Matisyahu's Blog

I’m happy that I worked at home today because the weather has been atrocious where at the time of writing my blog the temperature is 6°C and there is plenty of rain along with wind and warnings by the Metservice. I’m at home with my heater running and I’m thankful that I made the investment in insulation and double glazing resulting in a place that can retain the heat really well during the winter. Tonight for dinner I had chicken and corn soup along with toast and some relish with slices of cheese on top. It was a tasty meal to warm me but before jumping into bed. The weather is till pretty horrible so I’ve decided to have a bit of a sleep in on Friday – I may as well make use of this weather to catch up on some sleep.

I was having a look through the release notes of macOS 27 Beta 2 (link) and I notice that there is quite a lot of changes that haven’t been give much attention. The first thing that popped out at me was the removal of DVD Playback support – VideoLan does the job nicely but I guess with people moving to digital media that is downloadable that Apple has decided that it is better to remove it and have one less having to be maintained. I’ve had a look at the Web Platform Test website and the Safari Technology Preview is still sitting at 86% but I’d say that with the focus mainly being around fixing implementation but then again I wouldn’t be surprised if things are fairly quiet until the release of version 27 of the platform with maybe 27.x series being where they pick backup in terms of adding functionality into the mainstream release to close that functionality gap as part of Interop 2026.