Maboge Ourthe Valley Loop
Hiked the Maboge Ourthe Valley Loop with a distance of 6.16 kilometres in Les Deux Ourthes Natural Park.
Hiking
Blog
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
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
Wedding of a friend
Today I went to a wedding of a friend. Beautiful to see that young people still get married and uphold traditional values.
Journal
Utrecht Path part 07
Hiked 16.1 kilometres from Woudenberg to Amersfoort.
Hiking
Porn Generation by Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro’s Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future examines how permissive attitudes toward sex, driven by media, Hollywood, and the internet, are harming young people.
Books
The Growth of the Swift Server Ecosystem
This post reflects on a decade of Swift’s evolution as a robust server-side language since its open-sourcing and Linux runtime release. Highlighting success stories...
Development
Meet Vapor for VS Code
The Vapor for VS Code extension, developed over six months to enhance Vapor application development, supporting macOS, Linux, and limited Leaf features in browser-based VS Code.
Development
The Holy Bible - Malachi
The Book of Malachi shares God's words through the prophet Malachi to Israel after the exile, around 450 BC. It deals with their doubts about God's love, poor worship, and broken promises in marriage and tithes.
Christianity
Charlie Kirk's Memorial Service
Charlie Kirk's memorial service on September 21, 2025, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, emerged as a landmark event in American history, symbolising a turning point for conservatism, faith, and activism.
Journal
What is tccd and why does it control app permissions?
If you see tccd running on your Mac, here is what this app permissions process does and why it matters.
Mac
Utrecht Path part 06
Hiked 18.5 kilometres from Renswoude to Woudenberg.
Hiking
When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté
Gabor Maté’s When the Body Says No explores how chronic stress and repressed emotions contribute to serious illnesses like cancer, multiple sclerosis, and autoimmune diseases.
Books
The Holy Bible - Zechariah
The Book of Zechariah records the prophet’s visions and messages to the Jews rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile, around 520–518 BC.
Christianity
Remembering Joke Bruijs
Joke Bruijs, the Dutch actress, singer, and cabaret artist, passed away on 16 September 2025, at the age of 73.
Remembering
Swift 6.2 Released
Swift 6.2 focuses on developer productivity with approachable concurrency features like single-threaded defaults on the main actor, intuitive async functions that run in the caller’s context, and the @concurrent attribute for explicit parallelism.
Development
Remembering Robert Redford
Robert Redford, beloved actor, director, and Sundance Institute founder, passed away on September 15, 2025, at 89 in Utah.
Remembering
Memory Integrity Enforcement
Apple introduced Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) as a new memory safety feature for iPhone 17 and iPhone Air devices. MIE combines Apple silicon hardware with operating system security to block memory corruption attacks.
Development
Remembering Gerard Cox
Gerard Cox, the Dutch singer, cabaret artist, actor, and director, passed away on 13 September 2025, at the age of 85 in Mijnsheerenland, Netherlands.
Remembering
Utrecht Path part 05
Hiked 13.6 kilometres from Amerongen to Renswoude.
Hiking
The Holy Bible - Haggai
The Book of Haggai contains messages from the prophet Haggai to the Jews who returned from exile in Babylon around 520 BC. It pushes them to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, which lay in ruins.
Christianity
The Holy Bible - Zephaniah
The Book of Zephaniah brings a message from the prophet Zephaniah during King Josiah's rule in Judah, around 640-609 BC. It warns of the coming Day of the Lord, a time of judgement on Judah for idolatry and on other nations for their pride.
Christianity
Charlie by Tom MacDonald
I hope heaven has a window, you can watch your children grow; And hear your message echo from below
Music