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

Entries

  • 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 ...

  • Fucking Approachable Swift Concurrency

    Swift Concurrency can feel like a lot of concepts: async/await, Task, actors, MainActor, Sendable, isolation domains....

  • The Holy Bible

    Why read the book? The Holy Bible is the word of God given to men over many centuries. It holds the Old Testament wit...