Matisyahu's Blog

Back to work on Wednesday and then in 5 days I’m finally off for 2 weeks – I’ve been looking forward to time off for the whole year and it is almost there. Tonight I went for a walk and the temperature outside was 18 degrees celsius – not too hot but warm enough to get a bit of a sweat while not being uncomfortable. I’m looking for the time off because I’m going to squeeze in a bit of extra exercise and see how close to the goal of under 100kg I can get – the last few kgs of reaching my eventual goal will take longer but once I get there I’ll be back to the same weight I was back in my 20s before I went to university.

uBlock Origin Lite version 2025.1207.2142 was released today – you may find that once you update the extension you may need to wait a few minutes after opening Safari for those filters to be converted to the native content blocking filter format that the declarative net request on Safari is built upon. Safari Technology Preview 233 was released and funny enough another release candidate for the 26.2 was made available which may result in either it being released this week or pushed off until next week. It’ll be interesting to see what happens but I guess if there is great urgency they’ll push it out as soon as they feel like it is ready to go. Tomorrow will be the usual Chrome update but that could change – things get a little weird around this time of the year with people having time off to spend with family so I guess with tech companies like Google the release schedule may vary by a few days.

The government is talking up ‘green shoots’ but there are also headwinds such as Westpac raising their interest rates with the expectation that there maybe interest rate rises next year. There is also the issue of inflation with the cost of everything going up with the National led government hoping that next year things will look a bit better so that people feel as though the policies are slowly delivering. When it comes to what the left is going to offer – it’ll be interesting to see whether we may see a Labour-NZ First coalition especially if National has privatisation back on the menu given that Labour and NZ First have a lot more in common when it comes to economic policy. Next year is going to be an interesting year for policy because as we get closer to the PREFU (Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update) we’ll see numbers being attached to policy along with new announcements particularly in the area of infrastructure.