Magicians frequently attribute their power to gods, spirits, or other invisible beings, which indicates that they are dependent on other powers. Although we think of technology as a tool, as artificial intelligence and robotics become increasingly integrated into our daily lives, we may start to feel more like we are asking an independent actor to act on our behalf rather than just using a tool.
Lately, I’ve been playing with Midjourney (via my home Discord channel). If you’re not familiar with it, there’s Midjourney bot that can be installed into Discord servers and, for a small monthly fee, you can make images of anything you can imagine.
There are just over 60,000 plugins in the WordPress.org repository at the time of this writing. In many cases, the issue isn’t that you can’t find a plugin to suit your needs but instead you find several and are faced with making a choice. How do you decide which is best for you?
With so many options available, how does one choose what to use for a new project? If the project is a website, the question of whether or not a CMS is appropriate is one of my first considerations. But sometimes it’s hard to tell where a website ends and a web application begins.
For me, it’s easy to mistake wanting to learn more about something with the treacherous borders of a trap leading to something I don’t really want.
What I’ve discovered is that – without my conscious awareness – there is a part of me that kicks the fight-or-flight switch whenever I find myself too close to something that might push me down the funnel of relentless focus.
I’ve recently found the need to brush up on my computer science knowledge… and by “brush up,” I mean, actually learn computer science.
Our company focuses on partnering with teams who develop websites and browser-based applications to ensure the best possible go-live and day-two-plus experiences.
Can a knowledge of computer science principles aid that mission?
Pretty much everyone who develops with PHP uses Composer, and if you’ve every used a PHP framework, you’ve seen the namespaces at the tops of files. I knew how to use these things but I didn’t really understand them until I embarked on a few just-for-learning side projects that I started from scratch.