Hello World

Hi, I’m Marcel and welcome to my personal website. You can read more about me here or explore the topic tags and categories in the sidebar.

Motivation

In late 2025 I was hit by a bit of social media and tech news fatigue. Suddenly everything just got worse and worse every day in regards to software and hardware: macOS software quality regressed dramatically to a point where I didn’t want to use it anymore; GenAI ruined everything it touched and rising hardware prices made it inconvenient to upgrade.

So over the christmas holidays I scaled back the time I spent on social platforms, especially the ones I didn’t like anymore (e.g. GitHub) and I stopped reading posts from the tech bubble that I maneuvered myself into over the years. I wanted to invest my time into something productive again, instead of the daily doom and gloom.

Thankfully, in the same year I already got back into Linux (which I last used when I was in school) because of retro gaming on Proton, tiny laptops and tinkering. It slowly restored my interest in technology and so this website was created in the first months of 2026 as my personal space to write about all the things I like.

Setup

To get started, I based everything on the Hugo static site generator and the Mainroad theme, that I modified with custom colors and a dark mode stylesheet. I don’t do tracking and therefore removed non-essential JavaScript.

The site lives in a git repository, where I work on drafts using branches. I self-host Forgejo for all my private repositories, including this one. A simple Makefile is responsible for invoking rsync to deploy the generated site to my EU-based webhost.

Thank you for visiting!