A couple of months ago, I got a new-to-me ThinkPad L14. Even though I’m a huge fan of Mac, I’ve always liked ThinkPads and wanted to experiment.

May 23, 2025

Yet another major tech company using AI as an excuse to significantly increase the price of their subscription services…

May 21, 2025

Yesterday, I came across an article on Engadget where the author pointed out a very odd discrepancy in Apple’s use of fonts.

May 14, 2025

I have mixed feelings about this. More competition might lead to better pricing, but it might also lead to a disjointed user experience.

May 13, 2025

Recently, I decided to start a blog in German. I named it Alex’ Notizbuch which is a direct translation of Alex’s Notebook.

May 9, 2025

A few days ago, an article was published on Ars Technica that, as a creative person, I thought I should share here. As the title implies, it is about protecting human creativity from the onslaught of AI.

April 29, 2025

I recently ran into an article over at Ars Technica that contains the history of the Windows Start menu complete with screenshots of each major release of Windows, including a few beta versions.

April 27, 2025

Recently, I had the honor of setting up a Node.js-based web application on an Ubuntu server and I thought I would share the steps I took to get it up and running.

April 26, 2025

A few days ago, I ran into a blog post with the author’s thoughts on why retro computing is becoming so popular amongst computer enthusiasts. Some points I can relate to more than others.

April 25, 2025

Since Angular’s new signals API became stable with the release of version 17, I have been a little confused about when to use them versus standard class variables in components and services. So I asked AI and this is what it told me.

April 24, 2025

Every once in a while, you run into a project that makes you scratch your head. MacLynx, an actively developed text-based browser for the classic Mac OS, is one of those.

April 15, 2025

I recently stumbled upon an article at Ars Technica about Cloudflare turning AI against itself. I thought it was a very interesting strategy in the battle to try to protect creative content against AI training models.

April 9, 2025
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