29. March 2026 @ 08:06
After much thought and about elven years I've decided to stop maintaining my IntelliJ IDEA Ubuntu packages. Read more my announcement.
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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26. January 2026 @ 12:41
I'm putting too much trust in my own work. I need to work on that.
25. January 2026 @ 16:43
Short update on my IntelliJ IDEA package: In December I stated that I hope to provided a new package for unified IntelliJ by mid January. Obviously, this didn't happen and due to various circumstances I currently think of retiring the project. The decision is not final yet, but I will make up my mind the coming days.
Latest Posts
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 …
Breaking out of the box
2025-08-29
Boxes are everywhere, and it is too easy and quite comfortable to put yourself in a set of boxes that somehow seem to fit. Even funnier, other people put you in boxes – whether you like it or not – starting with your birth. Your gender, your nationality, sometimes even your religion. That is …