Remembering Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk was tragically assassinated on September 10, 2025, at Utah Valley University. His death at the age of 31 has left a profound void.
Remembering
Blog
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025), directed by Simon Curtis, follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. The world is changing and Downton must change with it. Hugh Bonneville plays Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham.
Movies
12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave tells the true story of a free black man from New York who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery in Louisiana.
Books
The Holy Bible - Habakkuk
The Book of Habakkuk records the prophet’s questions to God about injustice in Judah during the late 7th century BC.
Christianity
The Holy Bible - Nahum
The Book of Nahum announces God’s judgement on Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, for its cruelty and pride. Written around the 7th century BC, it contrasts with Jonah, where Nineveh repented.
Christianity
The Holy Bible - Micah
The Book of Micah delivers God’s message through the prophet Micah in the 8th century BC, during a time of corruption in Judah and Israel.
Christianity
Utrecht Path part 04
Hiked 13.6 kilometres from Leersum to Amerongen.
Hiking
The Holy Bible - Jonah
The Book of Jonah tells the story of Jonah, a prophet who runs from God's command to preach to Nineveh, a wicked city. Written around the 8th century BC, it shows Jonah's flight, his time in a great fish, and his preaching that leads Nineveh to repent.
Christianity
Monthly update #0424 • August 2025
Monthly update 424 • August 2025 • 2025-08-01 - 2025-08-31
Monthly Updates
Starting with the Pump Club
I have joined the Pump Club. It is a newsletter and app from Arnold Schwarzenegger. He shares tips on fitness, nutrition, and health.
Journal
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.
Christianity
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.
Christianity
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?
Journal
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.
Christianity
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.
Christianity
Utrecht Path part 03
Hiked 18.9 kilometres from Cothen to Leersum.
Hiking
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