Matisyahu's Blog

One more day to go and then I am on my two weeks off annual leave. My last day of the week I am planning to make it as stress free as possible – I am going to be as cool as a cucumber, I’m not going to let customers get under my skin and when I want to take a breather I going to do so. Today was an uneventful day, no annoying customers ringing up looking for a fight so that is always good news.

Things are going well with the updated platforms Apple released on Saturday (Friday US time) – I have noticed that the more I have used it the more I’ve picked up on it being more responsive which makes sense given that there were a lot of new technologies that were added to macOS and I wouldn’t be surprised if part of that inclusion of new technology involves moving existing frameworks over utilising those new technologies. Metal 4 being a sizeable upgrade and given that Apple tends to make use of Metal where they can I’ve found that the UI experience is pretty good although I have changed the default Liquid Glass effect to Tint which has improved the look and feel.

The one thing I am really blown away with is how much Safari has improved since the 18.x series in particular when it comes to extension support as well responsiveness not to mention many bugs have been fixed. One example of bugs being fixed has been my experience when using YouTube back in the Safari 18.x series where the shorts scroll through would be buggy with videos no loading, the comments being out of sync with the video that is playing (the comments are from a previous video), if you clicked on back then the previous page wouldn’t load plus many other issues. So far I haven’t had any of those issues so far.

On WordPress.com I have found that the spell checker that comes with Safari works a whole lot better – on Chrome there is this really weird lag between typing and then the spell checking kicking in or in some cases the spell check just suddenly dies resulting in you having to quit the Chrome browser, reload it and then suddenly it comes back to life (the problem occurs on both Chrome for Windows and macOS) I cannot work out what is going on with Chrome when I experience it but on Safari I never have that issue.

I’m looking forward to seeing what will be included with macOS 26.3 and Safari 26.3 – maybe more of the features found in the Technology Preview will make their way to the mainstream release because at the moment when it comes to the web platform test the current Technology Preview of Safari (Safari Technology Preview 233) it has achieved 99% conformance.