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Hi, I'm Aks (Akseli Lahtinen) from Finland! I'm KDE dev by day and a hobbyist gamedev/FOSS-dev by night. I like metal, industrial and EBM music, and I love FPS, RPG and spacesim games. I also love tinkering with Linux systems.

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    Removing notes page ↗

    2026-04-19 | 1 minute read

    So I realised I don't really like having two categories (posts/notes), because both are in the end just same thing.

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    Testing org.kde.Platform flatpak built in CI ↗

    2026-04-09 | 2 minute read

    Very technical post, feel free to ignore if you're not working on KDE stuff.

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    Testing physical notebooks ↗

    2026-04-08 | 2 minute read

    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.

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    Frustrations with CalDAV tasks ↗

    2026-04-04 | 2 minute read

    I tried to use CalDAV tasks again. It did not go well.

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    Updated Scalie.Computer ↗

    2026-03-15 | 1 minute read

    Just a quick note that I have now updated https://scalie.computer to a newer linkhut version.

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    My PostgreSQL database got nuked lol ↗

    2026-03-11 | 3 minute read

    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!

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    scalie.computer broke ↗

    2026-03-03 | 2 minute read

    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.

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

    2026-03-01 | 5 minute read

    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.

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    Breeze QtWidgets style changes to help us prepare for Union ↗

    2026-02-28 | 5 minute read

    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!

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    Leave me behind ↗

    2026-02-22 | 1 minute read

    If you wont use this new VC funded hypetech, such as generative "AI" you will be left behind!

    Is that a promise?

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    Tech industry, meh ↗

    2026-02-06 | 1 minute read

    This is a vent post. Feel free to ignore.

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    Added emotes ↗

    2026-02-02 | 1 minute read

    I added simple emotions here now, like many people have them in their blog.

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    todo2ical script ↗

    2026-01-30 | 1 minute read

    I made a simple todo2ical script that converts todo.txt file into an ical file.

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    My blog has now webmention support! ↗

    2026-01-20 | 1 minute read

    Hey there, I have been reading about IndieWeb and found out about something called Webmentions.…

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    Happy Holidays 2025! ↗

    2025-12-21 | 1 minute read

    Happy holidays everyone.…

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    Adding Customizable Frame Contrast to KDE Plasma ↗

    2025-10-29 | 6 minute read

    For a while now, probably two years, I wanted to have support for high-contrast colorschemes in KDE Plasma.

    Technically, this was already doable…

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    The move from Blue Systems to TechPaladin ↗

    2025-09-16 | 5 minute read

    People have been a bit weirded by what happened during this period.…

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    Akademy 2025 - My first talk! ↗

    2025-09-13 | 5 minute read

    Once again, all KDE nerds had their yearly gathering around somewhere in the world.…

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    NetSurf on reMarkable 2 ↗

    2025-08-31 | 6 minute read

    One thing I always have wished that my reMarkable 2 had was web browser.…

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    Various desktop Linux tips for newbies ↗

    2025-08-16 | 16 minute read

    There has been quite a surge in interest towards desktop Linux lately.…

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    Kate and Python Language Server: Basedpyright ↗

    2025-08-14 | 2 minute read

    This post is somewhat an update for my older post: Kate and Python language server…

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    KomoDo, my first KDE app ↗

    2025-08-07 | 8 minute read

    During all my time with KDE projects, I've never made an app from scratch.. Except now.…

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    Shedding (Cosplay Photos) ↗

    2025-06-21 | 1 minute read

    I wanted to do some fun little photoshoot with my new tattoo and my lizard cosplay.…

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    todo.txt tasks in my TRMNL ↗

    2025-06-14 | 6 minute read

    Edit: Please avoid buying TRMNL

    It turns out some people behind TRMNL are not something I want to support.…

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    Game Ramblings: Quitters, Splitgate 2, Daggerfall ↗

    2025-06-08 | 4 minute read

    I love FPS games, especially fast paced PVP FPS games.…

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    I got my first tattoo ↗

    2025-06-05 | 1 minute read

    I promised to share this here too, so here you go, I finally got a proper tattoo!…

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    Ramble: Tired and Emotional ↗

    2025-05-28 | 8 minute read

    Note: This is not a techy post or anything. It's personal post. Ramble. Feel free to ignore it.…

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    My changes to saving Konsole tab layouts ↗

