Netherlands and more

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

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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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A while ago I’ve made a decision to migrate off Disqus, which is arguably the most popular external commenting system for website owners.

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We’re four days into a record-breaking heatwave here. An “orange alert” (code oranje) has been declared in almost every province of the Netherlands:

The 75 years old absolute temperature record established back in 1944 has been broken yesterday.

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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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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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It’s been almost three years since the first incarnation of the Yktoo Solutions website has seen the light. That first version has been built on a technology stack similar to my “flagship” website yktoo.com, i.e. the good old LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP).

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On this same day, precisely two years ago—July 13, 2017—I’ve rolled my mouse pointer over a very beautiful photo of a girl and clicked on Like.

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It’s time to fulfil my promise, so please meet Sound Switcher Indicator version 2.2.0.

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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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That moment when you find out the official Riverside event page at Tivoli Vredenburg is illustrated with your video.

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A short announcement.

On 20 September I will be presenting at IDM Europe about two most popular open-source identity servers: Keycloak and WSO₂ IS, exploring their functionality and differences.

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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.

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