Peter's Path
Peter's Path
Peter
Peter's Path is my personal endeavour to live a life of purpose through hiking, reading, and embracing the beauty of nature, faith, and ideas.
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Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Great Divorce. He tells the story as a dream. Souls in Hell get a chance to visit Heaven for one day. A bus takes them there. Each person meets someone from Heaven who tries to help them stay. But...
Hiked part 3/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 16.8 kilometres from Planken Wambuis to Lunteren. Hike report Map Details DataValue FromPlanken Wambuis ToLunteren Distance16.8 km Duration4h 7m Speed4.08 km/h Elevation gain229 m Weather9°C,...
Posts The following posts were written last month. Books Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman Going Postal by Terry Pratchett Development E2EE Backend part 3: Passkeys with the PRF Extension...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Mere Christianity. He gave the talks on BBC radio during the war. Lewis puts aside church rules that divide people. He focuses on the core of the faith. The book starts with how people know right from...
Hiked part 2/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 20.5 kilometres from Wolfheze to Planken Wambuis. Starting at the Airborne memorial in Wolfheze, this stage crosses open farmland and quiet meadows before following wooded streams through...
Happy Easter to all of you. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. - Matthew 28:6 Let us remember what Easter truly means. Easter marks the resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ....
Hiked part 1/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 19.1 kilometres from Arnhem to Wolfheze. At the foot of the Arnhem moraine you can walk in one of the most beautiful city parks in our country: Park Sonsbeek. This 'pearl of the Veluwezoom' is...
Good Friday to all of you. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. - Isaiah 53:5 Let us remember what this day truly...
Swift 6.3 makes these benefits more accessible across the stack. This release expands Swift into new domains and improves developer ergonomics across the board, featuring: more flexible C interoperability, improvements to cross-platform...
Why read the book? Terry Pratchett wrote Going Postal. It forms part of his Discworld series. The main character is Moist von Lipwig. He is a skilled fraudster offered a choice: hang or fix the old post office. He takes the job and...
Hiked part 2/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 12.9 kilometres from Amsterdamse Bos to De Kwakel. You leave Amsterdam and see the Urbanus Church of Amstelveen. Urban is venerated as the patron saint of winegrowers and is invoked against...
Why read the book? Milton Friedman wrote Capitalism and Freedom. He was a leading economist who won the Nobel Prize. The book came out in 1962. Friedman says economic freedom and political freedom are closely linked. He explains why free...
Hiked part 2/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.3 kilometres from Oldenzaal to Borne. The area west of Oldenzaal is home to a large recreational area, the Hulsbeek. The more than a hundred year old monumental Twente farm Erve Hulsbeek is...
The decision to go with Swift brought a lot of unexpected advantages for us. We come from a world of iOS in the frontend, Python, Node, or Ruby in the backend for server-based applications. Compared to these languages and frameworks,...
Why read the book? Chris Voss wrote Never Split the Difference. He spent many years as an FBI hostage negotiator. Voss shows how the same skills work in normal life. He says people do not think only with logic. Emotions drive most...