Matisyahu's Blog

Finished work on Sunday for the week, took the bus down to the store to pick up some groceries and then walked part of the way back (my arms got too tired to keep on carrying the grocery bags), I had a late dinner and then I went for a 10.5km walk which enabled me to unwind (making it a total of 11.5km that I have walked). Woke up today, still a bit stiff from the long walk but feeling a whole lot better knowing I got some exercise but I’ll be focusing on getting out of the house on my day off so that I can get some sun and fresh air. On a side note, I finally cleaned my fridge after ignoring it for a while – it wasn’t horrible by any stretch of the imagination but it need some freshening up.

I’ve tried the latest uBlock Origin Lite on Safari (stable version that comes with macOS 15.4.1) and unfortunately there are still many bugs in Safari that cause problems when compared to how smoothly uBlock Origin Lite works on Chrome. I’m looking forward to hopefully seeing that maybe these issues will be addressed with Safari 19 (bundled with macOS 16) – that Apple are holding back from pushing out disruptive changes in favour of making them available in the next major release. I’m not hopeful given that Apple has allowed Safari marketshare slip over the years to the point that Chrome now has 66.94% of the browser market on macOS. I know plenty of people, both old and young, who go out of their way to install Chrome because websites that work fine on Chrome break on Safari (NZ Post’s YouShop being a good example).

Rumour has it that Apple will be releasing update for their platforms this week – it’s Monday in New Zealand but Sunday in the US so it may not be until Tuesday New Zealand time before we see it emerge (although it may not get released until later on in the week depending on whether there have been regressions in the release candidate they made available last week).