Archive

April 2025

• MacLynx beta 6: back to the PowerMac
• Trapping misbehaving bots in an AI Labyrinth
• Express.js 5 Is Now Stable
• Has GitHub Copilot really increased my productivity?
• “Why I recommend against Brave”
• A Note About “Notes”
• My Digital Retreat: Red Dead Redemption II
• Lost Manuscript of Merlin and King Arthur Legend Found After Centuries
• Europe is Looking for Alternatives to US Cloud Providers

March 2025

• Mastodon and Bluesky
• Does Apple need another Snow Leopard?
• Clarifying What’s Really Going on at Mozilla
• TypeScript’s Compiler Will Be Rewritten Using Go
• What makes a weblog a weblog?
• Linus Torvalds on C++
• No Data Lasts Forever
• Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics?

February 2025

• One of The Dumbest UI Decisions Made by Apple
• Photos of Microsoft from 1979
• My Favorite Books from 2024

November 2024

• Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?
• Google Is Losing the Fight with SEO Spam

October 2024

• Archiving My Blogs
• Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
• My Collection of Windows Screenshots
• A Glaring Omission in the New Outlook for Windows
• Apple II DeskTop
• Editors and IDEs I’ve Used Over the Years
• Respect My Preference for Dark Mode!
• Polls: Single Page vs Multi-Page Applications
• The All-New Feed The Dev
• Why I Just Bought a BBEdit License Upgrade

September 2024

• My Collection of Mac OS Screenshots
• N64 Recompiled Can Compile Nearly All N64 Games into PC Ports
• Why I Use Verbose Variable Names
• New Research: How Blue Light Affects Your Sleep

August 2024

• Haunting Alex
• Scrum and Working Part-Time
• Google Forcing Websites to Allow Its AI to Train on Their Content
• Patreon and Apple’s 30% Fee
• Using Linux on My PC
• “Majority of websites and mobile apps use dark patterns”
• Why I Don’t Like Summer

July 2024

• Two Wolves Inside…

May 2024

• A Script for Exporting WordPress to Markdown
• Single Page Applications vs Multi-Page Applications
• A Website Full of Web-Based Mac Emulators
• That’s How Old I Am
• Introducing “Notes”
• My New PowerMac G3 Blue and White: Part 2

April 2024

• Developer’s Notebook Becomes Feed The Dev
• My New PowerMac G3 Blue and White: Part 1
• New CSS Function: light-dark()
• My Problem with The Current State of Next.js
• The Endless Quest to Replace WordPress

March 2024

• Mac OS 8 as an Electron App
• How Windows 11 Has Convinced a Skeptic
• The Beskirted Man

February 2024

• Apple’s Malicious Compliance in the EU
• The Boring Stack

January 2024

• New Design for History Rhymes

December 2023

• My Favorite Books from 2023

November 2023

• Subscription Fatigue and Software
• Using Swift to Create GUI Applications on Windows
• Alex on Medium.com

October 2023

• Why I’ve Switched from React to Angular for My Projects
• Journaling: Paper or Computer?
• The Problem of Having Too Many Technologies to Choose From

September 2023

• New Design for Alex’s Notebook
• Rerouting All PHP Requests to index.php

May 2023

• 2023 Relaunch of Developer’s Notebook
• Vue.js: Route-Level Code Splitting with a Page Loader
• Reducing the Number of WordPress Plugins

April 2023

• It’s Amazing How Little Work Developers Are Allowed to Get Done
• PHP Is Dead: Graphic
• Switching Between Platform: Windows and Mac

February 2023

• My Daily Journaling Habit

January 2023

• My Favorite Books from 2022
• New Designs

April 2021

• The Old West

March 2021

• Numb by Kyle Seifert

January 2021

• BookJournal 1.1.0 Released

September 2020

• WordPress vs a Custom-Made Website
• Why Changing an Interface Too Often Is Bad for Users

August 2020

• Developer’s Notebook on Patreon
• Is Software as a Service a Good Idea?
• Announcing the Developer’s Notebook Podcast
• Debugging Node.js Remotely with Visual Studio Code
• Using Modern Technology to Upgrade Retro Computers
• Windows 95 as an Electron App

July 2020

• Coping with Long Meetings at Work
• Using Redis Sentinel with Docker and Marathon: 2020 Edition
• Using Redis Sentinel with Docker Compose: 2020 Edition
• Picking a Programming Language
• Retro Software: BeOS
• Developer’s Notebook

June 2020

• How I Try Out a New Technology
• Why I Use Virtual Machines for Projects
• Boilerplate Web Apps in Node.js and TypeScript
• The Productivity Tools I Use
• Emulating Mac OS 9 on macOS 10.15
• A Small Script for Responsiveness

May 2020

• BookJournal 1.0.0 Released
• History Rhymes Gets a Refreshed Design

April 2020

• New Design for My Portfolio
• New Design for Alex’s Notebook
• A New Design for Alex Seifert Music

August 2019

• Introducing BookJournal

July 2018

• New Album and Website: Spectre

March 2018

• Batch Convert 4-Space Indentations to 2-Space

December 2017

• Automatically Compile SASS Using Node.js and Express

August 2017

• New Band and Website: Future Sequence

November 2016

• Using Redis Sentinel with Docker and Marathon
• Using Redis Sentinel with Docker Compose
• Working with Linux in Windows: Linux Server in VirtualBox

October 2016

• Debugging Node.js in a Docker Container with WebStorm

July 2016

• Why Ad and Tracking Blockers Are Necessary

June 2016

• Resize an NSImage Proportionately in Swift
• Node.js: Fixing a memory leak in Express MemoryStore
• ScratchPad 1.4.1 Released

May 2016

• New Website Design
• Symfony2: Giving Each Locale Its Own Domain Name

April 2016

• Xubuntu
• Spectre in the Shadows: Teaser

March 2016

• A Song from Cellar Now on SoundCloud
• New Album “Cellar” and New Music Website
• Cellar is here!

