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Initial Release of Union QtWidgets

https://akselmo.dev/posts/union-qtwidgets/

Published: August 28, 2026 18:34

It has begun. After couple months of work, I have now finally managed to cobble together the QtWidgets side of Union. This means that your QtWidgets apps, such as Dolphin, KMail, Kate etc. can now use the Union CSS files as the source of their styling.…

Deleted my fedi account

https://akselmo.dev/posts/deleted-my-fedi-account/

Published: August 23, 2026 18:03

Aaaand it's gone. Edit: Well the jig is up, you may have seen my new one, like I mentioned in this post below I would make that. This new account will be very strictly friends only, though some of my KDE stuff I tag publicly. That's all. Original text…

KDE Linux experiences

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kde-linux-experiences/

Published: August 21, 2026 15:49

I daily drove KDE Linux for almost a year and I liked it, but I'm also switching back to Fedora KDE. Here's my ramblings about it all. KDE Linux is the hot new Linux distro from KDE themselves. At the moment it uses Arch Linux as it's base but with heavy…

Matsucon 2026 cosplay photos

https://akselmo.dev/posts/matsucon-2026-photos/

Published: August 12, 2026 22:52

I had fun cosplaying at Matsucon and I went on stage too! At Matsucon this year I spent bunch of money on the artist alley, but I also had signed up for a "cosplay catwalk" which was very spooky but interesting. Photos But first some photos! …

Ramblings about complacency

https://akselmo.dev/posts/ramblings-about-complacency/

Published: July 26, 2026 15:20

I'm fueled by my spite to write this incoherent rambling of a madman. This is highly related to my previous post, but I can't stop thinking about this so I'll make a new post. My blog anyways. Over the many past years I have just been rather tired of…

re: Don't take the black pill (video)

https://akselmo.dev/posts/re-don-t-take-the-black-pill-video/

Published: July 24, 2026 16:57

Reply to Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026 Such a nice, hopeful talk in this video. I've noticed I've gotten more and more and more jaded over time. The hypetech booms really do not help, and you know exactly which one I'm talking about…

Leaving lobste.rs rant

https://akselmo.dev/posts/leaving-lobste-rs-rant/

Published: July 9, 2026 20:30

For context, I have gotten a lot of emails either asking why I deactivated my account or just sending me well wishes after the deactivation. This post is more for them than anyone else. If you don't care about random techbro website drama, feel free to…

Please keep code descriptions simple

https://akselmo.dev/posts/please-keep-code-descriptions-simple/

Published: June 23, 2026 09:12

Just something I experience more and more these days. When it comes to reviewing code, the descriptions, commits and such can be massive blast of information: Full of extraneous details depicting what was changed. The main point is why was something…

I like the Uruky search engine

https://akselmo.dev/posts/i-like-the-uruky-search-engine/

Published: June 13, 2026 10:16

Silly name but works wonders. I have been using this search engine called Uruky for about a week: https://uruky.com/ As a software dev, big part of my workflow is searching for information. As search engines in general keep getting worse and worse, it has…

Don't buy me a coffee

https://akselmo.dev/posts/don-t-buy-me-a-coffee/

Published: June 11, 2026 18:28

I prefer ice tea or chocolate milk. Just joining the blogspam shitposting dont mind me. Context: https://www.gordonmclean.co.uk/2026/06/11/yes-buy-me-a-coffee https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/06/11/re-no-i-wont-buy-you-a-coffee/…

Minimizing impact of negative things in my life

https://akselmo.dev/posts/minimizing-impact-of-negative-thingsin-my-life/

Published: May 30, 2026 19:56

I am tired of many things. Some of them have bothered me for years. Some are rather recent. Here's how I have dealt with all that. Minimizing. I try to minimize anything related to negative things in my life, until I can either nullify the whole thing…

Stop advertising in your commits!

https://akselmo.dev/posts/stop-advertising-in-your-commits/

Published: May 26, 2026 17:48

Co-authored-by: ur mom If your tool adds advertisements in your work by default, it's a bad tool and does not need to be used. I don't get why people just gleefully add these ads for companies to their open-source projects that do not pay them a penny…

Splitting Konsole views from Helix to run tools

https://akselmo.dev/posts/splitting-konsole-views-from-helix-to-run-tools/

Published: May 25, 2026 19:39

I have been tinkering with Helix editor lately since I quite like it. It's a fun little editor. Can recommend for those who like modal editing. I do not know if it'll ever replace Kate editor for me, but I'm challenging myself to try new tools, just for…

