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Laravel, PHP, IoT, and AI—notes from a full-stack developer.

August 28, 2026

CAITO 3rd GMM: Officially Joining the Family

At Enchanted Kingdom, Nitro Tech Media attended CAITO's 3rd General Membership Meeting and took the oath as an official member.

August 26, 2026

Supporting BetterTreceMartires.org — Civic Tech for Transparent Governance

Nitro Tech Media supported the BetterGovPH civic tech launch for Trece Martires—sponsoring the domain and helping give the open-source platform visibility.

August 11, 2026

MSME Day Cavite Workshop: Grateful for the Connections

Nitro Tech Media joined CAITO at MSME Day: Cavite Workshop with PLDT Enterprise—meeting local business owners at Twin Lakes Hotel Tagaytay.

August 3, 2026

CTBEX 2026: A Milestone I Didn't See Coming

Nitro Tech Media sponsored CTBEX 2026, exhibited Nitro Concierge, and launched caito.org.ph for CAITO—over 100 hospitality and tourism connections in one day.

June 21, 2026

Building an On-Premise SMS Gateway with Quectel GSM Modems and Linux

Self-hosted SMS with SMSTools3, an 8-port Quectel GSM modem, and local SIM cards—no third-party API required.

April 28, 2026

How We Built FlowForge — Workflows, Tickets & Client Requests

Centralized ops for Nitro Tech Media: Laravel, Bootstrap, and jQuery powering Kanban boards, ticket workflows, and client requests—portfolio and case study linked.

March 16, 2026

From Game Night Idea to Live Game in One Week

We wanted to play Pudge Wars at the office—but no Steam on work laptops. So we built Hook Wars in five days (2 hrs/day) and ran 8v8 on company game night.

March 17, 2026

Nitro Tech Media | NTM IT Solutions

Just launched my local web dev agency in Cavite, Philippines. SaaS, healthcare, and education systems in the pipeline. Stay tuned.

March 10, 2026

Getting Started with AI in Web Development

Practical ways to use AI in your Laravel and PHP workflow—without replacing the basics.

March 12, 2026

Scaling Laravel for Enterprise

Best practices for handling millions of requests using horizontal scaling, Redis, and queues.

March 5, 2026

Setting Up an LLM Locally with Ollama

Run large language models on your own machine—no API key, no cloud. Install Ollama, pull a model, and integrate from Laravel or the CLI.

Feb 28, 2026

Using a Raspberry Pi as a Home Test Server

Turn a Pi into a small test server for Laravel, APIs, or IoT—cheap, local, and a great way to learn deployment.