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authorStephen Enders <smenders@gmail.com>2019-02-17 22:33:20 -0500
committerStephen Enders <smenders@gmail.com>2019-02-17 22:33:20 -0500
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would monitor for reminder notifications I would send via a CLI. It queue
them up based on some time set to send the notification. I ended up
writing both the CLI and the daemon in this past week, both in C.</p>
+ <h4> The Beginning </h4>
+ <p>
+ This project started with an outline (as a README) which I think was the reason this ended up as an actually successful project.
+ I had been thinking about this for a long time, and had begun using a calendar to keep track of long term reminders/dates etc. First, I outlined the architecture "how would I actually do want to send myself remidners". Since half my day is spent infront of a computer, with a terminal open or at least two keystrokes away, a CLI would do the trick. Then how do I actually send myself notifications... writing them down. So I can use the CLI to write to a file and have a daemon pick up the changes and notify me once it hits the desired time posted.
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<h4>The CLI</h4>
<p>The CLI <b>remindme</b> took in messages and appened them to a file.
This file would be monitored by the daemon later on. Each reminder
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<p>Overall, this was an extremely fun first week of engineering. I look
forward to what I am able to do syncing and sending notifications on
android.</p>
+ <p>
+ For the zero people reading, grab a beer and outline your project. Full through. Think about the how, then write it down. Don't worry about getting in the weeds of how to write a manfile, thats what is fun about programming. I thought I botched my debian/sid environment uninstalling and reinstalling a notification daemon. Infact I think its caused me to take a stance on the whole systemd thing. Either way, start a private repo (they're free now) write a README and a LICENSE file and iterate on the README until you realize "oh shit this is something I can do". Then do it. This project still needs some work, but for an MVP, its actually done. And now I can dive in the deep end of trying to actually make it easy to setup on a fresh PC. Or dive into modern android development and server syncing...
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- <i>First draft published on: February 17, 2019</i>
+ <i>February 17, 2019</i>
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<h2>Recent Post - 2019-02-17</h2>
<h3>Venturing back into C</h3>
- <p>After working in C++ for home projects that never go anywhere I
- decided to get back to basics and write a utility that I have been
- needing in plain ol&#39; C.</p>
- <p><a href='https://github.com/s3nd3r5/reminder'><b>reminder.d</b></a> is
- a cli and daemon (so far) that manage reminders throughout your day.</p>
+ <p>For the past two weeks or so I have been diving back into C
+ programming. I&#39;ve found it to be a very fun and refreshing experience
+ coming off of a slog of Java 11 updates at work. I&#39;ve found comfort
+ in its simplicity and frustrations in my &quot;I can do this without an
+ IDE&quot; mindset.</p>
+ <p>I started C programming in College during a 8 AM course of which all I
+ can remember is that it was at 8 AM. I loved programming in C, dealing
+ with memory, pointers, no strings, structs, no strings, linking, no
+ strings. It was a really interesting difference from the web and Java
+ programming I had done previously. Obviously the lack of the
+ &quot;string&quot; type made things interesting and initially a challenge
+ for me back then. In my most recent endevour I found <code class=
+ 'inline'>char *</code> to be perfectly suitable for every case I came
+ across. It was usually a separate library that was failing me, not a
+ fixed char array. This was mostly due to the types of programs I was
+ writting in college were text adventures where all of what I did was
+ using strings. And my lack of understanding of what was actually
+ happening in C was really what was causing all the issues.</p>
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