Aks Plays EVE, part 12: I am the 3%

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aks-plays-eve-part-12-i-am-the-3/

Published: May 21, 2026 22:43

Really short and spooky one this time. I was roaming about lowsec in my lil Hookbill as usual, and found a Firetail in a complex. So I warped in. They neutralized my capacitor completely (in short: i ran out of energy) so I was having real scary time…

Arctic Lights ComicCon 2026 cosplay photos

https://akselmo.dev/posts/comiccon-2026-photos/

Published: May 19, 2026 21:46

I visited Arctic Lights ComicCon and it was fun! Here's some photos and thoughts on the whole thing. I had fun at the ComicCon! I mostly spent the days in my cosplay, hidden behind my lizard mask. Sadly the mask took some damage during the whole ordeal,…

Hello from Arctic Lights Comic Con (Helsinki)

https://akselmo.dev/posts/hello-from-arctic-lights-comic-con-helsinki/

Published: May 16, 2026 14:47

Hi I was a dumb lizer whole day! I will share more photos when I get home, but it's been fun! Will cosplay bit more tomorrow and then it's trip back home. The character is my own sona. Yea its me

Aks plays EVE, part 11: Short and sweet

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aks-plays-eve-part-11-short-and-sweet/

Published: May 12, 2026 20:11

Not much to share, but I had two nice fights. And I saw cool things in the game. Was just roaming about with my Hookbill as usual, until I spot a Catalyst Navy Issue. Ended up being rather tight fight, but I managed to stay in right amount of range to…

I wrote simple pastebin clone: Vivipara

https://akselmo.dev/posts/vivipara-and-languages/

Published: May 10, 2026 22:34

I just spent this weekend writing my own little pastebin clone, called Vivipara. I also have bunch of thoughts about various programming languages. Read about it all in this one blogpost! Vivipara, my smol and quick text paste service For a while now, I…

Aks plays EVE, part 10: Rip hookbilly

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aks-plays-eve-part-10-rip-hookbilly/

Published: May 6, 2026 22:02

There it goes... Welp, RIP the 6 killmark hookbill. You will be missed. https://zkillboard.com/kill/135293342/ I fought an artillery thrasher, but I did bunch of mistakes while flying, so I couldn't keep my transversal velocity high enough to avoid…

Aks plays EVE, part 9: How is my ship still working?

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aks-plays-eve-part-9-how-is-my-ship-still-working/

Published: May 5, 2026 21:40

Woah. My ship didn't explode. Twice. I've been roaming a bit of lowsec again in my hookbill. I managed to reach 6 killmarks today! So that's 6 kills in this one ship, which of 4 were today. Holy crap, my ships never stay running this long. I am flying…

I tried XCOM 2 but I do not think it's for me

https://akselmo.dev/posts/i-tried-xcom-2-but-i-do-not-think-it-s-for-me/

Published: May 4, 2026 21:23

And that's fine. I tried to play XCOM 2 and XCOM Chimera Squad. I liked the premise of both games, especially Chimera Squad: The idea of aliens being left on earth after humans vs aliens war is rather intriguing. Sadly, due to the nature of the game, it…

Aks plays EVE, part 8: Lazy sundays

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aks-plays-eve-part-8-lazy-sundays/

Published: May 3, 2026 22:12

Not much happening this time. I spent some of the time this weekend doing the Warpath event, but it turned out to be a bit boring. As much as I enjoy a nice lil PVE event, my blood craves for adrenaline inducing fights against other players.. So I went…

Added human.json to my site

https://akselmo.dev/posts/added-human-json-to-my-site/

Published: May 2, 2026 00:25

I found out about human.json so I added it to my page. I thought it was rather interesting idea, and might as well participate to it. I do not plan to use "AI" tools for the ethical reasons alone, so it seemed fitting to have that. Now to find more people…

Aks plays EVE, part 7: Oh baby a triple

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aks-plays-eve-part-7-oh-baby-a-triple/

Published: April 29, 2026 23:44

I'm writing this on my phone so I'll keep it brief. Was roaming around as usual, trying to hunt down something with my Cormorant Navy Issue. Nice, very punchy blaster ship. If it gets close to you and can keep your ship still, your ship will melt into…

Set up my own Forgejo instance

https://akselmo.dev/posts/set-up-my-own-forgejo-instance/

Published: April 29, 2026 18:14

Just testing out the forgejo instance I set up. Nothing should really change, my blog just is now on my own instance, so I can be less careful about the amount of data the blog repo uses, since I have tons of pictures. Setting it up was rather easy. I was…

Aks Plays EVE, part 6: My Hookbills, gone!

