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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.

Books

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.

Christianity

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.

Development

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.

Mac

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.

Christianity

@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)?.

Development

Monthly update #0423 • July 2025

Monthly update 423 • July 2025 • 2025-07-01 - 2025-07-31

Monthly Updates

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.

Books

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.

Development

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.

Christianity

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.

Christianity

Monthly update #0422 • June 2025

Monthly update 422 • June 2025 • 2025-06-01 - 2025-06-30

Monthly Updates

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.

Books

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.

Books

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.

Books

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.

Christianity

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.

Books

Westerbork Path part 29

Hiked 5.3 kilometres from Hooghalen to Camp Westerbork.

Hiking

Westerbork Path part 28

Hiked 12.9 kilometres from Beilen to Hooghalen.

Hiking

The Holy Bible - Song of Solomon

The Song of Solomon, often attributed to King Solomon, is a lyrical and passionate celebration of love, beauty, and intimacy between a bride and groom.

Christianity

The Holy Bible - Ecclesiastes

Through the voice of the Preacher, it grapples with the fleeting nature of worldly pursuits, wealth, pleasure, work, and wisdom, declaring them “vanity” (meaningless) apart from God.

Christianity

The Holy Bible - Proverbs

The Book of Proverbs is a treasure trove of practical wisdom that’ll guide you to a godly, fulfilling life. It’s mostly credited to King Solomon, and its 31 chapters are packed with short, memorable sayings that...

Christianity

Charlie Kirk VS 300 Oxford Students

The debate between Charlie Kirk and 300 Oxford students, primarily revolves around Kirk's conservative viewpoints on several contentious issues, including immigration, abortion, men's rights, and Christian values, with a significant portion addressing the situation in South Africa.

Gems

Remembering Frederick Forsyth

Frederick Forsyth, the master of geopolitical thrillers, passed away on June 9, 2025, at the age of 86. He left behind a legacy that captivated readers like me and redefined the genre.

Remembering

Remembering Bill Atkinson

Bill Atkinson, a brilliant computer scientist and software engineer, passed away on June 5, 2025. He left an incredible mark on the world of technology, especially for Mac users like me.

Remembering