Akseli's various rambles and posts about gaming, gamedev, FOSS, programming and other things.
I had fun cosplaying at Matsucon and I went on stage too! At Matsucon this year I spent bunch of money on the artist alley, but I also had signed up for a "cosplay catwalk" which was very spooky but interesting. Photos But first some photos! Video of the catwalk thing I have no idea how Zola will work with video embedding but here you go. I wanted to do more than just silly little waves but.. I…
I'm fueled by my spite to write this incoherent rambling of a madman. This is highly related to my previous post , but I can't stop thinking about this so I'll make a new post. My blog anyways. Over the many past years I have just been rather tired of tech. It overrides our wants and needs to serve the corporate overlords. Sounds like bad cyberpunk writing, but sadly it's true.…
Reply to Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026 Such a nice, hopeful talk in this video. I've noticed I've gotten more and more and more jaded over time. The hypetech booms really do not help, and you know exactly which one I'm talking about at this point in time. But it touched much more things I've noticed wrong in our industry. And it has gotten me jaded,…
For context, I have gotten a lot of emails either asking why I deactivated my account or just sending me well wishes after the deactivation. This post is more for them than anyone else. If you don't care about random techbro website drama, feel free to skip. Edit: I do sincerely appreciate all the well wishes and nice messages. Thank you, truly. I had no idea anyone would care about me…
Just something I experience more and more these days. When it comes to reviewing code, the descriptions, commits and such can be massive blast of information: Full of extraneous details depicting what was changed. The main point is why was something changed. And often in only one huge commit with massive diffs. I'm sorry but my poor ADHD brain can't take this very well. I don't want…
Silly name but works wonders. I have been using this search engine called Uruky for about a week: https://uruky.com/ As a software dev, big part of my workflow is searching for information. As search engines in general keep getting worse and worse, it has became more difficult. However with Uruky I have managed to find the exact results I need. No silly "AI" summaries. No other…
I prefer ice tea or chocolate milk. Just joining the blogspam shitposting dont mind me. Context: https://www.gordonmclean.co.uk/2026/06/11/yes-buy-me-a-coffee https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/06/11/re-no-i-wont-buy-you-a-coffee/ https://hakkerman.eu/blog/i-wont-buy-you-a-coffee/
I am tired of many things. Some of them have bothered me for years. Some are rather recent. Here's how I have dealt with all that. Minimizing. I try to minimize anything related to negative things in my life, until I can either nullify the whole thing from my life, or it is so insignificant, it doesn't bother me anymore. For example, when moving my email from gmail to my own domain, what…
Co-authored-by: ur mom If your tool adds advertisements in your work by default, it's a bad tool and does not need to be used. I don't get why people just gleefully add these ads for companies to their open-source projects that do not pay them a penny (but actively take money from them in subscription fees). "Assisted by blabot", "co-authored-by: slopgpt", "sent from my fartphone" Why?…
I have been tinkering with Helix editor lately since I quite like it. It's a fun little editor. Can recommend for those who like modal editing. I do not know if it'll ever replace Kate editor for me, but I'm challenging myself to try new tools, just for the fun of it. With Helix, I've used this git tool called gitu that is rather quick and easy to work with. Though I still use…
Really short and spooky one this time. I was roaming about lowsec in my lil Hookbill as usual, and found a Firetail in a complex. So I warped in. They neutralized my capacitor completely (in short: i ran out of energy) so I was having real scary time keeping my repairing and modules running. I tried to disrupt their turret range and keep distance, but eventually my ship was just so completely out…
I visited Arctic Lights ComicCon and it was fun! Here's some photos and thoughts on the whole thing. I had fun at the ComicCon! I mostly spent the days in my cosplay, hidden behind my lizard mask. Sadly the mask took some damage during the whole ordeal, but nothing major. For example I hugged a fellow furry and it was such an aggressive hug, one of the jaw spikes of my mask flew off, lol.…
Hi I was a dumb lizer whole day! I will share more photos when I get home, but it's been fun! Will cosplay bit more tomorrow and then it's trip back home. The character is my own sona. Yea its me
Not much to share, but I had two nice fights. And I saw cool things in the game. Was just roaming about with my Hookbill as usual, until I spot a Catalyst Navy Issue. Ended up being rather tight fight, but I managed to stay in right amount of range to eventually win the fight: They were using railguns, so using the tracking disruption here was really the key.…
I just spent this weekend writing my own little pastebin clone, called Vivipara . I also have bunch of thoughts about various programming languages. Read about it all in this one blogpost! Vivipara, my smol and quick text paste service For a while now, I have been looking for some sort of pastebin clone for myself. However, all of the ones I could find seem to be rather public: Anyone can create a…
There it goes... Welp, RIP the 6 killmark hookbill. You will be missed. https://zkillboard.com/kill/135293342/ I fought an artillery thrasher, but I did bunch of mistakes while flying, so I couldn't keep my transversal velocity high enough to avoid their shots. That, and they had me webbed down good, so I couldn't really move much. I also realised I should have…
