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
I have a very.. unusual notetaking and task setup with Kate, using Orgmode files. I wanted to showcase it and explain how it works, maybe someone else has similar needs. Here's...
Family of free and friendly open source software
Or FOFAFOSS. Rolls right off your tongue. Like in many families, there's always a bit of.. turmoil and drama in FOSS. Something breaks (either on purpose or by accident), people...
I'm bit late to the train of Plasma 6 related posts... But anyway. I will go through some things I did. For me working on Plasma 6 was pretty fun, I learned a lot of new things...
When running Linux software and encountering a crash, and you make a bug report about it (thank you!), you may be asked for backtraces and debug symbols. And if you're not...
I was listening Late Night Linux podcast episode 264 and they were chatting about AI, as usual. This post was inspired by the discussion, but not really related to it. In...
Seems getting laid off was pretty good for me after all. Funny how things go sometimes. A company that works on KDE stuff (and other Linuxy things), interviewed me for a fun...
Hello, today I got laid off from my current workplace. I used to be a test automation engineer but I also worked on Windows application with C#. So, I am looking for new...
I burned out, again.. And how I let myself heal.
Sorry KDE Planet readers, this is just rambly non-techy post. Burning out is no joke. I have gone through 3 or 4 major burnouts in my life. All of them related to programming,...
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. There's...
My wife made a video of us visiting Stockholm, go check it here! We saw Trash Taste in Stockholm! | Honeymoon vlog
Trust in software is important for me
Preface: What is trust to me? To make it clear what trust means to me: Can I trust my privacy, no matter how miniscule part of information you want, in your hands? (my PTSD...
It's common to dislike ads. They're annoying for many. I recommend anyone to use an adblocker whenever they can. Despite ads being annoying, they're also bad for your privacy....
After ten years of dating, me and tecsiederp got finally married. Our wedding ceremony was very nice and reflected us well. No priests or churches, just us and our family and...
Why I will likely never use AI programming tools
I actually like writing code. That's really it. If I didn't, I still wouldn't use it due to the ethical/copyright issues, but I don't even have to think that far: I just like...
My thoughts on Flatpak (that nobody asked for)
Hindsight preface: This was written in very tired state. I have been chatting about this with people who know more than I ever will about Flatpak. Soo I have added few edits...