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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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

Ever since I was old enough to understand what ghosts were, I have had an enduring fascination with the paranormal and horror in general. This is a self-reflection on this interest.

September 1, 2024

I’m happy to announce that the stories section with the first public domain stories is finally online and available!

August 30, 2024

Here are a couple of interesting links for horror resources.

August 29, 2024

Ghost Eaters is a novel I finished at the beginning of 2024 and I thought it was worth writing about because it was a unique take on the ghost story genre with a great twist at the end.

August 28, 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

Ever since I was a young child, I’ve been fascinated with tales of ghosts, vampires and all sorts of other horror subgenres. In fact, it’s rare that I read any fiction that isn’t a horror story of one kind of or another which is why I’ve decided to start this blog.

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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