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reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
Since I returned home from my extended trip to Germany, it's been 
a slog trying to ramp back up into my usual routine. It was a 
week before I could find any words at all for a retrospective on 
the conference, and it very nearly took another week to get the 
post in readable form. I'm still not at peak productivity, but 
I'm getting there. I've got a couple of guest posts lined up 
(including one from Walter) and I should be getting the Twitter & 
FB feeds going again soon.

In the meantime, here's what DConf 2018 was like from my 
perspective.

The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2018/05/31/dconf-2018-ex-post-facto/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/8nj1nn/dconf_2018_ex_post_facto/
May 31 2018
next sibling parent reply =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
Only the Vang's picture shows for me. All the others show the "no entry" 
icon with both Firefox and Chrome. Permissions issue?

Ali

On 05/31/2018 08:01 AM, Mike Parker wrote:

 Since I returned home from my extended trip to Germany, it's been a slog 
 trying to ramp back up into my usual routine. It was a week before I 
 could find any words at all for a retrospective on the conference, and 
 it very nearly took another week to get the post in readable form. I'm 
 still not at peak productivity, but I'm getting there. I've got a couple 
 of guest posts lined up (including one from Walter) and I should be 
 getting the Twitter & FB feeds going again soon.
 
 In the meantime, here's what DConf 2018 was like from my perspective.
 
 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/05/31/dconf-2018-ex-post-facto/
 
 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/8nj1nn/dconf_2018_ex_post_facto/
May 31 2018
parent reply Joakim <dlang joakim.fea.st> writes:
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:49:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 Only the Vang's picture shows for me. All the others show the 
 "no entry" icon with both Firefox and Chrome. Permissions issue?


Yep, same here.
May 31 2018
parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 16:32:06 UTC, Joakim wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:49:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 Only the Vang's picture shows for me. All the others show the 
 "no entry" icon with both Firefox and Chrome. Permissions 
 issue?


 Yep, same here.


Thanks, guys. Should work now.
May 31 2018
parent reply Arredondo <arm.plus gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 16:59:52 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 16:32:06 UTC, Joakim wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:49:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 Only the Vang's picture shows for me. All the others show the 
 "no entry" icon with both Firefox and Chrome. Permissions 
 issue?


 Yep, same here.


 Thanks, guys. Should work now.


Now Vang Le's picture is the one not showing :)
Also, typo: With out -> Without

Great post!
May 31 2018
parent reply Arredondo <arm.plus gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 17:23:56 UTC, Arredondo wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 16:59:52 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 16:32:06 UTC, Joakim wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:49:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 Only the Vang's picture shows for me. All the others show 
 the "no entry" icon with both Firefox and Chrome. 
 Permissions issue?


 Yep, same here.


 Thanks, guys. Should work now.


 Now Vang Le's picture is the one not showing :)


Actually Vang Le's picture shows in Chrome but not in Firefox for 
me. Maybe it's because of the file extension: .jpg_large

Arredondo.
May 31 2018
next sibling parent Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 17:29:08 UTC, Arredondo wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 17:23:56 UTC, Arredondo wrote:

 Now Vang Le's picture is the one not showing :)


 Actually Vang Le's picture shows in Chrome but not in Firefox 
 for me. Maybe it's because of the file extension: .jpg_large

 Arredondo.


Should be working now. Thanks!
May 31 2018
prev sibling parent biocyberman <biocyberman gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 17:29:08 UTC, Arredondo wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 17:23:56 UTC, Arredondo wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 16:59:52 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 16:32:06 UTC, Joakim wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:49:47 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 Only the Vang's picture shows for me. All the others show 
 the "no entry" icon with both Firefox and Chrome. 
 Permissions issue?


 Yep, same here.


 Thanks, guys. Should work now.


 Now Vang Le's picture is the one not showing :)


 Actually Vang Le's picture shows in Chrome but not in Firefox 
 for me. Maybe it's because of the file extension: .jpg_large

 Arredondo.


I somehow got here finally. There is a belief among Vietnamese 
people that when someone think and talk about you, you will 
sneeze ;D

 Mike: Your MC job was terrific. I actually noted to myself that 
“this guy can deliver a smooth public speaking”.  Another good 
things is your perfect enforcement of time constraint on 
speakers. It’s only in some rare cases that speaking over time is 
interesting and desireable to the audience. The parts of 
‘forgetting some think you wanted to say’ is true to me as well. 
I’ve learnt to accept the imperfection. And (paraphrase the A/V 
part) “not too stressful but pay attentions to the trouble so you 
don’t repeat it” resonates well with me.

Thank you all for a wonderful conference. It’s true that I got a 
group of talents came to help with bioinformatics in the 
hackathon. That’s my “best Dconf moment”. I have a group photo of 
almost of them in the slack “bio-general” channel in dlang Slack 
channel.

I’ve created three bio-* channels in the Slack to continue and 
coordinate work of D and bioinformatics. All are very welcome to 
join and contribute. There is a github group 
https://github.com/bioslaD as well. Just drop me an email to 
biocyberman at gmail.com if you can join the Slack or the github 
organization yourself.
Jun 01 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent Bastiaan Veelo <Bastiaan Veelo.net> writes:
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:01:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 In the meantime, here's what DConf 2018 was like from my 
 perspective.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/05/31/dconf-2018-ex-post-facto/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/8nj1nn/dconf_2018_ex_post_facto/


An enjoyable read!
May 31 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent reply jmh530 <john.michael.hall gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:01:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 Since I returned home from my extended trip to Germany, it's 
 been a slog trying to ramp back up into my usual routine. It 
 was a week before I could find any words at all for a 
 retrospective on the conference, and it very nearly took 
 another week to get the post in readable form. I'm still not at 
 peak productivity, but I'm getting there. I've got a couple of 
 guest posts lined up (including one from Walter) and I should 
 be getting the Twitter & FB feeds going again soon.

