Stuff on life and computer programming ¶
Posted on May 30, 2024
I have started a new project; it is a C language library implementing personal finance computations
about a very narrow subject; from the point of view of software engineering: it is a very simple
project. It is unlikely that I will actually use this project in my personal finance accounting,
but writing code helps me to understand how financial instruments work and where the money goes;
it’s executable mathematics.
There are complications.
- I have not written a single line of C language code in a long time; I do not even remember the last
time I touched some code. 2020? 2021? My mind buried a lot of knowledge about programming and the
C language in particular; I have to dig it up.
- Even though the new code is simple: I do want to reuse my software packaging infrastructure. This
means: gnu Autotools,
git revision control, projects at GitHub and Bitbucket. My mind
buried knowledge about this stuff, too.
- Even though the new code is simple: I do want to reuse my C language infrastructure libraries; I
wrote them to make developing new projects simpler! These are a collection of projects that I named
CCLibraries; these projects are in bad shape: I have to restructure them, move code around,
exclude code that I wrote because of bad choices that resulted in failure; I also want to rename all
of them because the naming prefix ‘cc’ is not good: I will prefix everything with ‘mmux_’,
which is more personal.
I’m trying to pull me out of burnout and this is exactly the kind of project I need; it is hard to
find resources in my brain; I have amassed a queue of things to do and I struggle to process it; I
established priorities, but I got stuck; I want to get something going; maybe changing the
priorities will help.