Alex Seifert

Alex is a developer, a drummer and an amateur historian. He enjoys being on the stage in front of a large crowd, but also sitting in a room alone, programming something or reading a scary story.

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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

I just discovered that, after years of development, Express.js 5 has finally been released as stable. It’s been in development for so long that I’ve forgotten how long it’s been.

April 8, 2025

A.I. is quite a controversial topic amongst developers, but do those who use it actually see an increase in productivity while working? This is my own experience with it.

April 7, 2025
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