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I was able to attend the talks at Akademy this year in Berlin! The last time I attended Akademy in person was in 2022, so it was really nice being able to come back and meet everyone again. I was unfortunately not able to attend BoFs (development meetings) due to having to leave early. I did attend some meetings a few months earlier however, you can read more in my Plasma sprint recap post. Talks…
I have been a long time Plasma Mobile contributor, but I have always had a keen interest in having Linux on my TV! I have noticed that in the past few months, the Plasma Bigscreen project has had some interest from people wanting to contribute, but there have not been any active KDE developers working on the project. Since I have some time off school (having just graduated university), I decided…
Cameras! Today, I am announcing a new release of Plasma Camera , a camera application for Plasma Mobile (though it can also be used on desktop!). This release ports the application to use libcamera as the backend for interfacing with cameras, finally allowing for it to be used on Linux mobile devices (such as the OnePlus 6). The main porting work was done by my friend Andrew (koitu) a couple of…
I attended the Plasma sprint this year in Graz, Austria! It has been a couple of years since I have last met KDE contributors in-person (Akademy 2022), so I really looked forward to finally being able to meet again. This sprint was the first time I met Bhushan , who is a long time contributor to Plasma Mobile, and was the one that initially guided me through contributions! He recently got funding…
This is a track I made for the game “Project: Muse”! Download
TLDR : ProtectionStones is in maintenance mode, my interest in maintaining the project for free has waned as I have not hosted a Minecraft server for many years. I will still try my best to upgrade the plugin and fix critical issues when I have the time, but do not expect major updates or consistent support on the Discord channel. I am currently looking for a new maintainer, but it seems unlikely…
There are some plans to have a more official blog post on the plasma-mobile.org , these are my personal ramblings below… Plasma 6 is coming together nicely on the desktop! Coming back from hiatus, I was pleasantly greeted by a much more working session than when I last saw it in May; I have now completely switched over to it on my main machine! On the other hand, there is still a lot of…
Hello! I just wanted to give a somewhat of a personal update on how things are going. As you may have noticed, I have been somewhat absent from Plasma Mobile development since March. It appears that not much has happened in the project while I was gone, a sombre reminder that there are not many maintainers left that do mobile work. 😓 It was around the time that Plasma 6 porting work really…
This year, I had the amazing opportunity to attend Akademy in person (@ Barcelona) for the first time! For context, I first started contributing to Plasma Mobile in 2020, right around when easily testable hardware (ex. PinePhone) was taking shape. I originally started with some contributions to some applications to learn Qt and C++, but have since then taken more responsibility with tasks from all…
So recently I decided that I really needed an easy workflow for my website, since I just wanted to write blog posts without needing to worry about site deployments. I ended up using Hugo and Cloudflare Pages to do so, which automatically deploys my website as soon as I push to my Git repository. First, some background… Hugo is a site generator, that can create static sites simply from a…
I am going to be attending Akademy 2022 in person! This is my first time going to Akademy in-person, so it is quite exciting! I will be doing a talk with Bhushan on the state of Plasma Mobile . A bit of background on my experience at KDE: I first started contributing to KDE in 2020, creating the KClock project as a way to learn Qt Quick, and to pick up one of the pending tasks of Plasma Mobile.…
hello again My blog is up for real this time, now with Hugo… i am here to soil the internet with my thoughts
Warning: This is something I wrote in high school and probably doesn’t make sense! So I have recently finished making a beta of a SpigotMC plugin (ProtectionStones), and so I am going to share my thoughts on Java API development, from the ecosystem, to simply the structure of your program. Do I need to develop an API for my project? 🔗 Think about the use case of your project, and how large…
Hey! This website is still a work in progress, but I do hope to soon finish the basic outline soon. As for this blog, I do want to write about a healthy mix of topics, including music, code, and other fun stuff! If you ever wanted to view the source code of this website, you can check it out here. I have not used Go before to write the front-end of a website, so it will be interesting to see how…