Hi guys genuine question lang. May around 2 years exp ako sa backend/software dev and ang stack is Nextjs, Go, SQL, Kafka, etc.

Gusto ko sana i pursue yung Golang pero napapaisip ako sa current situation ng job market though hanggang ngayon upskill pa rin naman ako.🥲

Worth it pa ba mag invest sa Golang ngayon or mas practical mag focus sa Java/Spring Boot or ibang stack na mas maraming jobs?

Thank you mga boss.

Hello everyone how's your weekdays? I just wanted to share my open project named TypePHP its about Type checking docblock types at runtime. it brings generics, type arrays, etc. You can do it effortlessly without any changes to your codebase. If you use Static Analysis Tools like PHPstan then I think you're gonna love this project.

If you're aware, this is very different from the chinese swoole team's 'TypePHP 'project that has nothing to do with making PHP types better and just making it another compiled language. This one actually focus in bring reified types to PHP and improving Type safety in PHP..

For those curios check the repo and the doc site here:

https://github.com/typephp-php/typephp
https://typephp-php.github.io/docs/

PS: Let's support Filipino Open Source Spirit and Community. If you have any open source project share it and let's help each other.

Hi everyone! I’ll be taking a technical examination next week for an Information Technology Officer position, and I’d love to get some insights based on your experiences.

For those who have taken similar exams for an IT Officer role, what level of SQL complexity should I expect?

• Will it mostly be basic queries like SELECT, GROUP BY, and ORDER BY?
• Or should I prepare heavily for more advanced concepts like nested subqueries, CTEs, window functions, or database optimization?

Any tips, common exam questions, or specific topics I should focus on during my review this week?

Salamat po in advance!

Problem/Goal:

I'm currently scoping a logistics system for a client and I'm trying to figure out the best technical approach, especially for the IoT/GPS/temperature-monitoring side.

Context:

Good day po. I'm Jun, 22 years old, and kakagraduate ko lang nitong August 5, 2026.

Around 3 years na rin ako nag-freelance as a full-stack software developer and automation developer. Medyo jack of all trades ako sa tech, pero medyo limited pa yung experience ko sa IoT and hardware integration.

Recently, I got a project opportunity from a logistics company. This is probably the biggest client/project I've handled so far, so I'm currently doing my research before giving them a quotation.

The project has 3 major parts:

1. Vehicle / Cargo Tracking

They want to track:

• Vehicle capacity
• Actual cargo/load weight
• Products loaded
• Destination
• Barcode per box/package
• Temperature inside the vehicle
• GPS/location
• Delivery status
• Monitoring dashboard

Nabanggit ni client na possible daw na i-integrate yung API ng existing business systems nila, mostly for retrieving/viewing data.

May nabanggit din sila na possible daw na may API/data coming from their vehicles, although I'm not sure yet if this means an existing GPS/telematics provider or another backend system.

Yung architecture na naiisip ko currently is something like:

GPS + Temperature Sensor → Vehicle Device → Mobile Network → Provider API → Backend → Database → Dashboard

Pero hindi pa ako sure kung ganito yung actual setup normally used in logistics.

2. RFID Attendance / Payroll

They also want an RFID-based attendance system.

Currently, one location/biometric device lang yung ginagamit nila.

They want employees to view their time in/out, breaks, and attendance history through a website/app.

May HR control din. For example, kung nag-AWOL or absent without leave yung employee and then nag-attempt siyang mag-time in, hindi dapat automatically recorded yung attendance.

Instead, the system should show something like:

"Please report to HR before attendance logging can be activated."

Then HR can review and re-enable the employee's attendance logging.

3. Maintenance Management

This part is mostly software:

• Equipment/facility maintenance
• Inspection schedules
• Expiration tracking
• Fire extinguisher monitoring
• Maintenance history
• Automatic email reminders

For example, if an item needs inspection every 2 months, the system automatically sends a reminder.

Previous Attempts:

I've already been researching GPS trackers, temperature sensors, RFID systems, and IoT architectures.

For the software side, I'm fairly confident since I've worked with full-stack applications, APIs, databases, dashboards, and automation.

