On the Blog: DLang News for September/October 2021 (page 2)

On Sunday, 31 October 2021 at 19:26:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: > The video version is done and is available here: > > https://youtu.be/jX9grHMTGAU Great and I hope you do more of these videos. Just one tip, in this video you're talking and highlighting some texts, could you please increase the size of the fonts or zoom in next time? Thanks, Matheus.

On 10/31/21 3:26 PM, Mike Parker wrote: > On Friday, 29 October 2021 at 15:03:46 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: >> >> >> I'll be putting together a video version this weekend for the foundation's YouTube channel that I should be able to publish by Sunday. >> > > The video version is done and is available here: > > https://youtu.be/jX9grHMTGAU > > I really want this to be a regular thing every two months, for both a news blog post and video. My request from you: share, share, share! "Stick around for the D-tails" *rofl* Nice, I love it

November 02, 2021

Re: On the Blog: DLang News for September/October 2021

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On Monday, 1 November 2021 at 13:22:11 UTC, bachmeier wrote:

The blog is good for explaining technical material, and has a lot of value because of Google, but I agree YouTube is better for evangelizing.

There's a rather significant segment of younger programmers who prefer videos over text even for explaining technical material. But the main point for me is that YouTube is always working for us to get our videos in front of new eyes, even when we aren't posting new content.

We've been pulling in a nice, steady rate of views and subscribers to our channel since we got all of the DConf Videos uploaded. Contrast that with the blog, where traffic dips very low and stays there, only spiking when we post new content. To keep that level high, we have to regularly publish blog posts.

One suggestion I have is that the format of PLTalk by Jean Yang might be a good fit when you want to get others involved. If you're not familiar with it, she has a Zoom chat with someone, that person demos whatever they're talking about, and she asks clarifying questions. She records the talk and uploads it to YouTube. Here's an example that would work well for short demos of changes to the language/new libraries/whatever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kylAbEPcadw&t=712s

You might have other plans, but it's one way to reduce the cost for yourself and for others.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

On Monday, 1 November 2021 at 13:33:29 UTC, Matheus wrote: > Just one tip, in this video you're talking and highlighting some texts, could you please increase the size of the fonts or zoom in next time? > Sure thing. I'll zoom in, and I'll do one better. Rather than highlighting with my mouse, I'll blur out the rest of the screen to focus on the zoomed in text. Thanks!

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