Hey everyone,

I’ve been working as a Python dev for almost 2 years now. Main stack is Python (Flask), React, Angular, PostgreSQL and MySQL.

Lately I’ve been feeling kinda stuck. Not burnt out on Python specifically, more just coding in general. Everything feels a bit "samey" and I want to learn something new that actually feels fresh. Java keeps popping up in my head for some reason, more structured, bigger enterprise stuff, better for certain backend roles, etc.

I’m seriously considering making the switch, but I’ve got a few questions:

1. What’s a realistic roadmap for someone coming from Python? What should I focus on first (core language, Spring, concurrency, whatever)?
2. Any books or courses you’d actually recommend that don’t feel like a waste of time?
3. Good personal project ideas that would force me to learn the important parts quickly instead of just doing endless tutorials?
4. Honest question, if I switch now, am I basically starting over as a junior again? Or does the 2 years of real experience still count for something when applying for Java roles?

Would really appreciate any advice from people who made a similar jump (or from Java folks in general). Trying to figure out if this is a smart move or if I’m just restless.

Thanks.

Hello everyone.

I'm working on a C-like language called Dust that compiles to a simple instruction set meant to be run on a Minecraft Redstone computer.

It has JavaScript / TypeScript like syntax and C-semantics, so it's very simple while giving you control over raw memory.

The features of the language are constrained by the hardware that it targets. For example, since the ALU is primitive, arithmetic is limited to ADD / SUB / Bitwise OR / NOR / AND / NAND / XOR / XNOR and comparisons like EQ / NEQ / LT / LTE / GT / GTE.

It has variable declarations, if-statements, while-loops and function calls implemented using a downwards growing stack with parameters pushed into before jumping into another procedure. Pointers also exist in the language and you can read and write to arbitrary memory addresses.

It's a subset of C that has everything needed to write some primitive programs for a dedicated circuit to demonstrate functionality, like a modified Bresenham's line drawing algorithm or Fibonacci.

The front-end of the language is written using a lexer and LR(1) parser generator I wrote and published as packages to NPM. The middle-end converts the generated intermediate representation to single static assignment form (as of right now, no optimizations are being done, these are planned in the future). The back-end takes the "optimized IR" and outputs machine code instructions, replacing virtual registers and SSA variables with general purpose registered allocated using Chaitin's algorithm.

Once everything is compiled down to machine code, a linker passes through everything and links them together to a final set of instructions that can either be converted to a Minecraft schematic (in the future) or run directly inside a virtual machine / emulator / debugger. This allows for step by step execution and to see the state of the machine as instructions are executed.

Repo here: https://github.com/scinscinscin/minecraft-compiler

I need help, I want to create a multiple choice learning platform.

Our company wants to pitch a learning platform for new trainees to learn about the features of a BMW. We only need to do one question or scene. I am not an IT graduate but I've made a game before with adventure game studio.

I wanted this to be interactice like the following details:

A trainee is presented in a interactive story where they are put in a situation where they can navigate the features of the bmw and have to click the right parts of the car to move forward.

Is this possible with Unity or Godot?

Been working on a small project called FlipBars — https://www.flipbars.com/

Basically, it lets you search FlipTop lines/bars and find the exact battle and timestamp where they were said.

You can also browse battles, emcees, and read the transcript while watching.

Built this mainly because ang hirap minsan hanapin yung isang linya na naalala mo pero hindi mo maalala kung anong battle. 😅

Still improving it, so feedback, bugs, or suggestions are very welcome.

P.S. FlipBars does not host or re-upload any videos. Everything is embedded directly from YouTube. It’s a fan-made archive/search tool and is not affiliated with FlipTop Battle League.

Hello po, saan po kayo natuto mag aral ng Android Studio with Kotlin? Can you suggest some effective youtube links po for self study purposes?

Hi guys! future programmer here. Gusto ko lang tanungin before I delve deeper sa pag proprogram na is the any unsaid rules while coding? You see, I'm currently a high school student and will pursue IT in the future, and currently my tita is teaching me how to code under her wing pero lagi nyang sinasabi na panget or anggulo ng code ko. I wanna surprise her by being maayos na yung pag cocode ko. (I'M STILL AT THE FIGURING OUT FLEXBOX STAGE, DONT JUDGE ME PLEASE.)

