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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 [...]

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 through the use of AI. Welcome messages: AI as more than a tool Hosts Ace Batacandulo and Franchesca Asignacion of Tutorials Dojo opened the day [...]

Expo & React Native: Understanding the Tools Behind Your First Mobile App (2026)

Have you ever had an app idea that you wanted to build? Maybe you searched, “What’s the first step to creating a mobile app?” only to end up asking, “Why do I need all these tools before I can even build a simple app?” Many beginners expect mobile development to start with designing screens and writing code. Instead, they often find tutorials introducing several unfamiliar tools and frameworks, along with instructions on how to install [...]

How to Book the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAR-F) Exam

The Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAR-F) is Anthropic's foundational certification for professionals who design and build production systems with Claude. One thing is worth understanding before you register: the exam is scenario-based, not concept-based. Rather than asking you to define terms or recall facts in isolation, each question presents a realistic production situation, such as an agent loop, a tool schema, or a multi-agent workflow, and asks you to identify the correct architectural [...]

Get AWS AIF-C01 and CLF-C02 with 50% OFF: Build Your Future with Two AWS Certifications!

Artificial intelligence and cloud computing are changing the way we work. From writing emails with AI assistants to running business applications in the cloud, these technologies have become part of our everyday lives. You no longer need to be a software engineer to benefit from understanding how they work. Whether you're a student, a working professional, or someone planning to switch careers, having a basic understanding of AI and cloud computing can give you [...]

The Best Local Development Setups for Web and Mobile Apps

Local development setups can affect how fast you build, test, and ship web and mobile apps. This guide is for students, developers, and everyone that wants to compare three practical cross-platform options. You will see how Next.js with Expo, Flutter with Android Studio, and Next.js with Capacitor perform in setup time, developer experience, storage use, and mobile RAM usage. Test app and scoring method To keep the comparison fair, I used the same simple [...]

My First Exposure to Machine Learning with PyTorch

If you have ever opened a machine learning tutorial and felt like you were reading a math and statistics textbook, you are not alone. I spent months telling myself I would “get into AI eventually”, until I finally arrived at my breakthrough. This is not a textbook breakdown of deep learning theory, but rather a practical journey. This is the honest account of a computer science student learning Machine Learning with PyTorch for the [...]

Building AI Browser Agents with Browser Use and Playwright

Artificial intelligence is changing how developers interact with the web. Traditional browser automation was originally designed around predefined scripts, rigid workflows, and predictable user actions. Developers manually wrote automation logic that followed exact selectors, buttons, and navigation sequences. While effective, these systems often broke whenever websites changed their layouts or introduced dynamic interfaces. Today, AI browser agents are making browser automation far more adaptive and intelligent. Modern frameworks such as Browser Use, Playwright, LangChain, [...]

The New Software Stack: AI + GitHub + Cloud

Software development looks very different today than it did five years ago. Developers are no longer working with isolated tools and manual deployment pipelines. Instead, the modern software stack has grown into a connected ecosystem where artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, automated DevOps workflows, and collaborative development platforms all work together. This matters whether you are an IT professional keeping pace with industry changes or a career-changer figuring out where to focus your learning. The [...]

AI Coding Assistants Are Changing Junior Developer Learning Habits

Human AI workflows are rapidly transforming modern software development. From generating boilerplate code to debugging cloud infrastructure configurations, AI coding assistants are becoming part of the everyday toolkit of developers around the world. For junior developers, this shift is significantly changing how programming is learned. A few years ago, beginner developers spent countless hours searching through Stack Overflow threads, reading documentation line by line, and manually debugging syntax errors. Today, many of those learning [...]

Connecting the Pieces: How AWS Services Form Cloud Architectures

One of the biggest surprises I encountered while learning AWS was realizing that understanding individual services and understanding cloud architecture are not the same thing. Like many beginners, I started by learning services one at a time. EC2 was a virtual server. S3 was object storage. RDS was a managed database. Load Balancers distributed traffic. Each service had its own purpose, features, and use cases. At first, this approach made sense. Understanding individual services [...]