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Building the Next Generation of Innovators: AWSUG e:Novators PH General Onboarding 2026
On May 31, 2026 at Common Ground 8 Rockwell in Makati City, over a half of the organization members, ambassadors, and guests filed in for what was supposed to be a simple orientation — but by the end of the day, it turned into something bigger. The AWSUG e:Novators [...]
AWS Community Day Manila 2026: Build, Break, Repeat
The AWS User Group Philippines (AWSUG.PH), one of the biggest and most active AWS communities in the Asia Pacific region and twice named AWS User Group of the Year in the region for 2022 and 2025, is bringing back AWS Community Day Manila this August 22 and 23, 2026, [...]
Marketing your App After Launch: What to Do Next
App marketing begins once your product is live and people can try it. This guide is for solo developers, startup teams, and career-changers who have launched an app but need a practical way to find the right users, measure what they do, and turn feedback into steady growth. [...]
Building the Next Chapter of Microsoft Student Community in the Philippines
"We empower the world. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more." The Hello, World! Your First Steps into AI and Microsoft meetup marked the beginning of a new chapter for the Microsoft Student Community Philippines (MSC PH)—a nationwide initiative dedicated [...]
What’s New with the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (MLA-C02) in 2026?
Imagine you’ve been preparing for the AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer – Associate (MLA-C01) exam for weeks. You’ve reviewed machine learning concepts, practiced with Amazon SageMaker, and worked through practice exams. Then you hear the news: AWS is updating the certification to MLA-C02. Now you might be wondering: Should [...]
Building Production AI Agents on AWS: AgentCore Harness, Strands 1.0, and the Multi-Agent Architecture that Actually Ships
Six months ago, "AI agents on AWS" meant duct-taping together Amazon Bedrock, a Lambda function to handle tool routing, DynamoDB for session state, CloudWatch for tracing, and a LangGraph loop you prayed would recover from a network hiccup mid-reasoning. Every team was reinventing the same infrastructure. Every demo worked; [...]
Build Your Own AI Emoji Generator using Next.js
Have you ever wanted to build a completely custom AI Emoji Generator but got stuck trying to make a cloned template run on your local computer? Downloading a production-ready starter repository is rarely a plug-and-play experience. You clone the code, run it, and immediately hit a wall of scary [...]
Claude Skills Unlocked: A Practical Guide to Anthropic Academy’s 21 Free Courses
Anthropic Academy has grown into one of the more substantial free AI learning resources available today, with 21 self paced courses covering everything from everyday Claude usage to building agents with the Model Context Protocol. Every course is free, requires only an email sign up, and is built directly [...]
Detect Report React Rethinking the Manual Incident Response Playbook
In June 2026, nineteen Philippine government websites, including those of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the National Bureau of Investigation, were defaced within a single week by a hacktivist group calling itself "Nullsec Philippines." By the time the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) issued its [...]
Automating Publications with Claude, Canva, and n8n
Every business that runs a social media page knows the same repetitive cycle. Pick a topic. Write a caption. Design a graphic. Post it on schedule. Repeat tomorrow. Multiply that by every campaign, every seasonal push, every recurring content series, and it becomes a real operational cost, not just [...]

What is ROUGE Metrics – Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation?

Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation (ROUGE) Cheat Sheet ROUGE is a family of metrics designed to assess the similarity between machine-generated text (candidate) and human-written reference text (ground truth) in NLP tasks like text summarization and machine translation. Measures how well generated text captures key information and structure from reference text, emphasizing recall (proportion of relevant information preserved). Score Range: 0 to 1, where higher scores indicate greater similarity between candidate and reference texts. [...]

Creating an AI Chatbot with LangChain for FREE (No API Keys, No Tokens)

Creating an AI Chatbot with LangChain for FREE (No API Keys, No Tokens) The Big Question: Can You Build AI Without Breaking the Bank? We asked ourselves a simple question: Can you build a chatbot without using any paid API at all? Most tutorials on AI chatbots start the same way: "First, grab your OpenAI API key and add your credit card..." But what if you don't have one? Or don't want to use [...]

Beginner Guide to Building a Hate Speech Classifier with BERT

You've seen the warnings: "This comment may violate our community guidelines," or you've watched online posts or videos get flagged and removed due to their hate speech content. This means that the platform is already using models to detect harmful content. However, have you ever questioned how these models work? How are these models able to understand human sarcasm, cultural slang, and even multilingual language in one sentence? In this guide, we'll walk through the [...]

Motoko vs Solidity: A Developer-Centric Comparison

Motoko vs Solidity: A Developer-Centric Comparison A New Era in Smart Contract Development Innovative contract development has evolved significantly over the past decade. With the rise of decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and a growing ecosystem of decentralized applications, Solidity has long been the standard for writing contracts on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). It introduced developers to a new paradigm: trustless systems, which do not require trust between parties, programmable money, and [...]

“Hello, [User]!”: A Beginner’s Guide to Building an AI Chatbot with Google Gemini API and Next.js

These days, it feels like there’s an AI chatbot for everything. Need help with homework? Stuck on a coding problem? Want to research a random topic? These virtual assistants can answer just about any general question you throw at them. They’re becoming our go-to partners for learning, creating, and problem-solving. But have you ever wanted a chatbot that doesn't just give generic answers but understands and responds with information specific to your needs? [...]

Launching an Amazon EC2 Instance using Terraform

What's up, Dojos! This is your first step on automating your cloud infrastructure by launching an EC2 Instance using Terraform! Efforts from various cloud providers such as AWS made managing your configurations manageable and easy by the use of their Management Consoles. With AWS, launching an EC2 instance, setting up IAM configurations, and VPC provisioning have never been easier within their console. But what if you have to configure large amounts of resources? Provisioning [...]

Your First Look into Generative AI: What It Is and Why It Matters

Your First Look into Generative AI: What It Is and Why It Matters Generative artificial intelligence, or Genb AI, has quickly become a powerful force that is changing many industries. It can write, draw, make music, create videos, and even generate code. These tools easily adjust to different creative and practical tasks, promoting innovation and original ideas across various fields. So, what is Generative AI? How does it work, where is it making a [...]

What is BERTScore – Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Score?

BERTScore (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Score) Cheat Sheet BERTScore is an effective evaluation metric that looks beyond surface-level word matching to assess the meaning behind the generated text. Instead of counting overlapping words like traditional metrics such as BLEU or ROUGE, BERTScore taps into the power of pre-trained transformer models (like BERT) to compare the semantic similarity between tokens in the generated output and a reference sentence. It does this by calculating the [...]

What is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in Machine Learning?

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Cheat Sheet Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a method that enhances large language models (LLMs) outputs by incorporating information from external, authoritative knowledge sources. Instead of relying solely on pre-trained data, RAG retrieves relevant content at inference time to ground its responses. LLMs (Large Language Models) are trained on massive datasets and use billions of parameters to perform tasks like: Question answering Language translation Text completion RAG extends LLM capabilities to domain-specific [...]

What is Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering?

When evaluating machine translations, assessing how closely the translation matches a human's understanding is essential. METEOR (Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit ORdering) is an evaluation metric that provides a more comprehensive and accurate measurement of translation quality. Unlike traditional metrics like BLEU, METEOR considers precision and recall and the semantic meaning of words and their order in a sentence, offering a more nuanced and reliable translation evaluation. In this article, we'll delve [...]