The world won’t listen

It’s been almost two months since my last blog post so here’s a quick update on the things I’ve been doing lately.
Vagalume 0.8.3
The first thing that I’d like to mention is the upcoming release of Vagalume 0.8.3 (which will probably happen during this weekend). The only changes in this version are that menus and dialogs [...]

Here’s a tip for those of you using an N900 with an English keyboard.
For those who don’t know it, this is how arrow keys are arranged in (some) non-English layouts:

Compare to the English layout:

My N900 has an English keyboard, and I like it because I use the X terminal a lot so having separate keys [...]

Vagalume 0.8 has just been released. This is the first version to come with support for Libre.fm and the Nokia N900.
Here’s how it looks (click to enlarge):

We also have a new logo designed by Otto Krüja:

Many things have changed since the previous version. These are some of the highlights (read the full list here):

Implemented the [...]

Now that the N900 is (almost) here, many people ask me if I’m going to release a new version of Vagalume for Maemo 5.
Progress in Vagalume has been very slow this year, partly because of all the work we’ve been doing in Hildon Widgets.
Fortunately, the next Vagalume release will be out very soon. And yes, [...]

With all the fuss that’s going on around the announcement of the Nokia N900, I honestly didn’t want to write yet another post about it.
But I can’t resist :-)
I’m not going to talk about its features or its specs. I just want to say that it’s really exciting for me to see the world’s largest [...]

Now that Last.fm is restricted in most countries, the obvious alternative (already discussed in previous posts) was to start offering support for similar services for people that cannot / don’t want to use Last.fm anymore.
So here is Vagalume with support for Libre.fm:

(this is not ready yet, but expect a new release in a few days/weeks)

The Maemo 5 Beta SDK has just been released. Apart from the many changes introduced since the alpha release, one important milestone is that from now on the development of Hildon and Modest will be open and hosted at the Maemo Garage in a public Git repository.
For Hildon we now have a development mailing list [...]

Yesterday Last.fm announced that from now on users will need a subscriber account in order to listen to their radio streams. The new API for streaming music has also been published.
I already talked about this change in my previous post and I think that I don’t have much more to add.
For those of you who [...]

Yesterday Last.fm announced important changes in their radio streaming service.
The most obvious one is that from now on users will have to pay a monthly fee of €3.00 to continue using their radio stations (except in Germany, the USA and the UK, where the service will remain free).
This is sad news for all Last.fm users [...]

I’ve heard quite a few times about how Git would be broken if someone found an easy way to create SHA-1 collisions.
A few years ago, after some attacks against SHA-1 were published, Linus explained that the security model of Git doesn’t depend on the hashes being cryptographically secure (although he said that it was a [...]