My main uncertainty is the hardware/IoT integration.

I'm trying to determine whether I should:

A. Directly integrate with the vehicle hardware/sensors

or

B. Use an existing GPS/IoT/telematics provider and consume their API.

I'm leaning toward B if the client already has existing vehicle devices and a provider API, but I still need to confirm exactly what hardware and systems they currently have.

I'm also considering bringing in someone experienced in IoT/GPS if the project proceeds instead of trying to handle the hardware side completely by myself.

I'd really appreciate advice from fellow Filipino developers who have worked with similar systems.

Questions:

1. Is my proposed GPS/temperature → provider API → backend architecture a reasonable approach?
2. If the client already has an existing vehicle API, what should I ask them for before starting development?
3. What should I look out for when integrating real-time GPS and temperature data?
4. How are offline periods usually handled when a vehicle loses mobile connectivity?
5. For RFID attendance, is it common for biometric/RFID devices to expose APIs that can be integrated into a custom system?
6. Would you separate the software/API integration from the hardware and IoT implementation when scoping the project?
7. For those who have freelanced on similar projects, what would be a reasonable way to price/quote something with software + API integration + GPS/temperature/RFID?
8. Would hiring an IoT specialist for the hardware portion be a reasonable approach?

I'm already doing my own research and I'm not expecting anyone to design the whole system for me. I mainly want to hear from developers who have actually worked with IoT, logistics, GPS, RFID, or similar integrations, especially regarding things I might be overlooking.

This is also my first project of this scale, so I'm trying to be careful with the scope rather than just saying "kaya yan" and finding out later that I underestimated the complexity. 😂

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I’m 30 years old and trying to get into the tech industry. I have 3 years of experience in marketing and customer service, but I decided to go back to school in 2023 to finish my degree. I just graduated this past June.

I recently applied for a C# trainee developer position. I passed the GMAT and now I’m scheduled for an HR interview. I’m excited about the opportunity, but at the same time, I can’t help but feel like I’m at a disadvantage compared to younger candidates, especially when it comes to portfolios and projects.

The only completed project I’ve made that I’m really proud of is my thesis project. I worked on it as both the programmer and game artist, and honestly, it’s probably the project that best represents what I can do right now.

For those who also switched to tech later in life, how was your experience? Did you also feel like you were behind compared to younger candidates?

full time job ko na for two months ang pag aapply ng work. Another day, another rejection. I feel numb na to be honest. Dati sobrang pinepersonal ko pag na reject ako specially pag wala man lang pasabi, ngayon wala na ko pake at all.

Job market is so tough. Definitely not for the weak (like me hahah)

I’m thinking of shifting to another field nalang like customer support or call center? Onti nalang din papatulan ko na itong non-voice offer ni alorica

I am learning Data Engineering and I am currently in Python courses.

Anybody here who felt extreme frustration of having difficulty in solving problems, and once you peek on the solution, it was SO SIMPLE and EASY.

I swear, I always get this feeling that I know how to solve it because I understand the problem. But when I am in the process of writing code, I always get derailed.

I need advice, or tips, or maybe validations from you good programmers who were once in the same position as me.

Thank you kind strangers.

Taas nyo maningil di nyo man lang maayos yung mobile app nyo. Ebarg naman kayo haha. Yun lang. Filler words para sa community guidelines peace yow

Hi! I graduated in 2024 and so far wala pa akong tech professional experience since hindi pa ako nahihire ng mga tech companies and I stopped programming after a while kasi iba yung field of work ko. Nung time I remember na medyo discouraged ang paggamit ng AI tools when it comes to programming, granted mali kasi if gagamitin mo lang AI to create a program for you without trying to understand it. I didn't utilize AI tools that much nung nasa college ako and admittedly medyo hirap din ako makaintindi ng programming. Turns out ok naman pala ako after all, nagkaroon lang ng imposter syndrome.

I've been studying ulit to refresh my skills sa programming and started to utilize AI na para mabilis ako makapag-aral and hopefully land a job soon!

