Matisyahu's Blog

Chrome 118 was released this morning (NZ Time) with quite a number of changes (link), many of the changes involve removing non compliant implementations such as webkit prefixed APIs that have been superseded by APIs that have been officially stabilised and standardised. I guess a good portion of the removals have to do with pushing web developers away from their dependency on non standards based web technologies in favour of using the ones that are now standardised which is part of the larger Interop drive (link). Safari and Firefox are also doing the same – removing the non standard implementations in favour of the standardised or closed to standardised implementations. It is going to be long uphill slog but in the end it’ll hopefully mean that web developers can write their code according to the open standards and as a consequence it’ll work regardless of which browser the end user is running.

I finally got myself sorted out and voted yesterday down at the local voting location – same vote I make every election, Labour for my constituent vote and Greens for my party vote. For me I see the Greens play the same role that ACT plays when it comes to forming a coalition with National – the Greens provide Labour with a backbone to do the left wing policies that they secretly want to do but are too risk adverse to actually carry out. It’ll be interesting to see what the outcome of the election is given the number of undecided voters that are being picked up in the polling. I have to admit, the whole election this year has been thoroughly unappealing – no long term vision for New Zealand. If one were to explain what it is like as a flavour then ‘dust’ would be the best description. Labour throwing unworkable ideas at the wall such as no GST on fruit and vegetables (both frozen and fresh), National offering tax cuts but when examined the numbers just don’t add up, NZ First is doing it’s reactionary anti-woke shtick to get the blue haired rinse brigade enraged, ACT is doing their reheating of Rogernomics with Greens and Te Pāti Māori the only ones advocating interesting ideas that push back against the neoliberal orthodoxy.

Regarding the whole conflict in Israel/Gaza Strip, I’m not going to touch it with a forty foot barge pole because I’m not an expert in it, I don’t have even enough knowledge as a lay person and thus my input won’t add any value to the discourse other than showing how ignorant I am regarding the situation over there.