I’m rewriting my personal website to use good ol’ fashioned PHP without a framework. This is why and how.

August 12, 2025

I have decided to completely reconceptualize the Stories section of Haunting Alex. This is what I’ve changed it to.

August 8, 2025

A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand is an interesting modern dive into the world originally created by Shirley Jackson in The Haunting of Hill House.

August 5, 2025

I recently came across a post on How-To Geek about how the author gave Windows a serious shot as his primary operating system for two years, but kept coming back to his Mac. That’s been my experience too.

August 5, 2025

This is a collection of my favorite YouTube channels about horror and ghost hunting.

August 4, 2025

Good news for Apple users who care about privacy and use Safari! Advanced Fingerprinting Protection is now on by default.

August 1, 2025

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
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