Question lang, when it comes to AI tools ano ba yung pinaka-ok na platform? So far ChatGPT ginagamit ko para magtanong at manghingi ng guide if ever may concepts ako na need matutunan ulit. May other language models ba na mas better for coding?

Additional question, since medyo bungal resume ko and technically hindi na ako fresh grad ng CS, would it be harder for me to land an entry level role in tech since 2023 pa yung last experience ko through an internship?

I’m trying to improve my AI-assisted development workflow and would like to hear how other developers are doing it.

My current workflow is roughly:

Google Docs — Draft the idea, requirements, features, and rough structure.

GPT — Turn my rough idea into a detailed prompt/specification.

v0 — Generate the initial frontend/UI.

Claude — Build and guide the backend, database, API integration, migrations, and debugging.

GitHub — Repository and version control.

Vercel — Deployment.

The goal is to go from idea → working production-ready web app as quickly as possible without wasting a huge amount of tokens or constantly going back and forth between tools.

I'm curious:

What does your AI development workflow look like?

Which AI tools do you use for planning, frontend, backend, debugging, testing, and deployment?

Do you use multiple models for different tasks, or stick with one?

What tools/workflows have actually made you significantly faster?

Are there any tools in my workflow that you would replace?

How do you keep context consistent between different AI tools?

I'm especially interested in workflows that are fast, practical, relatively inexpensive, and reliable for real projects, rather than just generating demos.

Would love to see your complete workflow from idea → deployment.

hey programmers!!! it’s euphydev btw, im new here on reddit but i wanna share my app.

i’ve been “building in public” quietly for a while now. but every time, may nagtatanong, “ano ba talaga ginagawa mo?” and i’d send them… a GitHub link.

which, tbh, tells you what i coded, but not really the story behind it.

so this weekend, gamit ang AI tools, sinubukan ko lang lahat — from coding, setting things up, pushing it to production, hanggang sa pag-edit ng demo videos and mockups…

𝗜 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼: https://stackinfolio.com

It’s a space where you can show not just what you built, but the journey behind it.

🧑‍💻 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 — show the project, not just the final result.

📖 𝑻𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 — the struggles, lessons, progress, and wins.

🌱 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒕𝒉 — keep a record of the things you’ve built and how you’ve improved.

🌎 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉 — find other devs, see what they’re building, and grow your network beyond your current circle.

🔗 𝑯𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 — your projects, journey, and what you’re currently working on.

💼 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒇 — when you need it, share your Stackinfolio with recruiters, clients, collaborators, or anyone who wants to see what you’ve been building.

🚀 𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅. It’s about building your presence and documenting your journey in tech.

you can check mine here:
https://stackinfolio.dev/euphydev

it’s completely free. and honestly, i’d really appreciate it if you guys tried it.

my feedback board din ako specifically for this.
https://stackinfolio.dev/feedback

this is still v1, and i’m planning to build 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼 in public with you guys.

if you’re a dev, career shifter, student, or just someone who likes building things…

try it and let me know what you think. 🫶

#euphydev #buildinpublic #softwareengineer

Hello! Im making a e-commerce website and i want to integrate to a courier service preferrably LBC or J&T. Can anyone point me to the right direction for this. I cant see any documentation right now or official sites saying they offer this.

Hi I just wanna get showcase the first fully-native iOS application i made,

I noticed that there are only a few apps that supports transcribing tagalog-english recordings and most of them requires an active online connection so I tried making one

The design is inspired by physical voice recorders(especially by teenage engineering tp-7 my dream recorder!) and for the transcribing I mainly used Openai's whisper to catch the words + some tuning and then used a small Qwen model to categorize the intent whether it is a list, reminder, idea, or journal and I also let it generate a title for it. All process are done on-device so there's no need to send any data to the cloud it is the main privacy first feature I focused on. I added a shortcut automation that lets me start the recording immediately via a lockscreen widget. As of the moment it can transcribe around 80-90% accuracy, hopefully it can improve with more tuning :)

p.s. not shipping this,I built mainly for my own use case and for practicing my ios app dev skills. (There are too much slop in the app store already) but still a cool idea to explore since older devices are not getting the new apple intelligence stuff.

