Netherlands and more

A surprisingly heavy snowfall has covered Holland with a pack of snow. Contrary to the tradition, the snow didn’t immediately disappear but stayed for a few days running.

There’s no wintersport this year because of the pandemic. But nothing is impossible for a creative mind!

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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

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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.

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I would usually write an upshot post about the past year on the 31^st 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.

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Yesterday, 28 December 2020, about 21:00 Moscow time, you left us.

Another priceless life taken by COVID-19. We’re still deeply shocked by how fast this tragedy unfolded. Less than a month ago you were perfectly sane and strong, albeit somewhat tired.

Then you were hospitalised into the Nikolayev hospital, whose hotline would repeatedly report a “good and steady progress” on you. Two weeks later you were dismissed from the hospital, but no one cared to explain to us you’d suffered 60% lung damage and still had developing pneumonia.

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I’ve released a minor Sound Switcher Indicator update, the version 2.3.5.2.

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The popular British website OMG! Ubuntu! published a review about Ymuse.

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A new, bugfix, release of Ymuse 0.15 is out.

Ymuse is a desktop client application for the Music Player Daemon.

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Strictly according to the (nonexistent) schedule the next version of Ymuse—0.14—has been released. Ymuse is a desktop client application for the Music Player Daemon, which I posted about a while ago.

What’s new in this version?

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So it happened: my humble business has received a personalised pen!

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A year ago my Sound Switcher Indicator has been granted a free All Products Pack license from JetBrains.

That license has recently been renewed and extended for another year, yay!

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