Advent of Code is a yearly programming advent calendar with puzzles being released from the 1st to the 25th of December. The puzzles usually follow some christmassy storyline and substantially increase in difficulty throughout the month. I’ve completed AoC in 2020 and 2021 and sometimes found it scary how much this challenge consumed me, but it was always worth it for the joy of finding the solutions and learning new things.

Two and a half months ago I moved to Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia, where I’m spending two semesters studying abroad. It’s a pretty amazing journey so far. At this point I’ve transitioned quite a bit already from tourist to my definition of a local. During September and most of October I was in vacation mode and went on trips to the mountains pretty much every weekend. During the week I took a language course in September and in October classes at Univerza v Ljubljani started, but there was still time left to explore the hills surrounding Ljubljana with my road bike. Currently the ubiquitous November fog keeps a tight grip on the city, but soon the Christmas lights are going to lighten the mood:)

There’s got to be an initial post. This is really just here to have at least one unit of content so that I can move on from this Meta-project of a personal website to actual projects / endeavours that might appear here as content.