Ahmad AwaisJust now, I was banging my head on the table trying to figure out how to renew or manually reissue a new free SSL certificate for a...
Ahmad Awais
Creator of ⌘ COMMAND.new — vibe code ai agents · Founder & CEO of Langbase.com — The most powerful serverless AI agents developer platform to build, deploy, and scale AI agents with tools and memory · Check out the State of AI Agents.
Ex VP DevTools & DevRel Eng. Rapid · Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member. 🧑💻 AI/ML/DevTools Angel Investor ❯ AI/ML Advisory Board San Francisco, DevNetwork
🎩 Award-winning Open Source Engineer & Dev Advocate 🦊 Google Developers Expert Web DevRel 🚀 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).
🌳 Node.js foundation Community Committee Outreach Lead, Member Linux Foundation, OpenAPI Business Governing Board, and DigitalOcean Navigator. 📟 Teaching thousands of developers Node.js CLI Automation and VSCode.pro course. Over 142 million views, 24 yrs Blogging, 108K developers learning, 200+ FOSS.
✌️ Author of various open-source dev-tools and software libraries utilized by millions of developers worldwide ⓦ WordPress Core Developer 📣 TEDx Speaker with 100+ international talks.
✨ As quoted by: Satya Nadella · CEO of Microsoft — Awais is an awesome example for developers.
💜 Loves his wife (Maedah) ❯ Read more about Ahmad Awais.
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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. 
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 [...]
Ahmad Awais
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 TheDevCouple 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.
Ahmad Awais
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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QuickTip: How Do I Install pip on macOS or OS X?
Install pip for Python on macOS or OSX in one single command via command line. Easiest possible way!
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