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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There is a current trend I don’t understand in web design: websites that offer dark mode but bury it somewhere in their settings. As a user of dark mode, this is a horrendous user experience.

October 6, 2024

There was a time when all websites were multi-page applications, but that has changed. I wanted to know what users and developers think about that and so I asked.

October 3, 2024

I’m excited to announce an all-new version of Feed The Dev! It is now an aggregate website for development and technology news and articles that combines sources from all over the internet into a single, easy-to-use website.

October 2, 2024

A couple of weeks ago, I bought a license upgrade for the Mac editor BBEdit despite not using it all the time. This is why.

October 1, 2024

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

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

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

September 3, 2024

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

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 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

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

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
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