Matisyahu's Blog

I’ve been spending a few days trying to find a fresh new look and I finally found one that is a good balance between simplicity so that the content is the focal point of the blog but not so simple that it looks boring. I was going to go for a dark theme but I couldn’t quite tweak it the way I wanted it in terms of font size and making the blog balanced. I’ll see how this goes but so far I’m pretty happy with the outcome.

I’m enjoying my time off, being able to sleep in and relax, binge watch television series, do some gardening, head down to go for a walk around the shops then enjoy a coffee and a muffin for afternoon tea. It is funny how, after getting so used to a frantic pace at work, leaning how to unwind and just enjoy the moment, getting out of the mindset of trying to schedule every day as if relaxing is something that needs to have a rigid schedule to some how maximise relaxation time.

Once again the politics side of the internet is excited about the latest idiotic thing that Trump has posted along with a split in MAGA, some posting now that they ‘realise’ that ‘MAGA was a pysop’ and that they’re now going to back to being a traditional Republican, then there is plenty of FAFO content of people unhappy about the high prices. Whenever I see this sort of discourse I am once again sceptical that people have actually changed.

As I’ve said the past, the benchmark of whether there has been a change will be what takes place in the mid terms – are we going to see MAGA politicians get primaries and replaced with traditional ‘Mitt Romney style Republicans’? are we going to see the Democratic Party win a veto overriding majority in both chambers? if we don’t see a change in substance in the mid terms then it tells me that the theatrics by many online are performative – if your unhappiness doesn’t translate to a change in voting habits then it tells me that it is all performative done for engagement rather than genuine anger/frustration.

Apple has released the 26.3 update for their platforms and as I speculated earlier the update to Safari 26.3 will be rather sparse (link) which makes sense given that it is being developed over the festive season. There is a rumour that 26.4 will be a bit heavier in terms of features and bug fixes but that makes sense given that Microsoft has done the same thing with their December patch Tuesday they released – enabling features already baked in, fixing up bugs but leaving any sort of major change until next year.

uBlock Origin Lite 2025.1217.1755 has been released and it appeared promptly in the macOS and iOS App Store – it appears that the length of time for review is very much dependent on what has been updated, the nature of the update and how complex it is. I’ve still been following the sub_frame Declarative Net Request bug and it appears that it is slowly making progress – hopefully we’ll see some movement being made and Safari will get to the point that content blockers that make use of the Declarative Network Request API aren’t faced with bugs that only Safari related.