The Holy Bible - Obadiah
The Book of Obadiah is the shortest in the Old Testament. It warns Edom of judgement for their pride and harm to Judah. Written after Jerusalem's fall in 586 BC.
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The Holy Bible - Amos
The Book of Amos records the words of Amos, a shepherd from Tekoa. God sends him to warn Israel in the 8th century BC. Amos speaks against rich people who harm the poor.
Milestone - Weight: sub 100 kg (again)
Today, my weight is below 100 kg again, at exactly 99.5 kg. You ask why I say again?
The Holy Bible - Joel
The Book of Joel warns Israel about a locust plague and calls for repentance. Written around the 9th century BC, it uses the disaster to point to a greater day of judgement from God.
The Holy Bible - Hosea
The Book of Hosea tells the story of the prophet Hosea, whom God tells to marry a woman who cheats on him. This marriage stands for Israel's betrayal of God through idolatry.
Utrecht Path part 03
Hiked 18.9 kilometres from Cothen to Leersum.
The Two-Income Trap by Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi's The Two-Income Trap explains why many middle-class families with two incomes still face financial ruin. It shows how rising costs in housing, education, and health care trap families in debt.
The Holy Bible - Daniel
The Book of Daniel records the life of Daniel, a young Jew taken captive to Babylon in 605 BC. It shares stories of faith amid trials, such as Daniel's friends in the fiery furnace and Daniel in the lions' den.
How we approach releases at Vapor
The Vapor framework’s release process, outlined by Tim on August 14, 2025, treats each pull request (PR) as a potential release, streamlining development for its 30+ packages.
Shortcuts to generate social image for blog post
I wanted to save time creating social media images for my blog posts. To automate this task, I used the Apple Shortcuts app.
The Holy Bible - Ezekiel
The Book of Ezekiel follows the prophet Ezekiel, called by God during Judah’s exile in Babylon around 593–571 BC. It captures his visions, symbolic acts, and messages of judgment and hope.
@isolated(any)
The Swift 6.0 release introduced the @isolated(any) attribute to address the challenge of tracking function isolation in async contexts, enabling inspection of a function’s isolation (e.g., MainActor or nonisolated) via a special isolation property of type (any Actor)?.
Monthly update #0423 • July 2025
Monthly update 423 • July 2025 • 2025-07-01 - 2025-07-31
We Who Wrestle with God by Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan B. Peterson’s We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine delves into biblical stories from Genesis, Exodus, and Jonah, offering a psychological and philosophical interpretation of their significance.
Uncertain<T>
The provided text critiques the oversimplification in programming that ignores real-world uncertainties, particularly in handling noisy data like GPS coordinates, proposing a probabilistic approach using the Uncertain<T> type inspired by a 2014 research paper.
The Holy Bible - Lamentations
The Book of Lamentations is a series of five poems that mourn the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BC. It expresses deep grief over the city's fall, the temple's ruin, and the people's suffering.
The Holy Bible - Jeremiah
Dive into the heart-wrenching story of Jeremiah, a prophet whose life was a rollercoaster of emotions. As he delivered God’s messages to a rebellious Judah on the brink of judgment, Jeremiah, known as the “weeping prophet,” boldly warned of exile while holding onto the promise of restoration.
Monthly update #0422 • June 2025
Monthly update 422 • June 2025 • 2025-06-01 - 2025-06-30
The War on the West by Douglas Murray
In Douglas Murray’s book, The War on the West, he argues that Western civilisation is under attack from both inside and outside. He says that a group of revisionist academics, activists, and hostile governments use biased stories about the West’s past.
The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff
In Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s book, The Coddling of the American Mind, they delve into social psychology and argue that well-meaning efforts to protect young Americans from harm have actually created a culture of fragility, polarisation, and intellectual weakness.
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
In Douglas Murray’s book, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity, he takes a deep dive into how identity politics has gone completely off the rails. He argues that it’s become a crazy, dogmatic frenzy that’s tearing society apart with all these divisive and contradictory ideas.
The Holy Bible - Isaiah
Isaiah’s Book of Prophecies is a powerful and inspiring work that speaks to God’s judgment, mercy, and plan for Israel and the world. Written by the prophet Isaiah during a tough time for Judah, it confronts sin, warns of the consequences, and reveals the hope of a coming Messiah.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
In Alexandre Dumas’ epic adventure story, The Count of Monte Cristo, young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully locked up in the Château d’If, betrayed by jealous rivals in 19th-century France.
Westerbork Path part 29
Hiked 5.3 kilometres from Hooghalen to Camp Westerbork.
Westerbork Path part 28
Hiked 12.9 kilometres from Beilen to Hooghalen.