Netherlands and more

I’ve found recent aerial footage of Houten, the town we’re living in, shot in 4K with a DJI Mini 3 Pro.

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The website afk.best, which I launched two years ago, has got a facelift.

It’s an online dictionary helping you decipher all those tricky Dutch abbreviations and acronyms you stumble upon so often that it can drive you mad.

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Ymuse version 0.21 Wayfarer is released.

Ymuse is a client application for the Music Player Daemon.

What’s new

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The version 2.3.9 of the Sound Switcher Indicator is released.

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For the first time in my life I won a prize: a digital radio receiver Denver DAB-18.

That happened thanks to the Met het oog op morgen (which roughly translates as “With a view to tomorrow”) podcast, which I’ve been listening to for about a decade now. It’s double useful because you learn the news and improve your Dutch at the same time.

This nightly podcast is being made by the NPO and published around midnight, so I’d usually listen to it the next day.

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As of today, Ymuse, a GTK-based MPD client, is officially available in the free software store Flathub.

This has already been requested a while ago.

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Ymuse version 0.20 Volodymyr is released.

Ymuse is a client application for the Music Player Daemon.

What’s new

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We have a new family member. Meet our Bengal Cheetah.

We didn’t give her the name. I reckon, the previous owner noted the resemblance to one.

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A new bugfix release 2.3.8 of the Sound Switcher Indicator is out.

What’s new

This version fixes two serious issues in the indicator.

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History repeats itself once again, this time around having turned in the opposite direction.

Alexander Nevzorov, the renowned Russian war journalist, shows caricatures dating back to the Second World War, which look intimidatingly familiar.

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The Dutch weather is not to be trusted, especially not on the Fool’s Day.

Seriously, can you imagine a heavy snowfall covering trees in full blossom?

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It’s that time of year again when the trees are in full blossom and the daytime temperature hits 20 °C (68 °F)!

That said, it can still go as low as -4 °C (25 °F) at night, and it even snowed this morning. Luckily, there’s nothing left of it now, so it’s time for a traditional Spring Video!

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