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Everything You Need to Know About Harness Engineering
AI agents can now write code, browse the web, and run for hours without a human watching. Ask one to build a feature, and it might open ten files, call five tools, and make a hundred small decisions before it ever shows you a result. That's a different animal [...]
Should Philippines Make Its Own Local Large Language Model?
As countries all around the world are beginning to seriously invest in their own models, there is a growing debate on whether the country should create its own local large language model. If we do, would it be cost-effective? And if it is, would it be beneficial? As [...]
How to Balance Business Goals with User Needs in UI/UX: A Data-Driven Approach
The Tug-of-War Balancing business goals with user needs in UI/UX is a challenge every designer eventually runs into. Users want fast, free, and beautiful experiences with no friction anywhere. The business, meanwhile, wants high conversion rates, low hosting costs, and a fast time-to-market. These two wish lists are not always [...]
UI/UX Design: Speeding Up the Creative Process with AI
The Builder's Mindset If you have ever stared at a blank Figma canvas with a deadline looming — a thesis defense, a hackathon demo, or just a personal app idea you finally want to ship — you already know that speed matters as much as polish. A traditional UI/UX [...]
Agentjacking: How Fake Sentry Errors Hijack AI Coding Agents
AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex now do far more than autocomplete. They read source code, query observability platforms, open pull requests, and run terminal commands on developer machines. That expanded access is useful, but it also creates a problem most security teams have not accounted [...]
Build AI Apps Faster with Google AI Studio and Gemini
Artificial intelligence has become an essential part of modern software development. It helps developers build applications that understand natural language, generate content, analyze documents, write code, and automate complex tasks. While large language models (LLMs) make these features easier to use, integrating them into real applications still takes time. [...]
OpenRouter Explained: Access Multiple AI Models Through One API
The rapid advancement of generative AI has given developers access to an ever-growing collection of large language models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral AI, and xAI. Each model offers different strengths, whether in reasoning, code generation, content creation, multilingual support, or cost efficiency. While having [...]
Build Your Own JARVIS AI Chatbot Interface using Vercel
Have you ever watched Tony Stark boot up his suits and wished you had your very own J.A.R.V.I.S. to help you code, research, or just manage your day? If you are just starting out with web development, you have probably noticed that most AI chatbot tutorials look exactly the [...]
Can’t Use the Terminal, Can’t Defend the Network: The Importance of Cybersecurity Degrees in the Philippines
Can't Use the Terminal, Can't Defend the Network: The Importance of Cybersecurity Degrees in the Philippines Open a job posting for a Security Operations Center (SOC) analyst, a penetration tester, or a systems administrator anywhere in the world, and one requirement shows up again and again: comfort with the [...]
PromptWars hackathon: students built AI apps
On June 20, 2026, thirty junior and senior high school students spent a day at Programmable Makati building working AI applications. The event was PromptWars: AI-Powered, Student-Built, a hackathon run by DEVCON Kids Philippines and Tutorials Dojo. This event demonstrated how beginners can build with high impact solutions [...]

Seamless Monitoring: Get Slack Alerts for Every AWS Lambda Function Update

Keeping track of updates in your AWS Lambda function seems like an easy task, but it is actually time-consuming. Leaving your Lambda function unattended after deployment may incur risks in missing crucial updates that may affect its overall performance and functionality. And most of the time, you also do development tasks which might limit your attention to these Lambda functions. That's why you must be informed whenever an update is made to your Lambda [...]

SST: Effortless Full-Stack Deployment on AWS

Thinking of other ways how to deploy your full-stack web applications to AWS? Well, there is open-source framework that we can use to deploy web applications to AWS without ever touching the AWS Console because we know how easy it is to get lost in the number of services AWS offers but no worries! If you are a developer and prefers to have their whole Infrastructure as Code (IaC), worry no more because today [...]

The Evolving Landscape of Digital Dialogue: DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT

In the sprawling digital age, where information spreads like a rapidly growing network, and the need for intelligent interaction grows significantly, artificial intelligence has stepped into the spotlight, transforming how we engage with technology and machines. DeepSeek and ChatGPT have emerged as important players in the field of natural language processing, each carving out their own specialty. These platforms, while sharing the common goal of facilitating human-computer interaction, differ significantly in their underlying architectures, [...]

AI-Driven Video Creation: How Luma AI Ray2 and Amazon Bedrock Are Transforming Content Production

The video production landscape is experiencing significant changes driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning advancements. These technologies are transforming how video content is created and consumed, offering creators and businesses new avenues for visual storytelling. A key player in this evolution is Luma AI’s Ray2, an innovative AI-powered video generation model that revolutionizes video production when integrated with the robust features of Amazon Bedrock. Luma AI Ray2 in Amazon Bedrock enables the [...]

Creating a Self-Healing Mechanism for a Lightweight Website

Downtime can be a major disruption for any website, but for lightweight websites like personal blogs or any type of static site, a simple restart of the instance might be all that's needed to resolve the issue. In this article, we'll walk through setting up a self-healing mechanism using AWS Lambda and Amazon EventBridge. This will automatically detect if your website is down, restart it, and send a notification to Slack. We'll also explore [...]

DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock: A Comprehensive Demo

Bookmarks DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock Workflow Overview DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock Pre-requisites Implementation Processes As of January 2025, we’re seeing too much news about DeepSeek AI features in many media outlets, but how about implementing DeepSeek AI and AWS workloads? DeepSeek AI in Amazon Bedrock Anyone? Well, one of the most interesting NLPs that sparked this January 2025 is DeepSeek Multimodal AI. There are many that claim it [...]

PHP-FPM Failures Are Killing Your Uptime – Automate Slack Alerts Before It’s Too Late!

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, where user expectations are at an all-time high, even a few seconds of downtime can have catastrophic consequences. Lost revenue, user dissatisfaction, and damage to your brand reputation are just the tip of the iceberg. If you're still relying on manual methods to monitor PHP-FPM (PHP FastCGI Process Manager), you're leaving your system vulnerable to undetected issues that could lead to catastrophic failures. PHP-FPM is critical for managing pools [...]

Commanding Genomics: AWS CLI for Bioinformatics Workflows

“This is becoming more troublesome…” I can hear you mumble as you move your mouse to click on the different AWS services you need in the console. As time goes by, it can get tiresome to keep on clicking things for your workflow instead of doing them in just one place. You can streamline this process with the AWS CLI! Knowing not only how to work with AWS Console, but also the AWS Command-Line [...]

Simplifying Knowledge Management with a Content Analysis Tool for Confluence

Did you know that organizations spend an average of 19% of their workweek searching for and gathering information? According to research from McKinsey & Company, inefficient knowledge management leads to wasted time and lost productivity—hindering teams from making real progress on meaningful work. (Source, McKinsey) In today’s digital-first environment, managing and organizing information is critical—whether in education, project management, or team collaboration. Confluence is a widely used knowledge management platform that enables teams to [...]

The Path Forward: AI Agents Driving Modern Workflows

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a concept of the future; it's an integral part of today’s digital era. As AI technology advances, businesses and developers increasingly find innovative ways to integrate machine learning into their workflows. One of the most powerful tools in this transformation is the AI agent—a specialized software that autonomously carries out tasks, communicates with users, and makes informed decisions with minimal human intervention. One prominent example of such an [...]