Excerpts from Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce's message of April 11, 2021 2:49 pm: > # Beerconf! > > In celebration of tax day being [moved to > May](https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/tax-day-for-individuals-extended-to-may-17-treasury-irs-extend-filing-and-payment-deadline), > we are going to instead honor D and beer (and any other beverage or topic > you'd like to honor). But instead of doing it on the original tax day, April > 15th, we will do it on April 24-25. Because, *reasons*. > > For anyone not familiar with Beerconf, you can read about it > [here](https://wiki.dlang.org/Beerconf) > > And yes, I'm writing this on the web forum so I can use all the > *fancy* **new** ~~DDoc~~ __markdown__ (my poor thunderbird NNTP > client cannot participate :( ). I just need to throw in a table, > for good measure: >
*This* **reminds** ~~me~~ __that__ I'm yet to give markdown a try from my own mail client. > ### Fun facts in beerconf history: > > |Key|Value| > |---|-----| > |Number of online beerconfs|10| > |Number of beers consumed|Probably a lot| > |Number of topics discussed|Also a lot| > |Number of dlang bugs fixed|countless| > |Cleanings of my basement office|0| > |Key|Value| |---|-----| |Number of times Steven has said autodecoding|+Inf| Alright, see you all tomorrow afternoon (if you're living near to UTC).