Woah. My ship didn't explode. Twice. I've been roaming a bit of lowsec again in my hookbill. I managed to reach 6 killmarks today! So that's 6 kills in this one ship, which of 4 were today. Holy crap, my ships never stay running this long. I am flying back to base as I'm writing this, so I'm expecting it to blow up while writing, lol. Anyway, I had two really close calls.…
And that's fine. I tried to play XCOM 2 and XCOM Chimera Squad. I liked the premise of both games, especially Chimera Squad: The idea of aliens being left on earth after humans vs aliens war is rather intriguing. Sadly, due to the nature of the game, it doesn't really explore it as much. XCOM 2 was fine but way too difficult. And I played on the easiest mode with all the helpers. I just…
Not much happening this time. I spent some of the time this weekend doing the Warpath event, but it turned out to be a bit boring. As much as I enjoy a nice lil PVE event, my blood craves for adrenaline inducing fights against other players.. So I went back to hunting. Also the event rewards, while nice, were being paid very unreliably. Sometimes I just got no rewards at all.. So I didn't…
I found out about human.json so I added it to my page. I thought it was rather interesting idea, and might as well participate to it. I do not plan to use "AI" tools for the ethical reasons alone, so it seemed fitting to have that. Now to find more people to vouch for. :) And I'm interested seeing if others have it added now that I use the extension too.
I'm writing this on my phone so I'll keep it brief. Was roaming around as usual, trying to hunt down something with my Cormorant Navy Issue. Nice, very punchy blaster ship. If it gets close to you and can keep your ship still, your ship will melt into puddle of plasma. First, I saw this guy. They didn't fight back, which was bit odd.. And then I found out the pilot was 1 day old. I…
Just testing out the forgejo instance I set up. Nothing should really change, my blog just is now on my own instance, so I can be less careful about the amount of data the blog repo uses, since I have tons of pictures. Setting it up was rather easy. I was having tons of problems with DNS finding my forgejo instance address. I set the time to live to 60, but still it took a very long time. Dunno…
Yeah it happened. Lol. As expected, the Hookbill died a fiery death against a Breacher. It seems my fit is not very good against missile ships. But honestly, that Breacher was super tanky! I could not break its shields at all. I was kind of awestruck by it. https://zkillboard.com/kill/135071750/ I then undocked another Hookbill and fought against a Kestrel. Surprisingly…
I have never really flown Caldari Navy Hookbills that much. They're nice frigates with a lot of space for different kind of fits. Missiles, repairs, webifiers and tracking disruptor. Well I'm glad I have been flying one for a bit now, since it's been really good for me. 3 killmarks on this small ship already! (The tiny chevrons on the "nose"). I rarely get multiple kills with same…
I found this thing called smolweb and it spoke to me. Like yeah, websites are quite heavy these days. Older hardware (from like 2010s) has really difficult time loading it, and the big chunks of Javascript do not help either. And not to forget web browsers such as Netsurf that do not have the resources to recreate the whole HTML/CSS/JS standard. So, as you can see, this site is now much…
This time I actually managed to fly rather well! I didn't play that long since it's already late, but I decided to take a Kestrel out in the void and see what happens. After some time of roaming through systems and making LP farmers shake in their boots with just my spooky presence, I managed to catch someone! https://zkillboard.com/kill/134982511/ It was quick…
Today I got my ass kicked . Granted, I didn't play much, like an 1.5h or so. But I wanted to share something small but I found it amusing. Couple days ago I exploded this guy: https://zkillboard.com/kill/134894857/ Then today he exploded the very same ship I exploded him with: https://zkillboard.com/kill/134956268/ Space is big, but still…
Not much action today, but I wanted to see few things. I mostly did some maintenance work on my character today, buying skills and such. But there has been few things in Jita I wanted to see. Space elevator! Jita has a pretty neat space elevator located near the main trading hub, so I actually spent the time to fly close to it manually. It's quite a sight. It has properly animated elevator…
Tinkered with CSS again. Also now embeds should work properly, with better names and things. I found out about something called Open Graph protocol that helps apps like Discord and Matrix clients etc. to figure out what the important parts of the embeds are. Let me know what you think. :) I wanted something more cleaner looking, though I do enjoy cyan colors (if you use dark mode you can't…
I set up Sveltia headless CMS on my page, this is my first post with it. So I wanted to set up a simple headless CMS for my blog. Setting up Sveltia was rather quick and easy, though configuring it took a while. I have now set it all up and it was rather painless. The main reason I wanted this, while I mostly edit things in my text editor of choice anyway, I sometimes have something I want to…
Start of my series "Aks Plays EVE" where I just post some things I did in the online spaceship game. I do these small posts on fedi every now and then, but began to feel like I should do these on my site instead. So, here you go! I just copypaste my old posts here for now but in future I will be writing them here first. And, I gotta say, it's nice to play more EVE again. It feeds my brains on…
So I realised I don't really like having two categories (posts/notes), because both are in the end just same thing. My blog has gotten bit too complicated due to it, so I just moved my notes to the posts section. Apologies for the RSS feed going haywire.
