My entrepreneurship ‣ Yktoo Solutions is three!
Photo by Annie Spratt.
Exactly three years ago, on October 1st, 2016, Yktoo Solutions was born.
Netgear Orbi Pro SRK60 mesh router review
Preface
I’ve been using my Linksys E4200 router for about eight years and was quite happy with its very robust operation. However, any hardware is destined to get outdated over time.
Firstly, as soon as we’d moved from our former apartment into a three-storey house it became evident the Wi-Fi coverage was suboptimal. In some remote corner you’d sometimes hardly get any connection at all. Secondly, it didn’t support modern IEEE standards such as 802.11ac, which was also hurting the bandwidth.
Thus eventually I’ve decided to go for a mesh Wi-Fi system.
Xiaomi automatic corkscrew review
TGIF — time for wine (and a review)!
I’ve been using the electric corkscrew Xiaomi Mijia for more than a year now and I’m pretty happy with it.
It features a rechargeable battery, which means there’s one more gadget to charge. However, I dare say you won’t need to charge it frequently unless you drink wine a crate a day.
What you need to know when ordering stuff abroad
Photo by PostNL.
If you like ordering cheap gadgets and other stuff from AliExpress (and similar online stores) like I do, you may find this useful.
For all shipments originating from within the EU no extra charges are to be paid in the Netherlands.
For all other countries, the Dutch customs regulation establishes a duty-free threshold of € 22 per package.
(In)offensive Dutch
Photo by JillWellington.
It’s a known fact some common words in one language may sound pretty rude or even offensive in another. Furthermore, some words in the same language can be confusing.
Take Dutch and English.
If, for example, one typed “Buurvrouw, wat een mooie koolmezen, maar wat doet mijn haan op uw ezel?” into Google Translate, he’d be presented the following translation:
A pop-up Rorschach test
Good morning dear patient! Please tell me, what do you observe on this photo?
How to pyromark your jo, bokken, or tanto
It’s a short how-to on inscribing your jo (wooden stick), tanto (wooden dagger), bokken (wooden sword)—or anything else made of wood—with an arbitrary text or image.
Installing MySQL Workbench in Ubuntu 19.04
MySQL Workbench is a very handy administration tool for the MySQL database server. Unfortunately, it has been removed from mainline Ubuntu repositories as of Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo.
Inflatable treasure
Today I’ve received a parcel from the almighty AliExpress. A pretty puzzling one.
You’d be puzzled, too. What do you think an “inflatable treasure” is?
New website announcement: abbreviation dictionary afk.best
Charge your mobile by swinging
Photo by Koen Laureij.
The Dutch will never stop to impress me with their ingenuity.
Being sustainable is now trending in Europe—and in Holland in particular. So in June 2019 my client, NS, has installed a special kind of swing at the Utrecht Centraal railway station.
This new attraction was presented during the “Sustainability Week” (Duurzame Week), and it can charge your mobile phone!