Matisyahu's Blog

I woke up this morning, pottered around the house and I was going to head down to the store to pick up a few items but it started raining – I’m one of those people who would sooner avoid the weather and stay inside rather than ploughing along to do something that isn’t all that urgent. I’m sorting out my office and what I’m going to do is move the clothes horse out of the lounge room into the office and then move the shelf that is in the office into the lounge room – the big question is whether I put in on the right hand side of the television or whether I put it over where I’ve got the seat at the moment (below the Joan Miro print on the wall) then put that seat over on the right hand side of the television along with the wooden draws (or maybe just put the draws in the office since I have plenty of space to put it there).

Edit: While thinking about it I ended up going with the plan of putting the bookshelf below the art print (I tried it on the right hand side of the television but it didn’t look balanced – probably due to the television cabinet being wide than the bookshelf which made it look ‘off’. I then moved the chair to the right hand side of the television along with the porcelain elephant from the left side of the television to the right hand side so it is now visible when you enter the room. Regarding the office, I’ve put the draws in there and there is also enough space to put the vacuum cleaner in there too so now it is no longer tucked away as you enter the hallway (not too sure whether it qualifies as a hall way since it is more like a landing pad than anything else). This is what it now looks like in the lounge room:

Regarding the office, at the moment I have the two monitors I have been given to me by my work but I want to replace it with a single wide screen monitor that can also act as a USB-C hub which will make the desk a lot tidier. The one I’m looking at is the Samsung ViewFinity S65UC 34″ Ultrawide QHD 1000R Curved Business Monitor – it is around the same width as what I have at work and it also means I can then use the monitor as a hub (it includes USB ports, ethernet port etc) so then it is a matter of just attaching it up to the laptop and everything works smoothly (I’ll send the work one back).

A bit of a surprise today was the release of uBlock Origin Lite 2026.614.1502 which was updated automatically through the Mac App Store (I’m now back to using Safari) and the experience keeps getting better and better. The changes in Safari 27 should also result in better for extensions that make use of JavaScript – AdGuard makes use of JavaScript quite extensively so I’m interested in seeing how well it performs when compared to AdGuard running on Safari 26.5. It’ll be interesting to see what the web benchmarks are like when comparing Safari 26.5 to Safari 27 along with the Web Platform Tests and the implementation along with the level of compliance the implementation is.