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

This time I actually managed to fly rather well!

Aks Plays EVE, Part 3: Switcharoo ↗

Today I got my ass kicked…

Aks Plays EVE, Part 2: Just vibing ↗

Not much action today, but I wanted to see few things.

Updated my site look and added Opengraph meta tags ↗

Tinkered with CSS again. Also now embeds should work properly, with better names and things.

Testing out Sveltia ↗

I set up Sveltia headless CMS on my page, this is my first post with it.

Aks Plays EVE, Part 1 ↗

Start of my series "Aks Plays EVE" where I just post some things I did in the online spaceship game.

Removing notes page ↗

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

Testing org.kde.Platform flatpak built in CI ↗

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

Testing physical notebooks ↗

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.

Frustrations with CalDAV tasks ↗

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

Updated Scalie.Computer ↗

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

My PostgreSQL database got nuked lol ↗

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!

scalie.computer broke ↗

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.

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

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.

Breeze QtWidgets style changes to help us prepare for Union ↗

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!

Leave me behind ↗

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

Is that a promise?

Tech industry, meh ↗

This is a vent post. Feel free to ignore.

Added emotes ↗

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

todo2ical script ↗

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

My blog has now webmention support! ↗

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

Happy Holidays 2025! ↗

Happy holidays everyone.…

Adding Customizable Frame Contrast to KDE Plasma ↗

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

Technically, this was already doable…

The move from Blue Systems to TechPaladin ↗

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

Akademy 2025 - My first talk! ↗

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

NetSurf on reMarkable 2 ↗

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

Various desktop Linux tips for newbies ↗

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

Kate and Python Language Server: Basedpyright ↗

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

KomoDo, my first KDE app ↗

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

Shedding (Cosplay Photos) ↗

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

todo.txt tasks in my TRMNL ↗

Edit: Please avoid buying TRMNL

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

Game Ramblings: Quitters, Splitgate 2, Daggerfall ↗

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

I got my first tattoo ↗

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

Ramble: Tired and Emotional ↗

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

My changes to saving Konsole tab layouts ↗

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

Kummacon 2025 cosplay photos ↗

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

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

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

Anubis protects this blog now ↗

Edit: I disabled Anubis for now.…

Kate and Python language server ↗

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

How I use Kate Editor ↗

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

KURLNavBar and me ↗

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

Desktop icons are surprisingly hard! ↗

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

Moving my game project from C to Odin language ↗

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

Cosplay images 2024 ↗

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:.…

My Akademy 2024 trip ↗

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

KIO Thumbnailer Support ↗

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

Kate and OrgMode ↗

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

Family of free and friendly open source software ↗

Or FOFAFOSS. Rolls right off your tongue.…

Plasma 6 and me ↗

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

Debug symbols for all! ↗

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

And who is going to clean up? ↗

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

First week of fulltime KDE ↗

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

I got laid off from work... ↗

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

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

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

Zephyr - My Breeze fork ↗

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.…

Video: We visited Stockholm! ↗

My wife made a video of us visiting Stockholm,…

Trust in software is important for me ↗

Preface: What is trust to me?…

Why I don't like ads ↗

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

I got married! ↗

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

Why I will likely never use AI programming tools ↗

I actually like writing code.…

My thoughts on Flatpak (that nobody asked for) ↗

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

Updated my blog! Also news of Revontuli colorscheme ↗

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.…

AksDark: My colorscheme for KDE Plasma ↗

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.…

How I report bugs ↗

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.…

I blocked Hacker News and you can too ↗

No, not april fools.…

My game was illegally uploaded on Steam ↗

Quick post for this time.…

FOSS communities: You don't need to yell ↗

This is kind of open letter I suppose.…

My podcast tastes ↗

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

Pointless tribalism in FOSS ↗

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

How to use Matrix ↗

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

How to rotate an actor with Raylib without math knowledge ↗

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

I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration ↗

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

I made my own PineTime watchface ↗

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

Uploaded my themes to KDE Store ↗

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

I added some localization settings to KDE ↗

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.…

Simple Arduino Temperature meter ↗

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

Testing GoatCounter ↗

Just a super short post this time!…

Server migration, from Digital Ocean to Hetzner ↗

Well that took a while.…

What worries me about AI tooling ↗

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.…

I was told I don't care ↗

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

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

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

I deleted Windows! And switched to Fedora ↗

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

Fixing DNS issues in Kubuntu 22.04 ↗

DNS. It's always the effing DNS.…

(I was) Scared of programming ↗

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

Playing with Matrix: Conduit and Synapse ↗

I've been playing around with Matrix homeservers.…

Why I find Linux gaming important? ↗

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

My Devterm experience ↗

So I got a Devterm...…

Thoughts on my PineTime ↗

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

My character and Matrix server ↗

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

Kubuntu multimonitor woes and fixes ↗

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

Who is Linux for? ↗

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

Setting up Kubuntu for gaming ↗

I have Kubuntu non-LTS version myself,…

I am tired of social media ↗

Yeah, not uncommon these days.…

Some cosplay photos ↗

Disclaimer: I may be cringe but I am free…

Image: Quake Logo ANSII ↗

Quake Logo ANSII…

Quake Champions on Linux ↗

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.…

Restrict mouse to first screen on Linux ↗

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

Sennheiser GSP 670 wireless on Linux (Ubuntu based) ↗

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!…

Image: Lizard Vector ↗

Lizard Vector…

Loputon has been canceled ↗

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

Back to Linux! ↗

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

New theme! ↗

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

Bitksel blog archived ↗

Hi, just a quick update!…

I gave Linux gaming a go ↗

I upgraded my PC with Ryzen 5 3600,…

Raylib 3D level collision ↗

I just wanted to quickly recap how I got collisions…

How and why I got into gamedev ↗

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

Quick CMake setup for VSCode ↗

When setting up my ScifiFPS C/Raylib project,…

Welcome to my dev blog! ↗

Man this took long time to set up.…

Bitksel - I joined One Hour Game Jam ↗

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

Bitksel - Space Craze: ASTROX ↗

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!…

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

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

Bitksel - STRAFE, run 'n gun gore galore ↗

Happy new year 2018 folks!…

Bitksel - Pillars of Eternity stole my heart ↗

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

Bitksel - Game Project Summary: Crypt of Darne ↗

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

Bitksel - INFRA: Urban exploration the game ↗

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

Bitksel - Tyranny, the game of choices and consequences ↗

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

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

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

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

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

Bitksel - Ah, Morrowind ↗

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

Bitksel - Bricks with speakers + logos ↗

During christmas holidays I visited my…

Bitksel - Santa Claus in Trouble ↗

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

Bitksel - Visiting local arcade! ↗

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