Matisyahu's Blog

End of another day – the day at work was pretty much drama free which is the way I like it and then afterwards I went for an 11.6km walk which took around 1 hour and 57 minutes. Before I leave hope I set my timer so that when I come back I have record of how long it has taken – I like to ensure that when I do work out that I’m maintaining a decent pace. Am I tempted to get a smart watch? sure but at the moment I don’t think I’d have much utility beyond keep tracking of my pace which I can achieve with the current setup.

I replied to an email using Mail for macOS using iCloud and I am reminded once again why I moved to Google Workspace – the email couldn’t be sent, it asks me to select the outbound server, I click try again then the same issue happens, I then try the connection doctor and it comes back saying it can connect to the SMTP and IMAP servers without any issues, I then click try again then the email suddenly goes. I kind of wonder whether Apple has give up improving iCloud or whether it is kept around because “well, it’s expected that we provide it” but none of the sort of passion you see regarding their other products are bought to the development of iCloud (eg fixing reliability issues that I and many others have experienced or experiencing on a regular basis). The funny thing is that the issue never occurs on iOS or iPadOS so have Apple given up on putting some serious development efforts into macOS? Maybe Apple has unified their Mail app so that there is a single Mail app with the same code base that runs on those three platforms but I don’t hold out much hope.

Still working a post about the recent events regarding Iran, Israel and the United States but it is becoming a ‘grand unified theory of everything’ as I go deeper into it and reflect on what is happening the scope of the post keeps expanding. I’m working on it but I can’t give an exact time on what it’ll be done. I’m hoping that maybe by the end of the week at the earliest but knowing my luck I’ll probably want to have a look over it so it maybe longer.

Chrome 138 was released today – funny enough it appeared on my Ultra S25 which is a clear indicator to me that there are some pretty important security fixes because most of the time it takes maybe a few days up to a week for it to be available as an update in Play Store for me. On the desktop I’ve updated my work computer’s installation along with updating my personal MacBook Air and Mac Studio – I’ve noticed a slight improvement in performance, I have noticed there has also been an update to uBlock Origin Lite but it is waiting for approval in the Chrome extensions store (for some strange reason Microsoft appear to approve uBlock Origin Lite quicker on their own extension store than Google does on their extension store). Apart from the change which got rid of the ‘Allow Website’ list (unblocking websites is now done via adding a DNR entry in ‘Developer Mode’) things have been going well – working just as reliably as before.