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Hi, I’m Kevin! This is my little corner of the internet where you can find my personal projects, essays, and other small creative things.
I recently graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Michigan, and I am currently serving in Poland as an English Teaching Assistant for the Fulbright Program, an international cultural exchange program administered through the US Department of State. Right now I am teaching computer science and English language courses to students at the University of Łomża.
I will be looking for entry SWE positions starting in April of 2024. If you’re interested by what you see here or on my portfolio, feel free to reach out! I’m always happy to talk about software, particularly systems engineering and machine learning applications.
The best ways to reach me are kevin <at> musicer-kw.com or LinkedIn. If you are a student of mine at University of Łomża, please contact me using the school email client.
Recent posts
Hello world!
Hi, read me first! I’m short I promise :D
Checkpoint, April 22 2024
PERSONAL: a quick update because that’s good for sanity and stuff.
Homecoming
PERSONAL: An alum revisits and reflects on the University of Michigan.
Focus
Discussing plans, from a personal perspective, for the next 4 months.
Creating a game engine, update #1
Following from some recent conversations with industry veterans about how best to develop and showcase my engineering skills, I’ve decided to start on my own...
Notes on modules in C++20
Brief set of notes on modules in case it saves anyone else some searching.
Blind 75.32 - Alien Dictionary
Alien dictionary.
Blind 75.31 - Longest Consecutive Sequence
Longest consecutive sequence.
Blind 75.30 - Number of Islands
Number of islands.
Blind 75.29 - Pacific Atlantic Water Flow
Pacific atlantic water flow.
Blind 75.28 - Course Schedule
Course schedule.
Blind 75.27 - Clone Graph
Clone graph.
Blind 75.26 - Jump Game
Jump game.
Blind 75.25 - Unique Paths
Unique paths.
Blind 75.24 - Decode Ways
Decode ways.
Blind 75.23 - House Robber II
House robber II.
Blind 75.22 - House Robber
House robber.
Blind 75.21 - Combination Sum
Combination sum.
Blind 75.20 - Word Break
Word break.
Blind 75.xx - Longest Common Subsequence
Longest common subsequence.
Blind 75.18 - Longest Increasing Subsequence
Longest increasing subsequence.
Scattered thoughts, 17 January 2024
Scattered thoughts that I can’t be bothered to write a full blog post about. This was a nice and relieving task, so I might do this again in the future.
Explaining a personal project in Poland, for potential interviewees
An explanation of a Chinese-American’s personal project in Poland. This is intended to be a semi-formal overview with information for potential interviewees.
Blind 75.17 - Coin Change
Coin change.
Blind 75.16 - Climbing Stairs
Climbing stairs.
Blind 75.15 - Reverse Bits
Reverse bits.
Blind 75.14 - Missing Number
Missing number.
Blind 75.13 - Counting Bits
Counting bits.
Blind 75.12 - Number of 1 Bits
Number of 1 bits.
100 kilometers northeast of Warsaw
Go there when snow falls.
Blind 75.11 - Sum of Two Integers
Sum of two integers.
Blind 75.10 - Split Array Largest Sum
Split array largest sum.
Blind 75.09 - Container with Most Water
Container with most water.
Blind 75.08 - Three Sum
Three sum.
Checkpoint, January 07 2024
I’ll break the checkpoint format briefly to recap my 2023 holidays. I spent Christmas in southern Poland with some of the friends I made in Fulbright, then n...
Blind 75.07 - Find Minimum in Rotated Sorted Array
Find minimum in rotated sorted array.
Blind 75.06 - Maximum Product Subarray
Maximum product subarray.
Blind 75.05 - Maximum Subarray
Maximum subarray.
Blind 75.04 - Product of Array Except Self
Product of array except self.
Blind 75.03 - Contains Duplicate
Contains Duplicate.
Blind 75.02 - Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock
Best time to buy and sell stock.
Blind 75.xx - Template
Template for LeetCode drill posts.
Blind 75.01 - Two Sum
Two sum.
About me, in layers
A deconstruction of who I am, who I’m not, what I’m missing, and what I have that other people don’t.
Adding selected categories to the homepage
Brief post about the new homepage layout, plus some rambling on web dev and other goals for the website.
40 Days through Europe - 0-2, Lisbon, Portugal
My first (very stressful) steps in Europe, plus the lasting impact of a childhood video game.
Explaining a personal project in Poland
This story begins by killing two women. Maybe don’t read this with your breakfast cereal.
We wanderers
On travel, solitude, and the nature of true companionship.
Why can’t you reply to comments?
actually i dum dum
Setting up the Staticman API for your personal site in 2023
The main reason I’ve taken so long to get my blog up and running is because I’ve had a hard time getting comments with Staticman to work. It took a week or t...
Initial goals in Poland
I’m feeling better compared to earlier this month. A lot has happened:
Checkpoint, October 16 2023
I promised my friends I would blog my journey for the next year; it’s taken a while, but here we finally are. What was it that Douglas Adams said about deadl...