February 2016

• The Spectre is coming…
• Cellar Release Date, Tracklisting and Artwork
• Update Multiple WordPress Installations
• New Album: Cellar

January 2016

• Very Good Weblösungen Goes Online

May 2015

• Show Recent Applications in the OS X Dock
• The State of ScratchPad
• Debug in Xcode 6.3 as Root
• Old iMac G3 and Mac OS 9

March 2015

• WebTools
• New Album and Website
• “The Tower Room” is released with new website and logo
• HTTPS All Over

February 2015

• Another New Design

December 2014

• Introducing Creeping Darkness

November 2014

• Progress on ScratchPad 2.0

March 2014

• Work on ScratchPad 2.0 started
• “The Pantry” is officially released!

February 2014

• Release date for The Pantry
• Sneak Peak of “The Pantry” on Spotify
• Album artwork for The Pantry
• New Album: The Pantry

November 2013

• Typewritter: An open-source backend for blogs

September 2013

• Inscriptions on SoundCloud
• Inscriptions Now on the iTunes Store

August 2013

• New Single: Inscriptions

February 2013

• AlexSeifert.com’s new design

January 2013

• Installing Ubuntu 12.10 on a MacBook
• ScratchPad on Google Code

December 2012

• New History Rhymes Design
• My Songs on SoundCloud and New Album Preview
• Songs on SoundCloud and New Album Preview
• BBEdit – Positives and Negatives
• Why Mozilla has abandoned Mac users

November 2012

• Multiple jQuery Animations
• Redesign of AlexSeifert.com
• Trying to find the right WordPress theme

October 2012

• Steam turned upside down

September 2012

• Private Cloud
• Giving Chrome a Real Go
• Moving from Blogger

August 2012

• Germany
• Update

June 2012

• ScratchPad and OS X Mountain Lion

May 2012

• Small Update

April 2012

• Computer Problems
• ScratchPad 1.4 is here!
• ScratchPad 1.4

February 2012

• Why I use a Mac
• Chrome 17 released
• Problem with Chrome and YouTube
• Firefox Beta with New Developer Tools and Add-on Sync
• Separating browsers: home and work
• Firefox 10 Mobile
• Making DIVs behave like a table
• Why I dislike Google Chrome
• Family Mausoleum is out!

January 2012

• Firefox 10
• Getting Started
• Track listing for ‘Family Mausoleum’
• New Album: Family Mausoleum
• Room One now in shop

December 2011

• Strange, Dead Memories now on the iTunes Store

November 2011

• New Single: Strange, Dead Memories
• Newsletter and Google+

October 2011

• My Music on the BBC

July 2011

• New Album – Status Update

June 2011

• Xynx: The New Government in Shop
• Office now in the Shop
• The Attic is here!
• The Dining Room now available
• Release Date for The Attic
• Tracklisting from The Attic
• FAQ page is up!
• Under The Bed and Shop Update
• FAQ Page
• New Manager
• Announcement: New Release “The Attic”

May 2011

• The New Website
• Hard at Work
• News Archives
• Songs now available on iTunes
• New Distribution

April 2010

• An update — finally

June 2009

• ScratchBook

March 2009

• Xynx Available for Download

February 2009

• The official blog of Alex Seifert
• The Kitchen has been released!

January 2009

• The Kitchen Coming Soon

November 2008

• Updates

October 2008

• New MacBook
• Development Delay

September 2008

• What’s Mine Single Released

August 2008

• ScratchPad 1.3 Released!
• ScratchPad 1.3 around the corner

July 2008

• Update on The Kitchen
• Localization File Available

June 2008

• The Next Album
• FAQ and Source Now Online
• ScratchPad 1.2.3 Released!
• ScratchPad 1.2.2 Released!
• ScratchPad now on VersionTracker
• New Website

May 2008

• ScratchPad 1.2.1 Released!
• New Xynx Song
• AlexSeifert.com is now open!
• Alex Seifert on Facebook
• The Living Room on Last.fm
• The Living Room Released!!
• The Living Room

April 2008

• The Next Album
• Another New Song
• Finally, Some Updates

March 2008

• ScratchPad 1.1.1 Released

February 2008

• ScratchPad 1.1 Released
• Donate Button Fixed
• ScratchPad 1.1
• Mad Hero
• Upgrade
• ScratchPad is Clean
• ScratchPad
• Parlour on iTunes
• Getting on as Usual

January 2008

• Xynx
• Download Parlour for Free!
• A Musical Experiment

December 2007

• Happy Holidays!
• Parlour on Amazon!
• Another Free Song!
• Parlour is Processing

November 2007

• Kid’s Room on iTunes
• New Bass Guitar
• Parlour Release Date
• New Song to Download for Free
• Parlour Tracklisting
• Last Song Complete!
• Kid’s Room Now Available
• Getting Close to Parlour
• New Songs

October 2007

• Sex on My Face
• Support the Music!
• Rap
• Kid’s Room and so on
• Finally, A Blog