From ef62be357d9d9934652148072e906e53420e171a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Enders <smenders@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:33:20 -0500
Subject: Updated intro and closing, and homepage
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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.
+ </p>
<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...
+ </p>
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- <i>First draft published on: February 17, 2019</i>
+ <i>February 17, 2019</i>
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