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.

Small changes to my website design

2022-02-23

For some years until May 2020, I used WordPress for this site with the initial goal to focus more on writing instead of tweaking the templates. If you look in the archive of my blog you may see that this didn't work as intended. So nearly two years ago I decided to switch to a workflow that better …

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Update on Publishing my Emacs Configuration

2022-02-02

After posting my last blog article about publishing my Emacs configuration on Fosstodon, Kaushal Modi (the maintainer of ox-hugo the org mode to hugo exporter that I use for my Blog) wrote me and brought the idea up to publish my Emacs configuration using ox-hugo and hugo. I didn't even think about …

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Publishing My Emacs Configuration

2022-01-30

Introduction As you may know, I'm using Emacs for various task and I have a configuration for doing so. I think that documentation is an important part of a configuration, especially if it is not something I read or work with every day and I want to read up on certain things and decisions after a …

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Firefox tab bar on mouse over

2018-03-01

Since Firefox 57 I'm using wiki of Tab Center Redux: #tabbrowser-tabs { visibility: collapse !important; } I found this solution quite useful over the last months, but recently I got some web design to do and split my screen horizontally in half. In this mode the width of the sidebar used to much …

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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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A new design for marcel-kapfer.de

2015-06-23

Today I roll out a first version of the new marcel-kapfer.de. With this upload not everything is fully designed, but these missing pages will follow later this week or next week. I decided to go in another direction using more subpages and the same design on every page, if it's just a subpage or …

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Week in Review

2015-02-22

Last week a few big changes happend in my projects. Nearly every project had an bigger release. Morse Converter Desktop Edition Version 1.1 (Sourcecode: http://marcel-kapfer.de/writtenmorse) The Desktop version of the Morse Converter has now the ability to show different languages. German is the …

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