Alex's Notebook

A few days ago, the first beta for Vapor 5 was announced.

AlexSeifert.com in September 2026 For the past few months, I’ve been on a quest to replace my portfolio website.

AI-generated image of a minimalist in a mountain cabin Recently, I read a post by Manuel Moreale that inspired me to think seriously about downsizing my own personal project load.

AI-generated image of a robot writing a blog article Going through my recent technical conversations with AI about various architecture and technology choices, I thought I would post this one first.

Not too long ago, I ran into an idea that is gaining traction in the blog/personal website space called slash pages.

AI-generated image of a man talking to a robot over tea Lately, I’ve been having a lot of very interesting conversations with LLMs about a wide range of topics.

The Bride of Ashbyrn House by Amy Cross Before reading The Bride of Ashbyrn House, I had never read anything by Amy Cross.

AI-generated image of a man presenting “Web App Using SwiftNIO” to an audience Recently, I’ve been experimenting a lot more with Swift as a language for web applications.

ScratchBook 2.2 has just been released in the Mac App Store!

The Old West in 2026 Two days ago, I relaunched a website that I first set up in 2021 called The Old West.

Well, I finally got a new MacBook Pro.

ScratchBook 2.1 has just been released in the Mac App Store!

Swift-based architecture for Things Cloud Ever since I experimented with the Swift server-side framework Vapor last year, I’ve been interested in actually seeing it in operation in the wild.

My desk setup using my iPad Air M2 in desktop mode A couple of months ago, I took my 11″ iPad Air M2 with me to the city of Regensburg to try working with it as a laptop replacement.