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aks-plays-eve-part-6-my-hookbills-gone/

Published: April 27, 2026 22:43

Yeah it happened. Lol. As expected, the Hookbill died a fiery death against a Breacher. It seems my fit is not very good against missile ships. But honestly, that Breacher was super tanky! I could not break its shields at all. I was kind of awestruck by…

Aks Plays EVE, part 5: Hookbiling

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aks-plays-eve-part-5-hookbiling/

Published: April 26, 2026 20:45

I have never really flown Caldari Navy Hookbills that much. They're nice frigates with a lot of space for different kind of fits. Missiles, repairs, webifiers and tracking disruptor. Well I'm glad I have been flying one for a bit now, since it's been…

Smolwebifying my site

https://akselmo.dev/posts/smolwebifying-my-site/

Published: April 26, 2026 18:07

I found this thing called smolweb and it spoke to me. Like yeah, websites are quite heavy these days. Older hardware (from like 2010s) has really difficult time loading it, and the big chunks of Javascript do not help either. And not to forget web…

Aks Plays EVE, Part 4: I can fly well.. sometimes!

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aks-plays-eve-part-4-i-can-fly-well-sometimes/

Published: April 24, 2026 22:56

This time I actually managed to fly rather well! I didn't play that long since it's already late, but I decided to take a Kestrel out in the void and see what happens. After some time of roaming through systems and making LP farmers shake in their boots…

Aks Plays EVE, Part 3: Switcharoo

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aks-plays-eve-part-3-switcharoo/

Published: April 23, 2026 22:41

Today I got my ass kicked. Granted, I didn't play much, like an 1.5h or so. But I wanted to share something small but I found it amusing. Couple days ago I exploded this guy: https://zkillboard.com/kill/134894857/ Then today he exploded the very same…

Aks Plays EVE, Part 2: Just vibing

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aks-plays-eve-part-2-just-vibing/

Published: April 22, 2026 22:44

Not much action today, but I wanted to see few things. I mostly did some maintenance work on my character today, buying skills and such. But there has been few things in Jita I wanted to see. Space elevator! Jita has a pretty neat space elevator located…

Updated my site look and added Opengraph meta tags

https://akselmo.dev/posts/updated-my-site-look-and-added-opengraph-meta-tags/

Published: April 21, 2026 22:53

Tinkered with CSS again. Also now embeds should work properly, with better names and things. I found out about something called Open Graph protocol that helps apps like Discord and Matrix clients etc. to figure out what the important parts of the embeds…

Testing out Sveltia

https://akselmo.dev/posts/testing-out-sveltia/

Published: April 21, 2026 18:37

I set up Sveltia headless CMS on my page, this is my first post with it. So I wanted to set up a simple headless CMS for my blog. Setting up Sveltia was rather quick and easy, though configuring it took a while. I have now set it all up and it was rather…

Aks Plays EVE, Part 1

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aks-plays-eve-p1/

Published: April 20, 2026 22:49

Start of my series "Aks Plays EVE" where I just post some things I did in the online spaceship game. I do these small posts on fedi every now and then, but began to feel like I should do these on my site instead. So, here you go! I just copypaste my old…

Removing notes page

https://akselmo.dev/posts/removing-notes/

Published: April 19, 2026 16:00

So I realised I don't really like having two categories (posts/notes), because both are in the end just same thing. My blog has gotten bit too complicated due to it, so I just moved my notes to the posts section. Apologies for the RSS feed going haywire.

