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Early this month I haven't been very productive in the open source world, mostly because of the university projects and the exams that followed. Now it's over I've decided to take the time to fix that, and it's a pleasure to be finally able to get back to FOSS development, and my electronics hobby ;)

So today I'm proud to announce the fruit of my efforts, and a new project :)

While I was beginning to starve tonight, I noticed I had no idea what I'd cook. I was getting a bit fed up of noodles, and didn't eat vegetables for a while. I can already hear you saying (actually, I can't, unless I'm hooked to your micro, but that's very unlikely, isn't it?) “Hey wait, vegetables are dull”... No, they're not! Not when you cook them properly, and it kind of accidentally happened to me just about an hour and a half ago.

You may also be wondering what the hell a kesäkurpitsapaistos can be. Well, it's the Finnish name of gratin de courgettes. My Finnish friend Pasi took some time to find out what a courgette is, and he blamed me for not telling him in Finnish (well, now at least I know a word of that weird wonderful language).

So, shall we now get into the technical details?

Today, after my exams, I went to the project room my school has, plugged my laptop on the 24" screen and typed the usual :

$ xrandr --output VGA-1 --auto
$ xrandr --output LVDS-1 --off

This is way better than using NVIDIA's utilities (it is portable) but yet, it is so boring to write the same thing on and on...

As I had a couple of hours to spare, I have decided to use the laptop hotkeys to switch between the screens (LVDS --> VGA and VGA--> LVDS).

To fulfill this goal, I have used the daemon acpid and made a bash script to detect implement the logic of the switch.

After one year and more than 300 commits, PPassKeeper 1.0 beta 2 has finally been released !

What is PPassKeeper ?

PPasskeeper is my main personal project. It is a library that intends to create a portable way of storing sensitive information, such as passwords or private keys, into a safe place. In order to be portable and flexible, the library allows third-party developers to improve it by creating more plugins that can be free (as in freedom) or proprietary.

The goals of this project is to :

• Provide a common interface for desktops and operating systems to access secure password storages
• Be modular
• Allow third-party developers to easily create new modules
• Be backwards compatible

This project is developed under the LGPL v2.0 or later license.

What has changed since the beta 1 ?

Well, a lot of things have changed. As a summary, I can tell that it is way more mature, it is now thread-safe, has a better API/ABI, supports blobs, has support for the Gnome-Keyring, initial support for modules parameters, created unit tests, switched to CMake and fixes a lot of bugs !