Matisyahu's Blog

I’ve gotten back into taking my iron tablets in the morning and it has made a big difference in terms of alertness, not feeling as fatigued etc. that combined with a breakfast (an ‘Up and Go’ liquid breakfast) I’ve found I’m performing better at work. Change is occuring gradually, it’s more like a marathon rather than a spring.

macOS, iOS and tvOS updates were released – iOS 18.1 upgraded the modem firmware, macOS and tvOS have a huge number of features, bug fixes and under the hood improvements. There are improvements to Safari as well – the speed and responsiveness has improved. Here are a list of some of the changes that have been introduced with Safari 18.1 which came bundled with iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 (link).

I’ve ended by experiencing with Chrome and Google Workspace – it’s one of those things that you either go ‘all in’ or not bother. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, YouTube Music is absolutely horrible when it comes to podcasts and I still cannot work out why they got rid of their Google Podcasts given that it was a whole lot more reliable and easy to use rather than the overly complex bloated behemoth that YouTube Music is. I guess I feel the need to keel reminding myself what the alternative is like in much the same way Bill Hicks had a stand up routine regarding the hate camel (link) – a brief interlude with the Google ecosystem reminds me that for all the limitations that iCloud may have, it is a damn sight better than the alternative.

I’ve changed the DNS settings on my router from my ISP (my ISP is Skinny which is a sub brand of Spark) to Cloudflare. I connectivity issues Wednesday night then when I worked from home on Thursday I couldn’t get Salesforce to work but the moment I switched DNS providers from my ISP to Cloudflare then magically everything started working. I’m going to keep it with the Cloudflare DNS.

I’m going to organise a servicing for my scooter – my back tyre has a puncher that needs repairing while getting a regular servicing. I might also get a manual pump so that when I repair a puncher I can pump it up afterwards.

Lastly, after getting the scooter serviced I’m going to pay off the remaining balance of the interest free for my phone then move my phone back to Skinny Mobile which at the moment has a really good deal – $40 per 28 days and get up to 10GB worth of data which is a much better detail than what I’m getting now. All that is still a few more weeks away but my goal is to get things ‘back to normal’ so that there is one less thing I need to worry about not to mention the fact that I’m not having to worry about paying $110 per month (monthly plan plus the interest free repayment).