Testing org.kde.Platform flatpak built in CI

https://akselmo.dev/posts/flatpak-kdeplatform-ci/

Published: April 9, 2026 20:53

Very technical post, feel free to ignore if you're not working on KDE stuff. Since I'm on KDE Linux, I use flatpak apps for pretty much everything, such as Kontact suite. I wanted to test out how my Breeze changes would look like in KMail and other apps,…

Testing physical notebooks

https://akselmo.dev/posts/testing-out-paper-notes/

Published: April 8, 2026 15:13

My brains are weird. I used to be interested in all kinds of e-ink devices.. But here I am very excited about physical, paper notebook. As much as I like my reMarkable 2 tablet, it's rather big and takes bunch of space on my desk. Opening it is always a…

Frustrations with CalDAV tasks

https://akselmo.dev/posts/frustrations-with-caldav/

Published: April 4, 2026 16:11

I tried to use CalDAV tasks again. It did not go well. The problem with CalDAV tasks is often that every client only implements a portion of the massive spec. Sure, makes sense, nobody wants to implement all the stuff it has. But then you try to use…

Updated Scalie.Computer

https://akselmo.dev/posts/scaliecomputer-update/

Published: March 15, 2026 19:38

Just a quick note that I have now updated https://scalie.computer to a newer linkhut version. Now users can see the original linker in the link info (click the amount of saves button). Seems theres some other goodies too, I don't even know everything, but…

My PostgreSQL database got nuked lol

https://akselmo.dev/posts/they-broke-my-server/

Published: March 11, 2026 17:44

So I was running my linkhut fork instance scalie.computer, and everything was fine at first. Then it was suddenly gone. This happened to me twice! Note that I am not a sysadmin/webdev type of person. This whole world is scary and full of horrors…

scalie.computer broke

https://akselmo.dev/posts/scaliecomputer-broke/

Published: March 3, 2026 23:35

Update: Found the culprit, see here: https://akselmo.dev/posts/they-broke-my-server/ My site https://scalie.computer/ just broke. I don't know what happened exactly. I was just minding my business and went to check on it. It had crashed for some reason,…

What even are Breeze, QtQuick, QtWidget, Union..?

https://akselmo.dev/posts/what-are-breeze-widgets-quick-union/

Published: March 1, 2026 17:19

I was asked a good question: What are these things? What are the differences? I will try to explain what they are in this post, in bit less technical manner. I will keep some of the parts bit short here, since I am not 100% knowledgeable about everything,…

Breeze QtWidgets style changes to help us prepare for Union

https://akselmo.dev/posts/breeze-and-union-preparing/

Published: February 28, 2026 15:40

We have worked on some spring cleaning for Breeze, which helps us to prepare for Union and the changes it brings. This post is a bit more technical. Help us test things! Edit: I made another post that should help explain some of the terminology and such:…

Leave me behind

https://akselmo.dev/posts/leave-me-behind/

Published: February 22, 2026 18:35

If you wont use this new VC funded hypetech, such as generative "AI" you will be left behind! Is that a promise? Please! Please leave me behind. I am boycotting your tech, refusing to use it. I will be here, working on things until your slophype settles…

Tech industry, meh

https://akselmo.dev/posts/tech-meh/

Published: February 6, 2026 00:09

This is a vent post. Feel free to ignore. I keep finding tech industry more and more dissapointing and annoying and harmful. Every year it gets more and more frustrating to read what new way of siphoning money and mental health has been invented. And we…

Added emotes

https://akselmo.dev/posts/added-emotes/

Published: February 2, 2026 21:12

I added simple emotions here now, like many people have them in their blog. I have not yet styled them much, but here's some of them: Hi I'm smiling! lololol Told you so! oh what the fuck And so on. Should allow me…

todo2ical script

https://akselmo.dev/posts/todo2ical/

Published: January 30, 2026 00:42

I made a simple todo2ical script that converts todo.txt file into an ical file. It's not much really. I just wanted some nice way to get notifications for my due tasks without separate apps. You can add the files it produces as read-only external…

My blog has now webmention support!

https://akselmo.dev/posts/webmention-support/

Published: January 20, 2026 19:07

Hey there, I have been reading about IndieWeb and found out about something called Webmentions. I am using Webmention.io for mine for now, I may in future host my own Webmention system, though I am rather lazy so IDK. I am still quite new at this, but I am…

Happy Holidays 2025!

https://akselmo.dev/posts/happy-holidays/

Published: December 21, 2025 19:03

Happy holidays everyone. Consider this as your holiday card from me. I will be taking short break from KDE stuff for now, though I will be around. (I tagged KDE so that readers of planet have to see these, mwahaha.) And happy new year 2026, let's hope it…

