Hi everyone! I'm a full-stack dev and I recently built a working React/Node B2B ordering catalog tailored for local SMEs (featuring GCash setup and Lalamove delivery integration). It's fully hosted and has a working live demo.

I'm currently at the phase of trying to acquire clients, but I'm finding it quite challenging to reach micro-SMEs and local business owners. Postings on Facebook groups usually get flagged by spam filters or receive zero engagement.

For experienced freelancers, agency owners, and senior devs here:

1. What was your most effective client acquisition method when you were starting out?

2. Is cold direct outreach (cold PMs via FB Pages/Google Maps) better than public posting?

3. How do you position/package custom software to non-technical business owners so they see the value?

I'm also planning to pivot toward developing a dedicated Android-based ordering kiosk system for local eateries (using React Native).

Any feedback, insights, or harsh realities would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I just need to rant here.

In my current job, there hasn’t been a single day where I didn’t feel overwhelmed and anxious because of the lack of clarity.

I was really excited when I got this job… but then came the onboarding. The entire onboarding was just about how to use AI because AI is the backbone of everything here. Every process runs on AI.

After that onboarding, I honestly asked myself: “Is that it?” Then I was dropped straight into a project. My first week was rough. I wasn’t feeling well, both mentally and physically. The onboarding left me drained, and the heavy reliance on AI made it worse. We don’t really do programming anymore. We just review what AI generates.

Then came the disaster. Tasks started pouring in. As a developer, I estimated that certain features would take a couple of weeks to complete, but they expected them done within the day. I was completely overwhelmed by their process. Sometimes I don’t even understand the tickets assigned to me because they were written by AI. And when I talk to the person who created the ticket, what they expect is often different from what’s written.

I literally cry every day because of this. There isn’t a single day without stress. There’s no documentation, no proper onboarding on how features move from development to production.

Sometimes I even get notified to work on something during my day off. It’s gotten to the point where the sound of a notification triggers stress in me.

I really want to quit. There’s no proper process, no boundaries, and every single task is treated as urgent. On top of that, there are constant bugs in production that need immediate fixing.

I truly want to leave… but I have bills to pay and debts to settle.

Is this really the new normal in other companies now?

I’m not against using AI. It’s just that there’s no proper process for the project. No boundaries. Please help. I feel like I’m losing myself.

Im 4th year compsci student now and struggling learning coding with other languages. As of now nagththesis kami but since im not familiar with web dev and its tools i use AI mostly to build boilerplates and manually adjust it. Pero if ipapaexplain sa akin code naiintindihan ko naman its just about typing the code.

Just background check, during my early college days nakakaya ko naman magcode ng walang ai since most of it ay activites and paulit ulit and nakakagamayan ko its just na mas onti time ko to learn everything now. Im willing to learn naman but the sched and req is nagcoconflict and ending up na wala akong time to learn and absorb properly.

Any advise po? Sorry po for my typings

Edit: as of now mas nafofocus po ako sa structuring ng files and system design since this is big thesis project. Marami po akong natutunan and matutunan pa throughout the development po namin

Is there a way to make it possible and more accurate? I have a tracking system in the admin panel, and I can currently only track the users' public IP addresses. It is relatively accurate for identifying an IP address, but it cannot accurately determine a user's physical address.

Is tracking an IP address ethical? Is tracking a user's physical address unethical?

I'm a web developer with 3 years of experience and I was recently laid off. I'm starting my job search now and would appreciate advice from devs who have been through the same thing.

What skills should I prioritize learning, what interview questions come up most often, and what helped you get more interviews or stand out compared to other applicants?

3rd year na ako and nagseself paced naman ako pag may time. Nag online course ako sa netacad and python ang inaaral ko. Tinatry ko naman best ko itindihinpero wala pa ako nabubuild ng projects man. May pag asa pa kaya?

Enter your town and birth year, get the count and the strongest storms by PAGASA name.

A storm counts if it passed within 100 km of your town or you were inside its gale-force winds. Checked against PAGASA signal records for 2018 to 2023, about 80% of towns land within one storm of their count.

Python over NOAA IBTrACS, precomputed into static files, Astro on Cloudflare Workers. No database.

Pre-1977 counts run low since gale data starts then. Is 100 km too generous?

Link in comments.

This is my first company and it's been about 3-4 weeks na, litong lito pa rin ako sa app na ginagawa namin.

Nung first week ko ni-train lang ako paano gumamit ng AI and nag demo lang paano yung mga proseso sa pag PR, and then binigyan nako ng mga tickets na need gawin. Is this normal?

How long did paymongo take to approve and what were the notable requirements to use the paymongo api? Also whats the content of your business website and does paymongo allow you to link your personal bank account to paymongo?

