Marcel Kapfer

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There are always some ideas floating around in my head of things that I want to write. Some fade away, and others I capture in my GTD system. And on some rare occasions, I invest the time to move my thoughts from my brain into a nice blog post.

If you’re asking about what I write: I really can’t tell. Most things you can find here at the moment are about Linux, coding, and similar stuff. But I won’t promise that this won’t change. We’ll see.

CMS Search Update: The Winner

2024-03-20

What happened since December The last update I gave on my search for a new content management system was some time ago. Last December, to be precise. I haven't aborted that project, though. Quite the contrary: I was active in narrowing down the shortlist. I started by excluding TYPO3, Contao and …

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Discontinuing Scribbles

2023-12-05

Well, I already wrote a few days ago on Mastodon that I'm thinking of shutting down my "Scribbles" microblog and moving the articles I wrote there to this blog. And now I did it :D And not even three months after I started it and about two months after I defended the content separation. So, what …

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CMS Search Update: The Shortlist Problem

2023-11-29

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. I just published the shortlist of my search for a new CMS for my photography website. There are five systems (in no particular order) that are on it: …

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CMS Search Update: The Shortlist

2023-11-29

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. I just published the requirements for the CMS that should manage my photography website in the future. As announced over there that I already analysed …

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CMS Search Update: The Requirements

2023-11-29

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. Back when I started searching for a content management system for my photography website a few weeks ago I first wrote a list of requirements that should …

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Getting back on track

2023-11-17

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. After some very busy weeks, I slowly have more time to focus on some projects I started before then. The last two days I had some fun continuing a small …

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A bit of useless knowledge

2023-11-01

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. Are you, like me, interested in learning or reading about something you quite likely never need? And are you also a fan of RSS feeds? Then you may be …

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Re: Having a Microblog on a Traditional Blog

2023-10-11

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. I read Kev Quirk's newest blog post "Having a Microblog on a Traditional Blog" earlier today, and since I (more or less) "microblog" here, I have a few …

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CMS-Search Update: The Longlist

2023-10-11

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. A few days ago I wrote that I'm currently search for a different content management solution for my photography website. I initially browsed through some …

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Searching for a CMS

2023-10-09

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. Currently, my photography website is generated using WordPress. Back in March when I created it I needed something to finish the first version as soon as …

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Getting some stats from WriteFreely

2023-10-06

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. Out of pure curiosity I want to get a few stats from this WriteFreely instance using my self-hosted Plausible instance. But at the current point it does …

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A little change of wallpaper

2023-10-06

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. Well, actually the wallpaper stayed the same. But about two hours ago I had an urge to play around with KDE Plasma on my private laptop after installing …

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Outside: Success depends on measurement

2023-10-06

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. As you may know, I started doing some street photography regularly since early this year. For a few months, I started to walk through Ulm more regularly …

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Tagging

2023-10-02

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. I'm currently re-organizing the tags on my photographs since it grew kind of wild over the last years. But to be honest I have no idea if the work I put …

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Struggling with colour labels, Darktable and Digikam

2023-09-24

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. I currently use Darktable for developing my RAW files and Digikam for organizing all my pictures. As I've written earlier, using only star ratings is not …

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Struggling with ratings and colour labels

2023-09-24

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. Rating my picture is an important part of my editing workflow using Darktable and Digikam. In some rare occasions I also add a colour label. The problem …

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Too narrow

2023-09-23

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. I probably will get haunted for this... But personally, I think that the 2:3 image format is too narrow for portrait orientation photographs. I almost …

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The Start

2023-09-23

Note: This was initially published on Scribbles, my previous "micro blog". I discontinued it and moved the contents into this blog on 2023-12-05. I posted early on Fosstodon: Somehow I have the sudden urge to start a "brainfart" blog, similar to what @jbaty@social.lol has on daily.baty.net I really …

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On Finding a To-Do Setup That Works

2023-05-22

How many to-do apps have you already tried? All of them? Did you find one that "works" for you? No? Well, you're certainly not alone. The Endless Search I tried a fair share of apps and setups but all of them seemed to fail sooner or later. Whether it was a plain paper notebook I kept in my …

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Publishing my Emacs Configuration using Gitea Actions

2023-04-02

About a year ago I already wrote a few blog posts about publishing my Emacs configuration, lastly using a GitLab pipeline. This worked quite find since back then and I had zero problems or issues with the pipeline. Although I'm using the GitLab CI feature for this I don't use GitLab for hosting the …

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