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My Tech Week Update #5

October 2025

Hello everyone,

It's hard to believe it's already been a month since the new semester began. This term, my academic focus is on Discrete Mathematics, Elementary Differential Equations, and Software Engineering.

My primary goal is to effectively manage my time between these demanding courses, my involvement in clubs, and my passion for web interface development. On AI Fighting game coach, I'm currently focused on enhancing my website's reliability. The goal is to implement an UptimeRobot that interfaces with Langflow to ensure the site remains consistently active.

While my academic schedule requires my full attention, I am still committed to my personal projects. Updates to my website and the Fighting Game Coach project may be more gradual this semester, but I will continue to make steady progress.

Thank you for following my journey.

My Tech Week Update #4

August 2025

Hello everyone,

I've been in Japan for two weeks now, and it's nice to be back home seeing my friends.

Now for my tech update:

Here's what I learned:

  • I recently attended Google Cloud Next '25 Tokyo and visited the Google for Startups Campus. It was not only a fantastic opportunity to network and learn from other companies, but it also greatly boosted my confidence in my skill set. I was pleasantly surprised by how interested people were in my background, which gave me the assurance that the work I've been doing is valuable.
  • My Fighting Game Coach is starting to come together. The website is deployed and functional. However, the local and network versions of Langflow work very differently, so I had to create a new AI agent setup specifically for the network version.
  • My father suggested using a container to manage my website environment. A container basically keeps everything in one place, making deployment and maintenance easier. This time, I'm using Podman.
  • I made a crucial mistake during the project: I used uppercase letters in some filenames. It might seem minor, but when merging branches on GitHub, it caused conflicts that were a hassle to fix. When my father showed me how containers work, I had to reorganize a lot of my files and paths.

The biggest lesson I learned this week: always keep your filenames lowercase. It'll save you a lot of trouble later on.

My Tech Week Update #3

July 2025

I hope everyone had a nice 4th of July.

I've been working on my AI Fighting Game Coach recently, and here's what I learned.

Here's what I learned:

  • I built my website for AI Fighting Game Coach on Render last week. However, I had some security issues like hiding my API keys from Langflow. Also, I wanted to add some monitoring function on my website to make sure my website is running without errors all the time.
  • Here's what I did to solve my problems: I decided to not only use environment variables to protect my API keys but also decided to build server and client side of my website. For monitoring, I visited Google's tech talk a week and a half ago. I learned multiple products that would be a good fit for my project, and it was great to network with people.

Overall, the project has been published, but has some issues with the Langflow. This week, I'm planning to wrap up my project and come up with future upgrades.

My Tech Week Update #2

June 2025

Hello again!

This week, I designed a website platform for my AI-powered fighting game coach. It was my first time integrating AI into a website, which was both exciting and challenging. My biggest struggle was connecting the frontend of the website with Langflow. Although I had set up the API connection, I couldn't parse the AI's responses correctly.

What helped me overcome this issue was a live-streaming session by the Langflow team. It not only helped me fix the bug but also sparked new ideas for my project. You can watch the session here.

Additionally, I learned how to embed videos from DeepLearning.AI. Multimodal embeddings are an interesting topic and could be beneficial for my project.

I'm excited to continue learning and improving my project, with the goal of turning it into a full-fledged product.

Tech Week 1 Update
May 2025

Hi everyone! This past Tech Week, I had the chance to attend several events. While I started off feeling anxious about diving into unfamiliar topics, I ended up having a great time learning about AI agents and generative AI through tech talks and a hackathon.

Here's what I learned:

  • One of the biggest challenges I faced was understanding AI agents, since I didn't have much experience with them.
  • To get started, I began working on the AI certification course from Hugging Face to refresh the basics.
  • My first big step was joining the "Hacking Agents Hackathon NYC," which introduced me to powerful tools like Langflow and Twelve Labs. I plan to keep using these to develop my project: an AI Fighting Game Coach.

As a bonus, I also created kentalange.com using Claude for the first time. It was a great opportunity to see how modern LLMs can streamline workflows and boost results.

I'm excited to use the knowledge I gained this week. Tech is moving faster than I can learn at school and in some jobs, so I'm going to keep grinding this summer to pull myself up to speed.