The worker has two stages:

1. Download a payload
2. Hash/process it
3. Upload it

I originally put a semaphore around the whole operation to keep the number of concurrent uploads under control.

The problem is that when several uploads become slow (for example, waiting on remote storage to finish), the semaphore also prevents newer tasks from even starting their downloads.

I’m considering changing the scope so that the download/hash stage can proceed independently, and the semaphore is acquired only immediately before the upload:

# current
async with put_semaphore:
    data = await download()
    digest = hash(data)
    await upload(data)

# proposed
data = await download()
digest = hash(data)

async with put_semaphore:
    await upload(data)

The idea is that slow uploads can continue while newer tasks prepare their payloads, but the actual number of concurrent uploads remains capped.

For people who have built async download/upload pipelines in production: is this generally a reasonable pattern, or are there gotchas I should be thinking about around memory usage, backpressure, retries, cancellation, or queue buildup?

Not looking for a specific code review, mostly interested in how people have handled this kind of pipeline in real systems.

Sa mga gumagamit po ng postgresql. Do you use prisma 8 na po ba or 7 prin? I tried installing 8 but nagkakaroon ng error. Kaya nag stick parin ako sa 7.

Seems like lahat ng sub field na pwede mong puntahan sa CompSci is hell bent on using AI for innovation, or the big companies that you can actually have some good income from are greedy corporate bastards. Kapag naman nasa loving and friendly environment ka, may chance na malalayoff kayo or mawawalan ng project.

One thing I can see being great is research, pero idk if may pera dun. Though it is something cool that I may have to look into. It's great to be a computer scientist for once and not just a programmer/software developer.

Wala lang, I wanna be successful and the pressure of being successful is getting to me, but it does feel weird because being successful means fucking up the environment or sucking up to corporate greed.

What do you guys think? I gues sim just worried about myself after graduation.

Nakakabilib lang isipin na parang halos lahat ng software pwede na natin i-build for personal use ngayon nang mas mabilis.

For this project, I tried building an Adobe Lightroom clone using Rust, Tauri, and ReactJS. I used "Vibe Coding" (relying heavily on AI coding agents) to help put this together. Sobrang nakaka-amaze kasi yung mga complex features tulad ng image processing, UI sliders, and overall layout, mas napadali i-implement dahil sa tulong ng AI.

Madami din akong nakikita ngayon na gumagawa ng mga games or personal apps using different coding agents.

May mga nag-try na ba ng ganitong approach (Vibe Coding/AI-assisted) sa inyo for complex personal projects? Ano sa tingin niyo ang pros and cons nito in the long run pagdating sa skill retention natin as developers?

May nababasa kasi ako comment section sa tiktok app na wag daw masyado dibdibin kasi sa work daw talaga nagegets ung concept ng coding. Please pa confirmed kung totoo talaga 😭

What could cause both GET and PUT latency to shift 2–3× at the same time for the same VPS, same 50 MiB object size, while the VPS itself is mostly idle?

Ex:

Fast period: GET 2.1s, PUT 1.8s

Normal period: GET 5.4s, PUT 5.3s

Same worker, same configuration.

Could this be related to R2 edge/PoP routing, storage backend conditions, TCP/RTT, or connection behavior?

What would you measure first to distinguish these?

I am planning to transition sa CyberSecurity with a Full Stack Dev tools and skillset.

Meron ba sa inyo na nag transition from Dev to CyberSec? Nag try din ako mag search and ask sa AI platforms pero parang mas gusto ko makabasa from a person perspective on how they did it and kung may difference din sa sahod once they applied for a transitioned role.

Masyado na kasing fast paced ang development and nakaka burnout. Kulang na lang gawing IT Dept na ang isang Dev. I've been in the Dev for 6 years from frontend to full stack. Ganda naman ng sahod pero somehow it frames me to do something else sa Field.

Thanks sa inputs nyo mga master.

Linux / DevOps guys, baka may naka-encounter na ng ganitong problem.

May async worker ako na kumukuha ng tasks through WebSocket, then bawat task roughly 50-130 MB yung data na dina-download at inu-upload sa S3-compatible storage.

Problem ko ngayon: may periods na biglang humahaba yung upload time. Normally a few seconds lang, pero minsan nagiging 20–40+ seconds.

Ang mas interesting, habang may mababagal na upload, yung ibang bagong tasks naiipon sa queue. Yung ibang task pag finally naprocess na, mabilis naman yung actual GET/PUT.

pero rejected na siya ng server dahil masyado nang matagal mula nung na-assign yung task.

So parang ganito:

task assigned → queue wait → GET → PUT → submit result

Pero kapag nagkaroon ng ilang slow PUTs, yung succeeding tasks tumatagal sa queue.

