Matisyahu's Blog

It’s the end of the second day of getting back on track again – I stuck to my diet plan today, did some free weights before work, on my breaks and after work, then I went for an 11.6km walk tonight and although there were a few drops of rain it quickly stopped. I was able to get the walk out of the way in 1 hour and 50 minutes then when I came back I did some stretching as I cooled down, jumped into the shower and got all washed up after that work out, and now I’m in bed relaxing before I head off to sleep for the night.

I was hoping that maybe Safari Technology Preview 235 would be released but it appears that with the time off over the festive season I guess it is a matter of people gradually coming back into the office. When it comes to Ubiquiti, they have released UniFi Gateway software version 5.0.10 in the early access area which makes me wonder whether their focus has been getting the software support for the UniFi Gateway (the non-cloud version) to date before releasing a final version. Just recently the UCK G2 Plus (UniFi Cloud Key) software version 5.0.9 was released which updated the software to the latest version. It’ll be interesting to see whether we see the software update for cloud released in the next few weeks.

Oh, and on the issue of macOS 26.2 where I noted that there was a performance increase with the release of macOS 26.2 but I couldn’t nail down exactly what the reasoning was. It appears that there was a software update (link) which is probably the reason why I saw the WiFi stack updated in the ‘System Information’ application. It is great that in the era of pointless AI crap being rammed down the collective throats of end users that there are still companies in Silicon Valley making sure the fundamentals aka ‘meat and potatoes’ are being taken care of.

I’ve noted in the past how more an more functionality is being pushed into user space (use the use of DriverKit in the driver names) which makes me me wonder whether the version 27 release will be more about under the hood changes that they can make since they’ll be (rumoured to) dropping support for x86 where drivers operating in user space has a performance penalty hit that is higher than doing the same thing on ARM. I wouldn’t be surprised if we ended up seeing iOS end up becoming more powerful through the use of more companies supporting their hardware on iOS through the use of DriverKit.

Given the backlash regarding Liquid Glass and the new executive in charge of user interface, I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw further refinement in future versions of macOS and iOS with any major overhaul being reserved for version 27. I don’t think there is going to be a major change but I think some of the ‘glassy’ aspects of it will be toned down, we may even see a nod to the Aqua interface of the past and see some of those aspects return.