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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There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little...
Why read the book? Allie Beth Stuckey wrote Toxic Empathy. She looks at how progressives use empathy to push ideas on Christians. Stuckey says empathy turns toxic when it ignores truth. The book covers five big topics: abortion, gender,...
Hiked 17.0 kilometres from Amersfoort to Baarn. Start in the old center of Amersfoort, which you leave via the Koppelpoort. After this, the route remains near the Eem towards Baarn, where you will still encounter remnants of the Grebbe...
Why read the book? Scott Manson wrote End-to-End. He rode trains from Vila Real de Santo Antonio in Portugal to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The trip covered 18,295 kilometres and took 35 days. He changed trains many times across Europe,...
Shortwave signals from nowhere. Encrypted messages that have haunted the airwaves for decades. Cold War ghosts, spy tradecraft, and transmissions that still broadcast today, for someone. This is Number Station 44. At the end of the dial,...
Why read the book? Douglas Murray wrote On Democracies and Death Cults. He looks at the fight between Israel and Hamas. Murray calls it a clash between a free country and a group that loves death. He uses facts from October 7, 2023. The...
Posts The following posts were written last month. Books The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I Am Giorgia by Giorgia Meloni Standing Strong by John MacArthur Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John...
Today it snowed again, and it stayed on the ground. This does not happen often in the Netherlands any more. I love snow. I always have, and I always will. It brings back memories, such as days free from school because of snow, play in...
This year I have 3 goals: Lose weight, 30kg would be ideal Start dating again Start a business with friends Some side challenges: Write blog posts on 100 different days (100DaysToOffload) Read at least 52 books Hike at least 52 times...
This year I left my home country (the Netherlands), and travelled to Germany and Belgium. I hiked the full length or parts of two long distance trails. Those trails are the Westerbork trail and the Marskramer trail. I also hiked parts of...
Swift Concurrency can feel like a lot of concepts: async/await, Task, actors, MainActor, Sendable, isolation domains. But there's really just one idea at the center of it all: isolation is inherited by default. With Approachable...
Why read the book? The Holy Bible is the word of God given to men over many centuries. It holds the Old Testament with stories from creation, the laws given to Moses, the poems of David, and the words of prophets who spoke for God. The...
The Holy Bible is a collection of books. So I have split them up. I will read it in 1 year, every day ~15 minutes of reading. Why read it? The Book of Revelation is the last book of the Bible, written by the apostle John around 95 AD...
Merry Christmas to all of you. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the...
A few months ago, I binge listened to episodes of the Top Four podcast. Marco and Tiff ranked a random topic in their strong, clear way, and I thought it was fun. I find new blogs through slash pages such as /now pages, /uses pages,...