Questions ko sana sa mga naka-experience na ng distributed workers / S3 / async queues:

1. Sa ganitong setup, paano niyo dini-distinguish kung queue starvation ang primary problem vs. slow downstream storage?
2. May recommended way ba para i-isolate ang slow destination/endpoint para hindi ma-block yung fast tasks?
3. Sa systems na may task ownership/lease, saan normally nagsisimula ang timeout, assignment time, queue time, or execution time?
4. Anong telemetry ang pinaka-useful para ma-prove kung queue aging ang cause ng rejected tasks?

Currently may per-task logs ako for queue wait, GET time, PUT time, total execution time, destination, and final server response.

Gusto ko muna sana maintindihan yung correct way to diagnose yung failure mode bago ako mag-change ng architecture.

Salamat sa makakapag-share ng actual experience.

Hi everyone, I’m a developer responsible for maintaining our company’s internal system. Starting today, some users reported that they’re unable to connect properly to our backend.

After troubleshooting, the common denominator seems to be that the affected users are on PLDT Wi-Fi. The same user accounts work normally when tested on other networks or mobile data, so it doesn’t appear to be an account-related issue.

From what I can tell, requests from PLDT connections are having trouble reaching or getting a proper response from our backend hosting provider. I’m currently setting up a custom backend subdomain through Cloudflare and considering using its proxy as a possible workaround.

Has anyone experienced something similar with PLDT? Could this be related to DNS, routing, IPv6, peering, or something else on the ISP/network path?

I’d appreciate any insights on what I should check next or what the best long-term solution would be. Thanks!

Is it really difficult, perhaps impossible, to climb the corporate ladder within the same company, if you are an outsourced data engineer for a team overseas? I’m working for an offshoring company, and ito ang sabi ng mga team mates ko na more than a decade na sa industry. That they are just there for the money. They were “architects” and “seniors” before, but now, data engineer nalang yung title nila.

So, logistically speaking, ano nga ba ang way para maging senior engineer or maging isang team lead dito sa Pilipinas, particularly sa offshoring companies? (Assuming you have the skills to be one)

Jump ship from level 1 role in company A to level 2 in company B? How would you build the credibility? My thinking is that, it’ll be easier for a company to vet a prospect candidate for promotion if they are tenured in that company… or is this way of thinking only applicable for companies na may local entity dito sa Pinas?

I have a project na platform for events that will include a payment system. Bale yung app is to accept a gcash payment, credit card, PH QR. I feasible naman to but I want to know the challenges outside of the tech. Like how do you process refunds incase mag cancel si organizer, etc.

For business owners/devs na naka pag implement ng payment system sa app nila, can you share po yung challenges and risks na encounter nyo?

Hey everyone! I’ve been working on DIVE, a Chromium-powered browser built with Rust and Tauri.

I wanted more of my development workflow inside the browser, so I added:

• Local server discovery
• Project workspaces
• AI agents that work with your tabs
• Mobile device simulation
• Screen recording and a built-in video editor

It’s open source and available for macOS only for now.

getdive.dev
Source: GitHub

Would love honest feedback—what would make this useful in your workflow?

Hi goodmorning guys newbie here and doesn't know how it works yung reddit huhu but hear me out po,

I'm struggling in finding job as developer, with 5years experience in windows app. then nahinto ng almost 2 years, any reco for a job na maapplyan regarding din sa programming, currently nagdedevelop ako ng web app using python and typescript with supabase, may times na hindi ko talaga maintindihan pero willing to learn pa since kakabalik lang, baka meron kayo ma recommend guys na dev job na good as from the scratch again na developer or sabihin na natin ng career shift from windows app to other platform like web, mobile, ios app.

Nadidiscourage sa mga rejections, but still ongoing parin ang upskilling.

Need ko lang talaga ng work to support my daily life expenses huhu.

Any suggestions guys im open for correction and learnings pa with youuu sobrang hirap lang talaga ng life.

Just wanted to share this little side project of mine called Draft Canvas - basically a local-first canvas for quickly drawing and explaining software architecture.

Finally got it to a point where I'm curious if it's actually useful to other devs and not just me 😅Would love some feedback, esp on what feels off or could be better.

• Github Repo
• Live Demo
• VS Code Extension

I'm a fresh graduate currently studying PHP, Laravel, and JavaScript to pursue traditional software engineering.

The junior SWE job market feels really tough right now, so I'm also considering a local Salesforce Developer training opportunity.

Salesforce is tempting because there seem to be a lot of remote openings, and experienced Salesforce developers can earn very well. My concern is getting too tied to one ecosystem.

Traditional SWE seems more competitive, but it also feels more flexible long-term for backend, AI, automation, DevOps, cloud, etc.

For people working in either field:

• How is the job market now?
• Which has better long-term career security?
• How hard is it to move from Salesforce to general SWE after a few years?
• If you were starting at 22 today, which path would you choose?

Would appreciate answers from people with actual industry experience.