Matisyahu's Blog

Another day of relaxing and today I went for an 11.6km walk tonight at around 6pm then when I came back, I put my recycling and rubbish wheelie bins out for collection then I headed down to the supermarket to pick up the all important milk and coffee. I was going to grab the bus but by the time I got half way to the bus stop I saw the bus go pass it so in the end I decided to just walk down to ehs supermarket and clock in a few extra km’s walking (thus making it around 15km walked today). While at the supermarket I picked up the milk with extra protein along with the coffee concentrate – I’ve decided to start buying the extra protein milk in future since it allows me to stick to my meal plan by allowing me to feel full for longer and I grabbed some Kombucha on special.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) Google will release an update for Chrome and in around 2 weeks Chrome 139 will be stable with it being released to the public a week later. I don’t expect anything major but there is gradual progress in the area of ‘Web Platform Test’ in terms of working on areas that the major brower vendors have agreed to work on. There is also at work by the WECG to develop a similar testing system so that browsers can be tested and issues brought to the attention of said developers to that they know where compatibility issues are occuring and priorities can be set in much the same way that the ‘Web Platform Test’ is done.

Apple is currently working on updates to their current platforms as well as working on the next generation. I am keeping an eye on what is happening with the next release and what I do hope is that they take on board feedback regarding their liquid glass. What I am hoping is that on macOS the ability to use reduced transparency will still result in a good experience because if you take the whole liquid glass out of the equation and look at the other improvements such as Metal 4, the laundry list of fixes and standards compliance bought to Webkit (it’ll be interesting to see what the benchmarks are like), under the hood optimisations, deprecated legacy frameworks etc.

Things will be pretty quiet for the new few months but in September there will be the big Qualcomm conference where we will see a refresh in their product line up which will hopefully also translate to new ARM based products for not just laptops but also maybe seeing mini-pcs with Qualcomm SoCs making an appearance as well. There is the usual announcement by Apple at their iPhone even towards the end of September where they refresh the iPhone along with announcing when their new platforms will be released – generally they push out iOS first and then the rest follow from there. Towards the end of the year/beginning of next year there is Intel releasing the 300 series – rumours of a refresh of the existing product line up indicates to me that there maybe delays which is why they’re pushing for a stop gap measure to keep the OEMs happy.