Kuya Dev's Tech Roundup
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Pin your deps! NPM chaos & the React patterns you need to know ⚛️
Kuya dev's Tech Roundup Sep 15, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-28 Hello Reader, We had our inauguration ceremony for OPIT's incoming students last Monday, and onboarding has started. Classes officially start tomorrow! Each term, I'm required to take five subjects. Each subject has 1.5 hours of live sessions (also recorded for async viewing) plus another 1.5 hours of video lectures. So that's already 15 hours a week just for lectures. Add to that the time required for self and group study sessions,...
Job Hunting Feels Impossible? You’re Not Alone 👀
Kuya dev's Tech Roundup Sep 8, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-27 Hello Reader, I hope you all are doing good despite the things that have been happening in our government (again). On a personal note, I'm excited since I'm about to start grad school next week! In fact, we have a couple of welcome events slated this week. I apologize in advance to people who are thinking of inviting me as a resource person for their events: I'll be taking a hiatus from tech events as I focus on this new chapter in my...
🚨 MIT says 95% of AI projects FAIL + PH influencer selling theses for ₱5K 😱
Kuya dev's Tech Roundup Sep 1, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-26 Hello Reader, "Whenever I see girls and boys, singing lanterns on the streets..." 🎵 It's officially Christmas Season in the Philippines! 🎄 I wasn't able to push through with a surprise meetup last weekend, as I couldn't find the time. 😢 I was planning it to be my last event before I hibernate for grad school. Oh well, see you all in 2027, I guess. 😅 I received reports that some links from the newsletter can't be opened. Apparently,...
🎓 CHED Drops a Bomb: Degrees Don’t Guarantee Jobs
Kuya dev's Tech Roundup Aug 18, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-25 Hello Reader, We're back for our 25th newsletter digest! Huge milestone, and all thanks to you. Appreciate you for sticking around as we continue to grow the newsletter and take back control from social media platforms and their algorithms. Huge shout out to the Davao Tech Community for a successful AWS Community Day 2025! Hope you never get tired of inviting us. 😅 Wife and I had so much fun connecting with everyone. And the food in...
PH’s First AI Lab + Quantum Leap = A Big Week for PH Tech
Kuya dev's Tech Roundup Aug 4, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-24 Hello Reader, This week's issue is loaded. First, because there's no shortage of interesting stuff that happened. And second, there won't be a newsletter next week since I'll be in Davao City for AWS Community Day! 😍 So excited to see everyone again. Thanks to everyone who congratulated me on my promotion (except for this guy 😅). I'm still terrified AF, but eager to learn the ropes. Andito na tayo e. Lol Enjoy this week's newsletter,...
Should You Study Game Dev or Comp Sci in 2025?
Kuya dev's Tech Roundup Jul 28, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-23 Hello Reader, In what's virtually a tradition now, I spent my birthday in the midst of a devastating storm ravaging the country. I'm just hoping everyone is safe and dry. On lighter news, I'm formally announcing this for the first time ever: I just got promoted as Prosple's Head of Engineering. I am still quite in shock, and very much trying to process what this actually means, but yeah, hurray for me! I've actually been a VP of...
Coldplay Cheating Scandal + A Train App Worth Rooting For 🚆
Kuya dev's Tech Roundup Jul 21, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-22 Hello Reader, This past week, the Internet had a field day with the Tech CEO caught cheating with their head of HR during a Coldplay concert. Myself included! Just see my content updates section below. 😂 Meanwhile, this week is my birthday week! How time files so fast! Ever feel like you're running out of time to do all the things you need to do? That's how literally how I feel. So much to be thankful for though, and that includes you:...
The Cult of AI, Curriculum Reform, and Cleaning Up ReactJS PH
Kuya dev's Tech Roundup Jul 14, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-21 Hello Reader, Back from our Baguio trip! We were supposed to hold a surprise meetup there but the weather didn't cooperate, which was quite unfortunate. This past week has been quite a doozy, as I decided to put time into getting ReactJS Philippines Facebook Group back in order, which has turned into a breeding ground of trolls and toxicity as of late. After consulting with the rest of the community's core group, the following actions...
To the One Who Feels Like Giving Up: Read This
Kuya dev's Tech Roundup Jun 30, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-20 Hello Reader, Another loaded edition this week! We'll touch on the sensitive risks of AI, why I don't think LLMs will learn how to reason, and so much more. But first, here's a couple of Kuya Dev skits to start your week with a laugh: Durog the Programmer Can programming make you crazy? Quick announcement, we won't be having a newsletter digest next week as we'll be out of town. Thanks for reading, and don't hesitate to tell me what you...
Is Flat Design finally dying? Is AI causing our brains to rot? Will PH internet get cheaper?
Kuya dev's Tech Roundup Jun 23, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-19 Hello Reader, Huge announcement for my Davao City subscribers: I'll probably be coming back to the King City of the South! Still ironing out the details but hope to see you all soon! This has been a wild week in terms of viral content for me. In case you missed them, here they are for the LOLs: PrayGPT Tumagos I really need your feedback in making this newsletter better. How is the newsletter helping you? What sort of things do you want...
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