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A kind of magic: two-sided conventional USB

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Recently I’ve come across a couple of USB cables of Chinese origin (what else).

Cables that are a real innovation in my view. Carrying just regular USB Type A or Micro USB connectors, they can be plugged in both ways!

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Update your subscriptions: the site is migrating

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Update: the new version of the website is now live; all comments have been retained and copied over from the old version.

Below is the original message:


A new version of yktoo.com will go live on Monday August 19, 2019. Not so much has changed in the looks of the site, but inside it’s totally different.

In this regard its RSS feed links will change:

  • Old: https://yktoo.com/en/blog/atom (Atom) or https://yktoo.com/en/blog/rss (RSS)
  • Current: https://yktoo.com/en/index.xml (RSS only) — as of 19 August 2019

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Sound Switcher Indicator2.2.2

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The version 2.2.2 of Sound Switcher Indicator has been released. It immediately follows the version 2.2.1 and includes a hotfix for the PulseAudio auto-reconnect feature.

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Managing Git projects on a mass scale

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Anyone who has been in the software development business for a while, is certainly familiar with the hassle of arranging, keeping track of, pulling, committing etc. of dozens of local Git repositories being used or developed.

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So long two thousand eighteen

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Tjongejonge, this year ended as suddenly as it began, I couldn’t even find time to blog. This post is the tenth and the last one in 2018 (but I’m seriously considering improving on that matter).

On the positive side, this year has been so eventful that it’s a challenge to recap all things of importance.

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