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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 [...]

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 statement, the damage was already done and the story was already spreading. This is the reality of modern cybersecurity: attackers move in minutes, but most [...]

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 a marketing task. That repetitive cycle is exactly what a project called Automating Publications was built to solve. It is a working, experimental content pipeline [...]

AI Ethics Explained: How to Use Artificial Intelligence Responsibly

Have you ever used ChatGPT to help explain a difficult topic? Maybe you've asked Gemini to summarize a lengthy article, generate ideas for a school project, write an email, or even use Claude for brainstorming concepts. If you're a student, you've probably wondered: "Is it okay to use AI for assignments?" If you're a content creator, perhaps you've asked yourself at least once: "Who actually owns AI-generated content?" Or maybe you've come across AI-generated [...]

Fine-tuning an LLM for natural Tagalog speech

If you're an ML engineer or a technical lead planning to pre-train a large language model (LLM) for Tagalog or Taglish, how do you start? In this article, we walk through the process of defining a target voice, building a data pipeline, running a QLoRA training experiment, and evaluating results with native speakers, so a team can test the idea with a small, well-scoped proof of concept before committing to a larger build. Why [...]

Building Diffender: A Serverless AI Security Reviewer for GitHub Pull Requests with Amazon Bedrock

A pull request can pass its tests, satisfy its acceptance criteria, and still expose a production credential in one line of code. Diffender is an Amazon Bedrock pull request reviewer built to identify that kind of risk before the change reaches the main branch. However, human review remains essential, and its depth can vary with workload, time pressure, and security experience. Meanwhile, deterministic scanners provide valuable coverage, although their findings are not always presented [...]

AWS Certification Maintenance: Recertify Without an Exam

Many AWS-certified professionals face the same challenge every few years: preparing for another certification exam while balancing work, projects, and personal commitments. While certifications remain a valuable way to validate cloud expertise, the traditional recertification process can be time-consuming and stressful. To address this, AWS has introduced a new certification maintenance option that allows eligible professionals to extend select AWS Certifications without retaking the full exam. Through AWS Skill Builder, certification holders can complete [...]

CCDV-F Claude Certified Developer Foundations Study Guide

Bookmarks CCDV-F Exam Domains CCDV-F Study Materials Claude Features to Focus On Key Exam Topics by Domain Important Skills Validate Your Readiness Final Remarks The Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F) certification is designed for technical professionals who build, integrate, and deliver Claude-powered applications at a foundational level. It validates the ability to use the Claude API and client SDKs, construct agents and workflows, [...]

CCAR-P Claude Certified Architect Professional Study Guide

Bookmarks CCAR-P Exam Domains CCAR-P Study Materials Claude Features to Focus On Key Exam Topics by Domain Important Skills Validate Your Readiness Final Remarks The Claude Certified Architect – Professional (CCAR-P) certification is designed for experienced professionals who build and deliver production-grade AI solutions with Claude. It validates the ability to select suitable models, architectural patterns, and API approaches; apply prompt and context engineering; [...]

CCAO-F Claude Certified Associate Foundations Study Guide

Bookmarks CCAO-F Exam Domains CCAO-F Study Materials Claude Features to Focus On Key Exam Topics by Domain Important Skills Validate Your Readiness Final Remarks The Claude Certified Associate – Foundations (CCAO-F) certification is designed for professionals who use Claude to support everyday business, communication, research, and productivity activities. It measures a candidate’s ability to write effective prompts, work with Claude’s built-in features, assess generated [...]

CI/CD Crash Course: From Junior to Senior Developer

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) is the backbone of modern software teams. It's not just a buzzword for your resume — it's the automated pipeline that takes code from "it works on my machine" to "it works in production, reliably, every time." Understanding CI/CD deeply, not just using it, is one of the clearest markers separating a junior developer from a senior one. The Basics: CI vs CD Continuous Integration (CI) is the [...]