Thanks for the info. Hopefully she'll be back to elaborate on that ;-)

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www.phoneboy.info.

Received an e-mail via the contact form on my website this morning, saying:

I need help completing this form.

So silly, on at least two levels… I actually got a chuckle out of this.
The junk never ceases.

Interesting—are you a professional musician, or otherwise actively involved in music in some way?

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joanna.10centuries.org.

What skills or concepts or things in your life have seemed unnecessary at one point in time, but later became useful to you, perhaps to your surprise or delight?

matigo.ca.

I've noticed that as I get older, it's harder to study new things without considering the practical applications.

Maybe some things don't need to be immediately practical for you to keep studying them. The enjoyment of learning and the feeling of achievement might just be enough. Things could become clearer as your learning deepens.

…or at least, so I tell myself.

Are those performance improvements going to affect how you use the device, or make things easier?

peemee.10centuries.org.

Ah, the 13-inch M1, I see… I believe that was the only Apple silicon model ever to feature the Touch Bar. Is your Touch Bar on the fritz?

www.phoneboy.info.

I tend to think that the developer or manufacturer makes it closed-sourced when money is being charged, or at least, that seems to be the standard practice.

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matigo.ca.

Now studying the use of the ternary in JavaScript. I never knew about this… for instance, the expression

voteable = (age < 18) ? "Too young" : "Old enough";

means that the voteable variable gets the value of "Too young" if the age is less than 18, and gets the value of "Old enough" otherwise. It's kind of cryptic when you first look at it, but then it makes sense when you break it down. Ah, JavaScript…

Hence the open-source movement, perhaps…

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matigo.ca.