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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. 
How I Am Using Particles.js to Build an Impressive Hero Unit
Hey folks! It’s been a while since I wrote a piece here. I’ve been very busy with a premium WordPress Framework which I am building from the ground up for about last ten months (which will probably never see the light of the day). While building it, I had to build an impressive hero block or unit whatever you call it nowadays. [...]
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Hands on Review of Nokia Lumia 1320
Nokia sent me one of their lower end smartphone devices, Nokia Lumia 1320, for a hands-on review. I personally used it for about a month before writing this review. Let’s start with the specs. Nokia Lumia 1320# Let’s me show you some hands-on pics Lumia 1320 Specifications# General – Supports 2G/3G/4G SIM – Micro SIM [...]
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Learn How to Configure W3 Total Cache WordPress Plugin
I have had been writing a series for beginners about configuring W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin to speed up WordPress based sites. Here is the link to Configuring W3 Total Cache A quote from my first article Two reasons to start: User Experience. If your site loads faster, your visitors stay happy, your conversions increase, extended number [...]
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Coding a Basic Shortcodes WordPress Plugin Boilerplate
Shortcode API in WordPress is really cool. I already wrote about coding your very first shortcode in WordPress. Today’s discussion is about using your WordPress knowledge in the best possible way. Today I’ll be creating the same three shortcodes we created in the earlier article, but this time we will be coding them through a [...]
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Code Your First Shortcode in WordPress
Shortcode API in WordPress is fun. It helps you create small tags to address a chunk of code. All you do is write some [tag] and it returns the HTML/CSS/PHP code which you have saved inside it. Shortcodes can be used both in the Visual & the Text tab of your post/page editor. Let’s build a basic shortcode. Building shortcodes is [...]
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How to Create a Front-End Login Page in WordPress
WordPress as we know it, is not just a blogging tool, it is a CMS (Content Management System). Most of the freelancers out there use WordPress to build custom sites to entertain requirement friendly behavior. Even a basic CMS based project in WordPress demands for a custom login page in WordPress. Today I intend to discuss how one can create [...]
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How to Get Free Support for WordPress Questions?
I have had been working with WordPress for over eight years now. I learnt WordPress on my own, did I mention, I have a degree in electrical engineering from a top notch university in my country? When I started working with WordPress, it helped me build amazing sites, from basic blogs to advance and complex privacy based user interaction CMS [...]
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How I Found a Perfect Domain Name for a New Brand
We often find ourselves confused over making some straightforward decisions attached to the technology. Or should I call them hard decisions? I have bought over 500 domains throughout my life. You like stories, and I like stories; hell, everyone like stories, so let’s start with an account of my own. The first domain I ever bought was [...]
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Protected: All a beginner needs to know about WordPress
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The Beginner’s Guide to WordPress SEO by Yoast
I wrote a series of tutorials over WordPress SEO by Yoast at Tutsplus being a Core Author. In these tutorials, I covered an extensive beginner friendly explanation towards the true power of WP SEO by Yoast. Give ’em a try. Article #1 Configuration Article #2 Social Settings Article #3 Final Tweaking Article #4 On Page SEO Article #5 [...]
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How I Re-Designed ProPakistani.pk? A 360 Re-Branding Project
Like many other tech-junkies in Pakistan, ProPakistani.pk has been a permanent fixture in my RSS feeds for many years. I’ve watched them grow from a relatively lowbrow tech blog into a thorough, to the point, actually valuable online telcos resource. Part of that has been seen partly from ‘the inside’, as my team is contributing [...]
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I Told My Story! Internet Marketing vs Development & Design
Today I thought why not to share with all of you a question/answer session between a youngster and me myself. There is this friend in my Facebook’s friends’ list, he asked a question about choosing between Internet Marketing VS Development & Design and I responded to him with my own story. The Question# Usama is a young technology [...]
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Protected: Web Development & Design Training Culture
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Clean Slate
👋 Hello, there. It’s Ahmad Awais. I’ve been blogging since 2001. I remember the year 2003 UEFA Champions League vividly, and I felt compelled to share my enthusiasm with the world wide web. One thing led to another, and I started tech blogging. Early in childhood, I had this untiring curiosity to try & learn almost anything [...]
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