Matisyahu's Blog

The wind and rain are going crazy outside so I decided to do a few things – the first was to put the chairs and table away because the wind had already blown one of my chairs over so I worried what en even bigger gust of wind may cause. The second was to order a couple of sandwiches and a slice of carrot cake from the local store for delivery – I’d normally walk down but the weather is just foul so I decided to swallow the cost of delivery. The third thing I did was making an order from Woolworths for delivery tomorrow – I would have preferred to get those sandwiches and what I need for tomorrow to be delivered today but unfortunately the local Woolworths were run off their feet today so their same day delivery was closed off early.

I’ve been following the continued development of AdGuard for both Safari and Chrome to see how well they’ve been advancing when compared to uBlock Origin Lite. AdGuard 2.1.0 for Mac has ben pretty much as expected since it is still very much dependent on the native content blocking API. In my experience the blocking isn’t as smooth as uBlock Origin Lite is on Safari along with the fact that when using AdGuard with Safari there are strange pauses and hangs particularly when it comes to dealing with pages that make extensive use of JavaScript. With that being said, AdGuard 5.3,x series (link) on Chrome has been pretty rock solid.

Rumour has it that the first beta of the 26.4 series will be out on the week starting 23 February US time – I’d say it’ll probably be either a Tuesday or a Wednesday which is when they make it available. Around that same time hopefully we’ll see a Safari 26.4 beta released so then we can see what changes have made their way from the Technology Preview into the mainstream release of Safari thais included with the 26.4 platform release.

The order I made from the Verge/Impulse store are on their way, one of the hoodies is coming from Australia while the Irish green hoodie and John Coltrane t-shirt are coming from the United States. Oh, and while writing this blog post the power has gone out through the Wellington and the Hutt Valley so I’m sitting here making use of the battery power on my laptop an my mobile phone connection.