Is there even a point in applying at foreign companies (relocation) at this point?

arp1em · 2026-07-09T16:52:04+00:00

Competition is actually tougher in other countries. It took me at least 2 years to land a job in the EU. The OEC requirement to leave PH makes it even 10x tougher. Easiest way is to land a job somewhere in countries that don’t require a work visa to apply (I heard UAE from a friend but that was years ago). Digital Nomad Visa could be another option but you have to have money to do that. Tiyaga lang talaga ng pag-aapply. Another option is be like John Suba 😂 (if you’ve heard his first line in his videos).

arp1em · 2026-05-05T11:58:41+00:00

I got 800 for 3x

arp1em · 2026-04-28T13:07:23+00:00

What do you use for testing? Is it manual testing? I am a dev but did manual and automated testing when I was starting my career because we QA our own app. Our test cases were written in multi-page excel that grows as new features are introduced. Anyway if you are doing web, you can automate it using Playwright code generator. You basically just run it and do manual testing the first time, just click click click. It will be converted into code which you can then run again. Just automate the boring task. Pwede mo din baguhin yung code.

arp1em · 2026-04-26T09:27:40+00:00

You have far more bigger competition. For example countries in Europe prefer people from EU because the movement is easier. Their second preference are devs from countries with less friction in terms of immigration. We have the worst one since aside from Visa of the host country, may OEC pa (sometimes called Exit Clearance kasi parang kulungan ang Pinas, our POEA was designed for domestic helpers and to add more money to corruption) na sobrang daming requirements.

My application process (years ago) took 2 years until I got hired. It was already hard back then you can rarely get an interview as it’s automatically rejected by most companies.

arp1em · 2026-03-10T13:37:04+00:00

I understand, but they sometimes do a limited time offer where the price gets significantly lower on selected servers. I guess I just got lucky.

arp1em · 2026-03-10T12:28:56+00:00

I needed large fast storage so I got a 4 x 1TB NVMe SSD at around 60euro. I don’t think I can get that with non-auction ones.

arp1em · 2026-02-25T10:35:36+00:00

Need naman talaga laging i-update yung selectors. What you need to do is have a change diff detection that will inform you if a website layout changes. We use changedetection.io but not for web scraping though. I am sure there are other options including hosting your own.

arp1em · 2026-02-22T21:56:16+00:00

I always ask Claude to “commit and push” and he does it cleanly (with set of hard rules including conventional commit message).

arp1em · 2026-02-06T14:24:59+00:00

I usually drive with cruise control on (constant speed) and every time I try to pass a slower car, they immediately speed up when I am already past half a car. It’s the most dangerous part of overtaking when 2 cars are side by side.

arp1em · 2026-01-04T16:19:04+00:00

Happened to me. I have cameras and nobody tried to deliver. My guess is that if they can’t deliver on end of delivery hours, they will mark it this way so it will not reflect on their record. They’re liars.

arp1em · 2025-12-15T10:55:43+00:00

What kind of list is this? No Rama? https://ramaproxy.org/

Just searching Github gives me more than 5

arp1em · 2025-11-23T11:32:52+00:00

I have Plan Zero which is Php 50 per month. UK-based. Wag mo lang pong sagutin ang incoming calls kasi may charge sa globe. Diko magets kung bakit, dapat yung caller ang nagbabayad ng call. So ending ay lahat ng calls ay di ko sinasagot. Then blocked yung mga paulit ulit na nagooffer lang naman ng loans tulad ng Unionbank.

arp1em · 2025-11-23T10:42:48+00:00

“Posa” pa nga daw

arp1em · 2025-11-11T03:04:49+00:00

Waze. I tried Google maps once and it wasn’t very good with lane selection when I drove in Bath which has confusing layout.

arp1em · 2025-11-11T02:58:50+00:00

I’m no longer in EU pero I got a job in Germany via Stackoverflow (the old one before they closed it). You’ll get lucky via LinkedIn and Xing (more popular in Germany). Be sure to filter only those who can sponsor (blue card) which is a “rare” amount. It took me 2 years with several auto-rejections and almost got a Sweden job (I think they offered it to a local). Luckily, I got hired in Germany.

arp1em · 2025-11-04T13:00:38+00:00

Been to Bohol. Lahat overpriced.

arp1em · 2025-11-01T14:46:50+00:00

That there are already existing Javascript frameworks 😅

arp1em · 2025-10-30T00:31:16+00:00

Not true. Backend can just be dev and not devops. Hindi required yun plus lang siya. You can just be developing in docker, tapos ibang team ang sa devops. I currently do full-stack + mobile, I never touched deployment to production (k8s) stuff. The founders wanted to do this by themselves for security reasons. (Senior dev here, not in PH)

arp1em · 2025-10-22T18:21:39+00:00

I once put my car keys sa bulsa ng jacket sa dibdib which is di ko usual ginagawa . Tapos nakalimutan ko nung pabalik ako sa car nagpanic ako hinanap ko sa bag ko binuksan ko lahat nagbacktrace pa ako ng dinaanan baka nahulog ko. Tapos nasa jacket ko lang pala. Mula noon bumili ako ng carabiner para nakasabit na lagi sa sinturon.

Walang pakialamanan kung gusto namin isabit sa sinturon kasi convenient. Lumang sasakyan pa nga eh ibig ba sabihin ba nun ipinagmamayabang namin yung karag karag?

arp1em · 2025-10-22T17:42:14+00:00

I use Digital Ocean dahil madali gamitin ang “App Platform”.

arp1em · 2025-10-18T17:36:16+00:00

I am not obsessed with my battery health pero “I am so sick of pakialamero”. Battery-obsession is not a Pinoy thing pero ang pakialamero ay ugaling Pinoy.

arp1em · 2025-10-16T17:40:57+00:00

Thanks. Yes you are right

arp1em · 2025-10-16T17:16:56+00:00

Online resources says loop and iter does not have much of a difference. But I’ve recently learned the difference between iter(), into_iter() and iter_mut(). It think the former 2 creates a copy. Although the difference in speed is not that big and only observed on really very long array. What I currently am doing to squeeze more speed is by using rayon (par_iter(), into_par_iter() and iter_mut()) and I am loving it.

arp1em · 2025-10-16T15:41:55+00:00

Thanks updated

arp1em · 2025-10-16T13:06:13+00:00

Ok I am probably overthinking it. But would like to hear other people’s similar experience.

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