Marcel Kapfer

Blog

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.

„Mirroring“ my open-source Git repos to my Gitea instance

2020-08-30

Updates: Update 2021-03-25: Git hooks feature disabled by default Update 2021-08-23: Built-in mirror feature tl;dr: GitLab will still be my primary Git platform for my public projects/repositories, but these repositories can now also viewed at my Gitea instance at git.mmk2410.org. Additional links …

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Quick Deploy Solution

2020-04-14

Quick Deploy - a possibly hacky way to deploy a Git repository without much overload and fast setup. Motivation From time to time I work on some TYPO3 Site Packages (mostly design work) where seeing the changes is quite important to me. Since TYPO3 needs a web server and a Database server running …

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Moving the open-source stuff from phab.mmk2410 to GitLab

2018-01-11

The journey started in early 2016 when I decided to move my open-source projects and their management away from GitHub. First I launched a cgit instance for viewing the code and set up a gitolite for repository hosting. After a short time I moved the repositories to a self-hosted Phabricator …

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Rangitaki Version 1.5.0

2016-08-03

I'm proud to announce a new release of the Rangitaki blogging engine which introduces post excerpts. Post excerpts are disabled by default and can be enabled with (re-)running php bin/init.php. Many thanks to Stefan for fixing the OpenGraph and Twitter meta tags. Full Changelog Update script

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Rangitaki Version 1.4.4

2016-06-03

Today I announce 1.4.4 of the Rangitaki blogging engine. It brings an important bug fix concerning the feed creation. Starting from 1.4.0 the feed creation server-side script failed with a 500 internal server error because it was not converted to the new YAML configuration (due to a bug - to be …

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Morse Converter Web App 0.3

2016-05-31

Hi folks! No! The writtenMorse project is not dead! Yesterday I released version 0.3 of the Morse converter web app. This update brings better performance when converting large texts thanks to a new converting engine written in Dart. You can test it now live at mmk2410.org/morseconverter. Feel free …

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Rangitaki Version 1.4.3

2016-05-21

Since the release of Rangitaki 1.4.0 two weeks ago there where three point releases. 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 brought changes to the authentication of the RCC and the RCC API. Caused by these changes you have to rerun php bin/init_rcc.php. To read more about this change habe a look at: …

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Rangitaki Version 1.4

2016-05-08

Yesterday I released Rangitaki version 1.4 with the following new features and fixes: Three new scripts in the bin folder to simplify the maintenance and setup. Read more below. Rangitaki API for working with your Rangitaki installation from other apps. Read on how to use the API in the …

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How to run a web app on your desktop

2016-04-19

Running a web app or a website on your desktop is nowadays much easier thanks to GitHub's Electron. Why would someone want this? Well... This is a good question. For me there are only two reasons: you can start it from your launcher and it's handled as its own application. But thats not why I'm …

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Rangitaki Version 1.3

2016-02-16

A new version of Rangitaki is out providing the following new features: Respect do-not-track RCC: Generate Atom feed Title fix Switch to composer To update from Rangitaki 1.2 (or higher) use this script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mmk2410/rangitaki/master/update-scripts/1-2-1_1-3-0.sh Enjoy …

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Rangitaki Version 1.2

2015-12-24

Just in time for Chistmas: Rangitaki Version 1.2. Features Pagination: Split your blog posts over several page JavaScript Extension Support RCC: Write Posts RCC: Delete Posts RCC: Upload Media RCC: Edit Posts Notes Read the upgrading guide before upgrading. Upgrading If you're currently on version …

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Rangitaki Version 1.1.90 Beta Release

2015-12-21

The next step on the way to 1.2, the beta release. Changes: BUGFIX: ArticleGenerator error when no tags set Pagination: Localized strings Concerning the localized string: the new string are already added into the shipped english and german language files. If you use your own language file, you have …

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Rangitaki Version 1.1.2 Development Release

2015-12-20

I'm glad to announce another milestone an the way to Rangitaki 1.2. This time it's quite a small one, which brings a few code style improvements and one new feature called pagination, which can split your blog into several pages, each with a set amount of posts. Pagination is disabled by default. …

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Scorelib

2015-12-01

I'm proud to present all of you another piece of software that I wrote: Scorelib. Scorelib is a music score organization tool with a command line interface, perfect for usage in your favorite terminal emulator. As most of the software I develop, it is written for Linux systems and published on …

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Rangitaki Version 1.1.0 Development Release

2015-11-22

It is time for another Rangitaki release and on this way to 1.2 , I release today the first Developmen release 1.1.0, which comes with following changes: RCC: Write blog posts RCC: Media Upload Drawer: Key listener ('ESC' to close, 'm; to open) Drawer: Highlight Blogs when hovering Drawer: 'X' …

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Rangitaki Version 1.0

2015-08-24

Eight months ago I had the idea of a blogging engine. First I planned to write the blogging engine in JavaScript, but in February I learned PHP and I decided, that this is the better language for this project. The main goal of Rangitaki (earlier known as pBlog) was, is and will always be to be as …

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Morse Converter Android 2.4.0

2015-08-22

A new release of the Android app is out. In comes with the same features, that where released with the desktop version 2.0. Line break support Instant converting Intelligent code recognization Slightly re-designed UI for the new features Get the app now at Google Play.

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Morse Converter Desktop Version 2.0.0

2015-08-20

It's time that I announce a new version of the morse converter with some awesome new features, that will simplify your converting life: Completely Native UI with tabs Instant converting Intelligent code recognization Update through the app itself. (Not available in the .deb package or in the Ubuntu …

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Morse Converter Desktop Public Beta 1.9.3

2015-07-30

Today I publish a public beta version of the next version of the morse converter for desktop systems. This version comes with the following new features: Intelligent code recognization (code and language) automatic / instant converting line break support integrated update function tabbed design …

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Rangitaki Version 0.9: Release Condidate for 1.0

2015-07-25

It's time now for the last pre-release of version 1.0: the release candidate for version 1.0. After nearly seven weeks Rangitaki is now stable enough to release the last testing version. This version comes with the following (bug) fixes: 'Blogs of {BLOG NAME}' always shown (even if there are no …

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