Matisyahu's Blog

I went down to the shops today to have a walk around, had aa coffee and a muffin, had a look at some of the specials and see if there was anything that looked interesting. I went for a good walk around along with walking down to Harvey Norman as well then back up to Big Save and a few other shops outside of the mall to see whether they have any specials today. One thing I did notice is that none of the big names (Noel Leeming, JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman) had the the Apple HomePod or HomePod mini in stock – when I had a check online with the Apple for New Zealand they did have the speakers in stock which makes me wonder whether they don’t have them on stock because they’re not high demand product rather than it being the result of it being updated soon.

After I came home, I had dinner and then watched a few shows and then I went for a walk – 17.4km and then combined with the walking from today the total number of kms would be around 20km. I’m trying to get back into a better routine because I know when I go for a walk every night I feel a whole lot better the next day. On Sunday I’ll probably go out a little but earlier, maybe around 8pm, and do the same 17.4km and I’m hoping that if I can keep that up to Christmas Day that I’ll make up for being lazy for the last week. Next week is when I’ll start doing some gardening around the flat to beautify the place but that’ll probably be on Boxing Day when I head down to Bunnings to pick up stuff to make the backyard a peaceful place to relax.

Safari Technology Preview 234 has been released which has pushed the WPT score to 99 – it’ll be interesting to see what Safari 26.4 has in store – maybe we’ll strike it lucky and get to 100% implementation. More rumours are coming out regarding a Snow Leopard release for version 27 of Apple’s platforms but I’m also wondering whether some changes under the hood have been held back until version 27 because the performance hit on x86-64 would too great such as pushing more kernel modules into user space (I assume that in future x86-64 CPUs the adoption of FRED should address that issue – Linux has added support for FRED but regarding Windows, that is a big mystery).