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Thoughts, adventures, and discoveries from my journey through software engineering, travel, and life.

Advent of Code 2016

Fifty stars from Advent of Code 2016, solved in Go.

Towers

Japan Radio Tower and Tokyo Skytree.

Chaos

Where there's peace, there also must be chaos.

Peace

Peace.

Randomness

A few random things from Japan.

Shrines

Shrines.

Just For Fun

Just For Fun.

Some Food In Japan

Some Food In Japan.

Godzilla

Godzilla, the Pride of Japan.

Deer of Nara

Deer of Nara.

Japanese Record Stores

Japanese Record Stores.

Torii Gates

Torii Gates.

Kitsune

Dogs, well foxes, at Inari Shrines.

Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossoms.

Art In Japan

Art In Japan.

The Zen Of Starbucks

Starbucks as you have never seen them before.

Bears and Roos

Bears and Roos.

Gold Coast

Stayed a few nights in Gold Coast, Queensland.

Port Macquarie

Port Macquarie, New South Wales.

Scrabble Champs

We met up with a lady I have played online Scrabble with since 2010.

Blue Mountains

Checked out Three Sisters in Katoomba.

A Five-Story Rubik's Cube

A Five-Story Rubik's Cube.

Adelaide

Adelaide, South Australia.

Monkey Business

Monkey Business is serious business at Tomfoolery Wines.

Chateau Yaldara

Chateau Yaldara, Barossa Valley.

Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach, Sydney.

Indian Food in Sydney

Indian Food in the Harris Park area of Sydney.

Sydney

First stop in Australia: Sydney.

Victoria Falls

Mosi-Oa-Tunya

Prison Tree

A jail cell on the mail route.

Painted Dogs

African wild dogs in the Okavango Delta.

Okavango Delta

Flew out to the delta.

Pula

Rain, money and wishes for grounded flights

Chobe

Chobe National Park, Botswana

Zambia

Bye, Hwange. Howdy, Zambia.

Hwange National Park

Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

Stellenbosch

Everyone needs a few days in the South Africa Wine Country.

Cape Town Revisited

Ten days in Cape Town kick off a Southern African safari.

Advent of Code 2015

Fifty stars from Advent of Code 2015, solved in Go.

Hi, I am Sean and I am a deltiologist.

I trade postcards with people worldwide on the Postcrossing site.

Advent of Code 2015-2024: A Go and Rust Learning Journey

I intend to solve all Advent of Code puzzles from 2015 to 2024 in Go and Rust.

Par For The Course

Par Three: Two-putt To Victory

Two Weeks In

Two weeks without work, here is what I have done to stay busy.

Nevada Adventures

I moved to Reno, Nevada, at the start of 2025. Time to see all that the state has to offer.

Team Says Goodbye

Last day at Upstart, team presented AI-generated fake album covers to me.