Adding Customizable Frame Contrast to KDE Plasma

https://akselmo.dev/posts/frame-contrast-settings/

Published: October 29, 2025 20:40

For a while now, probably two years, I wanted to have support for high-contrast colorschemes in KDE Plasma. Technically, this was already doable, by just modifying your colorscheme to such colors. However one thing was lacking: Outlines were calculated…

The move from Blue Systems to TechPaladin

https://akselmo.dev/posts/bluesystems-to-techpaladin/

Published: September 16, 2025 15:06

People have been a bit weirded by what happened during this period. People have been interested in this after the post by Jonathan Riddell was written. Here's what I remember from the situation. Order of events I get laid off from previous job in…

Akademy 2025 - My first talk!

https://akselmo.dev/posts/akademy-2025/

Published: September 13, 2025 01:32

Once again, all KDE nerds had their yearly gathering around somewhere in the world. We call this gathering Akademy and this year it was in Berlin. I don't really have anything in-depth to share, except for my first talk I had. I spent a lot of time…

NetSurf on reMarkable 2

https://akselmo.dev/posts/netsurf-on-remarkable-2/

Published: August 31, 2025 00:03

One thing I always have wished that my reMarkable 2 had was web browser. It wouldn't need to be very efficient nor the best browser out there. Just something simple I can use to read definitions for words or other small knowledge when I'm reading articles…

Various desktop Linux tips for newbies

https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-to-linux-2025/

Published: August 16, 2025 17:15

There has been quite a surge in interest towards desktop Linux lately. The userbase, at least according to some metrics, seems to be climbing. I realised today that it's been 4 years for me since I did the switch. I have gathered some know-how that maybe a…

Kate and Python Language Server: Basedpyright

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kate-and-basedpyright/

Published: August 14, 2025 00:06

This post is somewhat an update for my older post: Kate and Python language server There seems to be a lot of different Python language servers.. And I just want one that does all and stays out of the way. So after moaning about that I was pointed towards…

KomoDo, my first KDE app

https://akselmo.dev/posts/komodo-my-first-kde-app/

Published: August 7, 2025 18:38

During all my time with KDE projects, I've never made an app from scratch.. Except now. Today my first KDE app ever, KomoDo, was released on Flathub! It's a simple todo application for todo.txt format and parses todo.txt files into a list of cards. One…

Shedding (Cosplay Photos)

https://akselmo.dev/posts/shedding-cosplay-photos/

Published: June 21, 2025 22:49

I wanted to do some fun little photoshoot with my new tattoo and my lizard cosplay. They are rather connected after all! The photos were taken by mediakettu. Editing was done by my wife tecsiederp. The lizard suit (head, feet,…

todo.txt tasks in my TRMNL

https://akselmo.dev/posts/todotxt-in-my-trmnl/

Published: June 14, 2025 15:58

Edit: Please avoid buying TRMNL It turns out some people behind TRMNL are not something I want to support. See: https://social.lol/@adam/114959554043586459 Archive link: https://archive.is/3Nu1c I do not want to support a company that allows and endorses…

Game Ramblings: Quitters, Splitgate 2, Daggerfall

https://akselmo.dev/posts/game-ramblings/

Published: June 8, 2025 12:47

I love FPS games, especially fast paced PVP FPS games. Now that Splitgate 2 was released, I played it a bunch. I was big fan of Splitgate 1, I played it a ton. One of those rare fast paced FPS games, nowadays most FPS games are slow and sluggish. Well, at…

I got my first tattoo

https://akselmo.dev/posts/i-got-my-first-tattoo/

Published: June 5, 2025 19:58

I promised to share this here too, so here you go, I finally got a proper tattoo! It's a tattoo of my skin being torn off and there's scales dark gray underneath. It was made by Ravi-Lassi (@ravilassi). I've wanted this kind of tattoo…

Ramble: Tired and Emotional

https://akselmo.dev/posts/tired-emotional/

Published: May 28, 2025 21:59

Note: This is not a techy post or anything. It's personal post. Ramble. Feel free to ignore it. Burnout is ass. Well, the games are actually pretty good. But the mental burnout, it's just ass. I've gone through this road multiple times. I'll probably go…

My changes to saving Konsole tab layouts

https://akselmo.dev/posts/konsole-layout-changes/

Published: May 18, 2025 14:47

I recently made a patch to Konsole terminal emulator, that adds to the current tab layout saving system couple more things: Working directory Size of splits Optional command to run You can find the patch here: ViewManager: Save columns, lines and working…

