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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My Collection of Mac OS Screenshots

I have been a Mac user for over twenty years and have taken screenshots of my systems with almost every version of Mac OS. This is my collection.

September 15, 2024

N64 Recompiled Can Compile Nearly All N64 Games into PC Ports

I recently ran into an interesting article on Tom’s Hardware about a project called N64 Recompiled. Its purpose is to enable recompiling of old Nintendo 64 games into native PC ports that support ray tracing, ultrawide resolutions, high FPS, and other staples of modern games.

September 11, 2024

Why I Use Verbose Variable Names

When I write code, I tend to use long, descriptive variable names with few abbreviations. This is why.

September 3, 2024

New Research: How Blue Light Affects Your Sleep

In the past several years, there has been a lot of hype about how blue light from screens affects our sleeping patterns. Turns out, it’s not that bad.

September 1, 2024

Haunting Alex

I’m excited to announce my newest blog project called Haunting Alex! I intend to use this blog to write about my fascination with horror fiction as well as create a sort of archive of my favorite horror stories that are in the public domain.

August 27, 2024

Scrum and Working Part-Time

Scrum cannibalizes so much of my programming time that I sometimes forget I’m not a manager but a programmer. That is especially true since I started working part-time.

August 23, 2024

Google Forcing Websites to Allow Its AI to Train on Their Content

According to BNN Bloomberg, Google is now giving websites a choice: let us train our AI on your content or be delisted from search results.

August 21, 2024

Patreon and Apple’s 30% Fee

Apple is forcing Patreon to pay its 30% App Store tax for every subscription done through its iOS app and I think it’s abominable.

August 13, 2024

Using Linux on My PC

I installed Fedora on my PC to try out as my daily driver. I loved the experience except for a few irritations that eventually got me back to using Windows.

August 8, 2024

“Majority of websites and mobile apps use dark patterns”

Turns out most websites use dark patterns to manipulate their users to perform actions they wouldn’t otherwise do.

August 5, 2024

Why I Don’t Like Summer

I don’t like summer and haven’t for as long as I can remember. This is why.

August 4, 2024

Two Wolves Inside…

I don’t often post memes or other images I find on the internet because I prefer original content. However, sometimes I stumble upon one that really just hits the nail on the head and this is one of them.

July 12, 2024
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