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[2020-03-29] Moving, frisbee and C



Moving


We took a big decision earlier this year to move away from Paris.

We wanted to be closer to the ocean, nature in general and a bit less

stressful life. Move away from the noise, the pollution... Bordeaux

should be our destination. It's a smaller city and we have a few

Parisians friends already living there.



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We were supposed to leave in two weeks but then COVID-19 happened in

Europe and we're stuck here for some time as the moving company is not

working and we're forbidden to use transportations unless really

necessary. Too bad I would have prefered being confined in my future

flat which will be twice as big and discover my future neighborhood a

bit. Our new landlord won't make us pay the rent until we are in the

walls so that's really cool.


This will be quite a change for us, Bordeaux is smaller than our

current district in Paris but it's one hour from the ocean and a few

from Spain or the mountains. This should be great.


Another major change is that I will be working remotely full-time

which I was only doing from time to time so far, this confinement

period is quite a good preparation at least.


Being confined had a weird side-effect on me, I went on Facebook again

to get news from some friends. I hate it but in these times it's quite

nice to be able to get news from people I care about. I make phone

calls again too, a lot, and virtual drinks. Confinement made me a lot

more social in a way. Strange times.



friSBEe


In other news cmccabe created an new email-based social platform

called friSBEe.


https://rawtext.club/~frisbee


This is really a great place, it has frogs which are some kind of

journals, boards and some games and stuff. It's really easy to post

things and to read what other posted, it's just emails!

Great work, I'm loving it! You should definitely join the fun!



C


Computer-wise I'm re-learning C. This is a language I learned at

school but never used after that. I don't really know why I want to do

stuff in C but here I am. My learning project is making a battery

monitor widget for X11, like a graphical `acpi` or `apm`.


https://git.sr.ht/~julienxx/XBattery


The code is probably really bad C, you'll tell me. The only way for me

to learn is by doing something "useful", I find it difficult learn

something with katas or exercices.

I was looking for resources and tools that modern C programmers

do/use, if you have advices on must-reads and so on I take any

pointers ^^

At the moment I started reading K&R "The C Programming language" then

I'll read "Modern C" I think.



Stay safe friends!




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