Author Archives: Michele Galvagno

ASE Express!

Dear all,

Welcome to the first update of 2024!

First things first: **HAPPY NEW YEAR!** I hope you were able to celebrate in the way that fulfilled you the most, and I wish you a 2024 in strong, rude health, and with plenty of joy, love, peace, and success!

I’m trying to get back to a monthly schedule, possibly writing less in these newsletters and leaving more specific content to dedicated blog posts.

An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 10

Under specific conditions in the Serbian language, words undergo subtle changes to certain consonants and vowels based on surrounding letters and sounds. These changes are called _Phonetic transformations,_ or, in Serbian, Гласовне промене—literally, “voice changes”.

My upgrading path to Apple Silicon — Part 4

The time is nigh to go fetch the long awaited “maxi” boy from the Apple Store. I decided to have it delivered there because of recent thefts in the hall of my building. Granted, those all happened with Amazon couriers, who are given far too many daily deliveries compared to what they can humanly handle. They therefore just ring the entry phone, run inside, and leave your package unattended. Couriers handling Apple shipments are given precise instructions to deliver only manually to the recipient and, recently, have started to ask for a PIN code. I didn’t want to risk it this time, though.

My upgrading path to Apple Silicon — Part 3

Purchasing a new computer comes in several phases: planning, configuring, ordering, fetching, and configuring. If one is upgrading their main working machine, then it is even more important to get through most steps in the smoothest way possible.