Peter's Path

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Peter's Path is my personal endeavour to live a life of purpose through hiking, reading, and embracing the beauty of nature, faith, and ideas.

Peter's Path

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

    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

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

  • Utrecht Path part 11

    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

    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

    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

    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

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

  • Utrecht Path part 10

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

  • Announcing the Windows Workgroup

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

  • Utrecht Path part 09

    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

    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

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

  • Utrecht Path part 08

    Hiked 17.0 kilometres from Amersfoort to Baarn. Start in the old centre of Amersfoort, which you leave via the Koppel...

  • End-to-End The Worlds Longest Train Journey by Scott Manson

    Why read the book? Scott Manson wrote End-to-End. He rode trains from Vila Real de Santo Antonio in Portugal to Ho Ch...

  • Number Station 44

    Shortwave signals from nowhere. Encrypted messages that have haunted the airwaves for decades. Cold War ghosts, spy t...

  • On Democracies and Death Cults by Douglas Murray

    Why read the book? Douglas Murray wrote On Democracies and Death Cults. He looks at the fight between Israel and Hama...

  • Monthly update #0428 • December 2025

    Posts The following posts were written last month. Books The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I Am Giorgia b...

  • I love snow

    Today it snowed again, and it stayed on the ground. This does not happen often in the Netherlands any more. I love sn...

  • Goals of 2026

    This year I have 3 goals: Lose weight, 30kg would be ideal Start dating again Start a business with friends Some side...

  • Reflecting on the year 2025

    This year I left my home country (the Netherlands), and travelled to Germany and Belgium. I hiked the full length or ...