    2025-05-18 | 3 minute read

    I recently made a patch to Konsole terminal emulator, that…

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    Kummacon 2025 cosplay photos ↗

    2025-05-17 | 1 minute read

    I visited Kummacon today and it was fun! Saw a lot of cool art and trinkets…

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    Forgejo webhook to auto-update my blog and my frustrations ↗

    2025-05-11 | 4 minute read

    Preface: I am really bad with servers. I actually dislike working with them, most of the time.…

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    Anubis protects this blog now ↗

    2025-05-08 | 1 minute read

    Edit: I disabled Anubis for now.…

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    Kate and Python language server ↗

    2025-05-03 | 4 minute read

    As much as I love Kate editor, as I mentioned in my previous post, setting up Python language server…

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    How I use Kate Editor ↗

    2025-04-20 | 11 minute read

    I love the Kate Text editor. I use it for pretty much all the programming projects I do.…

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    KURLNavBar and me ↗

    2025-03-22 | 9 minute read

    I made a change to the KURLNavBar according to old mockup, since we hoped it would be easier to use.…

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    Desktop icons are surprisingly hard! ↗

    2024-11-08 | 7 minute read

    I spent past three weeks working on refactoring and fixing legacy code…

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    Moving my game project from C to Odin language ↗

    2024-11-02 | 12 minute read

    Some months ago, I got really fed up with C.…

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    Cosplay images 2024 ↗

    2024-10-12 | 1 minute read

    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:.…

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    My Akademy 2024 trip ↗

    2024-09-14 | 10 minute read

    Akademy is this yearly thing where bunch of KDE people go to talk about and work on KDE software.…

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    KIO Thumbnailer Support ↗

    2024-08-08 | 3 minute read

    The KIO Framework has gained support for de-facto standard, cross-desktop thumbnail generators.…

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    Kate and OrgMode ↗

    2024-07-07 | 6 minute read

    I have a very.. unusual notetaking and task setup with Kate, using Orgmode files.…

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    Family of free and friendly open source software ↗

    2024-05-02 | 2 minute read

    Or FOFAFOSS. Rolls right off your tongue.…

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    Plasma 6 and me ↗

    2024-03-31 | 5 minute read

    I'm bit late to the train of Plasma 6 related posts... But anyway. I will go through some things I did.…

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    Debug symbols for all! ↗

    2024-01-21 | 5 minute read

    When running Linux software and encountering a crash, and you make a bug…

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    And who is going to clean up? ↗

    2024-01-15 | 3 minute read

    I was listening Late Night Linux podcast episode 264 and they were chatting about AI, as usual.…

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    First week of fulltime KDE ↗

    2023-11-11 | 2 minute read

    Seems getting laid off was pretty good for me after all. Funny how things go sometimes.…

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    I got laid off from work... ↗

    2023-10-10 | 2 minute read

    Hello, today I got laid off from my current workplace.…

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

    2023-10-08 | 4 minute read

    Sorry KDE Planet readers, this is just rambly non-techy post.…

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    Zephyr - My Breeze fork ↗

    2023-09-25 | 4 minute read

    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.…

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    Video: We visited Stockholm! ↗

    2023-09-24 | 1 minute read

    My wife made a video of us visiting Stockholm,…

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    Trust in software is important for me ↗

    2023-07-09 | 6 minute read

    Preface: What is trust to me?…

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    Why I don't like ads ↗

    2023-07-01 | 3 minute read

    It's common to dislike ads. They're annoying for many.…

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    I got married! ↗

    2023-06-25 | 1 minute read

    After ten years of dating, me and tecsiederp got finally married.…

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    Why I will likely never use AI programming tools ↗

    2023-06-16 | 1 minute read

    I actually like writing code.…

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    My thoughts on Flatpak (that nobody asked for) ↗

    2023-06-09 | 7 minute read

    Hindsight preface: This was written in very tired state.…

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    Updated my blog! Also news of Revontuli colorscheme ↗

    2023-06-03 | 5 minute read

    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.…

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    AksDark: My colorscheme for KDE Plasma ↗

    2023-05-27 | 4 minute read

    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.…

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    How I report bugs ↗

    2023-04-16 | 6 minute read

    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.…

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    I blocked Hacker News and you can too ↗

    2023-04-01 | 2 minute read

    No, not april fools.…

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    My game was illegally uploaded on Steam ↗

    2023-03-08 | 2 minute read

    Quick post for this time.…

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    FOSS communities: You don't need to yell ↗

