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reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
I've had a twitter account for 15 years now (!) and haven't used it much for 
anything. But lately I've decided to use it to give regular updates on D things 
I've been working on.

You can follow me on:

https://twitter.com/WalterBright

I encourage other D users on twitter to do the same!
Apr 14 2023
next sibling parent reply zjh <fqbqrr 163.com> writes:
On Friday, 14 April 2023 at 15:33:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 I've had a twitter account for 15 years now (!) and haven't 
 used it much for anything. But lately I've decided to use it to 
 give regular updates on D things I've been working on.

 You can follow me on:

 https://twitter.com/WalterBright

 I encourage other D users on twitter to do the same!



Can you create a special post in the forum?
This way, it is safer and more convenient.
Apr 14 2023
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 4/14/2023 5:54 PM, zjh wrote:

 Can you create a special post in the forum?
 This way, it is safer and more convenient.



That is a good idea to do that as well. But I have no idea why would be safer?

Anyhow, the idea with Twitter is outreach to a larger audience. Newspapers all 
do it, why shouldn't we?

Some hashtags to follow:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/dlang
https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImportC
Apr 14 2023
next sibling parent zjh <fqbqrr 163.com> writes:
On Saturday, 15 April 2023 at 04:46:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 4/14/2023 5:54 PM, zjh wrote:

 Can you create a special post in the forum?
 This way, it is safer and more convenient.



 That is a good idea to do that as well. But I have no idea why 
 would be safer?

 Anyhow, the idea with Twitter is outreach to a larger audience. 
 Newspapers all do it, why shouldn't we?

 Some hashtags to follow:

 https://twitter.com/hashtag/dlang
 https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImportC



Is your `own forum` not better than others?
There are restrictions everywhere on `others platform`.
Of course, it's also because I can't access Twitter, but `these 
websites(platform)` are all like this.
There is no need to seek distance from the near. Forums are 
already `great places` for communication or information.
For D, you only need to have one person dedicated to `publishing 
information` (similar to posting articles on `multiple 
platforms`) on the same account in other similar places.
Instead, you mainly work on the forum. At the same time, if you 
carefully collect `excellent posts` from the forum, these are all 
`excellent resources` for D.

At the same time, the forum is also an excellent `resource 
gathering point`.

Just like I have a website, I hope to increase the traffic for 
others to access me, and your forum can collect blogs related to 
D, so that when others need to `find information`, they can 
directly `visit` you site and then distribute it from you. A 
win-win situation.

In this way, if others say D lacks `resources`, you just need to 
give him `gathering blogs site` to it.
[Some of the articles,I translated specifically targeted for 
chinese D 
users](https://fqbqrr.blog.csdn.net/category_9101560.html?spm=1001.2014.3001.5482).
If only you could give me a link to it.
Apr 14 2023
prev sibling parent reply Monkyyy <crazymonkyyy gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 15 April 2023 at 04:46:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 4/14/2023 5:54 PM, zjh wrote:

 


 Newspapers all do it, why shouldn't we?


Newspapers all zombies that are hoping to trade in their brand 
name for a pay day before boomers leave the scene.

By all means fund and promote *live coding* or teaching videos if 
you want to outreach, but shitposting on twitter wont do anything 
of value
Apr 15 2023
next sibling parent zjh <fqbqrr 163.com> writes:
On Saturday, 15 April 2023 at 13:49:56 UTC, Monkyyy wrote:

 On Saturday, 15 April 2023 at 04:46:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 4/14/2023 5:54 PM, zjh wrote:

 


 Newspapers all do it, why shouldn't we?


 Newspapers all zombies that are hoping to trade in their brand 
 name for a pay day before boomers leave the scene.

 By all means fund and promote *live coding* or teaching videos 
 if you want to outreach, but shitposting on twitter wont do 
 anything of value


  It is worth `promoting` in platforms that has a large number of 
programmers.

Some `foreign platforms` can also be utilized.

`Videos, articles, and animates` can all be used to promote `D`.
Apr 15 2023
prev sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 4/15/2023 6:49 AM, Monkyyy wrote:

 By all means fund and promote *live coding* or teaching videos if you want to 
 outreach, but shitposting on twitter wont do anything of value


Mike has also suggested I do some live coding videos.
Apr 17 2023
next sibling parent "Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole" <richard cattermole.co.nz> writes:
On 18/04/2023 3:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 4/15/2023 6:49 AM, Monkyyy wrote:

 By all means fund and promote *live coding* or teaching videos if you 
 want to outreach, but shitposting on twitter wont do anything of value


 
 Mike has also suggested I do some live coding videos.


