A Short Overview of ChatGPT

Yesterday I published Ten Canva Features for Students – An Experiment. The first part of the experiment was publishing a blog post that was written entirely by the artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT. The second part of the experiment was to compare the visits to that blog post with those of […]

PHP 8.2 introduces read-only classes

A major update to the stalwart scripting language for web development, PHP 8.2 has arrived with performance, syntax, and type safety improvements along with new capabilities such as read-only classes and stand-alone types. PHP 8.2 was published December 8 and can be accessed from php.net. Support for read-only classes in […]

Ansible variables: choosing the right location

Defining variables for your Ansible playbooks and roles can become challenging as your project grows. Browsing the Ansible documentation, the diversity of Ansible variables location is confusing, to say the least: command line values (for example, -u my_user, these are not variables) role defaults (defined in role/defaults/main.yml) inventory file or […]

6 Best Teas for Anxiety and Stress

As someone who has had anxiety the majority of my life, I’ve never been able to tolerate caffeinated beverages well — they give me the jitters. According to Harvard Medical School, the caffeine from coffee can mimic anxiety symptoms, making any baseline anxiousness even worse.   Luckily, tea became my […]