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The Tech Roundup PH May 26, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-15 Hello Reader, Got a couple of the good 'ol Kuya Dev viral memes to start your week: Dev on vacation skit Shipping null I hope I didn't spoil the rest of your week. 🤣 Tech Career Shifter Philippines' anniversary is coming up soon. I'm thinking of having an in-person guerrilla meetup somewhere in Ortigas or Quezon City. Should we? Let me know. If we garner enough interest, maybe we'd push through with it. Anyway, it's a jam-packed edition for...

The Tech Roundup PH May 19, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-14 Hello Reader, We just came back from Taiwan, and I'm really tired from all the walking and traveling. So yeah, this week's edition of the newsletter is lighter than usual as a result so bear with me. I'll come back in full force next week. Until then! 👋 Cheers, Rem "Kuya Dev" Lampa Follow My Socials GOLD SPONSOR Your advertisement here Interested in sponsoring the Tech Roundup PH Newsletter? Contact Us News and Updates KakaComputer Podcast...

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The Tech Roundup PH May 5, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-13 Hello Reader, Belated May the 4th be with you! Finally got around to publishing my vlog about challenging myself to build a facial recognition app that allows one to move a ball on the screen using the "Pinoy Gesture", a Filipino mannerism in which we point at things using our puckered lips. 😗 The videos were recorded a few weeks before the term "vibe coding" came out so I never mentioned it. I had so much fun building the app, and learned a...

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The Tech Roundup PH Apr 28, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-12 Hello Reader, How's the summer heat treating you? I hope you're enduring as I am. This past Saturday, I was in Lipa, Batangas for the Batangas IT Conference, and goodness gracious, the outside heat was unbearable. We knew that it would be blazing hot, so we decided against our usual practice of walking around town after an event. But we still did manage to score us some Batangas food! From tulingan to kakanin to pastries, oh man, everything...

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The Tech Roundup PH Apr 21, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-11 Hello Reader, Hope you had a great Holy Week break. Unfortunately, I came down with a sickness, and still recovering. 🤒 That's not stopping me from putting out this week's newsletter though! Before anything else, let me take this opportunity to address some event invites I've been receiving. With that out of the way, enjoy this week's digest. As always, feel free to let me know what you think. Thank you, and see you again next week! Cheers,...

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The Tech Roundup PH Apr 14, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-10 Hello Reader, We have a couple of milestones this week: This is the 10th issue of the newsletter! 🎉 We reached 5,000 subscribers on our Youtube channel! 🎉 Thank you so much for all the support! People have been asking me when I'll be releasing new videos. Frankly, I don't know yet. Things have been pretty hectic, and I've been focusing any free time I have on editing episodes for a new podcast my wife and I are cooking up. I'll spend the...

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The Tech Roundup PH Mar 31, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-09 Hello Reader, On Threads last week, I raised the need to force consumer tech manufacturers to bring back repairability and upgradability to their products, and it sparked some debate. It also highlighted the difference between the context of developed vs. emerging economies. I invite you to share your thoughts on the topic. Just an update on the Quantum Computing course I'm taking, we just finished the fifth session, and I'm completely lost...

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The Tech Roundup PH Mar 24, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-08 Hello Reader, Months ago, I was tempted to join the casting call by RecCreate for career shifters. They're doing it again on March 28. I really want to go but it's a Friday, so it might mean I need to go on leave, which isn't possible at the moment. If you're a career shifter and you're free on Friday, I encourage you to join. People need to know that shifting careers is okay, and should be normalized. Are you a fan of Severance? If you...

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The Tech Roundup PH Mar 17, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-07 Hello Reader, We've added a few more Women's Month events in our tech calendar! I hope I could drop by in one of these events, especially since there are a few that will be happening near our place. Nonetheless, so glad to see so many tech events to commemorate Women's Month and International Women's Day. Please do lend them your support. I often get questions on how to bag international job opportunities, and today is no exception. So I'll...

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The Tech Roundup PH Mar 10, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-06 Hello Reader, I love this week's newsletter: we put our focus on the value of college education! From getting a college degree without going back to college, to ongoing global discussions on how college education should adapt in the knowledge economy, to colleges closing down due to lack of enrollees, to alternative learning pathways, there's a lot to unpack. One may think that I'm anti-academe. On the contrary, I'm anti-not evolving. I'm...