My blogposts
My blog has now webmention support! ↗
Hey there, I have been reading about IndieWeb and found out about something called Webmentions.…
Read…Happy Holidays 2025! ↗
Happy holidays everyone.…
Read…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…
Read…The move from Blue Systems to TechPaladin ↗
People have been a bit weirded by what happened during this period.…
Read…Akademy 2025 - My first talk! ↗
Once again, all KDE nerds had their yearly gathering around somewhere in the world.…
Read…NetSurf on reMarkable 2 ↗
One thing I always have wished that my reMarkable 2 had was web browser.…
Read…Various desktop Linux tips for newbies ↗
There has been quite a surge in interest towards desktop Linux lately.…
Read…Kate and Python Language Server: Basedpyright ↗
This post is somewhat an update for my older post: Kate and Python language server…
Read…KomoDo, my first KDE app ↗
During all my time with KDE projects, I've never made an app from scratch.. Except now.…
Read…Shedding (Cosplay Photos) ↗
I wanted to do some fun little photoshoot with my new tattoo and my lizard cosplay.…
Read…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.…
Read…Game Ramblings: Quitters, Splitgate 2, Daggerfall ↗
I love FPS games, especially fast paced PVP FPS games.…
Read…I got my first tattoo ↗
I promised to share this here too, so here you go, I finally got a proper tattoo!…
Read…Ramble: Tired and Emotional ↗
Note: This is not a techy post or anything. It's personal post. Ramble. Feel free to ignore it.…
Read…My changes to saving Konsole tab layouts ↗
I recently made a patch to Konsole terminal emulator, that…
Read…Kummacon 2025 cosplay photos ↗
I visited Kummacon today and it was fun! Saw a lot of cool art and trinkets…
Read…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.…
Read…Anubis protects this blog now ↗
Edit: I disabled Anubis for now.…
Read…Kate and Python language server ↗
As much as I love Kate editor, as I mentioned in my previous post, setting up Python language server…
Read…How I use Kate Editor ↗
I love the Kate Text editor. I use it for pretty much all the programming projects I do.…
Read…KURLNavBar and me ↗
I made a change to the KURLNavBar according to old mockup, since we hoped it would be easier to use.…
Read…Desktop icons are surprisingly hard! ↗
I spent past three weeks working on refactoring and fixing legacy code…
Read…Moving my game project from C to Odin language ↗
Some months ago, I got really fed up with C.…
Read…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:.…
Read…My Akademy 2024 trip ↗
Akademy is this yearly thing where bunch of KDE people go to talk about and work on KDE software.…
Read…KIO Thumbnailer Support ↗
The KIO Framework has gained support for de-facto standard, cross-desktop thumbnail generators.…
Read…Kate and OrgMode ↗
I have a very.. unusual notetaking and task setup with Kate, using Orgmode files.…
Read…Family of free and friendly open source software ↗
Or FOFAFOSS. Rolls right off your tongue.…
Read…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.…
Read…Debug symbols for all! ↗
When running Linux software and encountering a crash, and you make a bug…
Read…And who is going to clean up? ↗
I was listening Late Night Linux podcast episode 264 and they were chatting about AI, as usual.…
Read…First week of fulltime KDE ↗
Seems getting laid off was pretty good for me after all. Funny how things go sometimes.…
Read…I got laid off from work... ↗
Hello, today I got laid off from my current workplace.…
Read…I burned out, again.. And how I let myself heal. ↗
Sorry KDE Planet readers, this is just rambly non-techy post.…
Read…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.…
Read…Video: We visited Stockholm! ↗
My wife made a video of us visiting Stockholm,…
Read…Trust in software is important for me ↗
Preface: What is trust to me?…
Read…Why I don't like ads ↗
It's common to dislike ads. They're annoying for many.…
Read…I got married! ↗
After ten years of dating, me and tecsiederp got finally married.…
Read…Why I will likely never use AI programming tools ↗
I actually like writing code.…
Read…My thoughts on Flatpak (that nobody asked for) ↗
Hindsight preface: This was written in very tired state.…
Read…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.…
Read…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.…
Read…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.…
Read…I blocked Hacker News and you can too ↗
No, not april fools.…
Read…My game was illegally uploaded on Steam ↗
Quick post for this time.…
Read…FOSS communities: You don't need to yell ↗
This is kind of open letter I suppose.…
Read…My podcast tastes ↗
I just wanted to write this down since I've been talking a bit about podcasts on fediverse.…
Read…Pointless tribalism in FOSS ↗
