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Great Rivers Path part 5

Hiking from Rijsoord to Krimpen aan den IJssel (16.06 km).

Hiking

Great Rivers Path part 4

Hiking from Rhoon to Rijsoord (18.37 km).

Hiking

Milestone - Weight: sub 100 kg

Today, I reached a significant milestone in my journey. I now weigh less than 100 kilograms.

Journal

Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor

A lovely deep dive in TextView and related API's. Very well written, accompanied with good images/videos to explain something, absolutely worth the read.

Development

Great Rivers Path part 3

Hiking from Geervliet to Rhoon (15.13 km).

Hiking

Great Rivers Path part 2

Hiking from Maasland to Geervliet (18.00 km).

Hiking

Monthly update #0411 • July 2024

Monthly update 411 • July 2024 • 2024-07-01 - 2024-07-31

Monthly Updates

Great Rivers Path part 1

Hiking from Hoek van Holland beach to Maasland (23.67 km).

Hiking

Announcing Swift Homomorphic Encryption

Apple has announced swift-homomorphic-encryption, a new open-source Swift package that brings Homomorphic Encryption (HE) to Swift.

Development

Love Divine VI by Jan Mulder

Jan Mulder's 2019 release, wordless music for reflection. I came to it well after release and have returned to it since.

Music

Milestone - Weight: sub 110 kg

Today, I reached a significant milestone in my journey. I now weigh less than 110 kilograms.

Journal

Monthly update #0410 • June 2024

Monthly update 410 • June 2024 • 2024-06-01 - 2024-06-30

Monthly Updates

Right Wing Revolution by Charlie Kirk

Charlie Kirk’s Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West argues that “wokeism” threatens American freedom and traditional values.

Books

Plotting a Path to a Package Ecosystem without Data Race Errors

Swift 6 introduces compile-time data race safety checks for code opting into the Swift 6 language mode, significantly reducing crashes and performance issues, but full benefits require ecosystem-wide adoption.

Development

This is the start of an epic journey!

Welcome to my epic journey of moving 384400 kilometres – the exact distance from earth to the moon!

Journal

Het bedrog van Göring by John Kuipers

John Kuipers's 'Het bedrog van Göring' follows detective Charlie Swieninck in occupied The Hague in 1941. A murdered art expert and the theft of a Frans Hals painting draw him into Nazi art looting and the schemes of Hermann Göring.

Books

Hymn by Sarah Brightman

Sarah Brightman's 2018 release, a crossover of pop and the classical voice. It came to me long after release and earned its place.

Music

New GitHub Organization for the Swift Project

The Swift programming language is migrating to a dedicated GitHub organisation at GitHub.com/swiftlang, reflecting its growing versatility and community maturity beyond Apple’s ecosystems.

Development

Update on privacy in Apple's ecosystem 2024

Every year, WWDC showcases Apple’s commitment to user privacy, and 2024 is no exception. I watched four sessions totalling about 1 hour and 20 minutes, and I’m excited to share the highlights of Apple’s privacy advancements.

Development

Monthly update #0409 • May 2024

Monthly update 409 • May 2024 • 2024-05-01 - 2024-05-31

Monthly Updates

Musserts Schaduw by John Kuipers

John Kuipers's 'Musserts schaduw' follows detective Charlie Swieninck in occupied The Hague in 1940. He investigates the murder of an NSB official and the trail leads straight to Anton Mussert and other Dutch Nazis.

Books

Little Snitch

Little Snitch is a powerful firewall and network monitoring application designed for macOS. Developed by Objective Development, it gives you control over your Mac’s incoming and outgoing network connections.

Mac

On Fluent Models and Sendable warnings

Since FluentKit 1.48.0, users have encountered a warning about mutable stored properties in Sendable-conforming Model classes due to Swift’s concurrency requirements and property wrapper limitations.

Development

Pentecost

Pentecost serves as an annual reminder of truth. The Holy Spirit came once for all who trust Jesus.

Christianity

Young Sheldon

Young Sheldon is an American comedy drama series. It aired on CBS from 25 September 2017 to 16 May 2024. Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro created it. Iain Armitage plays Sheldon Cooper as a nine year old genius growing up in East Texas during the late 1980s and 1990s.

TV Series