Blog

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

Tromsø

A stop in Tromsø, well above the Arctic Circle.

Trondheim

A day in Trondheim, the old capital on the Nidelva.

Nordkapp

Standing at North Cape, the northernmost point of Europe.

Leirvik

A small town provides a glimpse at real life in Norway.

Talk To The Hand

Wittgenstein's philosophies inspired a strange artwork.

Brown Cheese

Try this sweet caramelized cheese.

Trollstigen

We drove the troll's path.

Phone Booths For Safety

Norway maintains phone booths for safety.

Ex Machina

Stopped for coffee near a film location.

Navigating Icy Mountain Passes

Goods have to pass through the icy mountain passes.

Bamse

The Saint Bernard who went to war for Norway.

Entering the Fjords

First look at Norway from the water, slipping into the fjords.

Rotterdam

A day in Rotterdam before leaving the Netherlands.

Art In Netherlands

Artistic things I found around Amsterdam.

Snapshots of Life in Netherlands

A few pics to get a feel for life in Netherlands.

Mmm, Beer

A windmill led us to a brewery.

The Captain And The Navigator

Boated the canals of Giethoorn.

Advent of Code 2016

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

The Rest of Berlin

A few random pics from Berlin.

The Kiss

An update on the socialist fraternal kiss mural.

Pipes

The industrial eyesores at least came in pretty colors.

Berlin Wall

85+ miles of border within the city existed to keep ideas apart.

Interesting Cars

Get around town in a Trabi or a go kart.

Disgusting Foods

Try the surströmming.

Ampelmann

Something good came from East Germany.

Jewish Life And Death In Germany

Nazis killed approximately six million Jews in the Holocaust.

San Diego Weekend

Stayed in Carlsbad for a spring weekend.

Yosemite Waterfalls

A brief stop in Yosemite.

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.