Matisyahu's Blog

I’m feeling a little bit better and I finally had a night of uninterrupted sleep which has enabled me to catch up on 4 days of waking up every couple of hours and rushing to the bathroom in pain. I’m still deciding whether I need an extra day to recover because I don’t want to go back to work too early only to find that I’ve put my recovery back even further. I’ve done that in the past where I had a really bad chest infection (this occurred pre-COVID), wanted to get back to work only to find that the stress of work made it worse resulting in me having more time off as a result.

The weather has been crazy for the last couple of days – heavy rain and a lot of wind, temperatures and dropping, we’re getting closer to winter. Hopefully this year the winter will be mild which will keep my power bill from going through the roof. Normally when I was working in my previous jobs I would go to work so the amount of time I had my heater on wasn’t for very long at night but the job I am at now I can work from home which has pros and cons. The pros mean that I am not having to travel into Wellington, dealing with ‘train replacements’ when the powers that be decide to do maintenance (why do they do the maintenance on the weekend when people go into Wellington for the pubs and night clubs? god only knows) where as the cons being that during winter it means that I have the heater on during the day although I have to admit I am lucky in that my house has good insulation in the floors, walls and ceiling not to mention double glazed windows which result in the heat being retained for longer along with the fact that I move my heater into the room I am using and close off doors to rooms that I am not in as to avoid more of the house than I need to.

The developers over at uBlock Lite (MV3 extension) are working on support for Safari however there is a lot of functionality that is missing which Apple needs to add (link). If you click on some of the links they take you to the bug report on Webkit which advises that it has been acknowledged and added to Apple’s own internal bug database. What I am hoping that is that we’ll see some more actions as we get closer to WWDC but having had a look at the WEGC discussion it appears that the work involves not only implementing features but also making major structural changes to the Webkit implementations that those features rely on. Hopefully WWDC doesn’t turn into a giant AI hype fest at the expense of ignoring fundamental components such as Webkit which impact so many applications that depend on it (not to mention that the web browser is generally the first thing that an end user opens when they turn on their computer given how ‘cloud centric’ so many things are these days).