AksDev

AksDev

Akseli Lahtinen

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.

Latest Posts

Leave me behind

AksDev · 2mo

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,...

Tech industry, meh

AksDev · 2mo

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...

Added emotes

AksDev · 2mo

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...

todo2ical script

AksDev · 2mo

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...

My blog has now webmention support!

AksDev · 3mo

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...

Happy Holidays 2025!

AksDev · 4mo

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...

Adding Customizable Frame Contrast to KDE Plasma

AksDev · 5mo

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...

The move from Blue Systems to TechPaladin

AksDev · 7mo

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...

Akademy 2025 - My first talk!

AksDev · 7mo

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...

NetSurf on reMarkable 2

AksDev · 7mo

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...

Various desktop Linux tips for newbies

AksDev · 8mo

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...

Kate and Python Language Server: Basedpyright

AksDev · 8mo

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...

KomoDo, my first KDE app

AksDev · 8mo

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...

Shedding (Cosplay Photos)

AksDev · 10mo

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...

todo.txt tasks in my TRMNL

AksDev · 10mo

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:...
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