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AksDev
Personal blog · akselmo.dev · on HN as akselmoprogramminggames
AksDev is a personal blog at akselmo.dev about programming and games. Since 2022, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 55 times, most often “My PostgreSQL database got nuked lol”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Akseli's various rambles and posts about gaming, gamedev, FOSS, programming and other things.
Most-linked posts?
- My PostgreSQL database got nuked lol2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-11
- What Even Are Breeze, QtQuick, QtWidget, Union..?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-01
- FOSS communities: You don't need to yell2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-17
- NetSurf on ReMarkable 22 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-30
- KDE Linux Experiences2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-21
- Kate Text Editor and OrgMode2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-07
- Adding Customizable Frame Contrast to KDE Plasma2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-29
- Plasma 6 and Me2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-07
- Smolwebifying My Site2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-27
- Breeze QtWidgets style changes to help us prepare for Union2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-28
What Hacker News says?
Earlier today I was reading through the KDE 6.8 release notes and I found out about Union [0][1], which is a unified theming system for QtQuick and QtWidgets using a single CSS source file. Hopefully this encourages a bit more creative experimentation, although I'm quite happy with the default theme at this point. It feel very comfy to me. [0] https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-08/union-summe... [1] https…
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on “Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design”Submitted I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration as a story · 253 points
HN discussionIts not much but here https://akselmo.dev
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted How I use Kate editor as a story · 228 points
HN discussionjust a heads up, the links are dead for exploding screen snapshots: https://www.akselmo.dev/2022/10/31/assets/images/kde/outline...
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on “I made outlines for KDE Breeze window decoration”Submitted Desktop icons are surprisingly hard as a story · 148 points
HN discussion(I don't use org mode or Kate. Love Kate, but prefer vim.) At least one person's set Kate up for org mode. https://akselmo.dev/posts/kate-and-orgmode/
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on “Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on Org Mode”Submitted Kate and Python Language Server as a story · 79 points
HN discussionAnother take, from a more recent Blue Systems / Techpaladin developer: https://akselmo.dev/posts/bluesystems-to-techpaladin/
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on “Adios Chicos, 25 Years of KDE”Submitted NetSurf on ReMarkable 2 as a story · 45 points
HN discussionI find it interesting that the correct link for this post was: https://akselmo.dev/posts/plasma-6-and-me/ But when linked from HackerNews, the URL doesn't work. Maybe a bug on referrer tracking on akselmo.dev?
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on “Plasma 6 and Me”Submitted Moving my game project from C to the Odin language as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Customizable Frame Contrast to KDE Plasma as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Various desktop Linux tips for newbies as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted My changes to saving Konsole tab layouts as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Todo.txt Tasks in My Trmnl as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Advertising in Your Commits as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted NetSurf on ReMarkable 2 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted KomoDo, my first KDE app as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Playing with Matrix: Conduit and Synapse as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I find Linux gaming important? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Please keep code descriptions simple as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smolwebifying My Site as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Adding Customizable Frame Contrast to KDE Plasma as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Move from Blue Systems to TechPaladin as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Various desktop Linux tips for newbies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kate Text Editor and OrgMode as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted FOSS communities: You don't need to yell as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pointless Tribalism in FOSS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I made my own PineTime watchface as a story · 3 points
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