Peter's Path

Entries

• Pelgrims Path part 02
  March 14, 2026

  Hiked part 2/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 12.9 kilometres from Amsterdamse Bos to De Kwakel. You leave Amsterdam and see ...

• Marskramer Path part 02
  March 07, 2026

  Hiked part 2/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.3 kilometres from Oldenzaal to Borne. The area west of Oldenzaal is home t...

• Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service
  March 06, 2026

  The decision to go with Swift brought a lot of unexpected advantages for us. We come from a world of iOS in the front...

• Monthly update #0430 • February 2026
  March 02, 2026

  Posts The following posts were written last month. Books Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté You're Not Enough (and That's ...

• E2EE Backend part 3: Passkeys with the PRF Extension
  March 01, 2026

  This is the third post in a series on building a truly privacy-preserving, end-to-end encrypted backend and client. T...

• Serious Cryptography by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
  February 26, 2026

  Why read the book? Jean-Philippe Aumasson wrote Serious Cryptography. He holds a PhD in cryptography and works in the...

• E2EE Backend part 2: Private Information Retrieval
  February 23, 2026

  This is the second post in a series that explores a truly privacy-preserving, end-to-end encrypted backend and client...

• Announcing Swift System Metrics 1.0
  February 20, 2026

  We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Swift System Metrics, a Swift package that collects process-level syste...

• You're Not Enough (and That's Ok) by Allie Beth Stuckey
  February 19, 2026

  Why read the book? Allie Beth Stuckey wrote You're Not Enough (And That's Okay). She calls the book an escape from th...

• Nuremberg
  February 15, 2026

  Nuremberg (2025), directed by James Vanderbilt, tells the story of the Nuremberg trials through the eyes of a US Army...

• Utrecht Path part 11
  February 14, 2026

  Hiked 11.3 kilometres from Maarssen to Utrecht. This was the last part of the Utrecht Path. You leave Maarssen along ...

• Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté
  February 11, 2026

  Why read the book? Gabor Maté wrote Scattered Minds. He lives with ADD himself and worked as a doctor with children a...

• E2EE Backend part 1: Homomorphic Encryption
  February 09, 2026

  This is the first post in a series exploring a truly privacy-preserving, end-to-end encrypted backend and client. The...

• Pelgrims Path part 01
  February 07, 2026

  Hiked part 1/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 17.3 kilometres from Amsterdam to Amsterdamse Bos. Every year in Amsterdam, app...

• Monthly update #0429 • January 2025
  February 02, 2026

  Posts The following posts were written last month. Books On Democracies and Death Cults by Douglas Murray End-to-End ...

• Utrecht Path part 10
  January 31, 2026

  Hiked 18.0 kilometres from Hollandsche Rading to Maarssen. After a walk in the woods you reach the Hoorneboegse heath...

• Announcing the Windows Workgroup
  January 26, 2026

  The new Windows workgroup joins a growing list of Swift workgroups, including the Android workgroup, Build and Packag...

• Utrecht Path part 09
  January 24, 2026

  Hiked 13.5 kilometres from Baarn to Hollandsche Rading. You walk through the wooded area of Utrechtse Heuvelrug, star...

• Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift
  January 22, 2026

  There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite the...

• Toxic Empathy by Allie Beth Stuckey
  January 19, 2026

  Why read the book? Allie Beth Stuckey wrote Toxic Empathy. She looks at how progressives use empathy to push ideas on...