Strictly according to the (nonexistent) schedule the next version of Ymuse—0.14—has been released. Ymuse is a desktop client application for the Music Player Daemon, which I posted about a while ago.
What’s new in this version?
Ymuse ‣ 0.14
Tag: Linux
Ymuse ‣ 0.13
A new version of Ymuse 0.13, a Music Player Daemon client, has been released.
I haven’t blogged about it since the 0.7 release, so here’s a brief summary of what’s changed:
Sound Switcher Indicator ‣ 2.3.4
A minor update to Sound Switcher Indicator — version 2.3.4 — has been released (as well as a few intermediate ones).
What’s changed since the previous 2.3.0 release:
Ymuse ‣ Go and the Music Player Daemon client
Sound Switcher Indicator ‣ 2.3.0
A new version of Sound Switcher Indicator — 2.3.0 — has just been released.
This version finally adds a frequently-requested feature: the ability of mapping global keyboard shortcuts to input and output ports.
Download online video from YouTube/Vimeo in Linux with ease
What’s the easiest way to download a video file from YouTube, Vimeo etc. in Linux? And how do you extract its audio track as an MP3 file?
You can opt for one of numerous online video converters, but I personally prefer doing that from the command line using youtube-dl.
It supports video downloads from YouTube, Vimeo, BBC, CBS, and about 1100 more (even from YouPorn).
Save trees, use Xournal
Joining the mass sustainability hysteria spree, I’d like to put my two cents into the future of my and others’ grandchildren.
Many interactions with Dutch institutions result in a filled-in and signed document that needs to be emailed or uploaded.
Or another example: you visit Russian Post where you’re requested to fill out 117 copies of a certain form. Do not give in to the provocation and do not fill it in by hand!
Self-hosting Commento with Docker Compose
WARNING: Commento is abandoned. I strongly recommend using Comentario instead. A while ago I’ve made a decision to migrate off Disqus, which is arguably the most popular external commenting system for website owners.
Slow connection to MySQL in Docker
My current project makes use of the MySQL database, which runs in a Docker container.
At a certain moment connecting to the database became excruciatingly slow, taking tens of seconds to establish a single connection. After that everything would work as expected.
The application opens a connection some hundred times, so the startup time had become really unacceptable.
I’ve spent a lot of time hunting that down, and then even more time looking for a solution as I failed to find any on StackOverflow. But finally I’ve solved this.