Kummacon 2025 cosplay photos

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kummacon-2025-cosplay/

Published: May 17, 2025 19:01

I visited Kummacon today and it was fun! Saw a lot of cool art and trinkets on display, bought myself a tiny skeleton dinosaur necklace. I spent the whole time there in my cosplay, it wasn't luckily too hot but inside the con area I was sweating a ton in…

Forgejo webhook to auto-update my blog and my frustrations

https://akselmo.dev/posts/forgejo-webhook-to-update-my-blog/

Published: May 11, 2025 00:00

Preface: I am really bad with servers. I actually dislike working with them, most of the time. Setting up ports and proxies and other stuff just really frustrates me. It's like washing dishes by hand: I just want to get it over with. I wanted my blog to…

Anubis protects this blog now

https://akselmo.dev/posts/anubis-enabled/

Published: May 8, 2025 00:00

Edit: I disabled Anubis for now. The thing is, my blog is really not that affected by the bots, and I have to admit, I prefer to have my blog as Javascript free as possible. (I still have goatcounter javascript but it can be blocked, Anubis can't.)…

Kate and Python language server

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kate-python-lsp/

Published: May 3, 2025 00:00

As much as I love Kate editor, as I mentioned in my previous post, setting up Python language server has always been a bit fiddly if you want it to work with virtual environments. However thanks to Kate documentation and some Big Think:tm:, I managed to…

How I use Kate Editor

https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-i-use-kate-editor/

Published: April 20, 2025 00:00

I love the Kate Text editor. I use it for pretty much all the programming projects I do. Kate has been around for long time now, about 20 years! At least earliest blog post for it I could find was written in 2004. I wanted to go over my workflow with it,…

KURLNavBar and me

https://akselmo.dev/posts/visual-woes/

Published: March 22, 2025 00:00

I made a change to the KURLNavBar according to old mockup, since we hoped it would be easier to use. This was a bad idea and made many people angry, at least on Reddit. Seems to be a recurring theme with my visual changes, though this time wasn't nearly as…

Desktop icons are surprisingly hard!

https://akselmo.dev/posts/plasma-desktop-icons-positioning-refactor/

Published: November 8, 2024 00:00

I spent past three weeks working on refactoring and fixing legacy code (the oldest of which was from 2013) that handled positioning Plasma desktop icons, and how this data was saved and loaded. Here's the merge request if you're curious: plasma-desktop:…

Moving my game project from C to Odin language

https://akselmo.dev/posts/moving-from-c-to-odin/

Published: November 2, 2024 00:00

Some months ago, I got really fed up with C. Like, I don't hate C. Hating programming languages is silly. But it was way too much effort to do simple things like lists/hashmaps and other simple data structures and such. I decided to try this language…

Cosplay images 2024

https://akselmo.dev/posts/cosplay-images-2024/

Published: October 12, 2024 00:00

Some cosplay images from various events. I mostly dress up as my own character, Huntra, who I have to make a game of someday:tm:. If I happen to do more this year I will update the galleries. Photos were taken and edited by my wife Jenny! She is great with…

My Akademy 2024 trip

https://akselmo.dev/posts/akademy-2024/

Published: September 14, 2024 00:00

Akademy is this yearly thing where bunch of KDE people go to talk about and work on KDE software. I had never been in one before, but this year I managed to make it there! This year Akademy was held at the city of Würzburg. This was also my first time in…

KIO Thumbnailer Support

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kio-thumbnailer-support/

Published: August 8, 2024 00:00

The KIO Framework has gained support for de-facto standard, cross-desktop thumbnail generators. This means that we have a support for thumbnails from 3rd party applications! On Linux systems, many applications that produce some kind of output, such as a 3D…

Kate and OrgMode

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kate-and-orgmode/

Published: July 7, 2024 00:00

I have a very.. unusual notetaking and task setup with Kate, using Orgmode files. I wanted to showcase it and explain how it works, maybe someone else has similar needs. Here's a small screenshot of my journal notes, I blurred out some things I didn't want…

Family of free and friendly open source software

https://akselmo.dev/posts/fofafoss/

Published: May 2, 2024 00:00

Or FOFAFOSS. Rolls right off your tongue. Like in many families, there's always a bit of.. turmoil and drama in FOSS. Something breaks (either on purpose or by accident), people get frustrated.. The usual. It is kind of to be expected when it comes to very…

