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

Game Ramblings: Quitters, Splitgate 2, Daggerfall

AksDev · 10mo

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...

I got my first tattoo

AksDev · 10mo

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...

Ramble: Tired and Emotional

AksDev · 10mo

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,...

My changes to saving Konsole tab layouts

AksDev · 11mo

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...

Kummacon 2025 cosplay photos

AksDev · 11mo

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...

Forgejo webhook to auto-update my blog and my frustrations

AksDev · 11mo

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...

Anubis protects this blog now

AksDev · 11mo

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...

Kate and Python language server

AksDev · 11mo

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...

How I use Kate Editor

AksDev · 12mo

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...

KURLNavBar and me

AksDev · 13mo

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...

Desktop icons are surprisingly hard!

AksDev · 17mo

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...

Moving my game project from C to Odin language

AksDev · 17mo

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...

Cosplay images 2024

AksDev · 18mo

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...

My Akademy 2024 trip

AksDev · 19mo

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...

KIO Thumbnailer Support

AksDev · 20mo

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...
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