Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-26 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
You make a good case. I'll think about it.

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-26 Thread Greggor via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-20 Thread Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-18 Thread Petar via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-18 Thread Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-17 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-17 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
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.

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-15 Thread zjh via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-15 Thread Monkyyy via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-15 Thread Hipreme via Digitalmars-d-announce
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:

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-15 Thread zjh via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-14 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
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

Re: Walter on Twitter

2023-04-14 Thread zjh via Digitalmars-d-announce
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:

Walter on Twitter

2023-04-14 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
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!