Plasma 6 and me

https://akselmo.dev/posts/plasma-6-and-me/

Published: March 31, 2024 00:00

I'm bit late to the train of Plasma 6 related posts... But anyway. I will go through some things I did. For me working on Plasma 6 was pretty fun, I learned a lot of new things and fixed bunch of bugs and crashes. The most resourceful ones can find my…

Debug symbols for all!

https://akselmo.dev/posts/debug-symbols-for-all/

Published: January 21, 2024 00:00

When running Linux software and encountering a crash, and you make a bug report about it (thank you!), you may be asked for backtraces and debug symbols. And if you're not developer you may wonder what in the heck are those? I wanted to open up this topic…

And who is going to clean up?

https://akselmo.dev/posts/and-who-is-gonna-clean-up/

Published: January 15, 2024 00:00

I was listening Late Night Linux podcast episode 264 and they were chatting about AI, as usual. This post was inspired by the discussion, but not really related to it. In podcast it was mentioned that current AI is like T-Ford of our era. I do agree. There…

First week of fulltime KDE

https://akselmo.dev/posts/first-week-of-fulltime-kde/

Published: November 11, 2023 00:00

Seems getting laid off was pretty good for me after all. Funny how things go sometimes. A company that works on KDE stuff (and other Linuxy things), interviewed me for a fun job: "Wanna help us work on KDE Plasma?" You bet I said YES! So now I work daily 8…

I got laid off from work...

https://akselmo.dev/posts/i-got-laid-off/

Published: October 10, 2023 00:00

Hello, today I got laid off from my current workplace. I used to be a test automation engineer but I also worked on Windows application with C#. So, I am looking for new programming and development job! I am very interested and passionate about Linux, and…

I burned out, again.. And how I let myself heal.

https://akselmo.dev/posts/i-burned-out-again/

Published: October 8, 2023 00:00

Sorry KDE Planet readers, this is just rambly non-techy post. Burning out is no joke. I have gone through 3 or 4 major burnouts in my life. All of them related to programming, in a way or another. Basically my burnout starts when I can't think anything…

Zephyr - My Breeze fork

https://akselmo.dev/posts/zephyr-breeze-fork/

Published: September 25, 2023 00:00

I had the hankering for tinkering the KDE application style. The default style by KDE, Breeze, is pretty nice as is, but there are small things I'd like to modify. There's Klassy which is quite customizable and fun, but I don't really need all of the…

Video: We visited Stockholm!

https://akselmo.dev/posts/stockholm-trip/

Published: September 24, 2023 00:00

My wife made a video of us visiting Stockholm, go check it here! We saw Trash Taste in Stockholm! | Honeymoon vlog

Trust in software is important for me

https://akselmo.dev/posts/trust-in-software-is-important/

Published: July 9, 2023 00:00

Preface: What is trust to me? To make it clear what trust means to me: Can I trust my privacy, no matter how miniscule part of information you want, in your hands? (my PTSD plays heavily in this lol) Can I trust your software or whatever be around…

Why I don't like ads

https://akselmo.dev/posts/why-i-dont-like-ads/

Published: July 1, 2023 00:00

It's common to dislike ads. They're annoying for many. I recommend anyone to use an adblocker whenever they can. Despite ads being annoying, they're also bad for your privacy. Blocking them helps avoiding annoyance and keeping your privacy a bit more in…

I got married!

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Published: June 25, 2023 00:00

After ten years of dating, me and tecsiederp got finally married. Our wedding ceremony was very nice and reflected us well. No priests or churches, just us and our family and friends. Fun were had, went to sauna, saw cute ducklings, listened to wide…

Why I will likely never use AI programming tools

https://akselmo.dev/posts/why-i-will-likely-never-use-ai-programming-tools/

Published: June 16, 2023 00:00

I actually like writing code. That's really it. If I didn't, I still wouldn't use it due to the ethical/copyright issues, but I don't even have to think that far: I just like writing code. Why would I give something I like to a robot? I don't even mind…

My thoughts on Flatpak (that nobody asked for)

https://akselmo.dev/posts/my-thoughts-on-flatpak-that-nobody-asked-for/

Published: June 9, 2023 00:00

Hindsight preface: This was written in very tired state. I have been chatting about this with people who know more than I ever will about Flatpak. Soo I have added few edits here and there. If I seem frustrated, most of my frustration is aimed at the…

