Over the last week, I took advantage of the Christmas break to read Dilexit Nos (“He Loved Us”), an encyclical letter by Pope Francis that came out in October of this year. It is a meditation on devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
I just rewatched The Matrix. It has always been a favorite of mine, but the last two times I’ve watched it, I’ve been left with an uneasy feeling. The Matrix has come to represent in my mind false beliefs that predominate in the second millennium.
Blake picked out this song for me as part of a “song swap” exercise, where we exchange songs we like and share our gut reactions. You can see his take on a Karl Jenkins piece I shared with him here.
Here, I offer some pros and cons to the online Scrabble games I've tried and reflect on some ideas I have for making my own Scrabble clone website, and potentially other board games, with friends.
As a web developer who works mainly with PHP, I’ve been experiencing the excruciating slog that is upgrading from version 7.4 to 8+. Among the many backward incompatibilities, the one that keeps rearing its ugly head the most by far is the new E_WARNING for trying to access an undefined key on an array.