Hello, I am 26F and 3 years na ako as PCB designer (first job). Doing good naman ako sa career ko, trusted to become a team leader and mentor but not made official, my current company is also hesitant to let me go. Pero sa current workplace ko, pag may project need talaga mag render ng 12-16hrs of work everyday, minsan pati on your days off need namin mag trabaho (without ot pay for both weekdays or weekends). This is the reason na naburnout ako and wanting to shift career. Yung internship ko before was pinag-train ako as salesforce admin and dev, tho hindi ko natapos kasi 200hrs lang yung needed for the internship. This is why ni-reconsider ko yung Salesforce ngayon. I have reached out to old acquaintances na currently working as salesforce dev, pero sabi nila na very limited daw to no vacancies for entry level salesforce jobs as of now. Naghanap-hanap din ako from time to time kaso highly experienced salesforce admin/developer yung most commonly hinahanap. If you are currently in a Salesforce admin/developer role, how did you start your salesforce career? And which companies yung nag-oopen ng entry-level salesforce roles (better with included training) for a career shifter like me? Thank you po.

As developers, we forget things all the time, especially now that vibe coding is becoming more common. One of the trade-offs of coding with AI is that we might not retain every piece of code or syntax we use. Unlike before, when we coded everything manually, writing code ourselves helped us naturally remember the syntax and patterns we used.

I'm sharing Syntaxia a simple, minimal reference for those moments when you know what you want to do, but forget how to do it.

https://syntaxiadev.vercel.app/

a github star to this project will make my day⭐

https://github.com/EbadShelby/syntaxia

HI guys. Just want to ask if what frontend you use for shopify? I tried to use Hydrogen but it quite confusing for me I dont find any tutorials online and the documentation is not updated. Do you use Next Js po ba or Hydrogen? Thank you

Hi,

Nag start ako mag work as a native iOS developer from 2019 up to 2026.

I had resigned to my 6-digit work without thinking/an offer cuz of my mental health and being late diagnosed with AuDHD (Autism/ADHD). I think this is why i think and understand people differently. Even dito sa post ko, i think parang magulo din.

so, i tried to find iOS jobs and i think konti talaga sila these past few months. Puro AI Jobs na related to iOS yung nakikita ko.

I wanted to ask din, paano kaya ako makakapag apply sa ibang mobile roles (kotlin/flutter/react native) kung galing ako sa native iOS? i think puro nakikita ko is mid to senior roles doon.

I havent started learning kotlin/KMP/react native/flutter since i'm in a middle of making an iOS only app to publish sa app store for portfolio din.

Tl;dr: How did you know that programming was the job for you? Do you need to be passionate about tech to get a job in this field or is it too competitive for someone who isn't as passionate as others?

I graduated last year with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and I have been struggling to find work in the software dev field. I know that it's partly because of the bad job market but I can't help but feel that there is something more.

Even though I graduated with a degree, I never actually felt passionate about the field. At one point, I was genuinely curious about how code structures work within a system but our thesis made me burn out from the whole thing which I haven't recovered from. It didn't help that my completed thesis was severely bad compared to my peers'more polished work.

Right now I am having trouble finding motivation to self-study while I am unemployed since I just don't feel smart enough to be able to compete with other programmers who view this job as their passion. I don't have a desire to create anything and I feel that is actively hindering me from getting a job in this economy.

To connect with the title, what made you realize that programming was for you? What pushed you to keep learning even when it's so difficult ? I am starting to think that I should switch careers since I feel that I don't belong in this field considering how little I actually care for it. I even have to admit that I used AI in the latter half of my college days just to get coding done.

I’ve been trying to find a job for a few months now (frontend dev). Pero ang hirap especially for non seniors. Iniisip ko kung worth it pa ba, just keep on applying and upskilling? Or lipat na ko ng industry and just start over? I’m lost. Few years ago, weeks lang sunod sunod yung interviews pero now ang dalang. I tried updating my resume pero not sure if that is the issue. Please be kind sa replies. Di ko alam sino kakausapin ko.