Rant incoming. This isn't written that well but idgaf. I just need to get this out of my system.…
Read…How to use Matrix ↗
As I've gotten more into FOSS, I've noticed a lot of FOSS projects, like KDE, use Matrix protocol.…
Read…How to rotate an actor with Raylib without math knowledge ↗
Rotate what now? Aks, what are you talking about?…
Read…I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration ↗
Window outlines! Yet another KDE contribution by yours truly!…
Read…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.…
Read…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.…
Read…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.…
Read…Simple Arduino Temperature meter ↗
I decided it was time to dust off my Arduino starter kit I got like.. over 5 years ago?…
Read…Testing GoatCounter ↗
Just a super short post this time!…
Read…Server migration, from Digital Ocean to Hetzner ↗
Well that took a while.…
Read…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.…
Read…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"…
Read…Easy way to open Discord through Firefox without address bar! ↗
Since the Electron wrapper of Discord is so bad and outdated, especially on Linux,…
Read…I deleted Windows! And switched to Fedora ↗
Last sunday I finally decided it's time to leave Windows properly behind.…
Read…Fixing DNS issues in Kubuntu 22.04 ↗
DNS. It's always the effing DNS.…
Read…(I was) Scared of programming ↗
I have always dabbled with programming languages, even as a kid.…
Read…Playing with Matrix: Conduit and Synapse ↗
I've been playing around with Matrix homeservers.…
Read…Why I find Linux gaming important? ↗
People who read this mess of a blog may have noticed that I am very Linux-y.…
Read…My Devterm experience ↗
So I got a Devterm...…
Read…Thoughts on my PineTime ↗
So I got myself a PineTime watch about 8 days ago,…
Read…My character and Matrix server ↗
Just a quick post, I wanted to share two things.…
Read…Kubuntu multimonitor woes and fixes ↗
I have had some problems with Kubuntu working well with multimonitor setup.…
Read…Who is Linux for? ↗
A bit of boring rambling. Something I've been thinking about. Not really answering the question directly.…
Read…Setting up Kubuntu for gaming ↗
I have Kubuntu non-LTS version myself,…
Read…I am tired of social media ↗
Yeah, not uncommon these days.…
Read…Some cosplay photos ↗
Disclaimer: I may be cringe but I am free…
Read…Image: Quake Logo ANSII ↗
Quake Logo ANSII…
Read…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.…
Read…Restrict mouse to first screen on Linux ↗
If there is alternative, better ways, do tell!…
Read…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!…
Read…Image: Lizard Vector ↗
Lizard Vector…
Read…Loputon has been canceled ↗
Bit of sad news: I had to cancel my ARPG project "Loputon."…
Read…Back to Linux! ↗
I wanted to give another Linux distro a try, so I installed Kubuntu instead.…
Read…New theme! ↗
Hi! I made a new theme (or layout) for the blog!…
Read…Bitksel blog archived ↗
Hi, just a quick update!…
Read…I gave Linux gaming a go ↗
I upgraded my PC with Ryzen 5 3600,…
Read…Raylib 3D level collision ↗
I just wanted to quickly recap how I got collisions…
Read…How and why I got into gamedev ↗
I’ve tried many, many creative outlets and other hobbies.…
Read…Quick CMake setup for VSCode ↗
When setting up my ScifiFPS C/Raylib project,…
Read…Welcome to my dev blog! ↗
Man this took long time to set up.…
Read…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!…
Read…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!…
Read…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.…
Read…Bitksel - STRAFE, run 'n gun gore galore ↗
Happy new year 2018 folks!…
Read…Bitksel - Pillars of Eternity stole my heart ↗
I finally finished Pillars of Eternity and it's White March expansions,…
Read…Bitksel - Game Project Summary: Crypt of Darne ↗
I wanted to write this quick summary of how my Crypt of Darne game project went,…
Read…Bitksel - INFRA: Urban exploration the game ↗
Yesterday I finished INFRA, a game about urban exploration.…
Read…Bitksel - Tyranny, the game of choices and consequences ↗
Yesterday, after 13 hours of play, I finished Tyranny.…
Read…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.…
Read…Bitksel - The 'I don't feel like playing' problem ↗
Sometimes when I read internet forums like Reddit to rot my brain,…
Read…Bitksel - Ah, Morrowind ↗
I've been playing lots of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind lately.…
Read…Bitksel - Bricks with speakers + logos ↗
During christmas holidays I visited my…
Read…Bitksel - Santa Claus in Trouble ↗
I am actually one of those weirdos who love christmas.…
Read…Bitksel - Visiting local arcade! ↗
Today I visited the local arcade called "Pelibunkkeri."…
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