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AppBuildersPH 2026: Drawn to Victory
Some drawings find their place on refrigerators. Others are tucked away in folders, kept as reminders of a childhood imagination that knows no bounds. But for one Filipino father, a child's drawing became something far greater, an inspiration behind a grand championship. Among 1,270 builders and 281 projects submitted [...]
Practical Ways to Upskill in Tech Before the Year Ends
You don't need to wait for January to start improving your skills. Here's how to make the remaining months of 2026 count, one skill, project, and learning opportunity at a time. As the year slowly comes to an end, it's easy to start thinking about everything you want to [...]
Netlify vs Vercel: which should you use in 2026?
Netlify and Vercel are cloud platforms that allow developers to publish websites without managing their own servers. Both services handle much of the infrastructure needed to make a website available online, including deployments, secure connections, and content delivery. For example, imagine you have finished building a personal portfolio or [...]
Build a Cozy AI Study Workspace with Next.js and Groq
The Importance of Branding in Tech Companies
In today’s fast-moving technology industry, building innovative solutions is only part of creating a successful company. Strong branding helps organizations communicate their identity, build recognition, and create meaningful connections with their audience. This article explores how branding allows technology companies to establish an impactful presence and how creative content [...]
AWSUGPH x Tutorials Dojo September Meetup: BEYOND THE BUILD
What does it take to turn an idea into something real? At the September meetup of AWS User Group Philippines and Tutorials Dojo, four speakers explored the decisions, challenges, and technologies shaping the way we build. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1EzMrtZDFE/ On September 24, AWS User Group Philippines and Tutorials [...]
Build an 8-Bit AI Architecture Generator (Next.js & Groq)
Have you ever wanted to build a completely custom AI Architecture Generator, but got stuck trying to force a language model to output perfectly valid diagram syntax? Downloading a standard flowchart library is rarely plug-and-play. You wire up the code, run it, and immediately hit walls, from struggling to [...]
App Deployment Is More Than Just Writing Code
When I first started learning about application development, I thought creating an app was mostly about writing code, designing the interface, and making sure the features worked. Once the application was built, I assumed the next step would be to publish it and let people use it. However, as [...]
Setting up Amazon SES for a Lightsail Based Application
On this article, you will learn how you can send emails from AWS Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) on applications hosted in AWS Lightsail, a virtual private server. You will learn how to verify a sending domain, connect your application, and prepare to send password resets, notifications, and newsletters. [...]
How to Build an AI-Powered Django Notes App for Free
Have you ever wanted to build a completely custom AI-powered note-taking app, but got stuck trying to make the backend talk to modern language models? Downloading a starter Django repository is rarely plug-and-play. You clone the code, run it, and immediately hit walls, from struggling to securely [...]

No Comment: How Technical Documentation Helps your Team

It’s easy to get lost specially, in a big project. However, believe it or not, even in small projects or personal passion projects, it’s still easy to get lost because of your own wrongdoing, not documenting properly. As a beginner, or even “experienced,” it’s a hassle having to put comments and document every changes you made to your code, because we always think that our memory will suffice, which is not always the case. [...]

Getting Started with n8n + A Quick Workflow Example

In a world full of repetitive tasks, automation is not a new thing. For years, humanity designed machines and systems to take over the monotonous or large-scale work from humans. We've come a long way from industrial automation, it now uses the algorithms to create system that can automatically check, send, or even sort your emails and documents, manage your store's inventory, and even drive (would I still need a license in this case?). [...]

Automated Web Testing at Scale: Playwright Meets AWS

Picture the time you'll save from your web applications' repetitive and inconsistent manual testing. No more opening the app, logging in, clicking through the same steps, and checking if everything still works. What's worse, manual testing is prone to mistakes. One person could miss a step, another might test on a different browser, and suddenly, the results don't match, and the bugs start eating your application down. The lack of consistency creates uncertainty. But [...]

Turning AI Prompts into Real-World Results

It all starts with a simple AI prompt. When you have an idea that you want to explore further, one of the easiest ways to keep the ball rolling is to turn that idea into a prompt for an AI tool. This helps clarify your vision, spark new directions, and provide a starting point you can build from. AI doesn’t magically finish your work for you, but it can set you up with a [...]

From Concept to Code: Build Your First MCP Server

For a long time now, LLMs or large language models have been going around the tech industry with its massive knowledge on languages. They can comprehend and even generate human language with bull's-eye fluency. Nevertheless, despite their strengths, powerful as they are, these intelligent models act in isolation. They have no hands to implement and interact with the world; they lack the ability to connect to databases, fetch data, or even trigger an action [...]

Hosting Static Websites for Free with GitHub Pages: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hosting Static Websites for Free with GitHub Pages: A Step-by-Step Guide GitHub Pages is, in fact, one of the most accessible and cost-effective ways to host static websites. This tutorial provides a detailed, step-by-step guide on how to host a static website using GitHub Pages, from repository setup to deployment, including custom domain configuration. What are GitHub Pages? GitHub Pages are static site hosting services offered by GitHub. It allows users to [...]

Firecracker for Students: Launch Your First MicroVM on Any OS

What if you could launch your own virtual machine in less than a second... right from your laptop without Docker, without the cloud, and without frying your CPU? So you’ve heard of virtual machines, but what if I told you there’s one that starts in milliseconds and barely uses resources? Meet Firecracker, the same tech AWS uses to power Lambda and Fargate. But guess what? You don’t need to work at AWS to use [...]

Meta’s Superintelligence Initiative: A Bold Leap Into the Future of AI

In the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence (AI), few companies are making as bold a move as Meta Platforms. Under Mark Zuckerberg's leadership, Meta has unveiled an ambitious project: Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL). With billions of dollars invested, and a hiring spree targeting the brightest minds in AI, Meta is setting itself up to lead the AI revolution. But what exactly does this mean for the future of technology? How will this initiative [...]

From Localhost to Live: Your First Google Cloud Deployment

We've all been there. You've just built something new and unique, maybe it's your portfolio website, a cool API, or that side project you've been working on for weeks. It works perfectly on your laptop, your friends are asking to see it, but there's just one problem... it's stuck on localhost:3000. But, what if you wanted to deploy it on the web and let others see it as well. Well, you have come to [...]

Your First “Hello World” on the Cloud with Beam

Get your laptop or PC ready since we'll be making your computer send its first "Hello World" message from the cloud. Woot woo~ It won’t be AWS today, neither Azure nor Google Cloud Platform, but… Beam! (only if you’ve ever heard of it) So Beam connects the code you write on your local machine to the servers in the cloud. You get to write standard Python, but when you're ready to run it, Beam [...]