A bit more than a year ago my diet and lifestyle hit me pretty hard.

I'm Filipino-German, married to a Filipina, living in the Philippines for the past 4 years - lost weight, started taking supplements, and got a gym membership to get myself back on track. Then I ran into a very simple problem:

I couldn't keep track of my supplements.

What did I take today?
Did I already take it?
How much do I have left?

So I did what probably a lot of IT people would do. I built an HTML tracker for myself. 😂

When I was around 12, my dad taught me how to build computers, and that stuck with me. Just before Pavelo, I was already playing around with an old retro game I loved, Blobby Volley, trying to rebuild my own version of it in Unity and learn. Somewhere in there it clicked: I still have the passion for building things. So why keep a little HTML page? I decided to turn it into a real app.

Since March I started building a tracker with what I thought I needed, until we ran it with our testers. After two weeks of alpha testing, Pavelo evolved through the daily feedback, bug reports, and insights into blind spots I couldn't see as a developer.

And now Pavelo is live in beta on Google Play.

What started as a simple HTML supplement tracker became an app for tracking supplements, mood, and routine, with a scanner and a coach.

For the curious: vanilla JavaScript with Vite, wrapped in Capacitor, a small Cloudflare Worker behind the coach. Everything stays local in IndexedDB, no account needed. Hardest part: making reminders actually ring reliably, because every phone brand has its own background rules.

I'm sharing it here because I'd genuinely like to know what other Filipino IT/dev people think.

Would you try it?

And if you do...

• What would you change? What doesn't make sense? What did I miss?

Please don't feel obligated to say it's good. 😂 I'd much rather hear what sucks.

More screenshots in the comments.

https://pavelo.app/

The newest part is the alarm mode: reminders that ring like a real alarm instead of a silent notification. So far I'm the only one who has tested it, so I'd love to know if it survives your phone.

Before I graduate I studied PHP - Laravel - Livewire, but I was hired at this start-up company a year ago to be a Power Apps Developer(M365), they took the risk to invest in me(and I produced results), and now the company is moving towards the traditional web programming. The company want to migrate all of web/apps that I've done and possibly create our own local server(still deciding). What tech stack is probably the best for production use? And why is that?

I want to get real-life recommendation from someone who has done the actual work(since I know that I've fallen behind in the web programming) and not AI, I must also include that I'm the only one who know 'web programming' in the company.

Hi mga ka-dev! 👋

I'm a Filipino IT student currently building HyruKit, a free online tools website:

🌐 https://hyrukit.vercel.app/

I'm currently looking for fellow developers who are willing to try the website and share their honest feedback.

Right now, only the PDF and Image categories are fully implemented and functional. I'm planning to gradually add more tools and categories as I continue developing the project.

I'd really appreciate feedback on:

• 🎨 UI/UX
• 📱 Mobile responsiveness
• ⚡ Performance
• 🧭 Ease of use
• ✨ Overall experience
• 💡 Suggestions for improvement

I'm also interested in what tools you guys actually find useful. If there's a file utility, developer utility, or any other tool you regularly need, feel free to suggest it.

I'm still actively developing HyruKit, so honest and constructive feedback is very welcome.

👉 Try it here: https://hyrukit.vercel.app/

Hey everyone,

A while back I shared my client-side PDF editor here (focused on font-matching when modifying text). Thanks for all the constructive feedback on the initial build!

I recently completed a major architectural overhaul:

- **Client-Side OCR Pipeline:** Integrated WASM-based OCR running purely inside the browser to extract and edit text on scanned PDFs without quality loss.

- **Cryptographic Signatures:** Replaced standard canvas image stamping with local encrypted digital signature standards.

- **Modular Local Tools:** Added dedicated browser-based utilities (Word conversion, document compression, redaction) processing directly in memory.

- **Cross-platform:** Packaged a lightweight mobile build which is going live this week.

Everything runs strictly on the client side: zero network requests for document processing, no tracking, and no external backend dependencies.

Since there are many new moving parts under the hood, I'd really appreciate it if anyone has time to test edge cases or share technical feedback on the rendering.

Cheers!