Kuya Dev's Tech Roundup
Don't miss out on the latest tips and insights on tech career shifting and career building, alongside curated updates and upcoming events from the Philippine Tech Sector and Tech Community! Subscribe now! Publishes every Monday.
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! π 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! π±
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. π 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! π₯ 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. π€£ 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...
How Do You Break Into Tech as a Career Shifter?
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! π 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...
PH Digital Tax Is a Step Back for Innovation
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. π 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...
Is AI heating up the Philippines?
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...
Unlock Your Storytelling Power
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. π€ 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,...
Join Me at Batangas IT Conference
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! π We reached 5,000 subscribers on our Youtube channel! π 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...
Finding Purpose in Code & Beyond
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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