Matisyahu's Blog

I’ve finally got my act together and ordered a proper case for my phone after rocking along with this el cheapo one I picked up when I bought the phone. The problem is that the plastic holder that the phone sits in, the plastic is cracking, the corners are chipped – long story short the plastic is flimsy and I don’t think it is going to hold up so I decided to purchase a case from Snakehive which will be arriving by either Monday or Tuesday next week – the case being a leather wallet style case which will protect it along with having all that I need when I leave home.

I’ve setup my DMARC on my DNS settings – unsure whether it is absolutely necessary but all the writing I’ve seen so far said it is recommended so I’ve set it up on both of my domains that I own. I’ve got that all sorted out and the email has been running rock solid. During that time checking through the various online accounts I have, I checked to see if my details were up to date and many of them were out of date so it worked out for the best. I also organised my email alot better – there is such things as too much organisation by having too many folders and subfolders so I’ve simplified the oraganisation which has made it easier to navigate on the Android GMail app.

I’ve upgraded Chrome from 138 to 139 along with the latest version of uBlock Origin Lite being made available. There are quite a few serious security bugs that were fixed in the release so I’d advise that if you haven’t updated yet to check to see whether you’re up to date. So far I haven’t noticed any regressions and the recent uBlock Origin Lite upgrade is slightly faster on sites where a lot of filter rules are being applied. Even though updates to filters need to be submitted like one updates the whole extension the 2 day processing time hasn’t appeared to be too much of an issue in terms of keeping up with pace at which web content needs to be blocked at. I’ve had a look at the changes planned for Chrome 140 (link) and some of the functionality gap is being closed between Chrome on the desktop vs Chrome on Android – bringing SharedWorkers to Android since MV3 heavily relies on the use of service workers infrastructure I wouldn’t be surprised if it is part of the larger goal of bringing extensions support to Chrome for Android.

Just on a side note, if you are thinking of moving to Android I would suggest subscribing to Pocket Casts because it is a far better alternative to Apple Podcasts than YouTube Music. It is the one thing that is annoying which is the fact that Google Podcasts was a great service built on top of Google Search. I can see the reasoning behind wanting to standardise media, be it video, music or podcasts, to be under the same YouTube brand umbrella but the problem is that the music functionality leaves a lot to be desired – tap on artist and rather than it being broken down to albums then to individual songs it just comes up with an almighty list of music and god help you if you have a big library of music because it more or less cripples it – works great I guess as a music streaming service but to play back locally stored music then you’re better off buying PowerAmp which can handle libraries of up to 6000+ music tracks without breaking a sweat.