You're always welcome to do some live streaming on Discord :)

Those video channels don't get used enough, and I haven't figured out a 
way to encourage their usage so it would be a help!
Apr 17 2023
prev sibling parent reply Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] <petar.p.kirov gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 18 April 2023 at 03:02:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 4/15/2023 6:49 AM, Monkyyy wrote:

 By all means fund and promote *live coding* or teaching videos 
 if you want to outreach, but shitposting on twitter wont do 
 anything of value


 Mike has also suggested I do some live coding videos.


That would be awesome! I'm sure many people would find it very 
interesting to see how you work - both your approach to solving 
problems and day-to-day techniques like your own Micro Emacs D 
editor.
Apr 18 2023
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 4/18/2023 6:36 AM, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote:

 On Tuesday, 18 April 2023 at 03:02:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 4/15/2023 6:49 AM, Monkyyy wrote:

 By all means fund and promote *live coding* or teaching videos if you want to 
 outreach, but shitposting on twitter wont do anything of value


 Mike has also suggested I do some live coding videos.


 
 That would be awesome! I'm sure many people would find it very interesting to 
 see how you work - both your approach to solving problems and day-to-day 
 techniques like your own Micro Emacs D editor.
 
 


I'm just afraid it will consist mostly of me staring at the screen with a 
baffled look.
Apr 18 2023
next sibling parent Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 18 April 2023 at 20:07:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 I'm just afraid it will consist mostly of me staring at the 
 screen with a baffled look.


I think that's 99.9% of programmers.

But think of it as rubber duck debugging. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

I think that having to explain your actions makes one a better 
programmer. It's kind of like PR reviews except it's live.

It's similar to documenting code. If you document your API or 
code and realize the explanation doesn't really make any sense 
then probably the code doesn't make any sense. So it's time to 
rethink that piece of code.
Apr 20 2023
prev sibling parent reply Greggor <Greggor notareal.email> writes:
On Tuesday, 18 April 2023 at 20:07:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 I'm just afraid it will consist mostly of me staring at the 
 screen with a baffled look.


Do not let that discourage you, I think you should do the coding 
videos. I feel there is a lot of potential value in it.

During the last few years a new niche has cropped up on YouTube, 
where people record and upload there full programming sessions. 
Don't worry about "dead air" or about stuff not working out. The 
video production is not where the value is, the value is in 
exposing the raw thinking & problem solving process. People who 
have experience often end up cutting out a lot of things, due to 
it being obvious to them.

Whats unique to this style of video is that its up to the viewer 
to decide what takeaways are useful. This often means the a 
single video can be good for people at all levels.
I have also noticed that this kind of videos help get beginners 
out of tutorial hell.


The reason you should do it, is because you are one of few in a 
unique position to make the most impact, Who else is THE 
authority on D?
Andreas Kling is responsible for onboarding many people onto C++ 
through his videos on YouTube.

In the worst case if this is a bad idea, this will cost the 
overhead of setting up a recording and uploading it online, the 
content of the video is the work you would be doing anyway with 
you simply vocalizing your thought process.
Apr 26 2023
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
You make a good case. I'll think about it.
Apr 26 2023
prev sibling parent reply Hipreme <msnmancini hotmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 14 April 2023 at 15:33:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 I've had a twitter account for 15 years now (!) and haven't 
 used it much for anything. But lately I've decided to use it to 
 give regular updates on D things I've been working on.

 You can follow me on:

 https://twitter.com/WalterBright

 I encourage other D users on twitter to do the same!



Great! I'll try starting to do that also since we most of the 
time we're here posting only to existing D users, being in an 
unfiltered platform such as twitter could help too.

I've started doing that kind of work on instagram since images 
tells a lot there.
Apr 15 2023
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 4/15/2023 4:12 AM, Hipreme wrote:

 Great! I'll try starting to do that also since we most of the time we're here 
 posting only to existing D users, being in an unfiltered platform such as 
 twitter could help too.


Good!


 I've started doing that kind of work on instagram since images tells a lot
there.


Keep us posted on how it works.
Apr 17 2023