Category: Technology

  • Following the early update pushed out by Chrome developers, normally updates are released on Wednesday New Zealand time but this time it was released on Tuesday New Zealand time (which roughly translates to Monday in California), Apple released an update for all their platforms which included a security fix for Webkit plus a few other…

  • I was able to get a few things sorted out on Monday however on Tuesday (today) I’ll be heading off to mum’s for dinner along with picking up a few items from the supermarket – cleaning wipes for my computer because I want to avoid using traditional glass cleaners since they can cause damage to…

  • Here was me thinking I had fixed up the issue I was having with AdGuard but it appears to have come back so what I’ve decided to do is uninstall AdGuard in favour of uBlock Origin Lite (which is the MV3 version of uBlock Origin) which isn’t 100% perfect but it is good enough that…

  • Just to start off, I finally fixed up the problem with AdGuard stopping a few websites from loading but with a bit of trial an error I found that the issue could be resolved by adding the following to my user rules: @@||cloudflareinsights.com^$document@@||cloudflare.com^$document The websites used Cloudflare for protection against DDOS and AdGuard was stopping…

  • Went for a walk tonight down to the local Pak ‘n Save – I think I’ll turn it into a regular thing rather than taking the bus so then I can squeeze into the day some exercise while also doing something. I picked up some fresh blueberries as well as some frozen berries to go…

  • End of a another day of work, went for for my daily 5.8km walk using the running shoes that I didn’t think I had and afterwards I felt so good. I was watching a video how exercising gives you more energy and that is what I’ve found with going for a walk every day –…

  • I’ve been relaxing and reading through Github to see what my favourite projects are up to – WECG discussion minutes are always a good read especially if you have an interest in the development of the Declarative Net Request API. It’ll be interesting to see what will happen between now and June 2025 when enterprise…

  • I was reading through the latest minutes from the WECG where ‘Issue 744: Proposal: A DNR rule type to intercept top-document navigation’ (link) was discussed – long story short, at the moment if you click on a play button on some video sharing websites it’ll also open up a window but in the window it’ll…

  • Relaxing in bed and getting ready to head into the office on Wednesday – back to work after a month off recovering from my accident and time off for my grandma’s memorial service. I an tempted to work from home but given that I have been out of the office for around a month I…