Boring Adventures
About Me
- Traveller
- Coder
- Bike rider
kodgehopper@gmail.com
Programming
- Simple
Encryption In Rust And Dart - Experiments with basic encryption,
based on a specific problem I had. Sample code available in Rust and
Dart
- Rust, Mutexes, and Mutating
Data in Re-entrant Mutexes - Messing around with mutable shared data
in a threaded environment
- Getting Started
With Tokio - A getting started guide for using the Tokio async
framework with Rust
- Using State Machines
For Simplified Message Processing - Written after seeing yet another
person struggle with basic message processing because they lack an
understanding of state machines
- Rust: An Opinion On The
Good, The Bad, and the Ugly - My initial thoughts after using rust
for some basic, non-production work
Travel
- The Worst Month
Of My Life - I ended up in hospital in Peru, followed by a month of
recovery alone. Not fun.
- Ramadan in Cusco
- My Ramadan in Cusco, Peru
- The
Bolivian Visa Extension Nightmare Ends - A much saner visa extension
experience in La Paz, Bolivia
- The
Bolivian Visa Extension Nightmare - detailing my horrible experience
obtaining a travel extension visa in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- 13 Lessons
I Learned Road-Tripping Across Bolivia - Deadly drivers, lack of
fuel, tasty food, and hairdressers pretending to be kebab shops
- How To Cross
Into Bolivia By Land Border - The arduous process of entering
Bolivia by motorcycle. This happened during Covid so maybe that border
is less insane now.
- And Some Days Just
Suck - A particularly sucky travel day involving frozen fingers and
the police
- Slow Days - Appreciation of
slow days on long travels. Not everyday needs to be an adventure.
- How
To Live On The Road Indefinitely - Lessons I learned from being on
the road for over 4 years
- A
Back Roads Trip Across South Africa - Took my 4x4 from Cape Town to
Pietermaritzburg while trying to avoid the pavement as much as
possible
- Ciudad Del Este,
Paraguay - My visit to this little known marvel of a city in
Paraguay
- Falling In Mud - Rough
day on the muddy farm roads in Argentina
- The
Most Beautiful Road In The World - Riding between Coyaique in Chile,
and Los Antiguos in Argentina, I suddenly realised I was on the most jaw
droppingly beautiful road I’ve ever ridden
- That Day In The
Snow - Riding through a nasty (and my first ever) snowstorm
- Iguazu: Waterfalls,
Waterfalls, Waterfalls! - The largest group of waterfalls in the
world and I didn’t know they existed. As seen from
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- The Amazing Road To
Andalgalá - Super cool ride through the mountains from Tucuman to
Andalgalá, Argentina
- Trapped In
Bariloche - Stuck in Bariloche, Argentina, during Covid.
Other
- Rejection - An old post I
wrote once upon a time on Facebook