    2023-02-17 | 3 minute read

    This is kind of open letter I suppose.…

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    My podcast tastes ↗

    2023-01-14 | 5 minute read

    I just wanted to write this down since I've been talking a bit about podcasts on fediverse.…

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    Pointless tribalism in FOSS ↗

    2023-01-06 | 4 minute read

    Rant incoming. This isn't written that well but idgaf. I just need to get this out of my system.…

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    How to use Matrix ↗

    2022-12-29 | 8 minute read

    As I've gotten more into FOSS, I've noticed a lot of FOSS projects, like KDE, use Matrix protocol.…

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    How to rotate an actor with Raylib without math knowledge ↗

    2022-11-22 | 3 minute read

    Rotate what now? Aks, what are you talking about?…

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    I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration ↗

    2022-10-31 | 7 minute read

    Window outlines! Yet another KDE contribution by yours truly!…

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    I made my own PineTime watchface ↗

    2022-09-04 | 6 minute read

    I have really enjoyed using my PineTime as a watch, so I really wanted to make my own watchface.…

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    Uploaded my themes to KDE Store ↗

    2022-08-22 | 1 minute read

    Hey, just a quick post, I uploaded some themes I've made for Aurorae and Plasma to KDE store.…

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    I added some localization settings to KDE ↗

    2022-08-18 | 7 minute read

    This was my biggest contribution so far! And it was a bit more involved than I expected, so I wanted to write down what I learned.…

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    Simple Arduino Temperature meter ↗

    2022-08-13 | 3 minute read

    I decided it was time to dust off my Arduino starter kit I got like.. over 5 years ago?…

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    Testing GoatCounter ↗

    2022-08-09 | 1 minute read

    Just a super short post this time!…

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    Server migration, from Digital Ocean to Hetzner ↗

    2022-08-05 | 3 minute read

    Well that took a while.…

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    What worries me about AI tooling ↗

    2022-07-17 | 3 minute read

    I was listening Linux Downtime episode 51 and meanwhile it was nice to hear that Copilot has been helpful for open source developers.. It still worries me.…

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    I was told I don't care ↗

    2022-07-14 | 5 minute read

    Today in Gaming On Linux discord group I was told that "I don't care about my playerbase"…

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    Easy way to open Discord through Firefox without address bar! ↗

    2022-06-05 | 2 minute read

    Since the Electron wrapper of Discord is so bad and outdated, especially on Linux,…

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    I deleted Windows! And switched to Fedora ↗

    2022-05-06 | 6 minute read

    Last sunday I finally decided it's time to leave Windows properly behind.…

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    Fixing DNS issues in Kubuntu 22.04 ↗

    2022-05-01 | 1 minute read

    DNS. It's always the effing DNS.…

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    (I was) Scared of programming ↗

    2022-04-24 | 4 minute read

    I have always dabbled with programming languages, even as a kid.…

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    Playing with Matrix: Conduit and Synapse ↗

    2022-04-01 | 7 minute read

    I've been playing around with Matrix homeservers.…

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    Why I find Linux gaming important? ↗

    2022-02-05 | 7 minute read

    People who read this mess of a blog may have noticed that I am very Linux-y.…

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    My Devterm experience ↗

    2022-01-16 | 4 minute read

    So I got a Devterm...…

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    Thoughts on my PineTime ↗

    2021-12-18 | 6 minute read

    So I got myself a PineTime watch about 8 days ago,…

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    My character and Matrix server ↗

    2021-12-02 | 1 minute read

    Just a quick post, I wanted to share two things.…

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    Kubuntu multimonitor woes and fixes ↗

    2021-11-27 | 3 minute read

    I have had some problems with Kubuntu working well with multimonitor setup.…

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    Who is Linux for? ↗

    2021-11-20 | 10 minute read

    A bit of boring rambling. Something I've been thinking about. Not really answering the question directly.…

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    Setting up Kubuntu for gaming ↗

    2021-11-12 | 12 minute read

    I have Kubuntu non-LTS version myself,…

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    I am tired of social media ↗

    2021-09-24 | 4 minute read

    Yeah, not uncommon these days.…

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    Some cosplay photos ↗

    2021-09-05 | 1 minute read

    Disclaimer: I may be cringe but I am free…

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    Image: Quake Logo ANSII ↗

    2021-08-21 | 1 minute read

    Quake Logo ANSII…

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    Quake Champions on Linux ↗

    2021-08-21 | 2 minute read

    I just wanted to write down what I had to do to make Quake Champions more playable on my Kubuntu setup. It had lots of stuttering problems for me, so here's what I did to fix it.…

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    Restrict mouse to first screen on Linux ↗

    2021-08-12 | 3 minute read

    If there is alternative, better ways, do tell!…

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    Sennheiser GSP 670 wireless on Linux (Ubuntu based) ↗

    2021-08-12 | 6 minute read

    Update!

