Kajayacht

I listen to political talk radio on AM, even though it simulcasts on FM, all the time for a few reasons.

1. Signal strength is much more consistent and further reaching.

2. I don't have to worry about my wife changing the station on the AM radio in the car. The FM radio could be set anywhere, but when I'm driving I just change it to AM and there's my station.

3. There's a "je ne sais pas" factor in the fuzziness and softness of the audio that I find pleasant and less harsh than what you get with talk radio on FM. Maybe for the same reason people like the sound of vinyl records, though I'm not into vinyl.

The 5s really was a great phone. I used it up until last year and only upgraded as my wife needed a new phone and there was a BOGO deal.

Being cool and a rebel is totally a benefit.

I write code all the time using my iPad, though I'm connecting to a Raspberry Pi over SSH and using a bluetooth keyboard.

I should blog about it.

Sorry for the late reply, but I suppose I need to elaborate more.

At least as I remember it, when Google+ launched I was in my second year of university studying Computer Science. I remember all of my fellow CS students were excited about it and sharing beta invites. Once Google+ became available to the general public, it quickly lost its appeal. Then Google forced it upon everyone and it never recovered.

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I have a 4th generation iPad from early 2013 that I use all the time. Ironically, it wasn't until about 2 years ago when my wife got me a bluetooth keyboard case for it that I really started to get some use out of it.

It definitely isn't as snappy as it used to be, and the battery reports that it has lost 20% of its original capacity, but I use it all the time.

I primarily use it in meetings to take notes with OneNote, I also use it to SSH/RDP/VNC into other computers to write some code and such. I also have some means to work on code using a git app and Textastic. Yes, there are such apps available for iOS.

GarageBand and iMovie get some usage when I'm feeling "artistic" though I will admit they are starting to get too sluggish (GarageBand especially).

As far as games go, I mostly stick to the knockoff bargain-brand versions of big-budget games by Gameloft; Order and Chaos 2 (Guild Wars 2), Modern Combat (Call of Duty), Gangstar (GTA), Minecraft Pocket Edition, and retro game collections (Atari, Activision, Vectrex). I have a number of Bluetooth controllers that are compatible with those retro game collections that helps. I used to have my iPad jail broken and would play tons of emulators on it as well.

The main thing that's nice about something like an iPad with a keyboard is that with a bit of work it can completely take the place of your laptop and do it better. When I go away for a long weekend, I inevitably have to ask myself if I want to take my laptop or my iPad. It always boils down to how much I think I'm going to have to work, and usually it's the iPad I take. It does 90% of the day-to-day things I need to do, still has a relatively great battery life, and it's the size of a notebook even with the keyboard-case. And if things come down to it, I can still access my work computer or my webserver at home and do the whatever else I need to do (albeit in a less than ideal manner, but I've never had to say "sorry, I can't look into this right now cause I only have my iPad").

I will admit, it's the addition of a physical keyboard that really does it for me on the iPad. But keyboard or not, even within the Orwellian App Store I can be extremely productive with my 5 year old iPad.

And yes, I wrote all this on my iPad.

I think part of that is that jQuery is pretty universal and it's probably assumed that if someone says they know JavaScript, they know jQuery. Or, I at least assume that when I'm doing interviews.

One of the things I don't think it accounts for in talking about the downfall of something like jQuery is that as time goes on, the questions have already been asked.

So of course there's going to be less questions asked about jQuery in 2017 versus 2009, because if I need to figure out how to select elements based on an attribute rather than a class or id, it's already there.

The problem is when tools that are targeted for rapid development start getting used for large, mission-critical applications. The people using these tools professionally often are not the greatest engineers and you end up with a giant mess of an application using technology that is no longer supported. The company I currently work for is in this situation right now with Oracle Forms.

Going with your specific example of beginner web dev, the basic HTML site of today is Wordpress