Updated my blog! Also news of Revontuli colorscheme

https://akselmo.dev/posts/blog-update-and-revontuli/

Published: June 3, 2023 00:00

Note: Old links to my site may not work anymore, due to change in the URL layout!! I tried to make a redirect for them however. Blog update I have finally updated my blog look and feel. In fact, I completely switched my static site generator from Jekyll to…

AksDark: My colorscheme for KDE Plasma

https://akselmo.dev/posts/aksdar-colorscheme/

Published: May 27, 2023 00:00

Hey all, just a simple blog post this time, I just wanted to showcase the colorscheme I have made for KDE Plasma and various text editors and such. Download I have been working on this colorscheme for many months now, slowly tweaking it and figuring out…

How I report bugs

https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-i-report-bugs/

Published: April 16, 2023 00:00

As someone who has been doing test automation for past ~3,5 years (and desperately wanting out towards doing just development), I have done a lot of bug reports. Then I switched to Linux based OS and that amount has doubled. :D I have been asked what are…

I blocked Hacker News and you can too

https://akselmo.dev/posts/i-blocked-hacker-news-and-you-can-too/

Published: April 1, 2023 00:00

No, not april fools. Hacker News is one of those websites where the commenters are often very angry people. Note, I said commenters not lurkers/passive browsers/link clickers. Anyone who uses Hacker News just as a website to find links on, I have no beef…

My game was illegally uploaded on Steam

https://akselmo.dev/posts/my-game-was-illegally-shared-on-steam/

Published: March 8, 2023 00:00

Quick post for this time. Seems my game, Penance has been uploaded on Steam by someone who I don't know, completely without my permission. They're selling my free game and of course I'm not gonna get any money from their sales. If you stumble on this game…

FOSS communities: You don't need to yell

https://akselmo.dev/posts/you-dont-need-to-yell/

Published: February 17, 2023 00:00

This is kind of open letter I suppose. I've seen a lot of similar stuff happen in other projects too, like GNOME. So I wanted to write down what happened to me and my inbox today. It's written in my perspective, but I'm sure many can sympathize. And I…

My podcast tastes

https://akselmo.dev/posts/my-podcast-tastes/

Published: January 14, 2023 00:00

I just wanted to write this down since I've been talking a bit about podcasts on fediverse. I listen a lot of podcasts when gaming, it's kind of a way how I relax. Nothing like good multiplayer FPS where I can turn off my brains, then I can listen podcasts…

Pointless tribalism in FOSS

https://akselmo.dev/posts/pointless-tribalism-in-foss/

Published: January 6, 2023 00:00

Rant incoming. This isn't written that well but idgaf. I just need to get this out of my system. I really enjoy chatting in FOSS communities. KDE, Linux in general, other desktop environments, so on and so forth. What I don't like is that we have these…

How to use Matrix

https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-to-use-matrix/

Published: December 29, 2022 00:00

As I've gotten more into FOSS, I've noticed a lot of FOSS projects, like KDE, use Matrix protocol. A protocol that lets you use any client you wish to chat with each other. Basically, it's IRC but with more features. And I'm into that! So I decided to move…

How to rotate an actor with Raylib without math knowledge

https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-to-rotate-an-actor-with-raylib/

Published: November 22, 2022 00:00

Rotate what now? Aks, what are you talking about? I wanted to write down how I made the enemy characters in Artificial Rage rotate towards the player, since I couldn't find a simple answer. Most things I found was math. Now math is fun and good, but when…

I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration

https://akselmo.dev/posts/i-made-outlines-for-kde-breeze/

Published: October 31, 2022 00:00

Window outlines! Yet another KDE contribution by yours truly! This was fun. Not easy at all, but fun. I'm pretty happy how they turned out. Breeze Dark Breeze Light I hope Nate you don't mind me taking the screenshots from your blog post, I'm just..…

I made my own PineTime watchface

https://akselmo.dev/posts/i-made-my-own-pinetime-watchface/

Published: September 4, 2022 00:00

I have really enjoyed using my PineTime as a watch, so I really wanted to make my own watchface. I based it around the colors of my KDE Plasma theme. Here's what it looks like: Link to Codeberg repository And next I'm gonna ramble how I did it, what I…