Dr No by Ian Fleming
In Ian Fleming’s Dr. No, the sixth book in the James Bond series, 007 is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a British agent and his secretary.
Books
2025
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Monthly update #0419 • March 2025
Monthly update 419 • March 2025 • 2025-03-01 - 2025-03-31
Monthly Updates
The Holy Bible - First Kings
It’s a sacred chronicle that tells the story of Israel’s monarchy, from its golden days to its darkest moments. It’s like a rollercoaster ride of glory and grief, and it’s all written by the Spirit of God himself.
Christianity
Westerbork Path part 17
Hiked 12.8 kilometres from 't Harde to Wezep
Hiking
The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
In ‘The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam,’ British journalist and commentator Douglas Murray takes a bold and controversial look at what he sees as Europe’s existential crisis.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0224 • March 2025
March 2025 was dominated by encryption fights, a wave of breach disclosures and a sharp rise in government and corporate data grabs.
Privacy
Swift 6.1 Released
Swift 6.1 introduces enhancements to improve productivity and data-race safety, extending the nonisolated keyword to types and extensions for better concurrency control and improving task group type inference.
Development
In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
Step into the world of Farleigh Field, a captivating novel by Rhys Bowen. Published in 2017, this standalone story transports you back to England in 1941, amidst the chaos of World War II.
Books
Introducing swiftly 1.0
Apple has announced the stable 1.0 release of swiftly, a Swift version manager now officially part of the Swift toolchain, hosted under the GitHub swiftlang organisation, supporting macOS and Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora.
Development
Westerbork Path part 16
Hiked 17.6 kilometres around 't Harde
Hiking
From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming
In Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, the fifth book, From Russia with Love, takes Bond on a thrilling espionage mission. The Soviet organisation SMERSH sets a deadly game in motion, and Bond’s mission is to get a secret device called the Lektor.
Books
The Holy Bible - Second Samuel
The book of Second Samuel, written with the Holy Spirit’s guidance, is a strong and important part of the Bible. It tells the story of David, the chosen king of Israel.
Christianity
It was the damn phones
I think our parents were right. It was the damn phones.
Gems
Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming
In Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, Diamonds Are Forever, Bond gets into the wild world of diamond smuggling. The story takes Bond on a mission to infiltrate a criminal network that goes from Africa to the United States, run by the ruthless Spang brothers.
Books
The Holy Bible - First Samuel
Why should you read the Book of First Samuel? It tells the story of how Israel went from being ruled by judges to having kings.
Christianity
The new Vapor Toolbox
The Vapor Toolbox has been rewritten using Swift 6, replacing deprecated subcommands with a focus on the new command for creating Vapor projects from templates.
Development
Moonraker by Ian Fleming
In Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, the third book is Moonraker. Instead of a global chase, Bond investigates Sir Hugo Drax, a rich industrialist and national hero behind Britain’s secret Moonraker missile program.
Books
Westerbork Path part 15
Hiked 11.9 kilometres from Nunspeet to 't Harde
Hiking
The Holy Bible - Ruth
Why should you read the Book of Ruth? It’s a short book, but it’s packed with faith, loyalty, and God’s amazing plan. It tells the story of Ruth, a Moabite woman who chose to follow the God of Israel and was blessed beyond measure.
Christianity
Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef
Mosab Hassan Yousef’s memoir, Son of Hamas, is a gripping tale of his life. Growing up in a family deeply rooted in Hamas, Yousef’s path diverged from his father’s expectations.
Books
The Holy Bible - Judges
It’s a story about Israel’s ups and downs, their faithfulness and disobedience, and how God sent judges to rescue them from their troubles.
Christianity
Westerbork Path part 14
Hiked 20.4 kilometres around Nunspeet
Hiking
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an emerging open-source standard from Anthropic, designed to standardise AI integration with external tools, data sources, and services, addressing the M × N problem of custom integrations by transforming it into an M + N solution, similar to the Language Server Protocol (LSP).
Development
Westerbork Path part 13
Hiked 22.5 kilometres from Harderwijk to Nunspeet
Hiking
Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
In this thrilling adventure, Bond travels to Harlem, Florida, and the Caribbean to take down Mr. Big, a ruthless crime lord with connections to the Soviet Union and a voodoo-inspired empire.
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