Kuya Dev's Tech Roundup
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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...
YAGNI, AGI, and the Skills That Actually Matter
The Tech Roundup PH Jun 16, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-18 Hello Reader, First of all, thank you to everyone who came to Tech Career Shifter Philippines' First Anniversary celebration! 🎉 I had fun walking around the historic streets of Intramuros and hopping from one food stop to another in Binondo with all of you! Photos and videos of the meetup are now up on Google Drive. ICYMI, I also put out a short Tiktok video on the positive aspects of vibe coding. Lots to talk about in this week's...
College Dropout is now a Senior AI Developer! 😱
The Tech Roundup PH Jun 9, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-17 Hello Reader, Slots for our anniversary meetup quickly filled up. Thanks to everyone who signed up! I'll be sending separate emails to attendees prior to the event. See you on Thursday! So excited. 😍 If you ran out of slots, and are still interested to join us, I would encourage you to sign up for the waitlist, just in case someone backs out. I might also open up a couple more slots, who knows? All we're hoping now is that the weather won't...
Join Kuya Dev on June 12 for an Intramuros-Binondo Tech Food Crawl!
The Tech Roundup PH Jun 2, 2025 DONATE Digest 25-16 Hello Reader, As I announced in my social media posts, we'll be having a one-of-a-kind meetup on June 12, 2025! We'll be doing a food crawl in the Intramuros-Binondo areas! 🥟 We can't accommodate many people though. We'll limit attendees to around 10 to 15 people. Registration is first come first served. As promised, here's the exclusive signup link for the event. Good luck! Meanwhile, this week's newsletter centers on AI's impact especially...
Hacked, Exposed, and Open Sourced
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...
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