Doing stuff with cameras and computers
I’m Bastian Machek, online as fokuspunk. I live in the Landshut area, take photographs and write free software: tools for photographers, an app for everyday life with CIDP, and a game.
Series
Projects
All projects- LrGeniusAI
Lightroom Classic plugin for AI keywords, descriptions, semantic search, faces and species identification with local or cloud models.
- Lightroom Immich Plugin
A Lightroom Classic plugin that exports, publishes and imports photos between Lightroom and a self-hosted Immich server.
- Lightroom PicPeak Plugin
Publish Lightroom Classic photos to self-hosted PicPeak galleries and import client ratings back onto your RAW files.
- social-mcp
Self-hosted MCP server that lets Claude publish, schedule and analyse posts on Instagram and a Facebook Page.
- MoodSwings
An open-source comedy sandbox game in Rust and Bevy, set in a city where moods spread from person to person.
- CIDP Buddy
A free app for people with CIDP to organise infusions, medication, supplies and a symptom diary.
Journal
All articlesFlowers on black with flash and a diffuser
How the tulip photos against a black background are made – with a speedlight, a home-made diffuser and 1/250 s, f/16, ISO 100.
Manage Instagram and Facebook with Claude and social-mcp
Set up social-mcp, a self-hosted MCP server that lets Claude post, schedule and analyse content on Instagram and Facebook.
Publish Lightroom photos to a self-hosted PicPeak gallery
Connect Lightroom Classic to PicPeak, publish client galleries and bring proofing ratings back to your RAW files.