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Category: Technology

  • Giving Firefox a try.

    As I’ve noted in previous posts I have been running Safari Technology Preview bought I thought I should give Firefox a try considering that the WebRender is now enabled on macOS. So far it has been very reliable and with uBlock Origin v1.32.4 it is doing a good job blocking ads and other nasties. In…

  • The uphill battle to a progressive web app future.

    I guess over the years I’ve developed a theme on my blog about my less than enthusiastic embrace of the industries slow march towards the extensive use of PWA. I have to prefix this – in an ideal world I much prefer native applications because of the improved performance, lower source usage and better system…

  • Webextensions API MV2 to MV3.

    After almost 2 years in development Manifest v3 has made its way into Chrome 88 Beta (link) which I assume will mean that it is in Chrome 88 (link) but that being said, there is still more work to be done such as increase the filter limit from 30,000 in Chrome 88 to 300.000 in…

  • A deep dive into the Apple Silicon M1.

    I’ve been watching a few videos recently about the impact of Apple’s move to its own ARM ISA based silicon and the impact that change will have on the rest of the industry. Gary Explains goes into great details regarding the transition from a ‘top level’ perspective: Just as Apple set trends in the past…

  • Ubiquiti gives an early Christmas present.

    Christmas appear to have come early with Ubiquiti releasing the 1.8.4 firmware update for the Unifi Dream Machine (both the base and pro models) which bumps up the version numbers of the various components plus bug fixes. For me I am pretty happy with how my UDM is behaving how that they’ve stabilised the ‘base’…

  • Everyone aboard the ARM train.

    With Apple starting to ship their own SoC based on the ARM ISA there is a growing Microsoft developing their own ARM SoCs and rumours that other big players such as AMD and Intel maybe looking at getting into developing their own range of ARM based SoCs which will licence the ARM ISA but will…

  • Chrome and macOS causing users some pain.

    Watching a video about Chrome once again causing pain to end users but this time it is in the form of the updater that resides in the background but resulting in high CPU utilisation by WindowServer. Rather than this being an example of a bug, I feel it is an example of a much larger…

  • Software updates and Windows on ARM.

    Before heading into the weekend Apple released the release candidate (of what will eventually be released to the public, assuming there are no show stopper bugs) of iOS 14.3 and macOS 11.1 (along with all the other Apple platforms). If they are going to release it next week then it’ll most likely be on Wednesday…

  • Sorting out the muffler noise.

    Well, my muffler on my scooter has been getting noisier and noisier, and I could quite work out what had caused it. I had a closer look at the muffler and it appears that there is a crack at the joint between the end part and the pipe that feeds to it. I bought some…

  • Apple Silicon rumours.

    Rumours of the M1X are doing their rounds regarding the refreshed Apple Silicon based Mac’s. Rumour has it that they’re scheduled to be released in the second half of next year. It’ll be interesting to see how everything turns out but I could imagine Apple moving to DDR5 which would give a huge amount of…