The last couple of days it has been a bit chaotic with work, weather, people letting off fireworks not to mention my routine got all out of order but now that things have settled down tomorrow will be a reboot back into a good routine and with that hopefully things will get back normal again. Today I started work and then realised that the headset I use has a USB-C connector but on my laptop I only have two – one of them used for the power and the other for the hub but the hub has a USB-C but can only be used for power but there is insufficient power being provided to the laptop. Long story short, I chatted with my boss and had to pop out down to Noel Leeming to pick up a USB-C female to USB-A male adaptor since i had some free USB-A ports available on the hub. Once i got all that sorted then I was able to get to work.
I’ve been having a read regarding the 26.1 updates that Apple recently made available and there has been a document made available over on Webkit outlining the changes (link). The fixes included seem rather limited which makes me wonder whether we’ll see a bigger set of bug fixes and improvements with 26.2 where as the 26.1 release was focusing on the low hanging fruit so maybe we’ll see more of the improvements seen in the Safari Technology builds making their way because based on what I see over on the wpt.fyi website they’re a lot further ahead than a few months ago when I prematurely suggested that they’re way behind from where they should be at this point. At the moment Webkit is sitting at 98% which is two points ahead of Chrome so maybe by early next year we’ll see Safari be in a position where the issues that many web developers talk about have been addressed or at least on the road to being fully addressed.
There are rumours of an Apple TV refresh maybe later on this month – the big feature I hope will be the inclusion of their latest SoC which supports hardware accelerated AV1 playback. All the big streaming platforms have started using it for their high resolution streaming so hopefully it’ll be something we’ll see in such an Apple TV refresh. There is also rumours regarding an M5 refresh in around March next year – hopefully we’ll see maybe the N1 being used in the M5 Pro, M5 Max and M5 Ultra and then combine that with the GPU improvement it’ll make for a compelling upgrade. The iPhone delivery times are dropping and retail stores are getting them in stock and the Pixel 10 Pro XL is available although only the 256GB at the moment.
I had more than one favourite subjects, I had three favourite subjects at school which were history, economics and religious studies. Economics because it allowed me to understand how the economy worked so rather than viewing things in the news as random events it was possible to understand why interest rates were going up, why the government was focused on trying to get back into surplus, why the government passed a particular reform and what they hoped it would do for the economy etc. History allowed me to understand how we go to where we are – the events that led up to WWI and how that fed into WWII then how those events shaped the cold war. Rather than just a series of events that occured in isolation it allowed me to see how they were all linked together – the relationships between different events. Religious studies allowed me to learn about other religions, how they formed, the similarity to Catholicism etc. which lead me to want to learn how group identity help form individual identity, the creation of myth and ritual to build a sense of community through a shared set of beliefs, the idea of sacred history which shaped a community’s world view.
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