 In the meantime, here's what DConf 2018 was like from my 
 perspective.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/05/31/dconf-2018-ex-post-facto/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/8nj1nn/dconf_2018_ex_post_facto/


Might be interesting (perhaps next year) to do a post-mortem for 
the Hackathon where each participant writes one or two sentences 
on what they accomplished. You can then aggregate together into a 
blog post.
May 31 2018
parent reply Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On 5/31/18 1:40 PM, jmh530 wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:01:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 Since I returned home from my extended trip to Germany, it's been a 
 slog trying to ramp back up into my usual routine. It was a week 
 before I could find any words at all for a retrospective on the 
 conference, and it very nearly took another week to get the post in 
 readable form. I'm still not at peak productivity, but I'm getting 
 there. I've got a couple of guest posts lined up (including one from 
 Walter) and I should be getting the Twitter & FB feeds going again soon.

 In the meantime, here's what DConf 2018 was like from my perspective.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/05/31/dconf-2018-ex-post-facto/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/8nj1nn/dconf_2018_ex_post_facto/ 


 
 Might be interesting (perhaps next year) to do a post-mortem for the 
 Hackathon where each participant writes one or two sentences on what 
 they accomplished. You can then aggregate together into a blog post.


There was a small "presentation" where people could show what they had 
accomplished during the hackathon, which gives a rough estimation of 
what you are looking for. It was a google doc, but I have no idea where 
it is now.

-Steve
May 31 2018
parent reply Stefan <dl ng.rocks> writes:
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 19:31:20 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:

 There was a small "presentation" where people could show what 
 they had accomplished during the hackathon, which gives a rough 
 estimation of what you are looking for. It was a google doc, 
 but I have no idea where it is now.


Hackathon google doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qrn7JZS62hzsylpGM1VhaT6YW2I1NVDDGQsANv5b1GQ/edit?usp=drivesdk
May 31 2018
parent Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On 5/31/18 7:06 PM, Stefan wrote:

 On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 19:31:20 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

 There was a small "presentation" where people could show what they had 
 accomplished during the hackathon, which gives a rough estimation of 
 what you are looking for. It was a google doc, but I have no idea 
 where it is now.


 
 Hackathon google doc:
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qrn7JZS62hzsylpGM1VhaT6YW2I1NVDDGQsANv5b1
Q/edit?usp=drivesdk 
 
 


Yep that's it, the first part was where we added our names to show what 
we did. I guess reading it now, it looks a lot less informative than I 
thought :)

-Steve
Jun 01 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent Dukc <ajieskola gmail.com> writes:
Thanks for the post. A link that tries to point to Igor's talk 
points to Leroy's one.

On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:01:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 I've got a couple of guest posts lined up (including one from 
 Walter)


Great!
May 31 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent Andy Smith <andyrsmith gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:01:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 Since I returned home from my extended trip to Germany, it's 
 been a slog trying to ramp back up into my usual routine. It 
 was a week before I could find any words at all for a 
 retrospective on the conference, and it very nearly took 
 another week to get the post in readable form. I'm still not at 
 peak productivity, but I'm getting there. I've got a couple of 
 guest posts lined up (including one from Walter) and I should 
 be getting the Twitter & FB feeds going again soon.

 In the meantime, here's what DConf 2018 was like from my 
 perspective.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/05/31/dconf-2018-ex-post-facto/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/8nj1nn/dconf_2018_ex_post_facto/


I probably wouldn't have attended my first DConf had it not been 
for
your blog posts on writing bindings for C libraries, and thus 
probably
wouldn't have attended the subsequent ones either, so it was 
great to
meet you finally!

If it's any consolation I also had an embarrassing train story on 
the
way the conf ... Like you I also wasn't sure if I'd got on the 
right
train from the airport so I asked some poor wee guy in my 'best'
German if the train was going to Daglfing. Unfortunately Scots 
with
bad German basically just sound like drunk Germans. I think he was
just about to surrender his wallet when an elderly couple nearby
chimed in with 'yes it is!!!', so face was saved in the end.

All's well that ends well!

Cheers,

A.
May 31 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent Guillaume Piolat <notthat email.com> writes:
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:01:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 In the meantime, here's what DConf 2018 was like from my 
 perspective.


It was very nice to meet all of you at DConf! Finally putting a 
face on names I would see for years in this community.

Talks were all interesting, my fav was probably the one about 
std.xml because of how Johnathan explained his thought process in 
detail.
Jun 01 2018
prev sibling parent Arun Chandrasekaran <aruncxy gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:01:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 Since I returned home from my extended trip to Germany, it's 
 been a slog trying to ramp back up into my usual routine. It 
 was a week before I could find any words at all for a 
 retrospective on the conference, and it very nearly took 
 another week to get the post in readable form. I'm still not at 
 peak productivity, but I'm getting there. I've got a couple of 
 guest posts lined up (including one from Walter) and I should 
 be getting the Twitter & FB feeds going again soon.

 In the meantime, here's what DConf 2018 was like from my 
 perspective.

 The blog:
 https://dlang.org/blog/2018/05/31/dconf-2018-ex-post-facto/

 Reddit:
 https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/8nj1nn/dconf_2018_ex_post_facto/


Thanks. This better utilizes the screen space on mobile[1]. Much 
easier to read than the previous posts[2] where the D logo hogged 
the screen.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/c2jkSyq
[2] https://imgur.com/jkJ8IFc
Jun 01 2018