    This patch has been added to the kernel, so if you have kernel 5.14.15-200 you should be good to go! It seems to also work on 5.13.0-28 on Kubuntu!…

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    Image: Lizard Vector ↗

    2021-08-03 | 1 minute read

    Lizard Vector…

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    Loputon has been canceled ↗

    2021-08-01 | 3 minute read

    Bit of sad news: I had to cancel my ARPG project "Loputon."…

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    Back to Linux! ↗

    2021-07-28 | 2 minute read

    I wanted to give another Linux distro a try, so I installed Kubuntu instead.…

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    New theme! ↗

    2021-07-08 | 1 minute read

    Hi! I made a new theme (or layout) for the blog!…

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    Bitksel blog archived ↗

    2021-06-26 | 1 minute read

    Hi, just a quick update!…

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    I gave Linux gaming a go ↗

    2021-06-12 | 4 minute read

    I upgraded my PC with Ryzen 5 3600,…

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    Raylib 3D level collision ↗

    2021-06-04 | 2 minute read

    I just wanted to quickly recap how I got collisions…

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    How and why I got into gamedev ↗

    2021-05-30 | 9 minute read

    I’ve tried many, many creative outlets and other hobbies.…

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    Quick CMake setup for VSCode ↗

    2021-05-29 | 3 minute read

    When setting up my ScifiFPS C/Raylib project,…

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    Welcome to my dev blog! ↗

    2021-05-29 | 1 minute read

    Man this took long time to set up.…

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    Bitksel - I joined One Hour Game Jam ↗

    2018-06-16 | 5 minute read

    This is how it went, or at least how I remember it. It was so hectic this may be out of order but anyway!…

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    Bitksel - Space Craze: ASTROX ↗

    2018-03-25 | 7 minute read

    More space games! This time I'm writing about a very simple yet addicting spaceship game called ASTROX: Hostile Space Excavation. I really enjoyed this game and it's getting a sequel soon!…

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    Bitksel - Space Craze: X3: Terran Conflict/Albion Prelude ↗

    2018-03-03 | 6 minute read

    Sorry for the month of silence, I didn't have much time/energy to write anything here.…

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    Bitksel - STRAFE, run 'n gun gore galore ↗

    2018-01-07 | 7 minute read

    Happy new year 2018 folks!…

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    Bitksel - Pillars of Eternity stole my heart ↗

    2017-11-25 | 8 minute read

    I finally finished Pillars of Eternity and it's White March expansions,…

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    Bitksel - Game Project Summary: Crypt of Darne ↗

    2017-11-03 | 5 minute read

    I wanted to write this quick summary of how my Crypt of Darne game project went,…

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    Bitksel - INFRA: Urban exploration the game ↗

    2017-09-30 | 11 minute read

    Yesterday I finished INFRA, a game about urban exploration.…

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    Bitksel - Tyranny, the game of choices and consequences ↗

    2017-09-18 | 12 minute read

    Yesterday, after 13 hours of play, I finished Tyranny.…

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    Bitksel - Story about why “keeping the scope small” is important ↗

    2017-09-04 | 5 minute read

    This is another post from my old devlog I'm transfering here. I really liked this post so I thought I'll keep it.…

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    Bitksel - The 'I don't feel like playing' problem ↗

    2017-08-24 | 7 minute read

    Sometimes when I read internet forums like Reddit to rot my brain,…

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    Bitksel - Ah, Morrowind ↗

    2017-01-07 | 21 minute read

    I've been playing lots of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind lately.…

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    Bitksel - Bricks with speakers + logos ↗

    2016-12-29 | 12 minute read

    During christmas holidays I visited my…

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    Bitksel - Santa Claus in Trouble ↗

    2016-12-17 | 6 minute read

    I am actually one of those weirdos who love christmas.…

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    Bitksel - Visiting local arcade! ↗

    2016-12-14 | 6 minute read

    Today I visited the local arcade called "Pelibunkkeri."…

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