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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As a long-time Mac user, I find the lack of consistency in Windows’ UI utterly baffling, even in system applications from Microsoft.

July 29, 2025

AI note-takers are starting to become a regular fixture in a lot of online meetings allowing people to focus on their work instead of attending meetings.

July 4, 2025

Fortunately, I’m not the only one worried about AI leading to the collapse of the online publishing industry. The CEO of Cloudflare has just introduced a new feature that should help prevent that.

July 3, 2025

I created a simple web application using the Swift-based web framework Vapor. It was a fun and informative experience.

June 29, 2025

My cousin’s 17-year-old daughter visited us and got the opportunity to try out my old iMac G3. The experience was amusing for both of us, albeit for different reasons.

June 28, 2025

Over the past couple of months, I’ve toyed around with the idea of starting a new blog which I was going to call Systemberg.

June 28, 2025

Running KDE’s Dolphin File Manager on Windows is weird, but possible.

June 24, 2025

It’s nice that they’re at least moving to LibreOffice, but it’s still disappointing that they’re sticking to Windows for now.

June 23, 2025

Apple is changing all versions of their different operating systems to be the number 26. This is what I think about it.

June 22, 2025

I don’t know how many times I’ve advocated for people to finally drop the “learnings” crap.

June 21, 2025

If I had to rely on any of my blogs for income, I would be panicking about now.

June 21, 2025

It would appear that the privacy laws in the EU continue to pay off.

June 21, 2025
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