2019-10-01 - Tired and C
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Woah, it's the first of october already. This year is going very 
fast. I feel i'm only working, and working. And tonight i am tired. 
So i will have a cup of tea, a shower and go to bed early.

This weekend i was dabbling around a bit with some C programming; 
And this was something i hadn't done for a long time unfortunately. 
I really enjoyed a little programming again. Makes me want to get 
some c-books and work through them again. I would really like to 
get a physical copy of "K&R - The C programming language" some 
time, just so i can enjoy sitting in a chair, and reading it while 
having tea. I do have a (very shitty) translation of Al Kelley's & 
Ira Pohl's book. But that's way less fun than K&R.

Anyway, i am a very casual programmer. I am not super clever or 
talented, so I enjoy programming little, simple projects. Projects 
that don't take to much time to finish. In the past i've taken on 
some projects that grew way too big, and stopped being fun at some 
point. Those are projects  that get abandoned and end up gathering 
dust in some corner of a backup drive. 

From that i learned I should just work on small and simple stuff. 
Things that don't need more than a weekend to finish. In the end, 
i'm just a hobbyist, so none of the programming i do has to be 
meaningful or sexy.

As i've written before, i really like to program as if i'm 11 years 
old again. Having no concept of optimization, design patterns or 
good or bad programming, but just having fun. And with a sense of 
wonder figuring stuff out by trial and error. Hacking away, and 
making stuff just for the sake of making stuff. I miss that in 
this time of internet and stackoverflow where everybody already 
knows everything and answers to problems are just one click away.

Good that there are these books. I think i'll look up a second hand 
K&R book somewhere in the coming days. But now, it's time for tea.