2025

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Hiking

Marskramer Path part 01

Hiked part 1/20 of the Marskramer Path, 25.5 kilometres from Bad Bentheim to Oldenzaal.

Books

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.

Development

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.

Christianity

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.

Books

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.

Trips

Ardennes Day 03

Day 3 of the weekend trip to the Ardennes with work.

Hiking

Fairies, dwarves and beavers in Achouffe

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

    Trips

    Ardennes Day 02

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

    Hiking

    Maboge Ourthe Valley Loop

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

    Trips

    Ardennes Day 01

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

    Development

    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.

    Monthly Updates

    Monthly update #0425 • September 2025

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

      Books

      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.

      Journal

      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.

      Hiking

      Utrecht Path part 07

      Hiked 16.1 kilometres from Woudenberg to Amersfoort.

      Books

      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.

      Development

      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.

      Christianity

      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.

      Journal

      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.

      Hiking

      Utrecht Path part 06

      Hiked 18.5 kilometres from Renswoude to Woudenberg.

      Books

      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.

      Christianity

      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.

      Remembering

      Remembering Joke Bruijs

      Joke Bruijs, the Dutch actress, singer, and cabaret artist, passed away on 16 September 2025, at the age of 73.

      Development

      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.