The Holy Bible - Romans
The Book of Romans is a letter from Paul to the church in Rome, written around 57 AD. It explains the gospel clearly: all have sinned, salvation comes by faith alone, and God’s grace changes lives.
Christianity
Blog
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby follows mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby through the eyes of his neighbor, Nick Carraway, during the roaring summer of 1922 on Long Island.
Books
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick follows Ishmael, a sailor who joins the whaling ship Pequod under the command of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab.
Books
The Holy Bible - Acts
The Book of Acts, written by Luke around 80 AD, tells what happened after Jesus rose and went to heaven. It shows the Holy Spirit coming at Pentecost and the church growing from Jerusalem to Rome.
Christianity
The Holy Bible - John
The Book of John, written around 90 AD by the disciple John, shows Jesus as the Son of God. It focuses on who Jesus is more than what He did.
Christianity
Steve Jobs: Pixar, The Early Days
To mark Toy Story's 30th anniversary, a previously unseen interview with Steve Jobs from 22 November 1996 is released.
Gems
Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.3
Swift 6.3 advances Embedded Swift, a subset for microcontrollers, with key improvements in libraries, diagnostics, C interoperability, debugging, and linking.
Development
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina follows Anna, a married aristocrat who begins an affair with Count Vronsky, leading to scandal and tragedy.
Books
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea follows Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who has gone 84 days without a catch.
Books
I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek
Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek’s I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist builds a step-by-step case for Christianity using reason, science, and history.
Books
Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer (2024), directed by Todd Komarnicki, tells the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and thinker who fought the Nazi regime from within. Jonas Dassler plays Bonhoeffer with calm fire, deep thought, and growing resolve.
Movies
Instrumenting Vapor 4 with Swift OTel
The tutorial guides developers through instrumenting a Vapor 4 application with OpenTelemetry for metrics collection, visualised in Grafana, emphasising observability’s role in understanding system behaviour without code inspection.
Development
Introducing Temporal Swift SDK: Building durable and reliable workflows
The Temporal Swift SDK is now open source, bringing Temporal's durable workflow orchestration to Swift developers for reliable distributed systems.
Development
The Holy Bible - Luke
The Book of Luke, written around 60–80 AD by Luke the doctor, tells Jesus’ life in careful order. It shows Jesus as the Saviour for all people, including the poor, women, and outsiders.
Christianity
Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten
Anthony McCarten’s Darkest Hour chronicles Winston Churchill’s first weeks as Prime Minister in May 1940, as Nazi forces overrun Europe and Britain faces invasion.
Books
Rose
Rose (2022), directed by Aurélie Saada, follows a woman named Rose who faces mid-life change. Sofie Gråbøl plays Rose with warm strength. She deals with family and old dreams.
Movies
Monthly update #0426 • October 2025
Monthly update 426 • October 2025 • 2025-10-01 - 2025-10-31
Monthly Updates
The Holy Bible - Mark
The Book of Mark, written around 60-70 AD, tells the story of Jesus' life and work. It shows Jesus as the suffering servant who acts with power.
Christianity
Irene's Vow
Irena's Vow (2023), directed by Louise Archambault, tells the true story of Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish woman who hid Jewish people during World War II.
Movies
Marskramer Path part 01
Hiked part 1/20 of the Marskramer Path, 25.5 kilometres from Bad Bentheim to Oldenzaal.
Hiking
Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
Anna Lembke’s Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence explores how modern life’s easy access to pleasures, like social media, drugs, or food, drives addiction by overloading our brain’s dopamine system.
Books
Announcing the Swift SDK for Android
The Android workgroup has now released preview toolchains that let you build Swift code for Android phones and tablets.
Development
The Holy Bible - Matthew
The Book of Matthew, written around 60–70 AD, presents Jesus as the promised Messiah and King of the Jews. Likely authored by Matthew, a tax collector turned disciple, it traces Jesus’ life, teachings, death, and resurrection.
Christianity
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets sends Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon to Prague for a lecture by his partner, Katherine Solomon, a noetic scientist on the verge of publishing a groundbreaking book on human consciousness.
Books
Ardennes Day 03
Day 3 of the weekend trip to the Ardennes with work.
Trips