I’ve been wanting to do more “types” of posts, some that come to mind are things like “refactor this” or “compare this code” or “let’s all read and critique a file in a major open source project together”
Basically these kinds of posts would gather similar to #discuss and #explainlikeimfive etc.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
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Code reads would be great, so long as they don't end up with people posting their "friends" code just to criticise them.
A lot of us go to events and conferences and such (I say this like a veteran but I've been to a grand total of one conference so far). I think it would be neat to see people talk about their impressions and what they got from the events they attend. I'm going to something else next month so I'll probably post something about it, but what I'd be looking for in other people's posts is more than "sooo tired!" and "here's a photo gallery of all the free trinkets I got", which is mostly what I see on Twitter.
I love the idea of doing like, a group read of code, or a refactoring brainstorm session. The only caveat that I'd want to make sure of is that the maintainers are aware and have okayed the code for that level of group scrutiny. I know I would be mortified if people looked through my github graveyard and did a code review.
Or, inspired by this idea of site-wide group discussion, a maybe we could do a Papers We Love style discussion of a whitepaper or a conference talk every month or so. That might be a fun way to do deep dives into more advanced material.
The main hurdle I foresee with this style of expansion is what you mention - new tags, mods, increased overhead for the staff.
I'm also really fond of "boosting" good stuff on DEV, in the form of referencing other posts or comments for a different audience or another look and a new discussion.
I love this idea of boosting other people's posts in a best of tag. I was under the impression, based on usage, that the bestof tag was unofficially reserved for staff wrap up posts. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!
I’ve been wanting to do more “types” of posts, some that come to mind are things like “refactor this” or “compare this code” or “let’s all read and critique a file in a major open source project together”
Basically these kinds of posts would gather similar to #discuss and #explainlikeimfive etc.
Soo: new tags we support, have mods for etc.
Thoughts?
Code reads would be great, so long as they don't end up with people posting their "friends" code just to criticise them.
A lot of us go to events and conferences and such (I say this like a veteran but I've been to a grand total of one conference so far). I think it would be neat to see people talk about their impressions and what they got from the events they attend. I'm going to something else next month so I'll probably post something about it, but what I'd be looking for in other people's posts is more than "sooo tired!" and "here's a photo gallery of all the free trinkets I got", which is mostly what I see on Twitter.
Also “inbox” threads of sort. Basically an open thread for me to be contacted publicly about anything.
HAHAHA. Should totally have a category for that.
I love the idea of doing like, a group read of code, or a refactoring brainstorm session. The only caveat that I'd want to make sure of is that the maintainers are aware and have okayed the code for that level of group scrutiny. I know I would be mortified if people looked through my github graveyard and did a code review.
Or, inspired by this idea of site-wide group discussion, a maybe we could do a Papers We Love style discussion of a whitepaper or a conference talk every month or so. That might be a fun way to do deep dives into more advanced material.
The main hurdle I foresee with this style of expansion is what you mention - new tags, mods, increased overhead for the staff.
Big +1 to a Papers We Love or Conference Talk discussion!
Yeah! All that stuff is great!
I'm also really fond of "boosting" good stuff on DEV, in the form of referencing other posts or comments for a different audience or another look and a new discussion.
Basically like this:
Turns out language creators are pretty good at their language
Ben Halpern
We're currently featuring #bestofdev on the main sidebar if anyone wants to add posts like this to that tag.
I love this idea of boosting other people's posts in a best of tag. I was under the impression, based on usage, that the bestof tag was unofficially reserved for staff wrap up posts. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks!
It's nice that you mention this because I've been working on a post around refactoring techniques and later on plan to dive into some of my own code.