Matisyahu's Blog

Today it was raining all day and raining at night – it really didn’t stop until around 2am which by that time was far too late to go for a walk. I decided to stay at home, have some vegetarian chilli for dinner while watching some YouTube videos (the vegetarian chilli would actually go well with mince or firm tofu that is fried and then the chilli mix added to it).

It looks like the update to Chrome, Edge as well as Safari Technology Preview has been delayed probably either until Friday or maybe next week. It is an indication that if there are security fixes in the next version those issues are either low severity or if they are high severity that there are not active exploits out in the world. There are rumours that the next version of iOS and macOS scheduled to be version 27 will be a a ‘Snow Leopard’ release where the focus is on ‘fit and finish’ where there will be no new features other implementing the AI features talked about at this year’s WWDC. Even at version 26.1 I still see a lot of people complaining about the half finished nature of version 26 which kind of feeds into the narrative that the whole ‘liquid glass’ was something that was hurriedly slapped together at the last minute.

For me the most disappointing part of the whole Apple M5 refresh is the fact that it didn’t include the N1 chip and still relying on the Broadcom wireless chip lacking WiFi 7 support. It is the year 2025, if you’re shipping WiFi 6 products and you’re charging a premium for your products then what you’re really doing is just ‘taking the piss’. Yeah, I have my laundry list of things I can whinge about regarding Microsoft but holy heck when both Apple and Microsoft are just half assing their product quality and adoption of the latest technologies then it is difficult not to feel negative/pessimistic about the future of technology.

I remember in the past I used to excited about a new hardware or software release, that there was a leap forward but now I recoil in horror wondering what useless crap they’ve foisted upon the end user (see Microsoft and their ‘agentic OS’ fixation) mean while they cannot get the basics correct (see Safari and the Declarative Net Request API implementation being broken six ways from Sunday). I can deal with features that I may not be interested – plenty of them on my Samsung phone but I just ignore them but when the basics aren’t done well while all the focus is on pointless features then it does raise the blood pressure a bit.