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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

Luna by Anna Lapwood

Anna Lapwood's 2023 release, a rich set of works for the king of instruments. It came to me long after release and earned its place.

Music

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

Fairies, dwarves and beavers in Achouffe

Hiked the Fairies, dwarves and beavers in Achouffe trail with a distance of 5.80 kilometres.

Hiking

Ardennes Day 02

Day 2 of the weekend trip to the Ardennes with work.

Trips

Maboge Ourthe Valley Loop

Hiked the Maboge Ourthe Valley Loop with a distance of 6.16 kilometres in Les Deux Ourthes Natural Park.

Hiking

Ardennes Day 01

Day 1 of the weekend trip to the Ardennes with work.

Trips

Introducing Swift Profile Recorder

Apple has open-sourced Swift Profile Recorder, an in-process sampling profiler for Swift services, enabling easy performance analysis without external tools or special privileges.

Development

Monthly update #0425 • September 2025

Monthly update 425 • September 2025 • 2025-09-01 - 2025-09-30

Monthly Updates

Worthy of Hallelujah by Jesus Culture

Jesus Culture's 2025 live album gathers their worship leaders for a record built around the long, unhurried moment of praise.

Music

The Authoritarian Moment by Ben Shapiro

Ben Shapiro’s The Authoritarian Moment claims that left-wing groups have seized control of major American bodies such as media, schools, and big tech firms.

Books