contributions but my wife — Maedah Batool — she also became a Core Contributor — her first contribution. Join me to say congrats to her :)
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Anatomy of crontab!
More often than not, we find ourselves in a situation where something needs to be automated. For example, since I use Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates, I have to renew them every 90 days. To automate it, I use a simple cron. Being a DevOps fanboy, I like doing things from scratch. This article will help you write a simple cron yourself [...]
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WordPress Is Like Your Clothes!
People often wonder, why WordPress gets so many updates so often. Many people I meet who actually consider this a bad thing. Recently, at a meetup, a group of students came up to me, worried sick. They wanted to use WordPress for their software engineering final years’ project. Though, they were not as comfortable with WordPress as [...]
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Introducing WPSass: Use Sass with WordPress via Node NPM Scripts
I was working on a new project, where I only needed to convert Sass to CSS in a WordPress site. Since WPGulp was an overkill for this, I went ahead and built WPSass. Just does one thing, and does it well.
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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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New WordPress Plugin Repo Surprised Me!
I am a WordPress plugin developer. While I have written many plugins for WordPress and shared them on GitHub, I also host 12 plugins on the WordPress.org/Plugins repository — with more than 400k total downloads. A few days ago the new WordPress plugin repo went live, and I along with many other developers got surprised by that. I was [...]
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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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Open Sourcing My Sendy PHP API Wrapper
I recently started using Sendy.co (aff) to send emails. I was having trouble finding a good API wrapper for it. Spent more than five hours searching for one and ended up building one myself. I hope it helps.
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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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WordPress Editor: What Needs To Change!
Matt said the Editor would be more blocks like and Weston suggested the JS Widgets can be a real contender for this kinda thing. I agree with him on that. I think there are many ways we can tackle the editor upgrade. But even before we jump to any kind of conclusions, it is important to review what are we going to improve. You see, things [...]
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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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Building A New WordPress Editor!
This is going to be an extra short post and I plan to come back to it write more about my plans. Last year in September, I started building a new WordPress Editor. Here’s a gif to get you all excited about it and stuff. New WordPress Editor?# Gif or did not happen! Sure! 🔥 Last year in Sep, I started working on a new #WordPress Editor. [...]
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WordPress 4.7 & The Spirit of Regular Core Contribution
I cannot tell you how much proud I feel being a contributing developer for the latest WordPress release i.e. WP 4.7 “Vaughan”. This release has been a huge accomplishment for the WordPress community. Today, I plan to share a small story about how it feels to contribute to the WordPress core software regularly.
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WordPress in Urdu — History in the Making!
? We did it! WordPress 4.7 will be the first WordPress version with 100% Urdu translation! Thanks to 110 translators. ? #WPTranslationday.
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Introducing PTCL CLI: Control PTCL Routers via Command Line
PTCL-CLI (ptcli): An intuitive PTCL-CLI to control PTCL routers via command line.
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Introducing CEM CLI | Move From cPanel to EasyEngine With Ease
CEM CLI is a cPanel to EasyEngine Migration CLI. It's quite new at the moment and is meant to automate bits of the repetitive tasks that one has to go through while migrating their sites from a cPanel based shared hosting (with no SSH access) to an EasyEngine based rented VPS.
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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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Dealing With GoDaddy ManageWP Acquisition & #WPDrama?
GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP. There's been a lot of #WPDrama! I am dealing with it, my way! GoDaddy! You & I, We Need to Talk! Read why I think this acquisition would turn out to be an excellent thing.
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[SERIES] WordPress Product Launch User Experience Best Practices
100 hours of research and 6 part FREE series about how to improve WordPress products launch and the overall user experience. Throughout this series, I have shared my strategies of how I got about 15,000 downloads, 5,000 active site installs, 4,300 Newsletter subscribers, and got featured in the trending products at ProductHunt with roughly [...]
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Should I Create a New Menu or a SubMenu inside WP Admin Panel
Should you create a new menu or a sub-menu for your WordPress product inside the admin panel? I have a lot to say about it. Mostly, about responsible WordPress development.
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Why You Should Never Use Colored Icons Inside the WP Admin Panel
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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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WordPress 4.6 “Pepper” — Customize Component FTW
? WordPress 4.6 has been released. It is the 4th major version release where I was able to contribute code to the WordPress core. Giving back to the WordPress community; especially in the form of core contributions — has been an incredibly empowering and inherently humble experience for me...
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Introducing WordPress Customizer Package For Sublime Text!
What if I told you that you can build Customizer options for your next WordPress product (theme/plugin) under 5 minutes? Yes, it is possible! I have made a Sublime Text package for WordPress Customizer that can help you write quality code in a jiffy.
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Introducing Facebook Quote Plugin For WordPress
FB Quote Plugin For WP lets people select text on your page and add it to their share on FB, so they can tell a more expressive story.
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WordPress Developers, Checkout “Twig” & “Timber”!
Twig templating engine can be used for WordPress development with the plugin called Timber. You can write simple, neat and clean code which is modular and easier to maintain. If you are interested in learning how you can use Timber with WordPress and want a kick-start instead of going through the documentation and testing, I have written a [...]
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Introducing Facebook Save Button For WordPress
FB Save Button for WP is a WordPress plugin that adds a facebook save button to your posts, pages, before/after content and provides you with the [fbs] shortcode to add the button anywhere you want.
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WordPress 4.5 Coleman Released!
Guess what, WordPress 4.5 Coleman named against jazz legend "Coleman Hawkins" was just released. I again managed to contribute to the WordPress core. Check out the video below and a few improvements mentioned below.
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This Part of My Life Is Called … WordPress
This is a story about how I fell in love with WordPress (and web) even after being misguided towards the career-path of Electrical Engineering and that of a jack of all trades, but WordPress community was where I found my true self.
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