Matisyahu's Blog

I’ve been relaxing and reading through Github to see what my favourite projects are up to – WECG discussion minutes are always a good read especially if you have an interest in the development of the Declarative Net Request API. It’ll be interesting to see what will happen between now and June 2025 when enterprise support for MV2 will be deprecated and then eventually removed given there is functionality that is still missing (as noted on a previous blog post) along with many others which make me wonder whether the extra 6 months is about tying up lose ends (assuming they don’t push the deprecation back to the end of 2025 or maybe June 2026).

The reason why I bring it up it because there tends to be scuttlebutt regarding tech companies not being ‘open’ when in reality you can find a lot of information on what a company is doing based on the developer mailing lists, notes on github and blog entries on projects such as Webkit or the progress of a given standard implementation. For example, I was reading through a bug report on Webkit and a conversation over on the github for web standards about implementing a given standard and it appears that Apple can implement it but it requires a whole lot of other stuff that needs to be done before the standard is implemented. For the average user it may not be interesting but for a web developer or a nosy person like myself it provides context why a given feature hasn’t appeared yet and what sort of time line there is to getting it implemented.

One project that is interesting is the libc project over on LLVM (link) which is implementing libc in the same way in which libc++ is implemented in terms of it fitting into the LLVM philosophy. Google started the project – Google heavily uses LLVM components in their products, from Chrome through to Android and everything in between, but it’ll be interesting to see whether Apple eventually adopts it as well in much the same way that Apple adopted LLVM libc++. It is going to be a long uphill slog but if Apple were able to get libc++ implemented at the speed it did then I’m sure Google can do that too.

Regarding dinner tonight, I had some thinly sliced lamb rumps with some Balsamic Mint Sauce (link) along with a ‘Mexican salad’ on the side. The great thing about keeping off the carbs has been the fact that I don’t get the insulin spike followed by the crash then feeling hungry afterwards. I went to the supermarket and picked up a weeks worth of salads – their best before date is 25 January so that means that’ll be good until Friday but in the meantime I’ll be looking at buying some smoked Salmon – a salad and salmon without having to cook anything is a whole lot easier to deal with after a day at work (finish work at 8pm, get home by 9pm) I’m not motivated to do anything more than the least amount humanly possibly.

I think that is part of the reason I tended to indulge in fast food because it is easier to order than to cook after a long day at work but if I make having a meal at home as easy as ordering then I’ll be less inclined to order fast food. I’ll have a look at a few other options along since salmon such as smoked chicken breast. The funny part about all this is the fact that it’ll end up saving me money in the process – eating healthier and saving money are always a good combination. As for winter, I’ll probably look at steamed vegetables, cooked chicken breast in the oven or maybe a Silver Fern Farms venison or lamb rump. Eventually it’ll become a lifestyle that I won’t even need to consciously think about although my treat that I’m not going to give up is a Pepsi Max, that is my little indulgence.