8. May 2026 @ 21:15
I'm considering merging all my hobby sites into one page. It’s a huge undertaking, so I'm still not quite sure if I will do it.
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.
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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7. May 2026 @ 20:21
In October 2025, I gave up photography entirely. Now, more than six months later, I'm slowly getting back into it. In this article, I'm exploring the reasons behind my giving up—namely, expecting too much of myself and the deteriorating quality of my work—and searching for ways to avoid this in the future. While this piece is a personal introspection, I hope the insights I draw from it might help others.
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.
Latest Posts
One Website
2026-05-08
Since many years, I'm maintaining different websites for various hobbies. This site is and was always dedicated to my personal life, technical topics, and philosophy—in short, quite general. Additionally, there is my music composition website, which covers everything related to composition, and for …
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, …