Matisyahu's Blog

Firefox 121 was released recently with a massive laundry list of features that developers have been clamouring for and the Firefox developers have been working on as part of the web compat project such as the :has pusedo class along with many others (link). What I think is also extraordinary is the giant leap in functionality at has been recently merged into the Firefox nightly (link) for example the Web Codecs (video) went from 54.7% to 89.3% so at the moment overall both Firefox and Safari are neck and neck on 97.1% and 97.6% respectively. Long story short it appears that 20 February 2024 will be when a lot of the work merged into the nightly will hopefully appear in the mainstream release. I’ve updated the Firefox installed on my smartphone and everything is working wonderfully on there too. I really wish that there was some way to buy official Firefox merch as a way of showing support for the project.

It is interesting that as one gets older the sorts of things that I would obsess over/focus my attention on are no longer something I care about. I used to be a real tech enthusiast particularly when it came to having the latest smart phone, laptop, desktop, equipment, the novelty of having the newest technology but now I’ve kind of gotten to the point of being ‘over it’ now that other priorities have come to the forefront. With these new priorities I am forced to rethink what my spending priorities are in the new especially if one considers that I’ll be travelling through Europe in June for a month in 2024. There are also things that I need to do around the house such as replacing my bed frame and potentially my mattress as well and then there is the fact that I need to replace my work shirts because at the moment they look pretty worse for wear, new shoes, underwear, socks etc. so as a result one has to triage.

Around a week ago Nothing released Nothing OS 2.5 Beta 1 for Nothing Phone 1 (public beta, Nothing OS 2.5 based on Android 14) (link) and based on the fact that Nothing 2.5 Beta for Nothing Phone 2 was released on 11 October 2023 which was then released on 15 December (along side the beta for the Nothing Phone 1). I don’t think it’ll take as more than 2 months to get it working on the Nothing Phone 1 so I wouldn’t be surprised if we ended up seeing it being released towards the end of January 2024 or sometime in February 2024 but then again that assumes no platform specific bugs appear.

Back to work on Boxing Day along with some extra hours over new years which help with the savings – looking forward to a new year filled with many positive changes taking place.