Futureproofing Past Visions

I've known for a while now a clock is ticking until older "32-bit applications" will stop working after a future update of macOS. While I understand this won't happen altogether with this year's macOS 10.14 "Mojave," supposing next year will mark the end has had me looking with a little concern at the older applications I've seemed dependant on. I've already moved from Textwrangler to the "Free Mode" of BBEdit to compose these posts in plain text (just as once upon a time I moved from "BBEdit Lite" to Textwrangler), I bit the bullet and paid the fee for a new version of the picture browser Xee, and I've tried replacing an old version of Vox with VLC to play those music files I haven't made the seemingly demanding commitment of adding to my iTunes library. With those three frequently used categories taken care of, though, I began to dwell on what might seem just an occasional software amusement...
( Atkinson dithering within )