Travel Note Template: Capturing the Journey
A starter template and layout guide for travel notes. Copy this directory as a starting point for your next travel article.
Yongjie Xue · Full Stack & AI Engineer · Austin, TX
Lingering Thoughts
Engineering with a writer’s eye.
Based in Austin, Texas. A public record of thinking through systems, language, career, technology, and ordinary life.
Sections
Journal
2posts
Personal reflections on everyday life, family, finance, and health.
Booknotes
12posts
Comprehensive studies in language, legal cases, and technology books.
Database Guru
64posts
News, reports and best practices from the database industry.
Cloud-Exiter
61posts
Cloud economics, cloud-exit and self-hosting like a pro.
PostgreSQL Mage
112posts
PostgreSQL development, operations, internals and tuning.
AI Explorer
67posts
Agents, LLMs, AI coding, AI4DB and DB4AI.
Travel Notes
1posts
Trips, hikes and things seen along the way.
Miscellaneous
24posts
Essays, notes and miscellaneous writing.
Database Guru
64posts
News, reports and best practices from the database industry.
Cloud-Exiter
61posts
Cloud economics, cloud-exit and self-hosting like a pro.
PostgreSQL Mage
112posts
PostgreSQL development, operations, internals and tuning.
AI Explorer
67posts
Agents, LLMs, AI coding, AI4DB and DB4AI.
Travel Notes
1posts
Trips, hikes and things seen along the way.
Miscellaneous
24posts
Essays, notes and miscellaneous writing.
Recent Posts
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