20. April 2026 @ 19:43
For a few days now, I've been playing around with speech to text tools. I quite like the process and I'm looking forward to what I can do with it. And I'm already dictating and working on a blog posts about that topic.
Marcel Kapfer
Eccentric Weirdo
Hi, I’m Marcel (aka “mmk2410”). I'm just here for yelling some more or less meaningful thoughts into the void.
During the last years, I focused on creative pursuits consisting of photography, (classical) music composition, a bit of graphic design, writing (obviously), and coding. On /now is a short overview of the things I'm currently doing.
My website (or rather "online home") lived through many phases, and the content roughly reflects my current interests. I try to blog more or less regularly, but life happens, and (to be honest) some other tasks are sometimes more important. So you'll find some tech-related stuff, personal notes, as well as more philosophical texts. Or, to put it shortly, a mixture of everything. I also maintain a website dedicated to photography as well as one for music composition 2026-01-20: both are currently suspended.
While this website is (mostly) focused on tech-related stuff (like software development, operating systems and similar stuff) and writing in general, I also maintain a website dedicated to photography as well as one for music composition. The blog here, however, may contain posts about more or less everything.
If you didn't run away screaming by now, feel free to read more on the following pages or look at one of my profiles on other sites.
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20. April 2026 @ 14:33
It might sound quite funny, but I think /now is currently my favorite "social network". I have the "random page" link of nownownow.com bookmarked in my browser. And so every time I click on the bookmark, it opens a random /now page from someone on the internet.
Since the collection of now pages is very large, I always land on a different one. And because there is no common questionnaire, every /now page is different, which makes the whole process very enjoyable.
18. April 2026 @ 08:21
I started migrating from Org Roam to Denote today. I just don't need the capabilities and the complexity of the former and I think my workflow will benefit from the simpler and more universal workflow of Denote.
Latest Posts
Copy an Org Mode region as Markdown
2026-04-14
Without doubt, Markdown is the standard for many plain-text input fields on the web. And even though I'd prefer it would be Org Mode (or Orgdown), I cannot escape this reality. Well, at least not entirely. Like perhaps many others who are trapped inside Emacs, I write (especially longer) texts in …
Future of my IntelliJ IDEA Ubuntu packages
2026-03-28
First of all, I would like to apologise to everyone using my IntelliJ IDEA Ubuntu packages who I left in the dark for the last few months regarding the future of them given the merge of the two editions, Ultimate and Community, by JetBrains into a single product at the end of last year. Initially, …
Whats up /now?
2026-01-11
It will not be to any surprise that I read other personal blogs, and so I've already stumbled upon one or another /now page in recent years. However, I didn't know that there was a quite large group of bloggers deciding to follow the idea by Derek Sivers to keep a page with recent updates about …