From ef62be357d9d9934652148072e906e53420e171a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Enders Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:33:20 -0500 Subject: Updated intro and closing, and homepage --- www/blog/2019-02-17/index.html | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'www/blog/2019-02-17/index.html') diff --git a/www/blog/2019-02-17/index.html b/www/blog/2019-02-17/index.html index 48f5f4c..5c4b040 100644 --- a/www/blog/2019-02-17/index.html +++ b/www/blog/2019-02-17/index.html @@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ 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.

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The Beginning

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+ 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. +

The CLI

The CLI remindme took in messages and appened them to a file. This file would be monitored by the daemon later on. Each reminder @@ -140,9 +145,12 @@

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.

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+ 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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