Ahmad Awais
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 many of us are.
They had many questions, but one of them, in particular, was which platform or CMS should use. As you might have guessed, I recommended them to use WordPress.
One of them said man WordPress needs to be updated a lot. That makes us uncomfortable. What if an update breaks our code?
I chuckled a bit 😉. I told them what I am going to tell you now. WordPress is like your clothes. When you buy clothes, you never think about you’ll have to wash them later. You inherently know that clothes — any kind of them — are going to need some form of maintenance.
WordPress is just like that. You need to take care of it. It’s free but not perpetual! There’s birth and there’s death, and in-between there’s maintenance. It’s our flawed nature, we want to build — but nobody wants to do maintenance.
Though, following folks, do just that — maintenance.
And there are many others :)
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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Bothers me massive that the shown engine won’t run due to a missing belt :D
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