Ahmad AwaisMost developers use a terminal for years before realizing they don’t actually know what a terminal is. They know how to use one....
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. 
164 WordPress Contributions with 14 WordPressers
Last weekend, I asked everyone especially the local community to Join Me for the WP Contribution Weekend. I feel honoured to share that I managed to get 14 Pakistani WordPressers to contribute and answer 164 support tickets in this very first official global contributors' weekend.
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Join Me for the First Global WordPress Contribution Weekend
The idea is simple, we are going to contribute our time to help answer at least 20 questions in the WordPress support forums. I have gathered more than ten WordPress developers with me, some of us are going to be in the same coffee shop for this contribution activity while others will be joining us online. Interested? Read below to learn how [...]
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WordPress Debug Meta Data Like A Boss
WordPress Debug Meta Data is a simple plugin that helps you debug the post metadata by adding a meta-box with metadata information of a post for all the post types. Information with meta key, meta value and its var_dump().
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Introducing WPGulp: An Easy to Use WordPress Gulp Boilerplate
So, you have never used Gulp before? I am here to help you get started. Yes! You can use WPGulp and ask as many questions — in the comments below — as you want. And I will make sure you get a kick-start in professional WordPress Development.
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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. [...]
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A 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!
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🐼 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!
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Talk: 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 [...]
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WordPress 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.
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A 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.
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Will 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.
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BEM 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.
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Introducing 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.
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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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Anonymous Salary Data in WordPress Community
I love reading transparency reports, where businesses like Buffer, Mattermark and others at Baremetrics share everything about how their companies work, how much they pay for a particular role and how much profit they earn. This is a new trend and I can see some startups in WordPress community are picking up on that. WPRocket by Jean [...]
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Confused About Your Career Path? Read This!
Hey there, YOU ARE WRONG!!! (Yes! this is a strongly opinionated article, my opinion, which might not get me featured at Smashing Magazine, but it’s totally worth your time). Being Human? Are You?# Stop jerking around and start working over something which really matters. You cannot live your life over ideas you feel passionate about. [...]
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Screencast #1 Reviewing Long Form Storybuild From Press75
Press75 recently introduced an amazing free plugin called Long Form Storybuilder. I was planning to start screencasting at this blog and today I thought I can catch two birds in the bush. Long Form Storybuilder can help you build pages/posts through customizer API which are both easy to build and responsive at the same time. Key Features# [...]
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Do WordPress End Users Really Need Page Builders?
Have you ever seen a common WordPress end user taking part in conversations over stack exchange where developers ask development related questions? Or have you ever seen a layman who cannot design, who doesn’t know a thing about aesthetics, sharing shots at Dribbble? I am pretty sure your answer is NO! We Developers/designers Are [...]
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How WP Community’s Feedback Helped WPMetaList.com
Before I go ahead and explain what’s what and what happened, I’d like to share how I used to work and how I keep optimizing my workflow. So, here it is. I was one of those designers/developers who spend a 30% of their time actually building stuff while spending the remaining in research to follow the best possible path. Even when [...]
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Before you add plugins’ compatibility in Premium WordPress Theme
Today when I woke up, and started browsing Facebook, one of my friends in WordPress community Matt Cromwell asked a question which deserved answer in form of a blog post. Or should I say, I started to comment, then built a flow diagram and finally ended up creating the featured image. Question# A list of requirements for all your Premium [...]
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Installing SVN Subversion on Yosemite after removing the old version
It’s hard to admit but there were days when I used to be scared of those hardcore terminal commands. It was only when I tried and fell in love with the process simplicity attached minimal effort to get a good deal of work done through it. Well, long story short, as you know I am a WordPress Developer, so having to upload WordPress plugins [...]
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