The version 2.3.6 of the Sound Switcher Indicator has been released, featuring improved keyboard shortcuts and device display.
Sound Switcher Indicator ‣ 2.3.6
once.to ‣ June update
Happy first summer day to everyone!
It’s been exactly two months since our world’s best URL shortener once.to has entered public beta.
Dear, we’ve been busy! These two months resulted in a whole bunch of cool features.
Invisible wireless charger
When it comes to interior design, I’m a big fan of minimalism — which one can notice from the photo of my workplace (and that’s how it looks in real life and not only on the photo).
Long time I wished to build a wireless Qi phone charger right into my desk so that I could charge my mobile by simply laying it down onto the desktop.
There was an issue though. My desktop is a sheet of 10 mm-thick hardened glass, and common wireless chargers only support charging over a distance up to 8 mm.
Recently I have been able to find a solution to this and make it exactly the way I wanted.
Do not share Googles
We’re just back from the UAE. In Dubai all boards and announcements are bilingual, in Arabic and English. And it’s worth noting English there is quite decent compared to other non-English countries.
Yet there is a blunder now and then.
Ymuse ‣ 100 stars on GitHub
A little less than a year ago, on 22 May 2020, I released the first public version of MPD client with the strange name Ymuse.
These days we’re at a 100 stars on GitHub and 270 active weekly users of the snap package only!
once.to ‣ Jokes aside: World’s fastest link shortener
Even though it’s April 1st, I have some serious story for you today! It’s about what I’ve been up to for the last six months, which has been a pretty busy, interesting, and eye-opening time for me.
Long story short: we at Yktoo Solutions are busy building the best link shortener in the world, which we called once.to.
Do read on for intriguing details explaining what that is and why it is so fascinating.
Lidköping, Sweden — A Place to Unplug
Photo by hias_schell/Pixabay.
More and more these days, one of the things I value most in travelling is the chance to unplug. This doesn’t mean I go into full nomad mode, forsake my smartphone, or anything of the kind. But with so much of day-to-day life now taking place through devices and screens, it’s nice to find a destination where you can simply explore and enjoy the real world.
Ymuse ‣ 0.17
Snow in the city
Ymuse ‣ 0.16
A new version of Ymuse 0.16 has been released.
Ymuse is a desktop client application for the Music Player Daemon.
This release fixes a couple of bugs and introduces new ones some new features.
What’s new
Sound Switcher Indicator ‣ Arch Linux package in AUR
Martin Patz has assembled and published a package for the Sound Switcher Indicator in the Arch User Repository.
It takes a single command now to install the indicator in Arch Linux.
So long twenty-twenty (finally)
I would usually write an upshot post about the past year on the 31st of December, but this time the cadence was upset by the tragic events happened right before.
One wants to believe 2021 will be better than the last one, simply as it’s hard to imagine how it can prove worse, yet there’s no improvement in sight just yet.
Anyway, there’s this tradition and I want to focus on positive things, which in fact dominated my past year, save for the one mentioned above.