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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Hiked 11.3 kilometres from Maarssen to Utrecht. This was the last part of the Utrecht Path. You leave Maarssen along the old Vecht, pass old industrial zones and enter medieval Utrecht via the old canal. Experience the busy trade in your...
Why read the book? Gabor Maté wrote Scattered Minds. He lives with ADD himself and worked as a doctor with children and adults who have it. Maté says ADD is not an inherited illness but a reversible impairment and developmental delay....
This is the first post in a series exploring a truly privacy-preserving, end-to-end encrypted backend and client. The goal of this part: a demo that can calculate totals on encrypted user data without ever seeing the plaintext. Why This...
Hiked part 1/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 17.3 kilometres from Amsterdam to Amsterdamse Bos. Every year in Amsterdam, approximately 7,000 people walk the Stille Omgang, which has its origins in a Eucharistic miracle that took place in...
Posts The following posts were written last month. Books On Democracies and Death Cults by Douglas Murray End-to-End The Worlds Longest Train Journey by Scott Manson Toxic Empathy by Allie Beth Stuckey Development Improving the usability...
Hiked 18.0 kilometres from Hollandsche Rading to Maarssen. After a walk in the woods you reach the Hoorneboegse heath. Along the historic border of North Holland and Utrecht you can enjoy peat ponds rich in birds. Water and meadows...
The new Windows workgroup joins a growing list of Swift workgroups, including the Android workgroup, Build and Packaging workgroup, and Testing workgroup which were all added in the past year. Swift workgroups are community-led efforts,...
Hiked 13.5 kilometres from Baarn to Hollandsche Rading. You walk through the wooded area of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, starting at the Baarnse Bos with its French style. Past Soestdijk Palace through the Royal Domains with forest, sand, heath...
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...