Matisyahu's Blog

I decided to sleep in today because wanted to catch up on sleep but that didn’t sotp me from getting a 8km power walk in – around 2pm I went for an 8km walk, really got my heart rate up there and completed the whole set it around 1 hour and 17 minutes. At the end of the power walk I had done over 10000 steps with the calories burnt at around 729 calories but generally the reading from such devices they’re not necessarily reliable which is why I don’t count the calories burnt into the calories consumed in the day – basically I stick to being around 200-300 calories under what I need for a day based on my basal metabolism so that any exercise I do is an ‘icing on the cake’ rather than my calorie control in a day being dependent on it.

The UniFi Network Application 10.3.58 has been release however it is currently rolling out gradually however if you switch to release candidate, install it and then switch back to the official release channel then you should be all good to go. The one habit I also like to do is to restart the Cloud Key so that there is a fresh start with the UniFi Network Application freshly booted. After updating it I haven’t noticed any issues and the speed is as fast as usual although I go with Cloudflare because they have a local presence in New Zealand where as I haven’t found any documentation showing that Google has a local presence in New Zealand as so far as running DNS servers in New Zealand (the last time I checked I saw it being resolved by a server located in Australia).

Just a follow up to the Safari Technology Preview 242 release that I mentioned earlier – I advised that the wpt.fyi webside hadn’t been updated to include Safari Technology Preview 242 however I noticed that they have no updated it. The score for Safari Technology Preview 242 has gone from 75.4% for Safari Technology Preview 241 to now 85.7% for Safari Technology Preview 242 so it’ll be interesting to see what is in store for future releases and whether we’ll see that gap close even further because at the moment Chrome is currently on 89.1% (it’ll be interesting to see what the numbers will be when Safari 26.5 is released with the platform release of 26.5 (the fourth beta was released within the last day so iit could be possible that we’ll see maybe a release candidate next week and then maybe the final release the week after).

I’ve got my alarm set for 9:30am, I’m going to wake up, leave home for a walk however I am tempted to go for a 10km walk because that would only be around 2km longer than what I currently do. The great thing with getting out before midday is that it avoids the heat and the sun at the peak although i still wear a hat and put on some sunscreen. I did talk about the idea of maybe going for a walk after work but I’ve decided that if I am going to do any extra exercise then I’m probably better off doing it in the morning, having a shower and then heading into work then spending the time after coming home from work on relaxing and getting an early night in bed. My goal is to get at least 8-9 hours worth of sleep.

Regarding upcoming time off from work, I’ve put some leave through for the week of the 8 June however since I can get time off for my birth and my birthday falls on Kings Birthday this year I am going to see whether I can either get 30 May off or maybe 3 June off because my work has the ability to take a day off because of ones birthday. In November I am looking at travelling to Tasmania for a holiday (mum is head over there for a meet up with dad’s old classmates when he was at Duntroon), I’ve had a look at airfares with the best value being one where I go from Wellington to Sydney then from Sydney direct to Tasmania (on an Airbus A220 – the first time I’ve been on such an aircraft) – I’m wanting to get those flights booked early so then I can get them at a reasonable price given that the date is getting close to when the school holidays will start.

Just before I end this post, I was watching a video regarding the ‘enshittification of AI’ and I have to ask the most obvious question, how can you enshittify something that was already shit. As Ed Zitron as noted, the moment when the all you can eat subscriptions disappear and the only way to use their service is via the API then I think people are quickly going to find that AI companies were making many promises and most of them were never delivered. When you have failure rates of 30-40% and you wasts hundeds of thousands of tokens in an attempt to vibe code your way out of a problem then you’ll quickly realise that maybe those humans you got rid of weren’t so expensive after all. We’re slowly seeing companies having that day of reckoning – the same companies who were proudly proclaiming how many people they were going to lay off are rather quiet when they later have to back peddle. What is also amazing is how the corporate culture see employeelayoffs as a signal of ‘good management’ where as in the past the idea of laying off employees as a failure by management because it was seen as a last result rather than it being seen as something to be proud of. Then again when you have management who are far removed from their employees I guess it is easier to employees as simply numbers rather than humans who have lives, families etc.