Matisyahu's Blog

I woke up this morning, sore throat, headache and generally feeling lousy so I decided it would be best to take the day off and spend time recuperating. It’s probably a combination of the bad weather and having a couple of nights of broken sleep resulting in a weakened immune system because my body hasn’t rested enough. I’ll be relaxing at home, in the evening I’ll get some light exercise and I’ll focus on eating a good amount of vegetables and healthy food to get my body in good shape – I’ll need to see how it all turns out before making a decision to go back to work on Friday because I don’t want to promise then find out that I cannot turn up on the day resulting in problems for the team having planned on me turning up on the day.

The some details of the Google Pixel 10 have already been leaked but rather than trying to deny it, as other companies would, Google instead have embraced it by acknowledging some of the details (link) – the full details however will be found out on 20 August 2025 (funny enough, a month later there is the usual iPhone launch event where there will also be an announcement for the release date of macOS 26 with iOS 26 normally being released a week after the iPhone event).

It’ll be interesting to see whether the number of countries supported will be expanded – I understand that Google don’t want to step on the toes of their close partner (Samsung) but one could argue that if the people who buy the Pixel phone vs buying Samsung were a venn diagram that there would be very little overlap given that many who are go for a Samsung phone are very much invested into the broader Samsung ecosystem vs. the Pixel who are invested in the Google ecosystem (for me, I use Samsung ecosystem for the management of devices such as the Arlo security cameras (which is broken on the Google Home app when used in conjunction with a Google Workspace account), bluetooth headphones etc with Google Workspace being used for email, cloud computing etc). The longer I use the Samsung the more I see why people choose the Samsung ecosystem – it may not have the completeness of iCloud or Google Workspace but it does a good job complimenting those services without too much overlap.

There is a new beta of uBlock Origin Lite which includes a few changes (link), will be interesting to see if those changes translate to improved performance by simplifying the way in which filters are applied. The beta also includes a beta for Safari but keep in mind that you’ll need to be running either the Safari Technology Preview or the beta release of macOS due to bugs still present in the current Safari included with macOS 15.5.