It’s 8 am on a fine Saturday morning. I’m sitting here in the park at Union Square, San Francisco β prepping for the...
Ahmad Awais
Helping businesses build developer-led adoption for 10+ yrs.
VP of Developer Relations (DevRel, DX Eng., Dev Content Docs) at RapidAPI. I'm Hiring!
π Edutainer at Node.js CLI Automation course (100 videos Β· 22 Projects) & VSCode.pro course (over 20K devs). π© Award-winning Open Source Engineer & Dev Advocate π¦ Google Developers Expert Web DevRel π Mars Ingenuity Helicopter code contributor π 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient π³ Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator.
βοΈ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers worldwide β¦ WordPress Core Developer π£ TEDx Speaker with 100+ international talks.
π₯ Satya Nadella Β· CEO of Microsoft, said β Awais is an awesome example for developers.
π Leading developers and publishing technical content for over a decade π Loves his wife (Maedah) β― Read more about Ahmad Awais.
πβ¦ Awais is mostly active on Twitter @MrAhmadAwais
π¦ 2017 Year in Review: β Open Source, TheDevCouple, Leadership, & What’s Next?!
π° 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.
My AWP Gutenberg Interview #AMA β Think Like A Block
I’ve been super passionate about everything Gutenberg. Gutenberg is the new WordPress editor that’s going to change how youΒ write content or build websites with WordPress. So, I did this interview atΒ AWP Gutenberg Interview Series, where I talked about Gutenberg development and other stuff. πΊWATCH THE INTERVIEW: You can listen [...]
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 pragmaΒ in the world of programming languages.
Create Guten Block Toolkit: Launch, Introduction, Philosophy, & More! π
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.
[PODCAST INTERVIEW] Ahmad Awais β 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 [...]
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.
WordPress 4.9 Tipton & My Core Contributions with TheDevCouple Team!
β‘οΈ 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. π If you’re not reading my blog for the first time, you probably know about my commitment to the WordPress softwareΒ and that [...]
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?) β and also if a program exists in the $PATH or not. Check it out.
Did WordPress Just Influence Facebook to Relicense React Under MIT License
Β 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?
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.