Steve is in high spirits. The iPhone has just launched, profits are soaring, and he tells the team how amazing it is that people wanted 24 billion dollars worth of products they invented and built.
Shiri Bibas, along with her two young sons, Ariel, aged 4, and Kfir, just nine months old, were abducted from their home during the horrific Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.
Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland follows young Alice as she falls down a rabbit hole into a strange world full of odd creatures and events.
Hiked 12.9 kilometres in and around Amersfoort
Hiked 10.7 kilometres from Baarn to Amersfoort
Hiked 8.2 kilometres from Hilversum to Baarn
The Things Cloud service, powering the Things task manager app, has transitioned to a Swift-based architecture, replacing a legacy Python 2 and Google App Engine system that suffered from slow response times and high memory usage.
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a classic that’s been around for ages. It’s a perfect mix of romance, humour, and social commentary.
Apple introduced Apple Intelligence at WWDC 2024, but its delayed rollout has left its, AI for the rest of us, promise unfulfilled, while Ollama offers a robust solution for running large language models (LLMs) locally on Macs, likened to Docker for LLMs.
Hiked 13.8 kilometres from Hilversum to Hilversum Sportpark.
Hiked 11.0 kilometres from Bussum to Hilversum.
The Swift Server Workgroup announced gRPC Swift 2, a major update enhancing the gRPC framework with modern Swift concurrency features like async/await for a more intuitive developer experience.
Within its pages, the holiness of the Lord is unveiled, along with His divine commandments regarding worship, sacrifice, and the sanctification of His people.
The Swift team has officially released a new, fully supported Swift extension for Visual Studio Code, now available on the extension marketplace.
Hiked 8.6 kilometres from Muiderberg to Bussum
Hiked 10.6 kilometres from Weesp to Muiderberg
It is a story about God’s amazing power, showing how He freed His people from slavery with incredible signs and wonders. God heard the cries of the Israelites and sent Moses to lead them out of Egypt.
Hiked 10.8 kilometres from Diemen to Weesp.
Hiking from Amsterdam to Diemen (8.4 km)
Step into the dark and twisted world of Nazi Germany in The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. This heart-wrenching novel follows the journey of a young girl named Liesel...
Apple has open-sourced Swift Build, a powerful build engine used by Xcode, now available for Linux and Windows, to provide a consistent and efficient build experience across Swift’s growing ecosystem.
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In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt dives into the complexities of why people hold such strong moral and political beliefs. He suggests that our moral judgments are more intuitive than logical, and introduces the idea of “moral foundations” that influence our perspectives.
In the Book of Genesis, we witness the very start of creation, the foundation of God’s promise to humanity, and the unfolding of His divine plan.
Hiked 6.5 km in Amsterdam and visited 5 museums.