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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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...
Posts The following posts were written last month. Books Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté You're Not Enough (and That's Ok) by Allie Beth Stuckey Serious Cryptography by Jean-Philippe Aumasson Development E2EE Backend part 1: Homomorphic...
This is the third post in a series on building a truly privacy-preserving, end-to-end encrypted backend and client. The goal of this part is user-friendly key management. We do that by using Passkeys with the PRF extension to create a...
Why read the book? Jean-Philippe Aumasson wrote Serious Cryptography. He holds a PhD in cryptography and works in the field. The book first came out in 2017. A second edition appeared in 2024 with updates. Aumasson explains modern...
This is the second post in a series that explores a truly privacy-preserving, end-to-end encrypted backend and client. The goal of this part: a demo that can look up data in an encrypted database without telling the server what you...
We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Swift System Metrics, a Swift package that collects process-level system metrics like CPU utilization time and memory usage. Swift System Metrics runs on both Linux and macOS, providing a...
Why read the book? Allie Beth Stuckey wrote You're Not Enough (And That's Okay). She calls the book an escape from the toxic culture of self-love. Stuckey says modern ideas tell us we are enough on our own. She says this leads to...
Nuremberg (2025), directed by James Vanderbilt, tells the story of the Nuremberg trials through the eyes of a US Army psychiatrist. Rami Malek plays Douglas Kelley, who must assess the minds of top Nazi leaders to see if they can stand...