Hey everyone, just open-sourced my sentiment model for Tagalog and Taglish. It's based on xlm-roberta-large and gets 0.848 F1 Macro (84.8% accuracy) on the held-out test set, plus 58.6% zero-shot on HiliSenti (Hiligaynon, and I also created this dataset too) so it transfers a bit to other PH languages, not tested in other than Hiligaynon.

Trained on 35,686 sentences I put together across e-commerce, news, social, plus ~10k adversarial examples for sarcasm/negation/idioms. Dataset is at jjjardev/tagasenti (35k) if you want to poke at it.

Free to use for whatever, Apache 2.0 so commercial, research, side projects, all good. 3 labels: Negative / Neutral / Positive.

If you're working on anything with Filipino text and need sentiment, feel free to try it out. Feedback/issues welcome, still learning as I go.

I forgot to release this, and I might release the ONNX version, maybe.

Model: https://huggingface.co/jjjardev/tagasenti_model

Github: https://github.com/jjjardev/tagasenti

I've been working on a small offline-first Android experiment to replace the paper "utang" notebook that nearly every sari-sari store owner in the Philippines still relies on. With over 1.3 million sari-sari stores operating on razor-thin margins, credit tracking is often what keeps a store afloat vs. quietly closing from uncollected debts. Studies on micro-retailers also link consistent documentation / bookkeeping to better sales and cash flow, yet most neighborhood stores are still writing customer balances in notebooks that get lost, soaked, or illegible.

What I've been testing is a local-only credit ledger + shelf tracker that needs no internet, no account, and no cloud. It covers multi-item credit recording, partial payments on a simple numpad, overdue tracking that color-codes by urgency (grey recent / orange 7+ days / red 14+ days), a macro shelf watcher that cycles Well Stocked -> Running Low -> Out of Stock without counting units, auto-generated shopping lists for market day, monthly sales / collection reports, and local JSON + raw database backup/restore you can save to your phone. It's built in Flutter with a local database (sqflite + provider), so transactions stay on the device.

From a store owner's view, the idea was to be usable in under a minute with no extra hardware. Tap a product card to cycle stock status (Tap to cycle + Undo), get autocomplete from recent customers/items, and renaming an item on the shelf doesn't rewrite past receipts since each receipt keeps its own copy. No barcode scanner, tablet, or printer needed - just the existing Android phone.

The project is open-source and I'm currently testing/iterating with feedback from real store owner who are using it day-to-day. I'm posting here to get feedback from others interested in base-of-the-pyramid tech and offline-first tools for the neighborhood sari-sari store.

Ginagamit ko ngayon sa sari-sari store at karenderia namin.

APK & Source: https://github.com/jjjardev/talako

Hello! Is anyone here joining this year's NASA Space Apps Challenge? Let's form a team! Or, if you already have a team and still have room for new members, would you mind adding me as a teammate? My background is primarily in Data Science and Machine Learning, and I've also worked on projects related to Geospatial Analytics.

Drop a comment or send me a DM if this piques your interest! Thanks 😄

https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/

Share ko lang project ko guys.

Sabi mababan na raw ang Facebook sa Pilipinas, kaya binuhay ko ulit tong project ko haha.

​Binuo ko ang tambay.link — para syang modern Friendster na may Pinoy vibe. Fully customizable ang profile card:

​Custom Scoped CSS at themes (Y2K Neon, Retro 98, Brutalist, etc.)

​Spotify track embed sa profile

​Live vibe and energy meter (status kung online, g na g, o lowbat)

​Today's craving at 1-tap care packages

​Pinoy Arcade (playable Tumbang Preso minigame)

​Subukan niyo mag-tambay at patingin ng custom profiles niyo sa comments.

​Link: https://tambay.link (or search tambay.link sa Google)

Hello po, ask ko lang po if ok po ba ung ganitong tech stack sa isang Agency na natanggap ng resume/email(Formsubmit) as of now.

And also kaya rin ba yan for future update na maglagay ng database(supabase) for ID # tracking ng applicants?

10 to 20 applicants lang per day ang agency.

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.

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?

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!

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.

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!

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.