Hi, I’m Bastian.
I’m Bastian Machek, a photographer and free-software developer in the Landshut area of southern Germany. I show my photography as fokuspunk; on GitHub I’m bmachek.
“Doing stuff with cameras and computers” is the short version. I photograph with a Canon EOS R5 Mark II; the full list is on the gear page. I organise and process my photographs in Lightroom Classic, and that is where my software comes in: describing pictures, finding them again, keeping a self-hosted photo library in sync and delivering galleries.
Projects
- LrGeniusAI: I created the project and am its lead developer, under the LrGenius organisation. It adds AI keywords, image descriptions, natural-language search, face recognition and species identification to Lightroom Classic.
- Lightroom Immich Plugin: connects Lightroom Classic to Immich for export, publishing and import.
- Lightroom PicPeak Plugin: I wrote the initial implementation; the plugin now lives under the PicPeak organisation.
- social-mcp: connects a self-hosted publishing workflow to an AI assistant, for Instagram and Facebook Pages.
- MoodSwings: an open-world comedy game built in Rust and Bevy. The Landshüpf variant uses real map data from Landshut.
- CIDP Buddy: an app for infusions, medication, supplies and schedules.
CIDP Buddy
I’m married and a father. I also live with CIDP, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, a rare autoimmune disease of the nerves. That is where CIDP Buddy comes from: the app helps to organise infusions, medication, supplies and schedules, with a diary for vitals and symptoms.
Contact
Email: info@fokuspunk.de
Bugs and feature requests for a project belong in its issue tracker. Include the version, your operating system and the steps to reproduce, and remove API keys from logs.
Elsewhere
If you would like to get me something, my Amazon wishlist is a gentle place to start. Amazon wishlist.