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.

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 …

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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 …

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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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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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