Very technical post, feel free to ignore if you're not working on KDE stuff. Since I'm on KDE Linux, I use flatpak apps for pretty much everything, such as Kontact suite. I wanted to test out how my Breeze changes would look like in KMail and other apps, but I didn't want to build the whole PIM stack. Here's how I tested it by building the flatpak-kde-runtime in CI, downloading…
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. As much as I like my reMarkable 2 tablet, it's rather big and takes bunch of space on my desk. Opening it is always a bit cumbersome. I have to click a button, look for the right file if it's not open yet, start writing.. oh oops, I pressed something. Oh…
I tried to use CalDAV tasks again. It did not go well. The problem with CalDAV tasks is often that every client only implements a portion of the massive spec. Sure, makes sense, nobody wants to implement all the stuff it has. But then you try to use different apps with it, and they all expect different things for such simple thing as marking a task done. For example, one app can mark task 100%…
Just a quick note that I have now updated https://scalie.computer to a newer linkhut version. Now users can see the original linker in the link info (click the amount of saves button). Seems theres some other goodies too, I don't even know everything, but hopefully things will work well for the users. If you are reading this and want to join, hop in to #scaliecomputer:mx.scalie.zone…
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! Note that I am not a sysadmin/webdev type of person. This whole world is scary and full of horrors to me. I am most comfortable writing native applications in my cave. I wrote this note about it when I was investigating, but found nothing. So I…
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. I was just minding my business and went to check on it. It had crashed for some reason, the postgresql server/docker/thing was erroring out like a lot. Then I decided to fix that…
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. I will keep some of the parts bit short here, since I am not 100% knowledgeable about everything, and I rather people read documentation about it instead of relying my blogpost. :) But here's the basics of it. It's infodump time.…
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! Edit: I made another post that should help explain some of the terminology and such: https://akselmo.dev/posts/what-are-breeze-widgets-quick-union/ If you are running Plasma git master branch, you may have…
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, refusing to use it. I will be here, working on things until your slophype settles down. I am going to keep working slowly and fixing things. So please, leave me the fuck behind. Run. Let me work on things without your constant…
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 what new way of siphoning money and mental health has been invented. And we just allow it to happen. I should be surprised by articles like this:…
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 what the fuck And so on. Should allow me to make some fun lil faces between paragraphs.
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 separate apps. You can add the files it produces as read-only external calendars to your calendar thing. Here's link to the source code: https://codeberg.org/akselmo/todo2ical I just have it to…
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 system, though I am rather lazy so IDK. I am still quite new at this, but I am interested in how it works. Feel free to webmention this post! I think you can use something like telegraph for sending them. Also if I set my…
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 of planet have to see these, mwahaha.) And happy new year 2026, let's hope it gets better from here.
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 colorscheme to such colors. However one thing was lacking: Outlines were calculated automagically with hardcoded value. Well, no more! Now you can set your own frame contrast value! And you may ask "Why not change the color…
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 from the situation. Order of events I get laid off from previous job in 2023-10-10. Nate Graham learns of this and invites me to join Blue Systems. I would be joining the team that works with Valve contracts. Cool! He…
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 in-depth to share, except for my first talk I had. I spent a lot of time listening to talks and chilling at BoFs. Since I was with my wife , we also went around Berlin looking for fun things, such as the Aquarium at the…
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 read definitions for words or other small knowledge when I'm reading articles I've sent to the device. Well, seems with some elbow grease it's possible. And a lot of help from reMarkable discord . In…